Nacional vs River Plate Betting Tips and Predictions

This Montevideo derby is between two sides at opposite ends of the Uruguayan Primera Division, which is admittedly only 4 games old. Nacional have picked up 9 points so far including a 3-0 win away to River Plate when the sides met just 3 weeks ago. They were beaten at the weekend though away to Plaza Colonia but were reduced to 10 men in the 1st half so that was no great surprise. Nacional got a good point away to Rosario Central in their opening Libertadores group game but it will feel worthless if they don’t deliver the goods here.

River Plate have enjoyed life in this competition more than they have domestically so far this year. They won their preliminary match against Universidad Chile 2-0 on aggregate to make the group stage and drew 2-2 against Palmeiras a fortnight ago in their opening group game. However they have just 2 points in the league and are only 1 place off the bottom.

They’ve not won any of their 6 matches since beating Universidad in their first game of the season and won’t travel across town for this local Libertadores affair with much confidence. Nacional have won the last two meetings between the clubs and have more players with experience of big matches in this competition and with home advantage certainly look the more likely winners. Therefore it may be an idea to consider backing Nacional -0.5, -1.0 Asian Handicap at 1.900.

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