Peñarol vs Montevideo City Torque Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Peñarol

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Peñarol will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following a 3-1 Primera Division victory against Cerrito.

Peñarol have been conceding pretty frequently recently, but they’ve also found ways to convert their own chances into goals. Analysis of their previous 6 games shows that Peñarol have seen their goal breached in 5 of them as well as scoring in 6 of those games. That kind of pattern isn’t assured to be continued into this game, of course.

Montevideo City Torque

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Following on from a loss in their previous game against Liverpool FC in Primera Division competition, Montevideo City Torque and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

Ayrton Cougo (66') was the scorer for Liverpool FC.

The numbers tell their own story, and Montevideo City Torque have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 15 goals in all. Defensively, Montevideo City Torque have clearly had some problems.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their most recent head to head meetings stretching back to 12/09/2020 shows that Peñarol have won 4 of them & Montevideo City Torque 1, with the number of drawn matches being 1.

12 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 8 of them for Aurinegros and 4 being from Celeste. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.

The last league fixture between these sides was Intermediate Round match day 1 on 12/06/2022 and the score finished Peñarol 1-2 Montevideo City Torque.

On that day, Peñarol managed 51% possession and 6 attempts at goal with 1 on target. The scorer was Juan Ramos (94').

Montevideo City Torque got 11 shots at goal with 4 of them on target.

🗞️ Team News: Peñarol

Walter Gargano (Knee Problems) and Máximo Alonso (Torn muscle bundle) are unavailable for Peñarol boss Mauricio Larriera.

ℹ️ Team News: Montevideo City Torque

With a completely injury-free group available to choose from, the Montevideo City Torque manager doesn’t have any fitness worries to report coming into this clash.

💡 Prediction

It looks to us that Peñarol will probably convert a lot of goal-scoring opportunities.

Conversely, Montevideo City Torque might well find it a difficult task to break down their defence although we do see them scoring here as well.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a fairly comfortable 3-1 winning score for Peñarol at the end of this one.

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

Renata Leite, 23:37 19/09/2022