River Plate will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 21 points behind Cerro Porteño.
River Plate and Cerro Porteño should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
River Plate form and stats
River Plate have played 11 Division 1 games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 5-2-4 (wins-draws-losses).
It's back home for River, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Sol de América away with the result 3-2. M. González and R. Sosa (2) found the net in that victory. Preceding that match was a defeat to Guairena (1-2).
River has scored 15 league goals at home this season, in 11 matches. River have conceded 16 in these home matches.
Cerro Porteño form and stats
The away team, who have the fewest conceded goals (14) in Division 1, have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 6 wins, 4 draws and only 1 loss in the Division 1. Things are running smoothly for Porteño who hasn't tasted defeat in their last 19 matches, regardless of venue and tournament. Their last defeat was against General Díaz. Cerro Porteño are enjoying a nice run from their away games now, having played twelve in a row without losing.
It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Guairena in their previous outing. The Division 1 match ended in a draw 1-1. A home win before that, celebrating 1-0 vs Libertad.
Cerro Porteño have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 11 league away games 15 goals have been scored. It's not easy to score on Cerro Porteño as they have only conceded 6 goals from these away games. It's worth mentioning that 3 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.
Head 2 Head
This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Cerro Porteño - River 3-1. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's zero River victories, zero draws and ten Cerro Porteño wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  D. Pérez Mambreani 6 goals | M. González Cabral 5 goals |
River Plate missing players
Cerro Porteño missing players
| River Plate | Cerro Porteño | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 28 | 14 | 4 | Played | P | 4 | 13 | 26 |
| 10 | 6 | 2 | Won | W | 2 | 6 | 17 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 6 | 7 |
| 13 | 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 30 | 18 | 3 | Scored | S | 4 | 17 | 42 |
| 41 | 20 | 6 | Conceded | C | 2 | 8 | 16 |
| 89% | 93% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 75% | 85% | 92% |
| 75% | 79% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 62% | 62% |
| 54% | 57% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 23% | 35% |
| 21% | 21% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 15% | 23% |
| 11% | 14% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 8% | 12% |
| 50% | 50% | 25% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 54% | 50% |
| 29% | 29% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 38% | 42% |
| 32% | 29% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 23% | 15% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 2.1 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.2 | 1.9 |
| 6 | 4 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 264 | 134 | 32 | Total Shots | T S | 33 | 148 | 270 |
| 107 | 50 | 15 | Shots on Target | S O | 15 | 57 | 117 |
| 28% | 36% | 20% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 27% | 30% | 36% |
- Cerro Porteño has the fewest conceded goals (14) in Division 1
- Cerro Porteño has the fewest conceded goals (6) away in Division 1
- Cerro Porteño has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (3) in Division 1
- Cerro Porteño have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Cerro Porteño is in the best form (3-3-0)
- River Plate have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Cerro Porteño | 22 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 37 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 23 | 50 |
| 2 | Olimpia | 22 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 54 | 20 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 31 | 9 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 23 | 11 | 34 | 45 |
| 3 | Libertad | 22 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 43 | 23 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 22 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 21 | 13 | 20 | 44 |
| 4 | Guarani | 22 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 30 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 9 | 14 | 41 |
| 5 | River Plate | 22 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 23 | 30 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 14 | -7 | 29 |
| 6 | Guairena | 22 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 30 | 29 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 12 | 18 | 1 | 27 |
| 7 | Nacional Asuncion | 22 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 22 | 22 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 25 |
| 8 | Sportivo Luqueno | 22 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 22 | 32 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 18 | -10 | 25 |
| 9 | 12 de Octubre | 22 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 23 | 39 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 24 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 15 | -16 | 21 |
| 10 | Sol de América | 22 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 23 | 40 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 25 | -17 | 19 |
| 11 | Sportivo San Lorenzo | 22 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 18 | 36 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 26 | -18 | 16 |
| 12 | General Díaz | 22 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 22 | 46 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 19 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 27 | -24 | 14 |