Primera B match preview and statistics: América de Quito fight El Nacional

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Competition: Ecuador Primera B
Competition: Fri 23.July
Match begins: 00:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa (39816 seats)

América de Quito played 2-0 against Puerto Quito last week, a game to remember. Next up is this strong El Nacional side.

Insights:
  • América de Quito have the fewest scored goals (21) in Primera B
  • El Nacional have the fewest conceded goals (19) in Primera B

The visiting El Nacional played their last game only four days ago, a Primera B match.

This is a local derby, usually meaning added tension and importance.

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América de Quito form and stats

When playing at home in the Primera B, América de Quito, who have the fewest scored goals (21) in Primera B, have managed 3 wins, 6 draws and suffered 2 defeats from 11 games.

A strong away win for América de Quito against Puerto Quito the last match.

A defeat was the result before that one, 1-2 away at Duros del Balón.

América has scored 12 league goals at home this season, in 11 matches. América de Quito's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 11 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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El Nacional form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for El Nacional so far with only 11 points returning home. The records show 3-2-6 (win-draw-lose). Three might be a magic number, but there's been little wizardry in Nacional's last three away games as they have all been lost.

Nacional had fun at their own home (Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa) last time out, beating Chacaritas 1-0.

Preceding that game, the 0-2 loss visiting LDU Portoviejo's place.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Nacional as they have only managed to score 10 times from 11 away games in the league. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. El Nacional have conceded 15 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: El Nacional - América 1-0. América de Quito-El Nacional H2H statistics last four meetings regardless of arena: América de Quito one win, El Nacional two wins, one draw. one of these four matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

América de Quito missing players

El Nacional missing players

América de Quito El Nacional
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
23 11 2 Played P 4 11 23
6 3 1 Won W 1 3 12
10 6 0 Drew D 0 2 4
7 2 1 Lost L 3 6 7
21 12 3 Scored S 2 10 29
20 11 3 Conceded C 6 15 19
87% 91% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 96%
61% 73% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 73% 65%
26% 36% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 36% 35%
4% 9% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 18% 13%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
52% 73% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 45% 35%
30% 18% 0% Clean Sheets C S 25% 18% 48%
30% 18% 0% Failed to Score F T 75% 36% 22%
 
4 4.1 5 Corners for (avg) C F 4.3 5 4.3
3.9 4.6 5.5 Corners against (avg) C A 3.7 4.4 4.7
2.8 2.9 3.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.7 2.7 2.7
4 1 1 Red cards R C 0 5 8
 
9.5 9.2 12.5 Shots (avg) S ( 10 8 9.7
4.4 4.6 7.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 4.2 4
21% 24% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 13% 24% 31%
Key stats in Primera B this season:
  • América de Quito have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • América de Quito have the fewest scored goals (21) in Primera B
  • El Nacional have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • El Nacional have the fewest conceded goals (19) in Primera B
  • El Nacional have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (10) in Primera B
  • El Nacional have the most matches under the total-line (13) in Primera B
  • El Nacional have the the best goal difference (+10) in Primera B
  • El Nacional haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Cumbaya 23 13 5 5 29 20 11 7 4 0 16 7 12 6 1 5 13 13 9 44
2 El Nacional 23 12 4 7 29 19 12 9 2 1 19 4 11 3 2 6 10 15 10 40
3 Guayaquil 23 11 2 10 31 34 11 4 2 5 11 12 12 7 0 5 20 22 -3 35
4 Gualaceo 23 9 7 7 29 21 11 6 4 1 16 4 12 3 3 6 13 17 8 34
5 Independiente Juniors 23 9 5 9 34 31 12 6 1 5 20 15 11 3 4 4 14 16 3 32
6 Chacaritas 23 7 8 8 22 25 11 6 2 3 15 11 12 1 6 5 7 14 -3 29
7 América de Quito 23 6 10 7 21 20 11 3 6 2 12 11 12 3 4 5 9 9 1 28
8 Duros del Balón 23 8 4 11 32 39 12 6 2 4 22 18 11 2 2 7 10 21 -7 28
9 Puerto Quito 23 7 4 12 22 31 12 6 2 4 16 14 11 1 2 8 6 17 -9 25
10 LDU Portoviejo 23 6 5 12 28 37 12 5 2 5 18 16 11 1 3 7 10 21 -9 23

Read more about Primera B

The Primera Categoria Serie B, often shortened to Serie B or Primera B, is the second-highest level of football in Ecuador. Like Serie A the competition format often changes every year. Currently it holds ten teams and the season runs from February to December in two stages.