Delightful dogfight as daring Audax Italiano duel with determined O'Higgins

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

The league table shows that 9 points separate the pair of competitors in this Primera Division fixture. Audax Italiano own both the points- and home ground advantage.

Insights:
  • Audax Italiano have the fewest conceded goals (13) in Primera Division
  • O'Higgins have the fewest scored goals in the first half (4) in Primera Division

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

This ground has artifical turf, unlike O'Higgins's home stadium. The previous two games by the guests on artifical turf have resulted in 0 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss.

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Audax Italiano form and stats

17 points is a decent return from 8 Primera Division games here at Estadio Municipal de La Pintana for Audax Italiano. The data says 5 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss.

A good away victory last time out for Italiano, who won 2-0 against La Serena (placed 12th).

A 2-2 draw away before that, with Curico Unido the opponent.

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Italiano matches with similar probabilities have ended with two wins, zero draws and zero defeats (from two games).

Audax Italiano are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 10 goals in 8 games. From these home matches, Audax Italiano have conceded only 7 goals. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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O'Higgins form and stats

The visitors are W2-D3-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Primera Division.

O'Higgins won their last game, 1-0 versus Everton played at home. The end of the last match, against Everton, was very satisfying as M. Cahais scored the winning goal deep into overtime.

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

Looking at the earlier recent performances of O'Higgins when being an outsider away as they are today, we find five matches with the visitors losing two times, drawing one and winning two games.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting O'Higgins as they have only managed to score 6 times from 8 away games in the league. O'Higgins have conceded 10 goals in these away matches. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.

Head 2 Head

The last head-to-head game ended O'Higgins - Italiano 0-0, played this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three Italiano victories, three draws and four O'Higgins wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

ItalianoJ. Montecinos Naranjo
J. Montecinos Naranjo
5 goals
Audax ItalianoF. Torres Cuello
F. Torres Cuello
4 goals
O'HigginsM. Larrondo Páez
M. Larrondo Páez
4 goals

Audax Italiano missing players

O'Higgins missing players

Audax Italiano O'Higgins
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
17 8 2 Played P 2 8 17
8 5 0 Won W 1 2 5
7 2 1 Drew D 0 3 7
2 1 1 Lost L 1 3 5
20 10 0 Scored S 2 6 14
13 7 2 Conceded C 4 10 20
88% 88% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 75% 76%
59% 50% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 62% 53%
24% 38% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 50% 41%
12% 12% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 12% 24%
6% 12% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 6%
41% 38% 0% BTTS BTTS 50% 50% 47%
47% 50% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 38% 47%
24% 25% 100% Failed to Score F T 50% 38% 29%
 
5.1 6.2 4 Corners for (avg) C F 3.5 4.2 4.1
2.9 3.2 2.5 Corners against (avg) C A 6 5.8 5.8
1.9 2.6 3.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 3 2.8
3 2 1 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
9.8 11.2 8.5 Shots (avg) S ( 6.5 8.2 8.8
3.7 4.4 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 3 3.4
32% 29% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 25% 25%
Key stats in Primera Division this season:
  • Audax Italiano have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Audax Italiano have the fewest conceded goals (13) in Primera Division
  • Audax Italiano have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • O'Higgins have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • O'Higgins have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (7) in Primera Division
  • O'Higgins have the fewest scored goals in the first half (4) in Primera Division

  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 17 10 4 3 27 14 8 4 2 2 10 5 9 6 2 1 17 9 13 34
2 Unión La Calera 17 9 5 3 19 17 9 6 2 1 11 8 8 3 3 2 8 9 2 32
3 Audax Italiano 17 8 7 2 20 13 8 5 2 1 10 7 9 3 5 1 10 6 7 31
4 Universidad Catolica 17 9 2 6 28 21 9 7 2 0 20 8 8 2 0 6 8 13 7 29
5 Universidad Chile 16 8 4 4 21 14 8 4 2 2 9 7 8 4 2 2 12 7 7 28
6 Antofagasta 17 7 5 5 22 20 9 6 0 3 13 10 8 1 5 2 9 10 2 26
7 Unión Española 17 7 3 7 25 24 8 4 2 2 14 11 9 3 1 5 11 13 1 24
8 Everton 17 6 5 6 15 16 8 3 2 3 8 9 9 3 3 3 7 7 -1 23
9 Nublense 17 5 7 5 24 20 8 4 3 1 13 5 9 1 4 4 11 15 4 22
10 Cobresal 16 6 4 6 19 17 8 5 1 2 13 6 8 1 3 4 6 11 2 22
11 O'Higgins 17 5 7 5 14 20 9 3 4 2 8 10 8 2 3 3 6 10 -6 22
12 La Serena 17 5 6 6 24 21 9 4 3 2 14 9 8 1 3 4 10 12 3 21
13 Melipilla 17 5 5 7 23 26 9 2 4 3 14 14 8 3 1 4 9 12 -3 20
14 Huachipato 16 4 7 5 20 21 8 2 4 2 7 7 8 2 3 3 13 14 -1 19
15 Palestino 17 5 3 9 22 28 8 3 2 3 10 11 9 2 1 6 12 17 -6 18
16 Curico Unido 17 3 6 8 18 25 8 2 4 2 12 11 9 1 2 6 6 14 -7 15
17 Santiago Wanderers 17 0 2 15 9 33 9 0 2 7 6 20 8 0 0 8 3 13 -24 2

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.