Football preview: Home fans have big expectations when Huachipato take on Melipilla

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Competition: Chile Primera Division
Competition: Sun 05.December
Match begins: 21:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio CAP (10500 seats)

Primera Division: Huachipato are 4 points behind Melipilla, but intend to go all in. Get this show on the road!

Insights:
  • Huachipato have the most matches under the total-line (20) in Primera Division
  • Melipilla have the most conceded goals (27) away in Primera Division

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

Huachipato can neither be promoted or relegated from Primera Division. For Melipilla most of the excitement is over as they will neither be promoted or relegated this season.

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Huachipato form and stats

4-7-4 (win-draw-lost) are the Primera Division numbers at home for Huachipato so far this season. The opportunity of a proper winning streak is there for the hosts, with two straight wins here at Estadio CAP.

No payout for Huachipato in their previous match, an away game at Universidad Católica that ended in defeat 0-2.

Before that game, the 2-0 home victory against Santiago Wanderers.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Huachipato here at Estadio CAP in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (13 from 15 games). Huachipato are not conceding a lot of goals here at Estadio CAP in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 14 from 15 matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Melipilla form and stats

5-1-9 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Melipilla in their Primera Division matches away.

G. Sosa scored in Melipilla's previous match, the home game against Everton that ended 1-0.

Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Colo-Colo's place.

Melipilla are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 15 away goals from 15 games (in the league). Melipilla's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 27 goals from these trips.

Head 2 Head

Huachipato and Melipilla have faced each other before this season: Melipilla - Huachipato 1-2. H2H stats regardless of arena (last seven matches): Huachipato five wins, zero draws and Melipilla two victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one game had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

MelipillaG. Sosa
G. Sosa
23 goals
HuachipatoC. Martínez Escobar
C. Martínez Escobar
6 goals
MelipillaC. Zavala Briones
C. Zavala Briones
5 goals

Huachipato missing players

Melipilla missing players

Huachipato Melipilla
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
31 15 5 Played P 5 15 31
7 4 1 Won W 2 5 10
13 7 3 Drew D 1 1 8
11 4 1 Lost L 2 9 13
33 13 6 Scored S 6 15 38
40 14 5 Conceded C 6 27 48
84% 67% 60% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
68% 47% 40% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 80% 84%
32% 20% 20% Over 2.5 O 2.5 40% 53% 48%
26% 13% 20% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 27% 23%
13% 13% 20% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 13% 13%
45% 33% 40% BTTS BTTS 40% 40% 55%
26% 47% 40% Clean Sheets C S 20% 13% 16%
45% 53% 60% Failed to Score F T 40% 47% 29%
 
5.6 7.1 9.8 Corners for (avg) C F 4.6 3.9 4.5
3.9 3.1 1.6 Corners against (avg) C A 7.2 6.3 5.5
2.2 1.9 2.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.6 2.4 2.4
8 2 0 Red cards R C 1 2 4
 
12.1 14.9 15.4 Shots (avg) S ( 12.2 11.3 11.5
4.8 5.7 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.8 3.9 4.4
22% 15% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 32% 25% 28%
 
9.6 7.7 6 Shots against (avg) S A 12.6 12.7 13.1
3.8 2.9 2.8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 5.1 4.8
Key stats in Primera Division this season:
  • Huachipato have the fewest scored goals (13) at home in Primera Division
  • Huachipato have the most matches under the total-line (20) in Primera Division
  • Huachipato have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Huachipato have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Melipilla have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Melipilla have the most conceded goals (27) away in Primera Division
  • Melipilla haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Universidad Católica 31 21 2 8 62 34 16 14 2 0 39 12 15 7 0 8 23 22 28 65
2 Colo-Colo 31 19 5 7 49 25 16 9 2 5 20 9 15 10 3 2 29 16 24 62
3 Audax Italiano 31 14 11 6 38 30 15 8 3 4 19 16 16 6 8 2 19 14 8 53
4 Unión La Calera 31 15 6 10 39 37 16 7 2 7 17 20 15 8 4 3 22 17 2 51
5 Unión Española 31 15 3 13 48 49 15 9 2 4 29 24 16 6 1 9 19 25 -1 48
6 Antofagasta 31 11 11 9 33 36 15 8 2 5 19 17 16 3 9 4 14 19 -3 44
7 Ñublense 31 10 11 10 45 36 16 7 5 4 27 14 15 3 6 6 18 22 9 41
8 Palestino 31 11 8 12 47 46 15 6 4 5 25 22 16 5 4 7 22 24 1 41
9 Everton 31 10 9 12 29 32 15 6 4 5 14 14 16 4 5 7 15 18 -3 39
10 La Serena 31 9 11 11 40 42 15 6 4 5 21 20 16 3 7 6 19 22 -2 38
11 Melipilla 31 10 8 13 38 48 16 5 7 4 23 21 15 5 1 9 15 27 -10 38
12 O'Higgins 32 9 11 12 31 41 16 5 6 5 16 19 16 4 5 7 15 22 -10 38
13 Cobresal 31 10 7 14 39 39 16 7 4 5 26 18 15 3 3 9 13 21 0 37
14 Curicó Unido 31 8 12 11 36 38 16 4 8 4 19 19 15 4 4 7 17 19 -2 36
15 Universidad Chile 31 9 9 13 31 35 15 4 5 6 14 17 16 5 4 7 17 18 -4 36
16 Huachipato 31 7 13 11 33 40 15 4 7 4 13 14 16 3 6 7 20 26 -7 34
17 Santiago Wanderers 31 5 5 21 24 54 16 3 4 9 15 30 15 2 1 12 9 24 -30 20

Read more about Primera Division

The Chilean Primera División is the top level league of the football pyramid in Chile. It is also known as the Campeonato AFP PlanVital, a sponsorship name. The league has 16 teams playing a season from February to December, split into Apertura (“opening”) and Clausura (“closing”) tournaments.