Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Olimpia 1st with 44 points, Sol de América 7th with 26, 18 apart. The last five rounds placed Olimpia no better than 13th for form, against 1st in the standings. Per game in the league, Olimpia were scoring 1.32 and conceding 0.59, Sol de América 1.18 and 1.77, against a competition average of 1.17 goals per team per game.
Olimpia were unbeaten in 5. Olimpia had banked 11 of the last 15 points on offer; Sol de América, 5.
The sides have met 10 times in the GioScore results database: 3 wins for Olimpia, 4 draws and 3 for Sol de América, at 2.4 goals per meeting. The host's record in this fixture is thin — 20% of meetings won. These meetings skew tight — only 30% saw more than two goals. The recent editions have closed up — 1 goals per game over the last five against 2.4 all-time.
Estadio Manuel Ferreira in Asuncion, capacity 22,000, hosted the game. It was 1-1 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 1-1.
Goal scorers
Olimpia: Rodney Redes (12') · Sol de América: Fernando Diaz (39')