Sp. Luqueno – Diaz Prediction & Picks (02.03.2018)

Sportivo Luqueño and General Diaz face each other in a match for the 5th round of the Professional Division. The history of recent direct matches is favorable to the home team, which has 8 wins, 6 draws and 2 losses in the last 16 matches. The last direct confrontation between these two teams, on 04-12-2017, ended with the victory of Sportivo Luqueño by (3-0).

Sportivo Luqueno:

After 2 draws and 2 losses, the home team is currently in the 12 th position, with 2 points won. In their last match, they lost with Independiente FBC out by (4-1), after in the previous match they tied for (2-2) at home, in a match against Olimpia. In the last 10 home matches Sportivo Luqueño has won 4, tied 4 and lost 2.

For this competition, they have not won any of the last 4 matches. They have not been very strong defensively, since they have suffered goals in the last 4 matches, but their offense has scored frequently, since they have scored goals in all of the last 4 matches for this competition. In 15 matches, they suffered the first goal 8 times and only managed 1 comeback.

The start of 2018 is not good for Sportivo Luqueño, at least in the national championship, since it is currently in the last position of the table. It is important that the team take advantage of the start of the competition to readjust, being that in order to make it reality it will need to correct the mistakes made and improve technically, because if it maintains the level of performance of the previous games, more negative results may occur. For this match coach Javier Sanguinetti will have to bring to the field what he has of the best available.

Díaz:

After 2 draws and 2 losses, the away team is currently in the 10 th position of the league, with 2 points won. In their last match, they lost in a home match against Nacional Asunción, by (1-2), after in the previous match they tied at home, against Independiente FBC, by (1-1). In the last 10 games played away for all competitions, General Diaz won 3, drew 3 and lost 4.

For this competition, they have not won any of the last 4 matches. Their defense has not been very strong, since they have suffered at least one goal in each of the last 4 matches, but their attack has scored regularly, since they have scored at least one goal in each of the last 4 matches for this competition. In 15 games, he suffered the first goal 8 times and never got the comeback.

Of course it is not the beginning of the competition desired by General Diaz, since he has not managed to win and has only two points added, so he knows of the need to seek a recovery in the championship. By wanting to climb the classification will try to improve their performance in the field, either in defense, or in the attack, but the certainty is that at the end of the game expects to have added the three points. For this game coach Florencio Villalba will not be able to count on C. Gaitán, who will serve a suspension.