Home team gets the points, the away team claims the win or an exciting draw? Anything could happen when the mid-table teams Independiente Juniors and Vargas Torres clash.
- Independiente Juniors have not yet lost a game at home.
- Vargas Torres have the fewest scored goals (14) in Primera B
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
Independiente Juniors form and stats
Independiente Juniors have been very solid at home in the Primera B so far, with 23 points collected from 9 matches (7-2-0). This has contributed greatly to their 4th position in the table. Hopes of three in a row are alive for Independiente Juniors after consecutive victories at their own ground.
Times are rough for the home team, having gone 225 minutes without scoring a league goal. Carcelen was the last player to find the net.
Independiente lost their last game at Cuniburo (placed 5th) after a 0-2 scoreline.
Before that, Independiente Juniors played out a draw 0-0 when visiting Imbabura.Low-scoring affair? In this club's last 10 league matches, 8 have produced two goals or less.
Independiente Juniors have proved capable of finding the net in their games here with 15 goals in 9 league matches. Independiente Juniors are not conceding a lot of goals here in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 5 from 9 matches.
Vargas Torres form and stats
Vargas Torres have only collected 5 points from their away games in the Primera B, after 0-5-4 (9 played). Vargas has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.
Vargas Torres are travelling after their nice 2-1 home win in the fixture against Guayaquil (placed 7th).
Prior to that match, the Vargas Torres manager faced defeat when travelling to Manta and losing 0-1.A tale of few goals? 11 of this team's latest 14 league matches have seen two goals or less.
Goals are few and far between in Vargas Torres's away league games. Only {3 goals} from 9 travels. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches.
Head 2 Head
The previous H2H match ended Vargas Torres - Independiente 1-0, played this season. As for the last two games between these two teams, there's one Independiente Juniors victory, zero draws and one Vargas Torres win. Over/under statistics; one of these games ended with three goals or more, one match with two goals or less. One of the players to grab the headlines has been Ayoví with 2 goals scored against Independiente Juniors in these 2 games.
Independiente Juniors missing players
Vargas Torres missing players
| Independiente Juniors | Vargas Torres | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 19 | 9 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 9 | 19 |
| 7 | 7 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 21 | 15 | 1 | Scored | S | 0 | 3 | 14 |
| 22 | 5 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 9 | 13 |
| 79% | 89% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 67% | 68% |
| 58% | 56% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 44% | 42% |
| 42% | 44% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 22% | 26% |
| 26% | 22% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 5% |
| 16% | 11% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 47% | 56% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 33% | 26% |
| 37% | 44% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 33% | 53% |
| 37% | 11% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 67% | 53% |
| 4.9 | 4.8 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 1 | 1.2 | 2 |
| 2.8 | 3.6 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 3.8 | 3.3 |
| 2.6 | 2.8 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 5 | 2.6 | 2.3 |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 11.7 | 13.1 | 18 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 7.1 | 8.3 |
| 4.5 | 6 | 9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6 | 1.7 | 2.8 |
| 25% | 28% | 11% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 20% | 26% |
| 7.1 | 6.2 | 4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7 | 8.7 | 7.3 |
| 3.1 | 2.6 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 1 | 3.9 | 2.8 |
- Independiente Juniors have created more than twice as many corners as Vargas Torres.
- Independiente Juniors have not yet lost a game at home.
- Independiente Juniors have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Independiente Juniors have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Independiente Juniors have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Vargas Torres have scored away.
- Vargas Torres have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- Vargas Torres have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Vargas Torres have the fewest conceded goals (13) in Primera B
- Vargas Torres have the fewest scored goals (14) in Primera B
- Vargas Torres have the fewest scored goals (3) away in Primera B
- Vargas Torres have the fewest scored goals in the first half (5) in Primera B
- Vargas Torres have the most clean sheets (10) in Primera B
- Vargas Torres have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Vargas Torres have yet to win a 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 | Macará | 19 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 26 | 15 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 38 |
| 2 | Manta | 19 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 20 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 3 | 31 |
| 3 | Imbabura | 19 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 29 | 23 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 16 | 6 | 28 |
| 4 | Independiente Juniors | 19 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 21 | 22 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 17 | -1 | 27 |
| 5 | Cuniburo | 19 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 20 | 19 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 24 |
| 6 | Vargas Torres | 19 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 14 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 24 |
| 7 | Guayaquil | 19 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 17 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -3 | 21 |
| 8 | 9 de Octubre | 19 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 26 | 28 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 21 | 14 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 14 | -2 | 20 |
| 9 | Chacaritas | 19 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 24 | 28 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 11 | -4 | 20 |
| 10 | América de Quito | 19 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 23 | 35 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 21 | -12 | 20 |
