River Plate vs Sportivo Luqueño match preview

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Competition: Paraguay Division Intermedia
Competition: Sun 10.July
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio River Plate (3000 seats)

Stumbling River Plate are aching to pull off a surprise win when they greet enterprising Sportivo Luqueño in the upcoming league fixture. It’s 12th vs 4th and the home fans will have not-so-high confidence.

Insights:
  • River Plate have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Sportivo Luqueño have the fewest conceded goals (3) away in Division Intermedia

These are hustling days for the host team, as they had a match only three days ago in the Copa Paraguay. That game was an away game at 15 de Agosto de Santiago, so at least River Plate are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

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River Plate form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Division Intermedia this season. River Plate have only managed 2 wins, 0 draws and 5 losses from their games here at Estadio River Plate.

Velazquez was the last player to score a league goal for River Plate and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as River Plate haven't scored in 192 minutes.

River are returning here after visiting 15 de Agosto de Santiago in a Copa Paraguay match and winning with a 6-0 scoreline.

Preceding that match was a Division Intermedia defeat to Martin Ledesma (0-1).

Sports gamblers, take note: A review of the 11 most recent league games reveals that 9 of them had at least one goal from each team.

River Plate have scored 6 league goals here from 7 matches, not a lot. River Plate have conceded 10 in these home matches.

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Sportivo Luqueño form and stats

Sportivo Luqueño have an excellent away record in the Division Intermedia so far with 4-2-1 from 7 games.

Two travels in a row for Sportivo Luqueño, whose manager Zahzú could celebrate last time after the win against Guarani de Trinidad.

A 1-2 loss hosting Sportivo San Lorenzo before that.

Sportivo are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 8 away goals from 7 games (in the league). Sportivo Luqueño's manager Zahzú has created a great defensive setup working very nicely in away games with only 3 conceded goals. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Here's the final score when the contenders faced each other earlier this campaign; Sportivo Luqueño - River 2-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): River Plate four wins, four draws and Sportivo Luqueño two victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven games had two or less.

River Plate missing players

Sportivo Luqueño missing players

River Plate Sportivo Luqueño
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
15 7 2 Played P 2 7 15
5 2 0 Won W 1 4 8
2 0 0 Drew D 1 2 4
8 5 2 Lost L 0 1 3
14 6 0 Scored S 1 8 21
16 10 5 Conceded C 0 3 12
87% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 71% 87%
53% 71% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 29% 60%
40% 43% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 14% 40%
13% 14% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 14% 20%
7% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 14% 7%
33% 29% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 14% 47%
33% 29% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 71% 47%
47% 43% 100% Failed to Score F T 50% 43% 20%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
0 0 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0 0
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
0 0 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 0 0
0 0 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 0 0
0% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 0%
 
0 0 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 0 0
0 0 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 0 0
Key stats in Division Intermedia this season:
  • River Plate have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • River Plate haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Sportivo Luqueño have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.
  • Sportivo Luqueño have the fewest conceded goals (3) away in Division Intermedia

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Sportivo San Lorenzo 15 9 4 2 24 8 7 5 2 0 14 2 8 4 2 2 10 6 16 31
2 Sportivo Trinidense 15 8 5 2 27 16 8 5 2 1 14 7 7 3 3 1 13 9 11 29
3 Martin Ledesma 16 8 5 3 17 13 8 4 2 2 8 5 8 4 3 1 9 8 4 29
4 Sportivo Luqueño 15 8 4 3 21 12 8 4 2 2 13 9 7 4 2 1 8 3 9 28
5 Pastoreo 15 6 8 1 21 13 8 3 4 1 7 7 7 3 4 0 14 6 8 26
6 Fernando de la Mora 15 6 7 2 23 14 7 3 3 1 9 4 8 3 4 1 14 10 9 25
7 Rubio Nu 16 6 5 5 16 9 8 3 2 3 6 5 8 3 3 2 10 4 7 23
8 Independiente FBC 15 6 5 4 21 20 7 3 3 1 13 10 8 3 2 3 8 10 1 23
9 Guarani de Trinidad 15 6 3 6 17 17 7 2 1 4 5 9 8 4 2 2 12 8 0 21
10 Atletico Colegiales 15 6 2 7 19 23 7 2 2 3 8 11 8 4 0 4 11 12 -4 20
11 3 de Febrero 15 5 3 7 14 18 7 1 3 3 7 9 8 4 0 4 7 9 -4 18
12 River Plate 15 5 2 8 14 16 7 2 0 5 6 10 8 3 2 3 8 6 -2 17
13 Sportivo Iteño 15 2 5 8 10 30 8 0 4 4 4 15 7 2 1 4 6 15 -20 11
14 Atyra 15 2 4 9 6 14 8 2 1 5 4 8 7 0 3 4 2 6 -8 10
15 Deportivo Santani 15 2 3 10 12 27 8 0 2 6 6 17 7 2 1 4 6 10 -15 9
16 2 de Mayo 15 1 5 9 13 25 8 0 2 6 7 16 7 1 3 3 6 9 -12 8

Read more about Division Intermedia

The División Intermedia (Intermediate Division), also known as the Segunda División, is the second tier of the Paraguayan football system. It has 16 teams playing a regular season of 30 fixtures each to decide a final league table. The two top teams are promoted while the bottom three are relegated.