Primera Division match prediction and preview for La Serena vs Curicó Unido clash

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Competition: Chile Primera Division
Competition: Sat 26.December
Match begins: 13:30 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio La Portada de La Serena (14000 seats)

La Serena will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 6 points behind Curicó Unido.

Insights:
  • La Serena has the most matches under the total-line (15) in Primera Division
  • Curicó Unido have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

La Serena and Curicó Unido should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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La Serena form and stats

La Serena have collected 17 points from their Primera Division home games so far after 5-2-5.

The Serena goalkeeper Zacarias Orlando Lopez Gonzalez is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 511 minutes without conceding a goal in the Primera Division.

It's back home for Serena, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Univ. Concepcion away with the result 2-0. S. Leyton and Romulo found the net in that victory. Before that, Serena drew at home versus Universidad Chile.

The Serena fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 13 in 12 matches. La Serena are not conceding a lot of goals here at Estadio La Portada de La Serena in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 11 from 12 matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Curicó Unido form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Curicó Unido so far with only 12 points returning home. The records show 3-3-6 (win-draw-lose). It's a growing despair in Curicó Unido as they have recorded three consecutive losses. Curicó has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.

Curicó Unido are looking to quickly end their 201 minutes long goal drought in the Primera Division.

Curicó Unido play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-1 to Huachipato (placed 7th). A loss against Cobresal was the result prior to that, in a home game.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Curicó as they have only managed to score 11 times from 12 away games in the league. In the opposite end, Curicó have conceded 21 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

These teams' last encounter with each other was the Curicó Unido - Serena 1-0 earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): La Serena four wins, three draws and Curicó Unido three victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Curicó UnidoF. Castro
F. Castro
8 goals
SerenaH. Suazo Pontivo
H. Suazo Pontivo
7 goals
Curicó UnidoP. Parra Rubilar
P. Parra Rubilar
5 goals

La Serena missing players

Curicó Unido missing players

La Serena Curicó Unido
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
25 12 3 Played P 4 12 24
9 5 0 Won W 1 3 11
4 2 1 Drew D 0 3 4
12 5 2 Lost L 3 6 9
26 13 0 Scored S 2 11 28
29 11 3 Conceded C 8 21 33
92% 92% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 83% 92%
68% 50% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 75% 62%
44% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 58% 50%
8% 8% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 33% 33%
4% 8% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 8% 12%
40% 33% 0% BTTS BTTS 25% 50% 46%
32% 42% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 33%
36% 33% 100% Failed to Score F T 75% 42% 29%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.1 2.2 1.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.2 2.5 2.3
2 1 1 Red cards R C 1 3 4
 
11.9 12.6 10 Shots (avg) S ( 7.2 7.4 9.5
4.1 4.4 3.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.2 3.2 3.7
25% 25% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 22% 29% 32%
Key stats in Primera Division this season:
  • Curicó Unido have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • La Serena has the most matches under the total-line (15) 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 Universidad Catolica 21 14 4 3 49 22 11 8 2 1 27 10 10 6 2 2 22 12 27 46
2 Union La Calera 22 14 3 5 40 24 11 8 3 0 22 8 11 6 0 5 18 16 16 45
3 Union Espanola 24 13 5 6 42 32 13 7 3 3 24 19 11 6 2 3 18 13 10 44
4 Curicó Unido 24 11 4 9 28 33 12 8 1 3 17 12 12 3 3 6 11 21 -5 37
5 Antofagasta 24 9 9 6 32 28 13 6 6 1 20 13 11 3 3 5 12 15 4 36
6 Universidad Chile 23 9 8 6 37 26 10 5 5 0 22 8 13 4 3 6 15 18 11 35
7 Huachipato 25 9 7 9 29 31 12 6 5 1 15 10 13 3 2 8 14 21 -2 34
8 Palestino 24 9 5 10 28 31 13 7 3 3 20 15 11 2 2 7 8 16 -3 32
9 La Serena 25 9 4 12 26 29 12 5 2 5 13 11 13 4 2 7 13 18 -3 31
10 Cobresal 23 8 6 9 29 27 11 5 3 3 16 10 12 3 3 6 13 17 2 30
11 Univ. Concepcion 25 7 9 9 30 37 12 4 2 6 15 19 13 3 7 3 15 18 -7 30
12 Santiago Wanderers 24 8 5 11 32 41 12 6 2 4 19 19 12 2 3 7 13 22 -9 29
13 O'Higgins 23 8 4 11 29 32 11 3 1 7 13 21 12 5 3 4 16 11 -3 28
14 Everton 24 6 10 8 27 31 12 3 6 3 13 12 12 3 4 5 14 19 -4 28
15 Audax Italiano 25 7 7 11 34 39 12 6 3 3 19 12 13 1 4 8 15 27 -5 28
16 Deportes Iquique 23 7 6 10 26 31 12 5 3 4 14 15 11 2 3 6 12 16 -5 27
17 Coquimbo Unido 23 6 5 12 22 35 12 4 3 5 12 18 11 2 2 7 10 17 -13 23
18 Colo-Colo 24 5 7 12 25 36 12 3 1 8 12 20 12 2 6 4 13 16 -11 22

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.