Copa Libertadores betting and spectator preview: Fluminense and River Plate meet at Estadio Jornalista Mário Filho to measure strength and learn who makes it to the next stage.
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for River Plate, who are travelling more than 2600 kilometers to play this game.
Fluminense form and stats
Two home wins in a row for Fluminense bring valid hopes of a third.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Fluminense, as the Carioca 1 home game vs Madureira is only one day away.
River Plate form and stats
They also participated in Copa Libertadores last season. This ended in the semi-finals, when Palmeiras drew the shortest straw.A home win before that, celebrating 3-2 vs Colon.
As mentioned above, River Plate was the only team on the pitch versus Central Cordoba SdE in their previous game, winning 5-0. This could be a tougher task.
After this away game River return home for a Superliga game against San Lorenzo. That game is only three sleeps after this.
River played one friendly in their break from official games, resulting in 0 victories, 0 draws and 1 defeat. In these one match River Plate scored 1 and conceded 2 goals.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  R. Borré Amaury 7 goals |  M. Suárez 3 goals | F. Angileri 2 goals |
Fluminense missing players
River Plate missing players
| Fluminense | River Plate | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 14 | 7 | Won | W | 9 | 16 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 3 | 5 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | ||
| 40 | 19 | Scored | S | 36 | 55 | ||
| 27 | 11 | Conceded | C | 10 | 21 | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 76% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 85% | 80% | ||
| 52% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 62% | 56% | ||
| 28% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 46% | 36% | ||
| 12% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 31% | 20% | ||
| 48% | 42% | BTTS | BTTS | 54% | 44% | ||
| 44% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 46% | 44% | ||
| 12% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 8% | 20% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 2.1 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 4 | 5 | ||
| 11.6 | 12.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14.8 | 13.2 | ||
| 4.2 | 4.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 7.2 | 6.2 | ||
| 38% | 39% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 39% | 35% | ||