Pre-match info: 17 points separate the contenders so far, Sporting Cristal on top. Can Sport Boys pull off a surprise?
- Sport Boys have the fewest points from losing position (1) in Primera Division
- Sporting Cristal is in the best form (4-2-0) in Primera Division
Both participants have had a decent time to rest since their last work day in an official game. Let's have faith in that this will be an in-your-face fixture!
Sport Boys form and stats
The overall Primera Division statistics at home this season for Sport Boys are 4-1-4 (wins-draws-losses). When Sport Boys hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Real Garcilaso, Alianza Lima, Universitario, Sport Huancayo and Cesar Vallejo), they have won 2 of 3 matches! Two draws in a row at home now for Sport Boys.
Boys enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Deportivo Municipal's place. The match ended 3-0 with Roca, Mero and Contín scoring. A huge relief, as that was the first league win after playing, but not winning, six matches in a row. Roca, who plays in attack, was the champion player for the team in that fixture, receiving a rating of 8.4 (out of 10). Roca scored one goal, served one assist and hit three key passes.
Before that, Sport Boys drew at home versus Atletico Grau.It should be noted that a glance at the 10 latest league fixtures shows that 8 of them qualified as a both teams to score: NO result (only one or none of the teams scored).
Sport Boys has scored 10 league goals at home this season, in 9 matches. Boys have conceded 13 in these home matches.
Sporting Cristal form and stats
The visitors are W3-D5-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Primera Division. In general it has been a productive period now for Sporting Cristal as they haven't lost any of their last 18 games.
Yotún scored in Sporting Cristal's previous match, the home game against Deportivo Municipal that ended 1-0. A heroic performance from Sporting Cristal in their game against Deportivo Municipal last time out. Things got complicated when Grimaldo was sent off in the 72nd minute with the match level. Despite the red card the team were able to pull off a 1-0 victory! Midfield player Yotún was the top player of the team with a match rating of 8.14/10. Yotún scored one goal, hit the woodwork once, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 53 successful passes (of 57 total).
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Atletico Grau at their stadium, the result 3-2.The travelling fans enjoy Cristal's attacking play in away games, having scored 16 goals in 9 league matches away. 11 goals have been conceded by Sporting Cristal in these games.
Head 2 Head
Sporting Cristal have won at least one point in the last 20 matches (14-6-0) against Boys.This was the final score when the squads played each other previously this campaign; Sporting Cristal - Sport Boys 1-1. The matches between these clubs sometimes lean towards being hot-tempered, having seen 6 sending-offs from the last ten duels.
Top Goalscorers
  B. Varanda de Oliveira 11 goals |  A. Hohberg González 9 goals |   F. Roca Reyes 5 goals |
Sport Boys missing players
Sporting Cristal missing players
| Sport Boys | Sporting Cristal | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 29 | 14 | 3 | Played | P | 6 | 14 | 27 |
| 9 | 5 | 2 | Won | W | 3 | 5 | 15 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 3 | 8 | 11 |
| 14 | 6 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 22 | 13 | 2 | Scored | S | 12 | 23 | 52 |
| 39 | 18 | 3 | Conceded | C | 4 | 15 | 24 |
| 93% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 86% | 89% |
| 66% | 64% | 33% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 83% | 79% | 78% |
| 38% | 36% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 17% | 29% | 41% |
| 10% | 14% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 17% | 21% | 26% |
| 3% | 7% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 21% | 26% |
| 31% | 43% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 64% | 56% |
| 24% | 14% | 67% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 29% | 41% |
| 52% | 43% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 21% | 15% |
| 4.5 | 5 | 3.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.8 | 4.1 | 5.4 |
| 5 | 4.7 | 4.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.3 | 5.2 | 4.8 |
| 3.3 | 3.2 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.3 | 2.9 | 3.1 |
| 7 | 5 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 9.8 | 10.5 | 9.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.2 | 10.6 | 13.3 |
| 3.3 | 4 | 4.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6.2 | 5.4 | 5.4 |
| 23% | 23% | 15% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 32% | 30% | 36% |
| 14.3 | 13.1 | 10 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 17.2 | 15.4 | 13 |
| 4.9 | 4.7 | 3.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 3.9 | 3.6 |
- Sport Boys have the fewest clean sheets (2) at home in Primera Division
- Sport Boys have the fewest points from losing position (1) in Primera Division
- Sport Boys haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Sporting Cristal have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Sporting Cristal have scored more than double the goals of Sport Boys.
- Sporting Cristal have the most points from losing position (19) in Primera Division
- Sporting Cristal have the most scored goals (16) away in Primera Division
- Sporting Cristal have the most scored goals in the second half (34) in Primera Division
- Sporting Cristal have the the best goal difference (+5) away in Primera Division
- Sporting Cristal have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Sporting Cristal is in the best form (4-2-0) in Primera Division
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Alianza Lima | 18 | 14 | 0 | 4 | 37 | 16 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 21 | 42 |
| 2 | Sporting Cristal | 18 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 33 | 18 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 11 | 15 | 35 |
| 3 | Universitario | 18 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 29 | 14 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 15 | 34 |
| 4 | Real Garcilaso | 18 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 24 | 22 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 2 | 32 |
| 5 | Sport Huancayo | 18 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 30 | 25 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 5 | 27 |
| 6 | Cesar Vallejo | 18 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 25 | 23 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 16 | 2 | 27 |
| 7 | Carlos Manucci | 18 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 13 | -1 | 27 |
| 8 | Deportivo Garcilaso | 18 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 32 | 27 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 18 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 25 |
| 9 | Melgar | 18 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 24 | 22 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 25 |
| 10 | Cienciano | 18 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 23 | 28 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 22 | -5 | 24 |
| 11 | Atletico Grau | 18 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 31 | 21 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 16 | 10 | 23 |
| 12 | Alianza Atletico | 18 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 32 | 33 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 22 | -1 | 23 |
| 13 | ADT | 18 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 23 | 23 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 0 | 21 |
| 14 | Deportivo Municipal | 18 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 19 | 21 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 9 | -2 | 21 |
| 15 | UTC Cajamarca | 18 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 22 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 19 | -6 | 21 |
| 16 | Union Comercio | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 24 | 40 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 18 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 22 | -16 | 19 |
| 17 | Deportivo Binacional | 18 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 28 | 34 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 21 | -6 | 18 |
| 18 | Sport Boys | 18 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 26 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 13 | -13 | 18 |
| 19 | Academia Cantolao | 18 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 36 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 25 | -27 | 9 |
