Boston River vs Defensor Sporting Prediction & Betting Tips

Defensor Sporting will arrive at Estadio Campeones Olímpicos on Sunday for the Primera División (Apertura) clash with home team Boston River.

Full predictions, pre-match stats and user poll for Boston River v Defensor Sporting are shown on this page - plus the latest betting odds.

📊 Form Guide

Boston River DLDWDL

Boston River will be looking for an improved result here following a 2-1 Primera División (Apertura) defeat last time out to Cerro.

Boston River have really been misfiring of late. Their goals record stands at just 4 against opposing sides during their last six matches. In those meetings, El Boston have also seen the tally of goals that have gone against them come to 6. Such a pattern might not be carried forward into this game, though.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Boston River:

• haven't beaten Defensor Sporting in their previous 2 league matches.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 3 home league matches.
• haven’t won at home in the past 5 league games. That's never good.

Defensor Sporting WLDWDD

In their last game, Defensor Sporting drew 1-1 in the Primera División (Apertura) match with Nacional de Football.

The numbers tell their own story, and Defensor Sporting have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing opposing sides hit 9 goals overall. Defensively, El Tuerto can certainly do much better.

Going into this encounter, Defensor Sporting are unbeaten in their last 2 away league matches.

👥 Head to head

A look at their prior head to head clashes stretching back to 30/04/2018 shows that Boston River have won 1 of these games & Defensor Sporting 3, with the tally of drawn games standing at 2.

In all, 19 goals were scored between them in this period, with 8 of them for El Boston and 11 for El Tuerto. That is an average goals per game value of 3.17.

📋 Team News: Boston River

Boston River manager Sebastián Abreu has a full complement, with no fitness worries to speak of ahead of this game owing to a fully healthy squad available to choose from.

📰 Team News: Defensor Sporting

Due to a fully injury-free group available to choose from, Defensor Sporting manager Ignacio Risso has zero fitness worries to speak of coming into this match.

🧠 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Boston River might have a difficult job to see themselves scoring against this Defensor Sporting outfit who we think will manage to score & go ahead.

We’re therefore anticipating a very competitive game with a 0-1 winning margin for Defensor Sporting when the referee blows for full-time.

Expecting it to be tight.

Lucas Pereira, 23:25 11/09/2020