Progreso journey to Parque Federico Omar Saroldi on Sunday for the Primera Division (Apertura) tie with hosts River Plate.
Our River Plate v Progreso tips, poll and stats can be seen in full below (including the best match odds).
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Form Guide
River Plate
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River Plate will be looking to improve on their last outing here following the 2-1 Primera Division (Apertura) loss in their previous game against Defensor Sporting.
Octavio Rivero (6', 62') scored for Defensor Sporting.
Gustavo Díaz's River Plate have seen rewards for their attempts on goal a sum total of 7 times over their last six outings. Conversely, the tally of goals that they have conceded in those same games stands at 6.
Progreso
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Progreso will go into this meeting following a 1-0 Primera Division (Apertura) win to defeat Boston River in their last match.
The only scorer from Progreso was Alex Silva (3').
Showing their involvement in fruitful matches, we’ve seen goals 20 times in the prior 6 games in which Progreso have sent out their troops, making it a mean average of 3.33 goals for each clash. Their opponents have got 7 from this total. Such a pattern isn’t assured to follow through here, though.
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Head to head
Checking on their past head-to-head meetings stretching back to 14/07/2019 shows that River Plate have won 3 of these games & Progreso 2, with the number of drawn results being 1.
A total of 16 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 10 from La Dársena and 6 coming from Los Gauchos Del Pantanoso. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.67.
The previous league match between these clubs was Primera Division match day 5 on 09/10/2021 when it ended Progreso 1-0 River Plate.
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Team News: River Plate
Ihojan Pérez (Meniscus injury) and Tiziano Correa (Cruciate ligament injury) will not be able to play for River Plate manager Gustavo Díaz. The players ineligible for this match because of suspension are Juan Cruz de los Santos, Facundo González, Jonathan Barboza, Valentín Amoroso, Santiago Corbo, Christian Almeida, Ramiro Cristóbal and Matías Alfonso.
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Team News: Progreso
Due to a mostly available squad, there’s only a single fitness issue for the Progreso gaffer to be concerned with. Danilo Asconeguy (Cruciate ligament tear) won’t be in action.
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Prediction
We believe that Progreso and River Plate might both not be able to do quite enough to get on the scoresheet here.
Let’s see what happens, but it could well be that we end up with scores level and two clean sheets. That’s why we have predicted a very close game with a 0-0 scoreline at the end of the match.
Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Andre Moura,
13:11 20/04/2024
⚽️ Team Focus:
River Plate
Formed: 1932
Stadium: Parque Federico Omar Saroldi (5,165)
Captain: Gonzalo Castro
Chairman: Fabián Motta
Manager: Gustavo Díaz
Competitions: Primera Division (Apertura) position 6