Football betting preview: Rangers vs Melipilla

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Competition: Chile Primera B
Competition: Sun 31.January
Match begins: 00:30 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Fiscal de Talca (8200 seats)

A key match in Primera B as both teams are battling for the top positions. With Rangers in 3rd position and Melipilla placed 5th, this promises to be an exciting meeting. Read on to find out more!

Insights:
  • Rangers has the most scored goals in the first half (24) in Primera B
  • 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 Rangers and Melipilla.

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Rangers form and stats

32 points is a decent return from 14 Primera B games here at Estadio Fiscal de Talca for Rangers. The data says 10 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses. After failing to beat Copiapo here at Estadio Fiscal de Talca, Rangers has put together a very nice winning streak on their own turf with four wins in a row.

Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Deportes Temuco.

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

Rangers can score goals in their home matches. After 14 league matches they have found the net 29 times. Rangers have conceded 14 in these home matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Melipilla form and stats

5-5-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Melipilla, who have the fewest conceded goals (23) in Primera B, in their Primera B matches away.

Ahead of that match was the victory versus Puerto Montt at their stadium, the result 1-0.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 13 similar matches played by Melipilla in our archives, and the results are: four wins for Melipilla, four draws and five defeats.

Melipilla are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 15 away goals from 14 games (in the league). 14 goals have been conceded by Melipilla in these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: Melipilla - Rangers 1-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last seven matches): Rangers three wins, two draws and Melipilla two victories. As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

MelipillaG. Sosa
G. Sosa
12 goals
RangersD. Pezoa Matus
D. Pezoa Matus
4 goals

Rangers missing players

Melipilla missing players

Rangers Melipilla
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
31 15 3 Played P 4 15 31
14 11 2 Won W 1 6 12
10 2 1 Drew D 2 5 11
7 2 0 Lost L 1 4 8
46 30 6 Scored S 2 16 34
40 14 3 Conceded C 5 14 26
90% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 80% 84%
65% 67% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 47% 55%
42% 60% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 33% 29%
29% 40% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 20% 16%
19% 20% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 13% 6%
55% 67% 67% BTTS BTTS 25% 27% 32%
35% 33% 33% Clean Sheets C S 50% 53% 48%
19% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 40% 35%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.3 2.1 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.2 2.8 2.7
2 1 0 Red cards R C 2 4 6
 
9 10.1 10 Shots (avg) S ( 7.8 9.6 10.2
4.1 4.8 4.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 4.3 4.4
38% 42% 43% Goal Efficiency G E 17% 27% 26%
Key stats in Primera B this season:
  • Melipilla has the fewest conceded goals (14) away in Primera B
  • Melipilla has the fewest conceded goals (23) in Primera B
  • Melipilla has the most clean sheets (15) in Primera B
  • Melipilla has the most clean sheets (8) away in Primera B
  • Melipilla have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Rangers has the most scored goals in the first half (24) in Primera B
  • Rangers have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Rangers have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Rangers have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Rangers haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  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.