Primera B preview: Can Melipilla edge out victory against Puerto Montt?

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Competition: Chile Primera B
Competition: Wed 20.January
Match begins: 22:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Bicentenario Municipal de La Florida

A key match in Primera B as both teams are battling for the top positions. With Melipilla in 5th position and Puerto Montt placed 4th, this promises to be an exciting meeting. Read on to find out more!

Insights:
  • Melipilla has the fewest conceded goals (23) in Primera B

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 Melipilla and Puerto Montt.

Puerto Montt play their home games on artifical turf, while this game is played on grass. Recent stats for Puerto Montt when playing on grass are 9 wins, 9 draws and 27 defeats from 45 matches. They have scored 43 goals and conceded 64 times in these games.

It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Puerto Montt, who are travelling more than 1000 kilometers to play this game.

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Melipilla form and stats

When playing at home in the Primera B, Melipilla, who have the fewest conceded goals (23) in Primera B, have managed 6 wins, 4 draws and suffered 4 defeats from 14 games.

Melipilla drew their last game, 1-1 away at Union San Felipe. Before that, Melipilla had a home game versus Barnechea which ended with a victory 3-1.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Melipilla have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found eleven games) they have won three times, drawn five and lost three.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Melipilla as they are travelling to their away game against Puerto Montt in the Primera B. That match is four days after this one.

Melipilla are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 15 goals in 14 games. Melipilla have only conceded 9 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Puerto Montt form and stats

There's been little loot from Puerto Montt's travels as they have only collected 12 points from 14 away games in the Primera B. Puerto Montt only have 3 wins to counter their 8 defeats and 3 draws.

Puerto won their last game, 1-0 versus Magallanes played at home. Prior to that match, the Puerto manager J. Aravena Plaza faced defeat when travelling to Rangers and losing 1-3.

Puerto Montt are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is four wins, five draws and six defeats. From a total of 15 matches.

After this away game Puerto return home for a Primera B game against Melipilla. That game is only four sleeps after this.

The attacking power of Puerto when travelling is not overwhelming with 11 goals scored from 14 league matches away. Puerto Montt have conceded 19 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Puerto Montt - Melipilla 0-0 entered in the official records. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Melipilla won four games, five matches ended with a draw and Puerto Montt has one win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: three / seven

Top Goalscorers

MelipillaG. Sosa
G. Sosa
12 goals
Puerto MonttI. Lemmo Gervasio
I. Lemmo Gervasio
12 goals
Puerto MonttN. Gauna
N. Gauna
11 goals

Melipilla missing players

Puerto Montt missing players

Melipilla Puerto Montt
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
28 14 3 Played P 3 14 28
11 6 2 Won W 0 3 11
9 4 0 Drew D 0 3 9
8 4 1 Lost L 3 8 8
30 15 2 Scored S 2 11 36
23 9 1 Conceded C 7 19 28
82% 86% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 93% 86%
54% 57% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 71% 64%
29% 21% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 36% 39%
14% 7% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 14% 25%
7% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 14%
29% 29% 0% BTTS BTTS 67% 50% 46%
50% 50% 67% Clean Sheets C S 0% 14% 36%
39% 36% 33% Failed to Score F T 33% 43% 32%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.7 2.6 3.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.5 1.4
6 2 1 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
10.5 11.2 12.3 Shots (avg) S ( 7.3 7.7 7.8
4.5 4.6 6.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.3 3.4 3.2
25% 23% 10% Goal Efficiency G E 20% 23% 40%
Key stats in Primera B this season:
  • Melipilla has the fewest conceded goals (23) in Primera B
  • Melipilla has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (7) in Primera B
  • Melipilla has the most clean sheets (14) in Primera B

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Nublense 28 15 5 8 51 33 14 11 1 2 33 15 14 4 4 6 18 18 18 50
2 Union San Felipe 28 12 10 6 37 25 14 6 7 1 16 9 14 6 3 5 21 16 12 46
3 Rangers 28 12 9 7 43 39 14 10 2 2 29 14 14 2 7 5 14 25 4 45
4 Puerto Montt 28 11 9 8 36 28 14 8 6 0 25 9 14 3 3 8 11 19 8 42
5 Melipilla 28 11 9 8 30 23 14 6 4 4 15 9 14 5 5 4 15 14 7 42
6 Deportes Temuco 28 11 8 9 35 34 14 6 4 4 13 12 14 5 4 5 22 22 1 41
7 San Marcos 28 12 5 11 27 29 14 7 4 3 14 10 14 5 1 8 13 19 -2 41
8 Magallanes 28 9 13 6 31 25 14 5 9 0 16 10 14 4 4 6 15 15 6 40
9 Copiapo 28 10 9 9 48 46 14 7 3 4 28 20 14 3 6 5 20 26 2 39
10 Cobreloa 28 9 9 10 37 33 14 6 4 4 23 12 14 3 5 6 14 21 4 36
11 San Luis 28 8 9 11 31 35 14 4 5 5 19 16 14 4 4 6 12 19 -4 33
12 Santiago Morning 28 7 10 11 29 39 14 3 6 5 15 22 14 4 4 6 14 17 -10 31
13 Barnechea 28 7 9 12 39 45 14 6 4 4 29 22 14 1 5 8 10 23 -6 30
14 Deportes Valdivia 28 6 10 12 34 48 14 6 5 3 18 17 14 0 5 9 16 31 -14 28
15 Deportes Santa Cruz 28 6 4 18 28 54 14 4 0 10 16 30 14 2 4 8 12 24 -26 22

Read more about Primera B

The Campeonato Primera B is the second level of the Chilean football league. It has 16 teams and the season runs from February to December with each team playing 30 fixtures. The winner is promoted while teams in the second to sixth place in the league table enter a promotion playoff.