📊 Form Guide

Peñarol

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Peñarol will be looking for an improved result here after a 3-2 Copa Libertadores losing effort in their last game against Atlético Mineiro.

For Peñarol, the goalscorers were Maximiliano Olivera (60') and Maximiliano Silvera (69'). Gustavo Scarpa (15', 57') and Paulinho (26') scored for Atlético Mineiro.

Fixtures featuring Peñarol have proved to be exciting affairs of late with plenty of scoring the rule rather than the exception. Over their past six clashes, the sum total of 20 goals have been scored for both sides combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 14 of them coming from Peñarol.

River Plate

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In the game prior to this, River Plate drew 2-2 in the Primera Division (Apertura) match with Progreso.

Alex Silva (6') scored for Progreso.

The stats don’t lie, and River Plate have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 8 goals overall. At the back, River Plate can certainly do much better. With no two games being the same, it remains to be seen if that trend shall continue on in this next match.

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

• have not won against Peñarol when they have played them away from home in the previous 7 league games. They really have not been travelling well at all.
• have not won away from home in their last 5 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

An examination of their most recent head-to-head clashes stretching back to 14/11/2021 shows us that Peñarol have won 2 of them and River Plate 1, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 3.

An aggregate of 12 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 7 from Aurinegros and 5 for La Dársena. The average goals per game has been 2.

The previous league fixture between the two was Primera Division match day 7 on 22/10/2023 when the final score was River Plate 0-3 Peñarol.

📰 Team News: Peñarol

The Peñarol manager Diego Aguirre does not have any fitness worries to speak of before this clash owing to a completely healthy squad available to select from.

🗞️ Team News: River Plate

Due to a mostly available group of players, there’s only a single fitness problem for the River Plate manager Gustavo Díaz to contend with. Tiziano Correa (Cruciate ligament injury) won’t be playing here. The suspended players who are serving a ban for this game are Valentín Amoroso, Ramiro Cristóbal, Juan Cruz de los Santos, Jonathan Barboza, Santiago Corbo, Christian Almeida and Matías Alfonso.

💡 Prediction

It’s looking like River Plate will do really well to be scoring even one goal against a Peñarol lineup who have all the attributes to win pretty easily here.

We reckon that it will be a commanding 3-0 margin for Peñarol when all is said and done.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 22:08 29/04/2024