Villa Espanola vs CA River Plate — Primera División - Apertura 2026
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on goals from last 11+ matches
Villa Espanola35%
CA River Plate39%✓ Correct in 50 of 100 matches — 5 more than always backing the home side
The model picks a winner (home or away) for each finished match using only pre-kickoff data, then checks it against the real result: 50.2% correct across 585,598 matches, vs 44.5% for always backing the home side.
Home picks 50.5% correct · Away picks 49.3% correct
Football matches only. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Expected goals in this match
What is xG?
Every shot is scored 0–1 by how likely it is to be a goal from that spot — a chance in the middle of the box ≈ 0.4, a long shot from a tight angle ≈ 0.03, a penalty ≈ 0.76. Add them up over a match and that is the xG.
The scoreline can lie: you can win 1-0 on a fluke while creating half the chances. xG shows who was really closer to scoring — and over a season it predicts results better than goals alone.
Both teams create about equally
Season form · 11 home / 75 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Over51
- Under49
Close call
Both teams score
- Yes55
- No45
Both teams likely to score
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
Villa Espanola ↓
Most likely 1–1 (12%) · grid covers 98% of scorelines
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Total goals
Double chance
Winning margin
Team goals
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Combos
Model probabilities, not odds. For information only.
How is this calculated?
Every number below comes from this match — nothing is made up.
Recent form of each side
Villa Espanola at home — creates 1.18, concedes 1.82 · 11 matches
CA River Plate away — creates 0.97, concedes 1.47 · 75 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
Villa Espanola attack 1.18 + CA River Plate defence 1.47 → ÷2 → 1.32
CA River Plate attack 0.97 + Villa Espanola defence 1.82 → ÷2 → 1.40
Each side's attack is blended with the other's defence, then averaged.
Chance of every scoreline
From those two numbers a Poisson distribution gives the probability of each exact score — the grid shown above.
The answer to "why 39%?"
CA River Plate at 39% is simply the biggest of the three — that is the pick.
What the model can't see
It reads only the stats of recent matches. It knows nothing about:
- injuries & suspensions
- the matchday lineup
- motivation — cup, relegation, a title race
- weather & pitch condition
- in-game coaching decisions
So 39% does not mean "CA River Plate will win" — it means "on the available stats, this is the most likely result."
Statistical model based on expected goals (xG). For informational purposes only.
Match Events
Head to Head
3 previous meetings · small sample
Club Nacional
Penarol
Progreso
Fenix
Danubio
Defensor Sporting
Wanderers
Atenas
Cerro
Liverpool Montevideo
Boston RiverCA River Plate
El Tanque Sisley
Atletico Torque
Rampla JuniorsIf points are equal: 1. Goal difference 2. Goals scored 3. Head-to-head
P = Played · W = Won · D = Drawn · L = Lost · GF = Goals for · GA = Goals against · GD = Goal difference · Pts = Points
Villa Espanola host CA River Plate on Sunday, 15 August 2021 at 16:15. The match is part of the Primera División - Apertura 2026/2027 season.
Match Recap: Villa Espanola vs CA River Plate
Villa Espanola and CA River Plate drew 1-1 in Primera División - Apertura on August 15, 2021.
Goals: P. Silva (48'), M. Arezo (60').
The match was played at Estadio Obdulio Varela in Montevideo.