Peñarol vs Montevideo City Torque Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Peñarol

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Peñarol will be looking for another win after a 2-1 Primera Division (Apertura) triumph vs Deportivo Maldonado.

For Peñarol, the scorers were Carlos Sánchez (29') and Matías Arezo (71').

Peñarol have been on a persistent run of goalscoring form, hitting the target every time they’ve gone out to play in their last 6 games.

They have managed to rack up 13 during that time while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 6. Nevertheless, we must now wait to see if such a trend might be sustained here in this game.

Montevideo City Torque

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Following on from a losing effort in their last game against Defensor Sporting in Primera Division (Apertura) action, Montevideo City Torque and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

Adrián Balboa (78') scored for Defensor Sporting.

Looking at their form, and Montevideo City Torque have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, seeing opposing sides hit 9 goals in total. In defence, Montevideo City Torque have clearly had some problems.

↔️ Head to head

A look at their past head to head clashes going back to 15/03/2021 shows that Peñarol have won 4 of them & Montevideo City Torque 2, with the number of drawn matches being 0.

A combined sum of 13 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 8 of them from Aurinegros and 5 for Celeste. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.17.

The last league encounter between these sides was Primera Division match day 10 on 24/09/2022 which finished with the scoreline of Peñarol 0-1 Montevideo City Torque.

ℹ️ Team News: Peñarol

Máximo Alonso (Unknown Injury), Diego Rolán (Unknown Injury), Brian Mansilla (Unknown Injury) and Yonatthan Rak (Muscular problems) will be missing for Peñarol boss Alfredo Arias.

📰 Team News: Montevideo City Torque

Owing to an otherwise full-strength group of players, there’s only the sole fitness problem for the Montevideo City Torque manager Ignacio Ithurralde to contend with. Darío Pereira (Torn muscle bundle) won’t be in action. Gabriel Chocobar is ineligible for this match because of suspension.

✨ Prediction

It looks to us that Peñarol look set to score more than once when they face Montevideo City Torque, who could well struggle to score themselves.

Our selection here is for a fairly comfortable 2-0 win for Peñarol when all’s said and done.

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

Renata Leite, 02:12 09/03/2023