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Nacional First Half Goals
In 417 Uruguay Primera División matches, 68.1% of Nacional’s first halves produced a goal, 6th of the 24 published clubs in the division. They scored before halftime in 53.7% of them and conceded in 32.9%.
What Nacional’s first halves look like
Early scoring in Nacional’s matches is overwhelmingly their own: the net bulges at the right end before the break in 53.7% of matches and at the wrong one in 32.9%, 20.8pp apart. Home advantage arrives early for Nacional: they open the scoring account before halftime in 57.8% of home matches and only 49.5% of away ones, 8.3pp between them.
There is more record to read here than for most of the division: 417 matches against a typical 285. Only 5 published Uruguay Primera División clubs beat Nacional for the share of their first halves that produce a goal.
First halves here rarely stop at one: where Nacional’s matches produce an early goal, a second follows 48% of the time, against 44% across the division. Two goals before the break is no rarity in this fixture: 32.9% of Nacional’s matches get there, where the division manages 28.7%.
Every figure on this page rests on 417 completed Nacional matches over 12 seasons (2015 to 2026). That is a large enough sample that the venue rows above are worth reading as two separate records rather than one split in half.
Nacional first-half profile
| A goal before halftime (over 0.5) | 68.1% |
|---|---|
| Two or more (over 1.5) | 32.9% |
| Three or more (over 2.5) | 12.2% |
| Average first-half goals in their matches | 1.18 |
| Matches in which they scored before halftime | 53.7% |
| Matches in which they conceded before halftime | 32.9% |
| First-half goals scored per match | 0.79 |
| First-half goals conceded per match | 0.39 |
| Matches counted | 417 |
| Seasons covered | 12 (2015 to 2026) |
The over rows count goals by either side; the scored and conceded rows split that between them.
Home and away
| Venue | Over 0.5 | Over 1.5 | Scored | Conceded | Avg goals | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 70.6% | 33.2% | 57.8% | 30.8% | 1.22 | 211 |
| Away | 65.5% | 32.5% | 49.5% | 35.0% | 1.14 | 206 |
Nacional score before halftime 57.8% of the time at home against 49.5% away, a gap of 8.3pp. Each row rests only on the matches played at that venue, so read them as two separate samples rather than one split in half.
Nacional against Uruguay Primera División
| Line | Nacional | Uruguay Primera División | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Over 0.5 | 68.1% | 65.6% | +2.5pp |
| Over 1.5 | 32.9% | 28.7% | +4.2pp |
| Over 2.5 | 12.2% | 9.6% | +2.6pp |
Counted from 417 matches · 12 seasons · 2015 to 2026.
How to read these numbers
- These are historical rates over pooled seasons, not a forecast. A club that has changed manager, division or squad reads as the average of every version of itself on record.
- The opponent matters as much as the club. A high-scoring side against a defense that rarely concedes early is a different fixture from the same side against one that does.
For the model’s estimate of an actual upcoming fixture rather than this club’s history, see first half goals predictions and how the model works.
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