Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Colo-Colo & Unión Española face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Chilean Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Colo-Colo and Unión Española.
This is a match between teams from the same area, a local derby. The community is buzzing.
Colo-Colo form and stats
Last season, Colo-Colo's Chilean Cup journey ended in the copa libertadores play-offs.The overall Primera Division stats playing at home this season for Colo-Colo are 3-2-2 (wins-draws-losses). 3W-1D-0L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the Chilean Cup for Colo-Colo. The team is able to perform also as the away side, as they are nurturing a very healthy winning streak of four straight victories regardless of arena.
Nothing to worry about in defence for Colo-Colo, as their goalkeeper Brayan Josue Cortes Fernandez has completely shut out the opponents for 222 minutes in the Primera Division.
Colo-Colo enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Unión Española's place. The match ended 1-0 with M. Falcón scoring.
Before that, Colo-Colo had a Primera Division home game versus Curico Unido which ended with a victory 2-0.Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Primera Division game versus Antofagasta in only three days. This game is also played here at Estadio Monumental David Arellano.
The Colo-Colo fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 8 in 7 matches. Colo-Colo are not conceding a lot of goals here at Estadio Monumental David Arellano in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 5 from 7 matches.
Unión Española form and stats
They also participated in Chilean Cup last season. This ended in the semi-finals, when Universidad Chile drew the shortest straw.The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Unión Española so far with only 7 points returning home. The records show 2-1-4 (win-draw-lose). The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Chilean Cup stats, they have 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss both home and away. Unión Española has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.
This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Primera Division home defeat versus Colo-Colo with 0-1 on the scoreboard.
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Huachipato at their stadium, the result 1-0.Española have another game away from home in just four days, a Primera Division game versus Cobresal. A gruelling timetable for the visitors!
Unión Española find the net regularly in their away games. 9 goals from 7 away fixtures in the league. Española have conceded 10 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Last ten meetings with these sides: Colo-Colo won five, Unión Española were winners in four and we saw one draw. five games with more than 2,5 goals, five matches with less than 2,5 goals.Top Goalscorers
  C. Palacios Ferreira 10 goals |  I. Morales Bravo 9 goals |  L. Gil 4 goals |
Colo-Colo missing players
Unión Española missing players
| Colo-Colo | Unión Española | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 15 | 7 | Won | W | 5 | 11 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Drew | D | 1 | 5 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Lost | L | 6 | 9 | ||
| 41 | 18 | Scored | S | 16 | 36 | ||
| 20 | 8 | Conceded | C | 20 | 36 | ||
| 84% | 85% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 72% | 69% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 72% | ||
| 44% | 38% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 44% | ||
| 24% | 8% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 36% | ||
| 12% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 28% | ||
| 48% | 46% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 60% | ||
| 52% | 54% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 24% | ||
| 16% | 15% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 20% | ||
| 5.4 | 5.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.3 | 4.6 | ||
| 2.6 | 2.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.7 | 4.8 | ||
| 2.2 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 2.4 | ||
| 4 | 3 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 5 | ||
| 13 | 12.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 11.8 | ||
| 4.8 | 4.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.4 | 4.9 | ||
| 34% | 32% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 30% | 29% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Union La Calera | 15 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 17 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 31 |
| 2 | Colo-Colo | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 24 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 11 | 30 |
| 3 | Audax Italiano | 15 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 27 |
| 4 | Universidad Catolica | 14 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 23 | 17 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 25 |
| 5 | Universidad Chile | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 25 |
| 6 | Antofagasta | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 20 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 23 |
| 7 | Everton | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 23 |
| 8 | Unión Española | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 23 | 21 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 21 |
| 9 | La Serena | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 22 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 20 |
| 10 | Nublense | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 20 |
| 11 | Melipilla | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 21 | 23 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 12 | -2 | 19 |
| 12 | O'Higgins | 16 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 13 | 20 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -7 | 19 |
| 13 | Palestino | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 19 | 22 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 13 | -3 | 17 |
| 14 | Cobresal | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 | -2 | 16 |
| 15 | Huachipato | 14 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 16 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 13 | -3 | 13 |
| 16 | Curico Unido | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 13 | -9 | 10 |
| 17 | Santiago Wanderers | 15 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 29 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 13 | -23 | 1 |