This match features two teams living in the basement of the Primera Division, Deportivo Ocotal holding 8th place and Juventus Managua lying 7th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Juventus Managua have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 6-7-16 (win-draw-loss) from 29 matches.
Deportivo Ocotal form and stats
3-2-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Primera Division numbers at home for Deportivo Ocotal so far this season. The Ocotal manager E. Díaz might feel some added pressure to get something from this game after two straight home defeats.
Ocotal enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Real Madriz's place. The match ended 1-0 with E. Alvarez scoring. Ahead of that match, Ocotal lost 1-2 at home to Chinandega.
Some amazing scenes last match, when E. Alvarez scored the winning goal three minutes into stoppage time.
The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Deportivo Ocotal have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found five matches with the results: Won two, drawn three and lost zero.
A decent goal production from Ocotal in their home games so far, with 11 goals from 7 league matches. Ocotal are not conceding a lot of goals here at Estadio Roy Fernando Bermúdez in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 5 from 7 matches.
Juventus Managua form and stats
There's been little loot from Juventus Managua's travels as they have only collected 6 points from 6 away games in the Primera Division. Juventus Managua only have 2 wins to counter their 4 defeats and 0 draws.
Juventus Managua failed to get anything from their last game, a Primera Division home match vs Managua (placed 5th) that ended with defeat 2-3. It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Real Esteli wasn't a success with a 0-3 loss.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found nine similar matches played by Juventus Managua in our archives, and the results are: zero wins for Juventus Managua, five draws and four defeats.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Juventus Managua as they have only managed to score 4 times from 6 away games in the league. As opposed to that, Juventus Managua have seen the ball go into their own net 8 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
These teams' last encounter with each other was the Juventus Managua - Ocotal 1-0 earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Ocotal two wins, two draws and Juventus Managua six victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.Deportivo Ocotal missing players
Juventus Managua missing players
| Deportivo Ocotal | Juventus Managua | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 7 | 2 | Played | P | 0 | 6 | 14 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 17 | 11 | 4 | Scored | S | 0 | 4 | 16 |
| 17 | 5 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 8 | 22 |
| 93% | 86% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 57% | 57% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 33% | 57% |
| 43% | 43% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 50% |
| 29% | 29% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 17% | 43% |
| 14% | 14% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 17% | 21% |
| 43% | 43% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 17% | 50% |
| 29% | 43% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 29% |
| 36% | 29% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 50% | 21% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.9 | 3 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 3.5 | 3.3 |
| 6 | 4 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 139 | 63 | 19 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 51 | 116 |
| 53 | 23 | 8 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 14 | 45 |
| 32% | 48% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 29% | 36% |
- Deportivo Ocotal has the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Primera Division
- Deportivo Ocotal have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Deportivo Ocotal have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Juventus Managua have scored away.
- Juventus Managua has the most conceded goals in the first half (10) in Primera Division
- Juventus Managua 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 | Real Esteli | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 28 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 18 | 33 |
| 2 | Walter Ferreti | 15 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 21 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 10 | 8 | 26 |
| 3 | Jalapa | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 23 |
| 4 | Diriangen | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 22 |
| 5 | Managua | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 10 | -2 | 18 |
| 6 | Chinandega | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 18 | 24 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -6 | 18 |
| 7 | Juventus Managua | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 16 | 22 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 | -6 | 17 |
| 8 | Deportivo Ocotal | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 15 |
| 9 | Real Madriz | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | -6 | 13 |
| 10 | Junior Managua | 15 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 14 | -10 | 12 |