Melipilla vs Santiago Morning match preview: Even contest expected at Estadio Municipal de La Pintana

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Competition: Chile Primera B
Competition: Mon 17.October
Match begins: 22:30 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Municipal de La Pintana (6000 seats)

The path has mostly gone uphill for Melipilla so far, and you could say the same about Santiago Morning. These struggling sides would trade their mothers for some much needed points here.

Insights:
  • Melipilla have the most conceded goals (46) in Primera B
  • Santiago Morning have the most conceded goals in the first half (23) in Primera B

This looks to be an intriguing fixture with lots of action and energy as both participants are well refreshed since they last saw competitive action. Get ready!

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Melipilla form and stats

When playing at home in the Primera B, Melipilla, who have the most conceded goals (46) in Primera B, have managed 5 wins, 3 draws and suffered 6 defeats from 14 games.

Melipilla faced defeat in their previous match, away at Magallanes (0-7). Melipilla were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one.

Preceding that game was the home draw versus Fernández Vial that ended 2-2.

This is expected to be a close game, with Melipilla perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Melipilla as a small favourite), we find 18 games. Melipilla has won 5 of these, drawn 6 and lost 7.

Melipilla are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 15 goals in 14 games. Melipilla's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 16 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Santiago Morning form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Santiago Morning so far with only 13 points returning home. The records show 3-4-7 (win-draw-lose).

Impressive finishing secured the home win 2-1 against Copiapo in their previous game.

Preceding that game, the 1-2 loss visiting Puerto Montt's place.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Santiago Morning playing away and similar expectations, we found 16 relevant matches. Results were 5 Santiago Morning wins, 7 draws and 4 defeats.

The visiting Santiago have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 16 goals from 14 games. Santiago Morning have conceded 25 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

Melipilla have managed a sequence of 4 consecutive matches without defeat (2-2-0) when facing Santiago Morning.

The fixture lists shows this result when the teams played each other earlier this season; Santiago Morning - Melipilla 1-1.

Top Goalscorers

Santiago MorningO. Ortega
O. Ortega
11 goals
Santiago MorningS. Pino Briceño
S. Pino Briceño
10 goals
MelipillaD. Alvarado Rodriguez
D. Alvarado Rodriguez
6 goals

Melipilla missing players

Santiago Morning missing players

Melipilla Santiago Morning
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
29 14 3 Played P 4 14 29
6 5 1 Won W 2 3 8
8 3 1 Drew D 0 4 9
15 6 1 Lost L 2 7 12
27 15 4 Scored S 4 16 34
46 16 4 Conceded C 5 25 41
97% 93% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 97%
76% 71% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 86% 79%
48% 50% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 57% 52%
14% 7% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 29% 17%
7% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 14% 10%
59% 57% 67% BTTS BTTS 50% 79% 72%
14% 29% 33% Clean Sheets C S 25% 7% 17%
31% 21% 0% Failed to Score F T 25% 14% 14%
 
5.3 5.1 5 Corners for (avg) C F 2.2 4.7 4.9
4.8 4.9 4.3 Corners against (avg) C A 6.2 4.6 4.5
3 2.9 2.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.8 2.7 2.7
6 3 1 Red cards R C 1 3 8
 
9.3 9.9 6.3 Shots (avg) S ( 7.8 8.9 9.9
3.8 4.1 1.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.5 3.2 4
25% 26% 80% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 36% 29%
 
11.8 12.5 9 Shots against (avg) S A 11 11.1 11.1
5.4 5.5 4.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 4.3 4.2
Key stats in Primera B this season:
  • Melipilla have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Melipilla have the fewest clean sheets (4) in Primera B
  • Melipilla have the fewest matches under the total-line (7) in Primera B
  • Melipilla have the most conceded goals (46) in Primera B
  • Melipilla have the most dropped points from leading position (24) in Primera B
  • Melipilla have the the worst goal difference (-19) in Primera B
  • Melipilla is in the worst form (0-2-4)
  • Santiago Morning have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Santiago Morning have the most conceded goals in the first half (23) in Primera B
  • Santiago Morning haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 Magallanes 29 20 5 4 55 21 15 12 2 1 28 5 14 8 3 3 27 16 34 65
2 Cobreloa 30 19 7 4 36 20 15 14 1 0 23 6 15 5 6 4 13 14 16 64
3 Union San Felipe 30 14 7 9 36 31 15 10 3 2 21 11 15 4 4 7 15 20 5 49
4 Rangers 30 14 4 12 39 37 15 6 1 8 23 25 15 8 3 4 16 12 2 46
5 Copiapo 29 13 6 10 42 32 14 9 3 2 28 12 15 4 3 8 14 20 10 45
6 Puerto Montt 30 11 11 8 35 30 15 7 6 2 19 11 15 4 5 6 16 19 5 44
7 Barnechea 30 11 8 11 44 39 15 8 4 3 27 15 15 3 4 8 17 24 5 41
8 Univ. Concepcion 30 10 10 10 37 33 15 5 6 4 22 19 15 5 4 6 15 14 4 40
9 Santiago Wanderers 31 9 12 10 35 37 15 4 6 5 19 19 16 5 6 5 16 18 -2 39
10 Deportes Temuco 30 9 8 13 27 39 15 7 4 4 19 19 15 2 4 9 8 20 -12 35
11 Recoleta 30 8 10 12 33 37 15 5 4 6 21 20 15 3 6 6 12 17 -4 34
12 Deportes Santa Cruz 30 8 9 13 32 36 15 8 5 2 21 10 15 0 4 11 11 26 -4 33
13 Santiago Morning 29 8 9 12 34 41 15 5 5 5 18 16 14 3 4 7 16 25 -7 33
14 Deportes Iquique 30 7 10 13 28 38 15 6 6 3 19 14 15 1 4 10 9 24 -10 31
15 San Luis 30 6 13 11 24 38 15 2 9 4 8 14 15 4 4 7 16 24 -14 31
16 Fernández Vial 29 3 17 9 23 32 15 1 9 5 10 14 14 2 8 4 13 18 -9 26
17 Melipilla 29 6 8 15 27 46 14 5 3 6 15 16 15 1 5 9 12 30 -19 26

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.