About Match
39 points for Nacional Asunción (2nd), 38 for Cerro Porteño (3rd): a 1-point gap. The last five rounds place Cerro Porteño no better than 15th for form, against 3rd in the standings. Per game in the league, Nacional Asunción score 1.41 and conceding 1, Cerro Porteño 1.43 and 0.9, against a competition average of 1.25 goals per team per game. Three points here take Cerro Porteño to 41 and up to 2nd, overtaking Nacional Asunción, assuming other results stand.
Nacional Asunción enter with four wins in a row. Recent form is uneven: 13/15 points for Nacional Asunción, 7/15 for Cerro Porteño.
17 meetings are on record — 3 won by Nacional Asunción, 9 by Cerro Porteño, 5 drawn, at 2.71 goals per meeting. Hosting has counted for little in this fixture — the home side has won only 29% of those meetings. Goals have dried up lately: 1.8 per game across the last five meetings, against 2.71 across the full history.
Estadio Arsenio Erico in Asunción hosts the game.