Preview: 22 points are the diference between the teams before this game, Macará on top. Can Chacaritas shorten the gap?
- Chacaritas have the fewest points (11) at home in Primera B
- Macará have the fewest conceded goals (18) in Primera B
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Chacaritas form and stats
Chacaritas's struggle is real here at Estadio Bellavista de Ambato with only 11 points collected from 12 Primera B games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-5-5.
Stress levels are on the rise for Chacaritas's attacking players as they have now played 200 minutes without scoring in a league game. Montaño was their last goal scorer.
The home team returns to Estadio Bellavista de Ambato after drawing with Guayaquil (placed 8th) on their last time out; the game ended 0-0.
Ahead of that match, Chacaritas lost 0-1 at home to Manta.Trench warfare? Looking at this team's last 12 league games, 9 have contained two goals or less.
Chacaritas has scored 16 league goals at home this season, in 12 matches. Chacaritas have conceded 19 from these games.
Macará form and stats
The visitors are W4-D5-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Primera B.
The followers enjoyed Macará's previous game versus Cuniburo (placed 6th), a 2-0 win played at home.
Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to 9 de Octubre.A tale of few goals? 9 of this side's last 11 league rounds have seen two or less goals.
Macará are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 15 away goals from 12 games (in the league). As opposed to that, Macará have seen the ball go into their own net 14 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Amazingly enough, Macará faced Chacaritas the last time they featured in a game with more than two goals in total. That was the Macará - Chacaritas 2-1 game eight league rounds ago, and only "under 2.5" for the visitors since then! The match official got to use his red card when these teams last met, and the sinner was (Chacaritas). As for the last two games between these two teams, there's zero Chacaritas victories, zero draws and two Macará wins. Over/under statistics; one of these games ended with three goals or more, one match with two goals or less.
Chacaritas missing players
Macará missing players
| Chacaritas | Macará | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 24 | 12 | 3 | Played | P | 5 | 12 | 25 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 4 | 13 |
| 7 | 5 | 1 | Drew | D | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 11 | 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 26 | 16 | 3 | Scored | S | 8 | 15 | 32 |
| 32 | 19 | 7 | Conceded | C | 5 | 14 | 18 |
| 92% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | 84% |
| 62% | 83% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 75% | 72% |
| 42% | 50% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 40% | 42% | 28% |
| 21% | 25% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 20% | 25% | 12% |
| 17% | 17% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 8% | 4% |
| 54% | 75% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 75% | 44% |
| 21% | 8% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 17% | 48% |
| 33% | 17% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 17% | 24% |
| 4.7 | 5.2 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.6 | 4.2 | 4.9 |
| 4 | 3.4 | 4.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 4.2 | 3.7 |
| 3.3 | 2.8 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.6 | 2.8 | 3 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 9.6 | 10.8 | 7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 9.2 | 12.2 |
| 3.9 | 4.8 | 3.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 3.5 | 4.5 |
| 28% | 28% | 30% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 36% | 28% |
| 10.5 | 8.9 | 8.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7.6 | 7.8 | 7.6 |
| 4 | 3.5 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.2 | 2.7 |
- Chacaritas have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Chacaritas have the fewest clean sheets (1) at home in Primera B
- Chacaritas have the fewest points (11) at home in Primera B
- Chacaritas haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Macará have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Macará have the fewest conceded goals (18) in Primera B
- Macará have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (9) in Primera B
- Macará have the the best goal difference (+14) in Primera B
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Macará | 25 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 32 | 18 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 47 |
| 2 | Imbabura | 25 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 39 | 29 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 23 | 19 | 10 | 41 |
| 3 | Manta | 26 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 27 | 22 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 5 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 17 | 5 | 40 |
| 4 | Independiente Juniors | 26 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 23 | 26 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 21 | -3 | 37 |
| 5 | Vargas Torres | 25 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 18 | 19 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 14 | -1 | 32 |
| 6 | Cuniburo | 24 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 27 | 25 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 18 | 11 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 2 | 31 |
| 7 | 9 de Octubre | 25 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 36 | 36 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 29 | 15 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 21 | 0 | 28 |
| 8 | Guayaquil | 25 | 4 | 14 | 7 | 22 | 27 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 11 | 15 | -5 | 26 |
| 9 | Chacaritas | 24 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 26 | 32 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 19 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 13 | -6 | 25 |
| 10 | America de Quito | 25 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 28 | 44 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 17 | 20 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 24 | -16 | 23 |
