It's game day two of the Liga Nacional campaign and everything to play for. Check out our detailed preview of Real España-Motagua!
These are busy days for the hometeam, as they had a game only three days ago in the Concacaf League. Thankfully the previous game, versus Real Esteli, was also a home game here at Estadio Francisco Morazán. The away team is better rested.
Real España form and stats
Last season, Real España's league results were 11 wins, 5 draws and 2 losses, resulting in 1st place in the Liga Nacional. From these 18 matches they scored 32 goals and let in 15. Performing as the home side in the previous season Real España managed 5-3-1 (win-draw-lost) with 18 goals and 11 conceded. Real España have collected 3 points from their Liga Nacional home games so far after 1-0-0.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Luis Aurelio Lopez Fernandez not having conceded a league goal in 185 minutes.
Real España's previous fixture was a Concacaf League game also played at home, finishing 3-1 vs Real Esteli. The home side are looking to build on that result.
Before that, España had a Liga Nacional home game versus UPNFM which ended with a victory 1-0.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Real España as they are travelling to their away game against Real Sociedad in the Liga Nacional. That match is three days after this one.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Real España at home in the league. 1 on target and 0 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.
Motagua form and stats
Let's have a look at how Motagua performed last season in the Liga Nacional: They landed a 4th position in the league table after playing out 10 victories, 5 draws and 3 defeats. In total they scored 37 and conceded 20 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 3 - drew 4 and lost 2 with 14/12 goals scored/conceded.
Impressive finishing from Delgado, Moreira (2) and Obando secured the home win 4-0 against Honduras Progreso in their previous game. As mentioned above, Motagua was the only team on the pitch versus Honduras Progreso in their previous game, winning 4-0. This could be a tougher task.
Prior to that match, the Motagua manager Medina faced defeat when travelling to Real España and losing 0-2.A quick return to home after this game, as Motagua are hosting Vida in the Liga Nacional only four days away.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: six - one - three (España wins - draws - Motagua wins). As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  R. Rocca 2 goals |
Real España missing players
Motagua missing players
| Real España | Motagua | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Real España | Last season | Motagua | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 44 | 22 | Played | P | 23 | 46 | ||
| 26 | 14 | Won | W | 8 | 23 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Drew | D | 7 | 12 | ||
| 10 | 4 | Lost | L | 8 | 11 | ||
| 74 | 43 | Scored | S | 28 | 76 | ||
| 44 | 24 | Conceded | C | 26 | 44 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 87% | 87% | ||
| 82% | 82% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 74% | 76% | ||
| 43% | 55% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 48% | 52% | ||
| 23% | 32% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 13% | 22% | ||
| 14% | 23% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 9% | 17% | ||
| 52% | 68% | BTTS | BTTS | 43% | 46% | ||
| 34% | 23% | Clean Sheets | C S | 35% | 39% | ||
| 14% | 9% | Failed to Score | F T | 35% | 28% | ||
| 4.8 | 4.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.8 | 5.6 | ||
| 4.7 | 4.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 4.9 | ||
| 2.3 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 2.5 | ||
| 8 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | ||
| 9 | 10.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.1 | 9.9 | ||
| 3.9 | 4.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 4.3 | ||
| 41% | 45% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 45% | 42% | ||
| 9.2 | 8.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7.8 | 9.1 | ||
| 3.7 | 3.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 3.6 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Marathon | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 2 | Olimpia | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | Motagua | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| 4 | UPNFM | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Real España | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Vida | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | Olancho | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 1 |
| 8 | Victoria | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 1 |
| 9 | Real Sociedad | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -4 | 0 |
| 10 | Honduras Progreso | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -6 | 0 |
