Primera Division match prediction: Little separates Unión La Calera and Palestino in quality

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Competition: Chile Primera Division
Competition: Mon 07.Aug
Match begins: 00:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Municipal Nicolás Chahuán Nazar (10000 seats)

Primera Division: The average league table placements illustrates the road Unión La Calera and Palestino have taken so far. Both participants are up for it; let's bake this cake!

Insights:
  • Palestino is in the best form (4-1-1) in Primera Division

The visiting Palestino played their last game only four days ago, a Chilean Cup match. That game, against Colo-Colo, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Palestino.

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Unión La Calera form and stats

The Primera Division statistics playing at home this season for Unión La Calera are 3-4-2 (wins-draws-losses).

It's back home for Unión La Calera, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Curico Unido away with the result 3-0. Concha, Lomónaco and Acuña found the net in that victory.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Magallanes in a game that was won 2-1.

This is expected to be a close game, with Calera perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Unión La Calera as a small favourite), we find 9 games. Unión La Calera has won 3 of these, drawn 3 and lost 3.

Unión La Calera are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 11 goals in 9 games. 10 goals have been conceded.

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Palestino form and stats

Playing away, Palestino have won 4 games, drawn 2 and suffered 3 defeats in the Primera Division this season. Having won their last three away games Palestino has no reason to fear anyone.

Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Palestino goalkeeper Cesar Pablo Rigamonti is eager to challenge this, with his 180 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

Two away games in a row for Palestino, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-1 against Colo-Colo in the Chilean Cup.

Before that, Palestino secured a home win against Copiapo with the score 2-0.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Palestino playing away and similar expectations, we found 13 relevant matches. Results were 2 Palestino wins, 6 draws and 5 defeats.

The travelling fans enjoy Palestino's attacking play in away games, having scored 14 goals in 9 league matches away. As for defending, Palestino rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 14 goals from these away matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

Unión La Calera have avoided defeat in the last 5 matches (2-3-0) facing Palestino.

It's not the first time these two sides face each other this campaign, as the records show this recent match: Palestino - Unión La Calera 1-1. The games between these sides have had a tendency to be ill-tempered, having seen 5 red cards from the last ten encounters.

Top Goalscorers

Unión La CaleraL. Passerini
L. Passerini
7 goals
PalestinoM. Dávila Carvajal
M. Dávila Carvajal
7 goals
Unión La CaleraN. Orellana Acuña
N. Orellana Acuña
4 goals

Unión La Calera missing players

Palestino missing players

Unión La Calera Palestino
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
19 9 1 Played P 3 9 19
6 3 0 Won W 1 4 8
9 4 0 Drew D 1 2 5
4 2 1 Lost L 1 3 6
26 11 1 Scored S 4 14 28
23 10 2 Conceded C 6 14 28
84% 78% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
79% 67% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 78% 84%
47% 44% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 56% 47%
26% 22% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 44% 32%
21% 22% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 11% 16%
74% 67% 100% BTTS BTTS 67% 56% 63%
21% 22% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 33% 26%
21% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 11% 11%
 
5.4 6.1 4 Corners for (avg) C F 5.3 5.3 4.7
5.5 5 5 Corners against (avg) C A 3 3.2 3.7
2.8 2.9 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.3 2.1 2.1
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 4
 
13.4 14.4 16 Shots (avg) S ( 16.3 14.3 14.3
4.9 5 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6 4.9 4.7
28% 24% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 22% 32% 31%
 
13.3 12.2 15 Shots against (avg) S A 12 13.1 12.6
4.3 3.4 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.7 4.2 4.2
Key stats in Primera Division this season:
  • Palestino have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Palestino have the most scored goals in the second half (18) in Primera Division
  • Palestino haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Palestino is in the best form (4-1-1) 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 19 10 6 3 35 17 10 7 3 0 18 7 9 3 3 3 17 10 18 36
2 Huachipato 19 10 2 7 28 21 9 5 1 3 14 8 10 5 1 4 14 13 7 32
3 Everton 19 9 4 6 28 25 10 6 1 3 15 11 9 3 3 3 13 14 3 31
4 Union Espanola 19 8 6 5 25 14 10 6 2 2 19 7 9 2 4 3 6 7 11 30
5 Colo-Colo 18 8 6 4 25 19 10 6 2 2 16 8 8 2 4 2 9 11 6 30
6 Universidad Chile 19 8 5 6 21 20 8 3 3 2 8 6 11 5 2 4 13 14 1 29
7 Palestino 19 8 5 6 28 28 10 4 3 3 14 14 9 4 2 3 14 14 0 29
8 Coquimbo Unido 19 9 2 8 23 24 9 5 1 3 11 11 10 4 1 5 12 13 -1 29
9 Universidad Catolica 19 7 6 6 32 27 10 3 4 3 17 14 9 4 2 3 15 13 5 27
10 Unión La Calera 19 6 9 4 26 23 9 3 4 2 11 10 10 3 5 2 15 13 3 27
11 Nublense 19 6 5 8 20 26 10 3 2 5 12 17 9 3 3 3 8 9 -6 23
12 Audax Italiano 19 6 4 9 25 28 9 4 2 3 13 10 10 2 2 6 12 18 -3 22
13 O'Higgins 19 5 5 9 20 24 9 1 3 5 11 13 10 4 2 4 9 11 -4 20
14 Curico Unido 19 6 1 12 20 33 10 3 0 7 10 17 9 3 1 5 10 16 -13 19
15 Magallanes 19 4 4 11 20 30 9 2 3 4 9 12 10 2 1 7 11 18 -10 16
16 Copiapo 18 4 4 10 14 31 9 2 3 4 9 18 9 2 1 6 5 13 -17 16

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.