River Plate vs Defensor Sporting Live Stream, Predictions (Jun 01)

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River Plate

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River Plate will be hoping to return to winning ways here following a 1-0 Intermediate Round defeat last time out to Montevideo Wanderers.

A common feature of more recent River Plate games is the number of nil scores.

Taking their previous sextet of clashes before this one, in as many as 6 of them a wager on BTTS would have been a losing one.

Defensor Sporting

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Defensor Sporting come into this clash after a 3-2 Intermediate Round win as they beat Cerro Largo in their most recent outing.

For Defensor Sporting, goals were scored by Guillermo De Los Santos (7'), Maxi Gómez (27') and José Alvarez (59').

The stats tell the story, and Defensor Sporting have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 9 goals overall. At the back, Defensor Sporting have been far from perfect. Historical results aside, we must now wait to see whether that trend might be maintained in this next game or not.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A glance at their past head-to-head clashes dating back to 24/06/2023 tells us that River Plate have won 2 of these games & Defensor Sporting 3, with the number of draws standing at 1.

A sum of 9 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 4 of them from La Dársena and 5 coming from El Tuerto. The average number of goals per game works out to 1.5.

The previous league clash featuring the two was Primera Division (Apertura) match day 2 on 08/02/2025 which ended up with the score at River Plate 0-1 Defensor Sporting.

ℹ️ Team News: River Plate

There’s just a single fitness concern for the River Plate boss Gustavo Díaz to contend with from a near full-strength group of players. Mauro Estol (Cruciate ligament tear) is sidelined.

💭 Prediction

We’re of the opinion that Defensor Sporting and River Plate could both find goals hard to come by here.

We’re therefore seeing a very close game with a 0-0 scoreline by the conclusion of this game.

💵 ⚽️ What are the best odds for the game?

Regarding the latest bookmaker odds on the WDW market, a victory for River Plate is best priced at 2.7, betting on the draw is 3.2 and putting your money on a win for Defensor Sporting is 2.63. These are the top bets available at present.

Peter Guest, 10:08 29/05/2025