Primera Division game research: Antofagasta against Unión Española

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Competition: Chile Primera Division
Competition: Thu 21.October
Match begins: 19:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Regional Calvo y Bascuñán (21178 seats)

It's been six days and nights since Antofagasta ran out versus Huachipato and the scoreline was 1-0. Can they win vs Unión Española?

Insights:
  • Antofagasta have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.

Both participants have had plenty of rest since their previous work day in an official game. Let's wish for an animated game!

It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Unión Española, who are travelling more than 1300 kilometers to play this game.

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Antofagasta form and stats

Antofagasta have played 12 Primera Division games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 7-1-4 (wins-draws-losses).

Nothing to worry about in defence for Antofagasta, as their goalkeeper Jose Ignacio Gonzalez Catalan has completely shut out the opponents for 225 minutes in the Primera Division.

It's back home for Antofagasta, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Huachipato away with the result 1-0. A. Uribe found the net in that victory.

Before that, Antofagasta had a home game versus Melipilla which ended with a victory 1-0.

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

There will be little rest for Antofagasta after this match as they are travelling to Santiago Wanderers for a Primera Division game in only four days.

The Antofagasta fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 16 in 12 matches. On the other hand, Antofagasta have conceded 14 goals.

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Unión Española form and stats

The visitors are W4-D1-L7 on the road this term. That's in the Primera Division. Unión Española seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?

Española are travelling after their nice 2-1 home win in the Primera Division against Curico Unido (placed 14th).

Preceding that game, the 1-2 loss visiting Universidad Católica's place.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 14 similar matches played by Española in our archives, and the results are: six wins for Unión Española, four draws and four defeats.

Española are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 15 away goals from 12 games (in the league). Española have conceded 17 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Unión Española - Antofagasta 1-1 was the end result in these contenders' previous H2H fixture, played this season. Stats for the former ten meetings involving these two teams are: one win for Antofagasta, six draws and three wins for Unión Española. Over 2,5 goals: three times; under 2,5 goals: seven games.

Antofagasta missing players

Unión Española missing players

Antofagasta Unión Española
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
24 12 3 Played P 4 12 25
9 7 1 Won W 0 4 12
8 1 0 Drew D 1 1 3
7 4 2 Lost L 3 7 10
29 16 4 Scored S 1 15 40
29 14 6 Conceded C 6 17 36
96% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 92% 96%
75% 67% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 83% 88%
42% 58% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 58% 64%
17% 17% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 17% 32%
8% 8% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 17% 24%
67% 67% 67% BTTS BTTS 25% 50% 68%
21% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 25% 17% 8%
17% 8% 33% Failed to Score F T 75% 42% 28%
 
4.7 5.6 6.7 Corners for (avg) C F 5.2 5.2 4.8
5 4.2 1 Corners against (avg) C A 4.5 4.8 4.3
2.2 2.5 2.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.2 1.8 2
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 3 5
 
10.9 11.9 14 Shots (avg) S ( 13 13.7 13.6
4.2 4.5 3.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 4.7 5.1
29% 30% 40% Goal Efficiency G E 7% 27% 31%
Key stats in Primera Division this season:
  • Antofagasta have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Antofagasta 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 Colo-Colo 24 15 4 5 39 20 12 6 2 4 14 7 12 9 2 1 25 13 19 49
2 Universidad Católica 24 15 2 7 46 29 12 10 2 0 29 10 12 5 0 7 17 19 17 47
3 Audax Italiano 25 12 8 5 32 24 12 7 2 3 17 13 13 5 6 2 15 11 8 44
4 Union La Calera 24 13 5 6 30 25 12 7 2 3 13 11 12 6 3 3 17 14 5 44
5 Unión Española 25 12 3 10 40 36 13 8 2 3 25 19 12 4 1 7 15 17 4 39
6 Antofagasta 24 9 8 7 29 29 12 7 1 4 16 14 12 2 7 3 13 15 0 35
7 Universidad Chile 24 9 7 8 30 27 12 4 4 4 13 14 12 5 3 4 17 13 3 34
8 Everton 24 9 7 8 21 21 12 5 4 3 11 10 12 4 3 5 10 11 0 34
9 La Serena 25 8 8 9 32 30 12 6 3 3 18 12 13 2 5 6 14 18 2 32
10 Cobresal 25 9 5 11 31 29 13 7 2 4 22 13 12 2 3 7 9 16 2 32
11 Nublense 25 7 9 9 32 31 13 5 4 4 19 12 12 2 5 5 13 19 1 30
12 Palestino 24 8 5 11 35 37 12 5 3 4 19 16 12 3 2 7 16 21 -2 29
13 O'Higgins 25 7 8 10 23 33 12 5 4 3 13 13 13 2 4 7 10 20 -10 29
14 Curico Unido 25 6 9 10 29 33 12 4 5 3 17 15 13 2 4 7 12 18 -4 27
15 Huachipato 24 4 11 9 26 35 12 2 6 4 10 14 12 2 5 5 16 21 -9 23
16 Melipilla 25 5 8 12 27 43 13 2 7 4 17 20 12 3 1 8 10 23 -16 23
17 Santiago Wanderers 24 5 3 16 19 39 12 3 2 7 12 23 12 2 1 9 7 16 -20 18

Read more about Primera Division

The Chilean Primera División is the top level league of the football pyramid in Chile. It is also known as the Campeonato AFP PlanVital, a sponsorship name. The league has 16 teams playing a season from February to December, split into Apertura (“opening”) and Clausura (“closing”) tournaments.