Cerro Largo vs Montevideo City Torque Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Cerro Largo

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Cerro Largo enter this fixture following on from a 0-0 Intermediate Round stalemate against River Plate.

In that game, Cerro Largo had 51% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. For their opponents, River Plate got 4 shots on goal with 2 on target.

Matches involving Cerro Largo have been pretty ponderous affairs recently with defensive steel becoming the standard. Over their past half dozen games, a miniscule aggregate goal total of 6 has been yielded between both them and their opposition at an average of 1 goal per match.

Montevideo City Torque

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Montevideo City Torque come into this clash after a 2-0 Intermediate Round win versus Fénix in their last outing.

The stats don’t lie, and Montevideo City Torque have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 7 goals in total. At the back, Montevideo City Torque have some weaknesses to address. Such a trend isn’t assured to follow through into this match, though.

🤜🤛 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head duels dating back to 04/09/2020, neither club has come out on top overall with Cerro Largo winning 1 of those games, Montevideo City Torque 1 and 4 being drawn in normal time.

A total of 12 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 5 of them from Cerro Largo and 7 coming from Celeste. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.

The last league clash between these sides was Primera Division (Apertura) match day 1 on 05/02/2022 and the score finished Montevideo City Torque 1-1 Cerro Largo.

On that occasion, Montevideo City Torque managed 57% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target.

Cerro Largo got 6 shots on goal with 2 on target.

📋 Team News: Cerro Largo

The Cerro Largo manager Danielo Núñez has zero fitness worries to speak of ahead of this match owing to a completely healthy group available to select from.

📋 Team News: Montevideo City Torque

Thanks to a mainly healthy group, there is just the sole fitness issue for the Montevideo City Torque manager to be concerned with. Martín Rabuñal (Cruciate Ligament Injury) misses out for this game.

✨ Prediction

In our view, Montevideo City Torque and Cerro Largo may well end up cancelling each other out here.

Will be interesting to see how this one goes, with a good chance of a draw. That’s why we have predicted a very even match with a 1-1 scoreline at the end of the 90 minutes.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 12:00 29/07/2022