Peñarol vs River Plate Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Peñarol

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Peñarol will be hoping to bounce back here following a 3-2 Copa Libertadores loss in their previous game against Atlético Mineiro.

For Peñarol, goals were scored by 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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Last time out, 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

A glance at their most recent head to head meetings going back to 14/11/2021 tells us that Peñarol have won 2 of these games & River Plate 1, with the number of draws standing at 3.

A combined sum of 12 goals were produced between them in these games, with 7 of them from Aurinegros and 5 being from La Dársena. That is an average goals per game value of 2.

The last league game between these clubs was Primera Division match day 7 on 22/10/2023 when it ended River Plate 0-3 Peñarol.

📋 Team News: Peñarol

The Peñarol manager Diego Aguirre doesn’t have any fitness concerns to speak of before this clash owing to a fully injury-free group to pick from.

📋 Team News: River Plate

Thanks to a largely available group of players, there is just the one fitness issue for the River Plate manager Gustavo Díaz to be concerned with. Tiziano Correa (Cruciate ligament injury) won’t be in action. Players who are serving a ban and are therefore ineligible to play are Valentín Amoroso, Santiago Corbo, Christian Almeida, Ramiro Cristóbal, Matías Alfonso, Juan Cruz de los Santos and Jonathan Barboza.

💡 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.

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Peter Guest, 17:16 25/04/2024