Struggling River Plate will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Cerro Porteño in the upcoming league round. It’s 10th vs 3rd and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
- River Plate have the fewest scored goals (10) in Division 1
- Cerro Porteño have scored more than double the goals of River Plate.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for River Plate and Cerro Porteño.
River Plate form and stats
River Plate's struggle is real here at Estadio Jardines del Hipódromo with only 4 points collected from 7 Division 1 games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-1-5. The home team are struggling everywhere these days as they haven't won a league-game, regardless of being the home or the away team, in ten attempts. With River Plate having lost three times in a row here, the pressure is increasing on the manager C. Ayala Gavilán.
Ahead of that match, River lost 1-3 at home to Libertad.
There will be little rest for River after this match as they are travelling to Guaireña for a Division 1 game in only one day.
The lack of attacking qualities in River Plate means that they have only scored 3 goals in 7 league home games, less than half a goal per match. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the River defense is not exactly impregnable. 12 goals conceded from 7 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Cerro Porteño form and stats
3-1-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Cerro Porteño in their Division 1 matches away.
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Cerro Porteño goalkeeper Miguel Angel Martinez Irala is eager to challenge this, with his 195 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
Prior to that match, a home win 2-0 against Olimpia in the Division 1.
As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Atletico Mineiro was particularly ugly (0-4). The humiliation is still top of mind.
Porteño find the net regularly in their away games. 10 goals from 7 away fixtures in the league. Porteño have conceded 10 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
The last H2H meeting was Cerro Porteño - River 3-0, played this season. River-Cerro Porteño H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: River Plate zero wins, Cerro Porteño ten wins, zero draws. eight of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  R. Morales 6 goals |  M. Boselli 6 goals |   P. Zeballos Ocampos 4 goals |
River Plate missing players
Cerro Porteño missing players
| River Plate | Cerro Porteño | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 7 | 1 | Played | P | 3 | 7 | 14 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | 5 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 10 | 3 | 1 | Scored | S | 8 | 10 | 21 |
| 29 | 12 | 3 | Conceded | C | 4 | 10 | 16 |
| 93% | 86% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 79% | 57% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 86% | 79% |
| 50% | 29% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 43% | 50% |
| 36% | 29% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 29% | 21% |
| 14% | 14% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 14% | 7% |
| 50% | 29% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 43% | 36% |
| 14% | 29% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 29% | 43% |
| 43% | 57% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 29% | 21% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.5 | 2.7 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 2 | 2.2 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 7.8 | 8.9 | 9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.7 | 10.1 | 9.9 |
| 2.9 | 2.9 | 6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 4.3 | 4.3 |
| 24% | 15% | 17% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 53% | 33% | 35% |
- Cerro Porteño have scored more than double the goals of River Plate.
- Cerro Porteño haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- River Plate have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- River Plate have the fewest scored goals (10) in Division 1
- River Plate have the fewest scored goals (3) at home in Division 1
- River Plate have the fewest scored goals in the first half (3) in Division 1
- River Plate have the most conceded goals (29) in Division 1
- River Plate have the most conceded goals in the second half (20) in Division 1
- River Plate have the the worst goal difference (-19) in Division 1
- River Plate is in the worst form (0-1-5)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Libertad | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 23 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 4 | 13 | 29 |
| 2 | Olimpia | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 24 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 26 |
| 3 | Cerro Porteño | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 26 |
| 4 | Nacional Asunción | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 20 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 25 |
| 5 | Guaireña | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 22 |
| 6 | Guarani | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 10 | -1 | 18 |
| 7 | 12 de Octubre | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 6 | -4 | 17 |
| 8 | Sportivo Luqueno | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 9 | -6 | 15 |
| 9 | Sol de America | 14 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 22 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 6 | -9 | 9 |
| 10 | River Plate | 14 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 29 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 17 | -19 | 7 |