Primera Division duel: Close contest expected between Copiapó and Audax Italiano

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Competition: Chile Primera Division
Competition: Sun 16.Jul
Match begins: 16:30 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Luis Valenzuela Hermosilla (10000 seats)

Copiapó - Audax Italiano: Primera Division dungeon teams desperate for points and greatness. Check out all the interesting statistics and information before the game!

Insights:
  • Copiapó have the fewest scored goals (13) in Primera Division
  • Audax Italiano have the most dropped points from leading position (18) in Primera Division

Copiapó's stadium, Estadio Luis Valenzuela Hermosilla, has a grass surface. Audax Italiano have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Audax Italiano when playing on grass; 16 wins, 15 draws and 10 losses from 41 matches. They have scored {59 goals} in these games and conceded 56.

It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Audax Italiano, who are travelling more than 800 kilometers to play this game.

The visiting Audax Italiano played their last game only three days ago, a Copa Sudamericana match. That game was also an away game, at Ñublense. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.

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Copiapó form and stats

Copiapó's results here at Estadio Luis Valenzuela Hermosilla in the Primera Division have been very modest with 1 victory, 3 draws and 3 defeats. With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on Copiapó to get some points in this home game.

The fans hope that Copiapó will fight back in this match, putting things right after the 0-3 away defeat in the Chilean Cup fixture against Cobresal.

Heartbreak before that as Copiapó lost 1-2 at Everton's place.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Copiapó have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 11 matches with the results: Won 6, drawn 4 and lost 1.

The Copiapó fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 8 in 7 matches. Copiapó are struggling defensively, conceding on average more than two goals per home game (15 from 7 played).

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Audax Italiano form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Audax Italiano so far with only 8 points returning home. The records show 2-2-4 (win-draw-lose).

It's another away fixture for the visitors, as they travelled to Ñublense in their previous outing. The Copa Sudamericana fixture ended 0-0.

A loss against Palestino was the result prior to that, in a Primera Division home game.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 13 similar matches played by Audax Italiano in our archives, and the results are: 4 wins for Audax Italiano, 4 draws and 5 defeats.

Observe that 9 of this side's 12 latest league games have ended with three goals or more.

A new game in only four days for Italiano, the Copa Sudamericana home match versus Ñublense. Busy days.

Audax Italiano are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 12 times in 8 away games so far. Italiano's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 14 goals from these trips. When Audax Italiano is visiting a side on the bottom half, 3 of 4 matches have ended with three or more goals. These are matches against Curico Unido, Audax Italiano, Union La Calera, Magallanes and Ñublense.

Head 2 Head

The participants have met each other previously this season, with the result Audax Italiano - Copiapó 3-0 entered in the official records. As for the last three games between these two teams, there's zero Copiapó victories, one draw and two Audax Italiano wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, zero matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Audax ItalianoG. Ríos
G. Ríos
6 goals
Audax ItalianoG. Sosa
G. Sosa
6 goals
Audax ItalianoM. Sepúlveda Méndez
M. Sepúlveda Méndez
2 goals

Copiapó missing players

Audax Italiano missing players

Copiapó Audax Italiano
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
15 7 1 Played P 4 8 16
3 1 0 Won W 2 2 5
4 3 1 Drew D 1 2 4
8 3 0 Lost L 1 4 7
13 8 0 Scored S 8 12 22
26 15 0 Conceded C 5 14 24
87% 86% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 88% 94%
67% 71% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 88% 81%
53% 57% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 75% 75% 69%
27% 57% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 38% 25%
13% 29% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 12% 6%
47% 71% 0% BTTS BTTS 75% 88% 69%
27% 29% 100% Clean Sheets C S 25% 12% 25%
40% 14% 100% Failed to Score F T 25% 12% 12%
 
5.7 5.3 4 Corners for (avg) C F 4.2 4 4.8
4.1 3.3 1 Corners against (avg) C A 7.8 7.5 6.2
3.3 3 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.8 2.8 3.1
5 2 0 Red cards R C 0 1 7
 
14.3 14.3 14 Shots (avg) S ( 14.5 11.5 13.8
4.7 5.1 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.8 3.8 4.6
18% 22% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 42% 40% 30%
 
12.6 10.4 8 Shots against (avg) S A 13.2 15 14.2
4.8 5 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.5 4.5 4
Key stats in Primera Division this season:
  • Audax Italiano have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Audax Italiano have the most dropped points from leading position (18) in Primera Division
  • Copiapó have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Copiapó have the fewest scored goals (13) in Primera Division
  • Copiapó have the the worst goal difference (-13) in Primera Division
  • Copiapó have the the worst goal difference (-7) at home 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 Cobresal 16 8 5 3 28 15 8 6 2 0 14 5 8 2 3 3 14 10 13 29
2 Huachipato 16 9 2 5 25 16 8 4 1 3 12 8 8 5 1 2 13 8 9 29
3 Universidad Chile 16 8 5 3 20 14 7 3 3 1 8 5 9 5 2 2 12 9 6 29
4 Coquimbo Unido 16 9 1 6 21 19 8 5 1 2 11 9 8 4 0 4 10 10 2 28
5 Everton 16 7 4 5 24 23 8 5 1 2 13 9 8 2 3 3 11 14 1 25
6 Union Espanola 16 6 6 4 19 13 8 4 2 2 13 7 8 2 4 2 6 6 6 24
7 Universidad Catolica 16 6 5 5 28 22 9 2 4 3 15 13 7 4 1 2 13 9 6 23
8 Colo-Colo 15 6 5 4 20 18 8 4 2 2 11 7 7 2 3 2 9 11 2 23
9 Palestino 16 6 4 6 24 27 8 3 2 3 11 13 8 3 2 3 13 14 -3 22
10 O'Higgins 16 5 5 6 19 18 8 1 3 4 10 11 8 4 2 2 9 7 1 20
11 Audax Italiano 16 5 4 7 22 24 8 3 2 3 10 10 8 2 2 4 12 14 -2 19
12 Union La Calera 16 3 9 4 19 21 8 2 4 2 9 9 8 1 5 2 10 12 -2 18
13 Ñublense 16 5 3 8 17 24 9 3 1 5 12 17 7 2 2 3 5 7 -7 18
14 Curico Unido 16 5 1 10 18 27 8 2 0 6 8 14 8 3 1 4 10 13 -9 16
15 Copiapó 15 3 4 8 13 26 7 1 3 3 8 15 8 2 1 5 5 11 -13 13
16 Magallanes 16 3 3 10 16 26 7 1 2 4 6 10 9 2 1 6 10 16 -10 12

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.