La Serena - Huachipato: Small difference between teams in Primera Division clash

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Competition: Chile Primera Division
Competition: Fri 29.October
Match begins: 21:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio La Portada de La Serena (14000 seats)

This fixture involves two squads residing in the lower parts of the Primera Division, La Serena at 12th place and Huachipato in 16th. A decent opportunity for one of the sides to better their situation.

Insights:
  • Huachipato have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Primera Division

These are busy days for the home side, as they had a match only four days ago in the Primera Division. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Palestino.

These teams have little in common geographically as Huachipato have to travel 900 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.

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La Serena form and stats

La Serena have played 13 Primera Division games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 6-3-4 (wins-draws-losses).

La Serena manager I. Basay Hatibovic and his team return home after a 3-3 draw away versus Palestino (placed 11th) in the Primera Division. As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today?

Preceding that match was a defeat to Colo-Colo (1-4).

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 Serena have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 15 matches with the results: Won six, drawn five and lost four.

La Serena has scored 19 league goals at home this season, in 13 matches. 16 goals have been conceded.

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Huachipato form and stats

There's been little loot from Huachipato's travels as they have only collected 11 points from 13 away games in the Primera Division. Huachipato only have 2 wins to counter their 6 defeats and 5 draws. The sun doesn’t shine and the birds do not sing for Huachipato, who have now gone ten games without a victory. The Melipilla game was their last win and it’s been a dry spell since.

G. Montes was the last player to score for the away team. Huachipato haven't scored a league goal in the last 399 minutes.

Huachipato delivered a 0-0 draw playing at home against Audax Italiano (placed 3rd) in their previous match; a Primera Division game.

It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Everton wasn't a success with a 0-1 loss.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Huachipato playing away and similar expectations, we found ten relevant matches. Results were one Huachipato win, two draws and seven defeats.

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Huachipato have scored 16 goals in 13 league games away. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. As for defending, Huachipato rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 22 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The fixture lists shows this result when the squads faced each other previously this campaign; Huachipato - La Serena 0-0. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: five - three - two (Serena wins - draws - Huachipato wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

La SerenaS. Leyton Hevia
S. Leyton Hevia
6 goals
HuachipatoC. Martínez Escobar
C. Martínez Escobar
5 goals
La SerenaJ. Martínez Ruiz
J. Martínez Ruiz
4 goals

La Serena missing players

Huachipato missing players

La Serena Huachipato
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
27 13 3 Played P 4 13 26
8 6 3 Won W 2 2 4
9 3 0 Drew D 1 5 12
10 4 0 Lost L 1 6 10
36 19 9 Scored S 8 16 26
37 16 1 Conceded C 6 22 36
85% 85% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 81%
78% 77% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 85% 65%
41% 38% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 75% 46% 35%
26% 23% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 38% 27%
19% 23% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 15% 15%
48% 46% 33% BTTS BTTS 75% 62% 50%
33% 38% 67% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 19%
33% 31% 0% Failed to Score F T 25% 38% 50%
 
3.7 4.1 5.3 Corners for (avg) C F 3 3.7 5.5
5.6 4.8 2.3 Corners against (avg) C A 6.2 4.9 4.1
2.3 2.1 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.8 2.3 2.1
6 1 0 Red cards R C 1 5 7
 
11.1 12.6 13.3 Shots (avg) S ( 9 8.7 11.5
4.2 4.9 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.8 3.5 4.7
32% 30% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 53% 36% 21%
Key stats in Primera Division this season:
  • Huachipato have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Huachipato have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Huachipato have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Primera Division
  • Huachipato have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Huachipato haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  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 26 17 4 5 45 22 13 7 2 4 16 8 13 10 2 1 29 14 23 55
2 Universidad Catolica 26 16 2 8 50 33 13 11 2 0 32 12 13 5 0 8 18 21 17 50
3 Audax Italiano 27 12 9 6 32 27 13 7 2 4 17 16 14 5 7 2 15 11 5 45
4 Union La Calera 26 13 6 7 32 28 13 7 2 4 14 13 13 6 4 3 18 15 4 45
5 Union Espanola 26 13 3 10 42 37 13 8 2 3 25 19 13 5 1 7 17 18 5 42
6 Everton 26 10 8 8 23 22 13 6 4 3 12 10 13 4 4 5 11 12 1 38
7 Antofagasta 26 10 8 8 31 31 13 7 1 5 17 16 13 3 7 3 14 15 0 38
8 Cobresal 26 10 5 11 33 30 13 7 2 4 22 13 13 3 3 7 11 17 3 35
9 Nublense 27 8 10 9 36 32 14 5 5 4 20 13 13 3 5 5 16 19 4 34
10 Universidad Chile 26 9 7 10 30 31 13 4 4 5 13 15 13 5 3 5 17 16 -1 34
11 Palestino 26 9 6 11 39 40 13 5 4 4 22 19 13 4 2 7 17 21 -1 33
12 La Serena 27 8 9 10 36 37 13 6 3 4 19 16 14 2 6 6 17 21 -1 33
13 O'Higgins 26 7 8 11 24 35 13 5 4 4 14 15 13 2 4 7 10 20 -11 29
14 Melipilla 27 7 8 12 32 44 14 3 7 4 20 20 13 4 1 8 12 24 -12 29
15 Curico Unido 26 6 10 10 30 34 13 4 6 3 18 16 13 2 4 7 12 18 -4 28
16 Huachipato 26 4 12 10 26 36 13 2 7 4 10 14 13 2 5 6 16 22 -10 24
17 Santiago Wanderers 26 5 3 18 21 43 13 3 2 8 12 24 13 2 1 10 9 19 -22 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.