📏 Form Guide

River Plate

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River Plate will be hoping to return to winning ways here following the 2-1 Primera Division (Apertura) loss in their previous game against Defensor Sporting.

Octavio Rivero (6', 62') was the scorer 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 the game following on from a 1-0 Primera Division (Apertura) win to beat Boston River in their last outing.

The only name on the scoresheet 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.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of their most recent 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.

16 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 10 from La Dársena and 6 created by Los Gauchos Del Pantanoso. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.67.

The last league contest between the two was Primera Division match day 5 on 09/10/2021 and the score finished Progreso 1-0 River Plate.

🗞️ Team News: River Plate

Ihojan Pérez (Meniscus injury) and Tiziano Correa (Cruciate ligament injury) won’t be available for River Plate manager Gustavo Díaz. Suspended players who are serving a ban for this game are Matías Alfonso, Facundo González, Juan Cruz de los Santos, Jonathan Barboza, Valentín Amoroso, Santiago Corbo, Christian Almeida and Ramiro Cristóbal.

ℹ️ Team News: Progreso

Owing to an otherwise available squad, there’s just the one fitness worry for the Progreso gaffer to contend with. Danilo Asconeguy (Cruciate ligament tear) won’t be playing here.

⚡ 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, 18:02 21/04/2024