River Plate will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 4 points behind Cerro Porteño.
It's no vacation for neither River nor Cerro Porteño 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.
River Plate form and stats
Overall Division 1 stats at home this season for River Plate are 3-1-1 (wins-draw-losses).
The spoils were shared in River's previous game, also at home. Visiting Nacional Asuncion (placed 4th) travelled back with a draw after a 1-1 scoreline. Before that, River played out a draw 1-1 when visiting Olimpia.
Goals decide football matches and River are scoring many of them at home; 11 on target from 5 league matches. River Plate have conceded 7 in these home matches.
Cerro Porteño form and stats
1 win, 2 draws and 1 loss. That’s the product of Cerro Porteño playing as the away team in the Division 1 this season. Porteño has drawn their two previous away games.
Cerro Porteño are travelling after their nice 2-1 home win in the Division 1 against Libertad (placed 1st). Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Nacional Asuncion that ended 0-0.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Porteño have scored 5 goals in 4 league games away. Porteño are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 3 times in 4 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last eight meetings: zero - zero - eight (River wins - draws - Cerro Porteño wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  D. Pérez Mambreani 4 goals |  D. Churín 3 goals | M. Prieto 2 goals |
River Plate missing players
Cerro Porteño missing players
| River Plate | Cerro Porteño | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 5 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 13 | 11 | 1 | Scored | S | 0 | 5 | 15 |
| 12 | 7 | 1 | Conceded | C | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 75% | 89% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 50% | 67% |
| 50% | 60% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 25% | 56% |
| 25% | 40% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 33% |
| 25% | 40% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 25% | 22% |
| 62% | 60% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 67% |
| 12% | 20% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 11% |
| 25% | 20% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 50% | 33% |
| 4.2 | 3.8 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 4.8 | 4.9 |
| 8.1 | 8.8 | 7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 3.8 | 3.6 |
| 2.2 | 2.2 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.2 | 1.9 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 80 | 57 | 8 | Total Shots | T S | 16 | 53 | 114 |
| 32 | 22 | 4 | Shots on Target | S O | 5 | 17 | 46 |
| 41% | 50% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 29% | 33% |
- All of River Plate's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Cerro Porteño has the most scored goals in the first half (9)
- River Plate has the most dropped points from leading position (7)
- River Plate have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
- River Plate have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- River Plate have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Cerro Porteño have scored away.
- River Plate 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 | Libertad | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 19 |
| 2 | Olimpia | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 16 |
| 3 | Cerro Porteño | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 15 |
| 4 | Nacional Asuncion | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 15 |
| 5 | Guarani | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 15 |
| 6 | Guairena | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 14 |
| 7 | River Plate | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 11 |
| 8 | Sol de America | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 12 | -5 | 10 |
| 9 | Sportivo San Lorenzo | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | -5 | 7 |
| 10 | General Diaz | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 20 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 13 | -10 | 7 |
| 11 | Sportivo Luqueno | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | -5 | 6 |
| 12 | 12 de Octubre | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -12 | 6 |