Peñarol and Nacional face off on the night of Tuesday, January 23, 2024, starting at 9:30 pm, in a game valid for the Rio de La Plata Series. The match will be played at the Estadio Centenario, in the city of Montevideo, Uruguay.
Still in preparation for the official competitions to come, Peñarol and Nacional will star in a Uruguayan classic with a lot of rivalry tonight and even though it is a theoretically less relevant match for the season, the fact of involving these two teams already means that both will try victory at all costs.
The two teams recently faced each other in the same Rio de La Plata Series and recorded a very balanced match that ended with a 1-1 draw in regulation time and Nacional’s victory on penalties.
Peñarol
In their most recent duel, Peñarol faced Belgrano in the same tournament and managed to obtain a better result by winning by a minimum score of 1-0 over the Argentines.
Only 1 win, 1 draw and 3 defeats were recorded in the last 5 official matches, beating Belgrano and drawing with Nacional, in addition to losing to Newell’s Old Boys and also to Liverpool Montevideo.
In the last 10 times that they entered the field as home team, at Estadio Centenario, the Peñarol team recorded a recent campaign with 3 wins, 4 draws and 3 defeats.
Nacional
While on the other side is the Nacional squad, which in turn, arrives motivated to overcome its biggest rival again, as happened last week, when they won on penalties after a draw in a very truncated duel.
However, Nacional was unable to maintain its unbeaten record in the tournament, considering that in the very next match the team faced the traditional Colo Colo, from Chile, and ended up getting the worst of it by losing by the minimum score of 1-0, turning on the signal alert for this Tuesday’s classic and also for your season in general.
Only 1 win, 3 draws and 1 defeat were recorded in the last 5 official matches this season. During this period the team showed strength by defeating Defensor Sporting, in addition to drawing with Montevideo City, Union Santa Fe and also with Peñarol itself, losing only to Colo Colo.
As a visitor, the Nacional team had a recent campaign with 4 wins, 4 draws and only 2 defeats in the last 10 matches played in this condition.
Conclusion:
As it is a classic between two great rivals, the duel between Peñarol and Nacional, which already took place last week, tends to feature another very truncated match this week, with a lot of marking and few spaces for the attacks to work, also resulting in a greater chance of the match ending with a low score, regardless of the result, this being the best pre-match betting option available.