These two sides are relishing a quality season so far and occasions like this could be momentous. Here's the preview for Sporting Cristal - Sport Huancayo!
- Sporting Cristal have the most points from losing position (21) in Primera Division
- Sport Huancayo have won significantly less corners away then at home.
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.
Sporting Cristal form and stats
Sporting Cristal are steadily winning Primera Division games and points here at Estadio Alberto Gallardo. 6 wins, 3 draws and 0 defeats is the summary from 9 games. Sporting Cristal have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.
Cristal faced defeat in their previous match, away at Cusco FC (1-4). This club delivered a 22 league rounds long consecutive run without a loss before that game! Midfielder Yotún was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.2 (out of ten) in that game. Yotún scored one goal, hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 87 successful passes (of 91 total).
Before that, Sporting Cristal drew at home versus UTC Cajamarca.A decent goal production from Cristal in their home games so far, with 17 goals from 9 league matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Sporting Cristal are not conceding a lot of goals here at Estadio Alberto Gallardo in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 9 matches.
Sport Huancayo form and stats
The visitors are W3-D2-L4 on the road this term. That's in the Primera Division.
The Huancayo goalkeeper Angel Gustavo Zamudio Chavez is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 275 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.
The regulars enjoyed Sport Huancayo's previous game versus Deportivo Municipal, a 2-0 win played at home. Those three points felt good as this team had gone three league games without winning. The 2-0 victory against Deportivo Municipal could easily have been bigger as the victors made a valiant effort at breaking the goal posts, hitting them three times. Defender Colombo was the best team player with a rating of 8.11. Colombo hit the woodwork once, hit one key pass and won 7 of 7 duels.
Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Atletico Grau that ended 0-0.Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Sport Huancayo have scored 13 goals in 9 league games away. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Huancayo have conceded 14 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
This was the end result when the contenders faced each other earlier this season; Sport Huancayo - Sporting Cristal 1-2. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Sporting Cristal six wins, three draws and Sport Huancayo one victory. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less. The matches between these sides sometimes lean towards being a bit rough, having seen 10 red cards from the last ten duels.
Top Goalscorers
  B. Varanda de Oliveira 12 goals |   R. Huaccha Jurado 12 goals |  A. Hohberg González 10 goals |
Sporting Cristal missing players
Sport Huancayo missing players
| Sporting Cristal | Sport Huancayo | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 32 | 15 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 16 | 33 |
| 16 | 10 | 1 | Won | W | 2 | 4 | 15 |
| 14 | 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 0 | 5 | 8 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 7 | 10 |
| 56 | 30 | 4 | Scored | S | 5 | 18 | 51 |
| 30 | 10 | 3 | Conceded | C | 1 | 20 | 35 |
| 88% | 87% | 67% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 81% | 88% |
| 75% | 73% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 62% | 73% |
| 38% | 47% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 38% | 45% |
| 25% | 27% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 19% | 30% |
| 25% | 27% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | 9% |
| 56% | 47% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 44% | 52% |
| 41% | 53% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 31% | 36% |
| 16% | 13% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 44% | 24% |
| 5.7 | 7.2 | 10.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0.7 | 4.2 | 5.5 |
| 4.7 | 4.6 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 6.6 | 4.9 |
| 3.1 | 3.3 | 3.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 2.4 | 2.2 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 6 | 9 |
| 13.5 | 16.3 | 17 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9 | 9.3 | 14.9 |
| 5.2 | 5.4 | 5.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 3.5 | 4.9 |
| 34% | 37% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 29% | 31% |
| 12.8 | 10.7 | 14.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 21 | 15.7 | 12.3 |
| 3.5 | 3.2 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6 | 5.3 | 3.9 |
- Sport Huancayo have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Sporting Cristal have not yet lost a game at home.
- Sporting Cristal have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Sporting Cristal have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Sporting Cristal have the most points from losing position (21) in Primera Division
- Sporting Cristal have the most scored goals in the second half (37) in Primera Division
- Sporting Cristal have won significantly more corners at home than 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 | 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 | Cusco FC | 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 Mannucci | 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 |
