  L-mode negative triangularity (NT) operation is a promising alternative to
the positive triangularity (PT) H-mode as a high-confinement ELM-free
operational regime. In this work, two TCV L-mode lower single null Ohmic
discharges with opposite triangularity $\delta \simeq \pm 0.3$ are investigated
using SOLPS-ITER modelling. The main focus is the exploration of the reasons
behind the experimentally observed feature of NT plasmas being more difficult
to detach than similar PT experiments. SOLPS-ITER simulations are performed
assuming the same anomalous diffusivity for particles $D_n^{AN}$ and energy
$\kappa_{e/i}^{AN}$ in PT and NT. Nonetheless, the results clearly show
dissimilar transport and accumulation of neutral particles in the scrape-off
layer (SOL) of the two configurations, which consequently gives rise to
different ionization sources for the plasma and produces different poloidal and
cross-field fluxes. Simulations also recover the experimental feature of the
outer target being hotter in the NT scenario (with $T_{e, NT} \gtrsim 5 \,
\mathrm{eV}$) than in the PT counterpart.
