Match Report
The table gap was wide: 36 points between Cerro Porteño (2nd, 48 pts) and 12 de Octubre (12th, 12 pts). Per game in the league, 12 de Octubre were scoring 0.73 and conceding 1.68, Cerro Porteño 1.45 and 0.59, against a competition average of 1.25 goals per team per game.
5 meetings are on record — 1 won by 12 de Octubre, 4 by Cerro Porteño, 0 drawn, at 1.4 goals per meeting. Hosting has counted for little in this fixture — the home side has won only 40% of those meetings. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 0% of the meetings went over two goals.
Estadio Juan Canuto Pettengill in Itauguá, capacity 5,000, hosted the game. The referee was J. Benítez, with 100 matches in our database and 1.9 yellows per game on average. Cerro Porteño led 1-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 0-1.