International cups are a highlight for most teams. Both Cerro Porteño and Colón are looking forward to this Copa Libertadores fight to decide who advances from the Group Stage.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 800 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Cerro Porteño form and stats
Cerro Porteño was eliminated in the 8th finals last season in the Copa Libertadores. Fluminense was too strong.Cerro Porteño have collected 12 points from their Division 1 home games so far after 4-0-1.
An away draw last time out for Porteño, facing General Caballero JLM in a game that ended 0-0.
This is expected to be a close game, with Cerro Porteño perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Cerro Porteño as a small favourite), we find five games. Cerro Porteño has won three of these, drawn one and lost one.
Goals decide football matches and Cerro Porteño are scoring many of them at home; 11 on target from 5 league matches. Cerro Porteño are not conceding a lot of goals here at Estadio General Pablo Rojas in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 5 matches.
Colón form and stats
Colón has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to Rosario Central for a 2-2 draw. Pierotti, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 8.0. Pierotti scored one goal and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found ten similar matches played by Colón in our archives, and the results are: four wins for Colón, two draws and four defeats.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Independiente in just four days.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last two meetings: two - zero - zero (Cerro Porteño wins - draws - Colón wins). As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), zero had two or less. The matches between these sides have had a tendency to be brutal, having seen 4 red cards from the last two encounters.Top Goalscorers
  R. Morales 8 goals |   L. Beltrán 4 goals | C. Aquino 3 goals |
Cerro Porteño missing players
Colón missing players
| Cerro Porteño | Colón | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 16 | 8 | Won | W | 3 | 12 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Drew | D | 4 | 6 | ||
| 4 | 4 | Lost | L | 5 | 7 | ||
| 41 | 18 | Scored | S | 12 | 33 | ||
| 16 | 9 | Conceded | C | 17 | 29 | ||
| 88% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | ||
| 72% | 69% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 83% | 76% | ||
| 32% | 23% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 42% | 56% | ||
| 20% | 15% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 17% | 20% | ||
| 12% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 4% | ||
| 24% | 8% | BTTS | BTTS | 58% | 56% | ||
| 60% | 62% | Clean Sheets | C S | 8% | 28% | ||
| 28% | 38% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 24% | ||
| 5.4 | 5.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.6 | 4.8 | ||
| 4.6 | 4.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.2 | 4.9 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 1.8 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 11 | 11.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.3 | 11.2 | ||
| 4.5 | 4.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.1 | 4.6 | ||
| 37% | 32% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 32% | 29% | ||
| 9 | 8.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.3 | 9.8 | ||
| 3.3 | 3.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 3.6 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Colón | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | Cerro Porteño | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Olimpia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Penarol | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 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 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 17 | 25 |
| 2 | Cerro Porteño | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 13 | 22 |
| 3 | Resistencia | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 16 |
| 4 | Olimpia | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 14 |
| 5 | Guarani | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -1 | 11 |
| 6 | Nacional Asuncion | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | -4 | 11 |
| 7 | Sol de America | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -5 | 11 |
| 8 | Tacuary | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | -3 | 10 |
| 9 | Guairena | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | -4 | 9 |
| 10 | General Caballero JLM | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -3 | 8 |
| 11 | 12 de Octubre | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -9 | 7 |
| 12 | Sportivo Ameliano | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 9 | -8 | 6 |
