Cerro Largo will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 9 points behind Nacional.
- Cerro Largo have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Nacional have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
Cerro Largo form and stats
The story so far in the Primera Division for Cerro Largo at their home stadium (Estadio Raúl Saturnino Goyenola) is 4 wins, 0 draws and 3 defeats.
A nice win for Cerro last time playing, versus Villa Espanola. That was also a home game and the match ended 3-1 with L. Otormín, S. Paiva and M. Estol scoring for the victors.
Heartbreak before that as Cerro Largo lost 0-3 at Torque's place.A decent goal production from Cerro in their home games so far, with 13 goals from 7 league matches. Cerro have conceded 10 in these home matches.
Nacional form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Primera Division travels is 2 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats. The pressure to perform on the road is increasing on M. Ligüera López, the Nacional manager, as the last three away games were defeats.
There might be some fixture complaints from Nacional as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous match, the Primera Division match against River Plate (0-2).
Before that, Nacional secured a home win against Liverpool with the score 1-0.Nacional are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 7 away goals from 7 games (in the league). Nacional struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 11 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have met before this season: Nacional - Cerro 1-2. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Cerro two wins, five draws and Nacional three victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  G. Bergessio 12 goals |   L. Otormín Fumero 7 goals |  Á. Cayetano Pírez 3 goals |
Cerro Largo missing players
Nacional missing players
| Cerro Largo | Nacional | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 7 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 7 | 15 |
| 6 | 4 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | 3 | 2 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 20 | 13 | 2 | Scored | S | 0 | 7 | 23 |
| 22 | 10 | 5 | Conceded | C | 5 | 11 | 14 |
| 93% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 80% | 86% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 87% |
| 67% | 71% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 43% | 47% |
| 27% | 43% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 14% | 13% |
| 7% | 14% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 60% | 71% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 57% | 40% |
| 13% | 14% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 40% |
| 33% | 14% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 43% | 20% |
| 5.9 | 6.3 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| 4.7 | 5.1 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 8 | 6.6 |
| 2.5 | 2.6 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 3.3 | 3 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 9.9 | 9.1 | 5.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12 | 9.7 | 9.8 |
| 3.9 | 4.3 | 1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 4 | 4.4 |
| 34% | 43% | 100% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 25% | 35% |
- All of Nacional's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Cerro Largo have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Cerro Largo haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Nacional have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Nacional haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Plaza Colonia | 15 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 13 | 36 |
| 2 | Nacional | 15 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 23 | 14 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 29 |
| 3 | Penarol | 15 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 22 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 28 |
| 4 | Liverpool | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 38 | 20 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 12 | 18 | 27 |
| 5 | River Plate | 15 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 27 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 26 |
| 6 | Torque | 15 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 26 | 19 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 8 | 7 | 25 |
| 7 | Fenix | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 20 | 22 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 12 | -2 | 21 |
| 8 | Cerro Largo | 15 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 20 | 22 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 12 | -2 | 20 |
| 9 | Cerrito | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 11 | -1 | 19 |
| 10 | Sud America | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 13 | -7 | 18 |
| 11 | Wanderers | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 12 | -4 | 17 |
| 12 | Rentistas | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 21 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 6 | -9 | 16 |
| 13 | Boston River | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 11 | -5 | 14 |
| 14 | Deportivo Maldonado | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 22 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | -11 | 14 |
| 15 | Progreso | 15 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 26 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 12 | -13 | 11 |
| 16 | Villa Espanola | 15 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 26 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 15 | -12 | 9 |