National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Defensa y Justicia or Sportivo Luqueño that keep their silverware dream alive.
It's no vacation for neither Justicia nor Sportivo Luqueño as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
These teams have little in common geographically as Sportivo Luqueño have to travel 1200 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
Defensa y Justicia form and stats
Justicia have not come this way in the Copa Sudamericana without some hard work on the way, more precisely defeating Sportivo Luqueño. Justicia participated in Copa Sudamericana the last season, where they reached the 1st round.The Justicia fans got no joy from their last match, a Superliga game also here at Estadio Norberto Tito Tomaghello: A 0-3 defeat against Colon. In the game before, an away victory in the Copa Sudamericana match versus Sportivo Luqueño with a 2-1 scoreline.
The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Defensa y Justicia home games with this odds we find two games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in two wins, zero draws and zero defeats. Looking at the victories, two matches were won by at least two goals.
Sportivo Luqueño form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Defensa y Justicia and Mineros de Guayana in order to reach 2nd Round of Copa Sudamericana.Sportivo Luqueño are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Division 1, having played 2 games and collected 3 points (1 win, 0 draws and 1 loss). When we have look at the Copa Sudamericana statistics, we find 1W-1D-1L. This is both home and away.
It's the second away game in a row for Sportivo, but there's smiles all around after the 1-0 victory versus General Diaz in the Division 1 last time out. The game before that, in the Copa Sudamericana, was lost at home, a 1-2 defeat against Defensa y Justicia.
Late drama in the previous game, when B. Díaz scored the winning goal one minutes into stoppage time to defeat General Diaz.
We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Sportivo played away with similar odds. This revealed four games. The visitors overcame the odds to win one time, zero were draws and the home team won as expected three times.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Nacional Asuncion in just four days.
As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Sportivo Luqueño has managed 1 goal and let in 2 from 2 matches.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have met before this season: Sportivo Luqueño - Defensa y Justicia 1-2.Top Goalscorers
  I. Pitta Saldívar 7 goals |  B. Díaz Silva 3 goals | O. Gaona Lugo 2 goals |
Defensa y Justicia missing players
Sportivo Luqueño missing players
| Defensa y Justicia | Sportivo Luqueño | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 7 | Won | W | 5 | 9 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 3 | 7 | ||
| 9 | 4 | Lost | L | 4 | 9 | ||
| 32 | 19 | Scored | S | 12 | 29 | ||
| 25 | 9 | Conceded | C | 19 | 36 | ||
| 92% | 85% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 75% | 84% | ||
| 76% | 69% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 58% | 64% | ||
| 48% | 46% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 56% | ||
| 8% | 8% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 32% | ||
| 4% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 16% | ||
| 44% | 23% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 44% | ||
| 32% | 54% | Clean Sheets | C S | 42% | 32% | ||
| 32% | 38% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 40% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2.2 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2.2 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 5 | ||
| 273 | 154 | Total Shots | T S | 111 | 230 | ||
| 109 | 62 | Shots on Target | S O | 39 | 88 | ||
| 29% | 31% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 31% | 33% | ||
| 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 Porteno | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 2 | Sol de America | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 3 | 12 de Octubre | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 4 | Sportivo Luqueño | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 5 | Olimpia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | Sportivo San Lorenzo | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 4 |
| 7 | Guairena | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 4 |
| 8 | Libertad | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | Nacional Asuncion | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 10 | River Plate | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 3 |
| 11 | Guarani | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 1 |
| 12 | General Diaz | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -3 | 0 |