Can Universidad Chile beat Antofagasta in Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos clash?

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Competition: Chile Primera Division
Competition: Sat 13.February
Match begins: 20:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos (48745 seats)

The Universidad Chile & Antofagasta managers R. Dudamel Ochoa and H. Tapia Urdile are both dreading and looking forward to this decisive game in the upper regions of the Primera Division league table.

Insights:
  • Universidad Chile has the fewest conceded goals (32) 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.

It's quite the trip for Antofagasta when visiting Universidad as the cities are 1300 kilometers apart.

For Antofagasta most of the excitement is over as they will neither be promoted or relegated this season.

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Universidad Chile form and stats

When playing at home in the Primera Division, Universidad Chile, who have the fewest conceded goals (32) in Primera Division, have managed 7 wins, 8 draws and suffered 1 defeat from 16 games.

The Universidad goalkeeper Fernando Carlos De Paul Lanciotti is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 293 minutes without conceding a goal in the Primera Division.

The home team returns to Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos after being equal after 90 minutes with Curicó Unido (placed 11th) on their last time out; the Primera Division game ended 0-0. Before that, Universidad Chile had a home game versus Union Espanola which ended with a victory 3-0.

A decent goal production from Universidad in their home games so far, with 30 goals from 16 league matches. From these home matches, Universidad have conceded only 12 goals.

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Antofagasta form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Primera Division travels is 4 wins, 5 draws and 7 defeats.

The supporters enjoyed Antofagasta's previous game versus O'Higgins (placed 7th), a Primera Division 1-0 win played at home. Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Unión La Calera that ended 1-1.

Late drama in the previous game, when C. Muñoz scored the winning goal two minutes into stoppage time to defeat O'Higgins.

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Antofagasta have scored 16 goals in 16 league games away. Antofagasta have conceded 22 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

These teams' last encounter with each other was the Antofagasta - Universidad Chile 1-0 earlier this season. Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: six wins for Universidad, zero draws and four wins for Antofagasta. Over 2,5 goals: six times; under 2,5 goals: four games.

Top Goalscorers

Universidad ChileJ. Larrivey
J. Larrivey
18 goals
AntofagastaE. Bello Gil
E. Bello Gil
9 goals
AntofagastaC. Muñoz Rojas
C. Muñoz Rojas
8 goals

Universidad Chile missing players

Antofagasta missing players

Universidad Chile Antofagasta
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
33 16 4 Played P 4 16 33
12 7 2 Won W 0 4 12
13 8 2 Drew D 3 5 12
8 1 0 Lost L 1 7 9
46 30 7 Scored S 7 16 42
32 12 1 Conceded C 9 22 39
85% 88% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 88% 91%
70% 81% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 62% 70%
48% 56% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 38% 42%
24% 25% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 25% 27%
6% 6% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 6% 6%
45% 50% 25% BTTS BTTS 100% 38% 55%
36% 44% 75% Clean Sheets C S 0% 38% 30%
33% 19% 25% Failed to Score F T 0% 38% 24%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.2 2 2.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.2 2.3 2.2
5 2 1 Red cards R C 0 2 6
 
10.4 11.6 12 Shots (avg) S ( 11 10.3 11.6
4.4 4.9 4.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.8 3.9
32% 38% 37% Goal Efficiency G E 44% 26% 33%
Key stats in Primera Division this season:
  • Universidad Chile has the fewest conceded goals (12) at home in Primera Division
  • Universidad Chile has the fewest conceded goals (32) in Primera Division
  • Universidad Chile have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Universidad Chile have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.

  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 33 17 11 5 63 34 17 9 6 2 35 16 16 8 5 3 28 18 29 62
2 Unión La Calera 33 17 6 10 57 38 16 9 4 3 28 14 17 8 2 7 29 24 19 57
3 Union Espanola 33 14 10 9 54 49 17 7 6 4 27 23 16 7 4 5 27 26 5 52
4 Palestino 32 14 8 10 47 42 16 9 4 3 29 21 16 5 4 7 18 21 5 50
5 Universidad Chile 33 12 13 8 46 32 16 7 8 1 30 12 17 5 5 7 16 20 14 49
6 Antofagasta 33 12 12 9 42 39 17 8 7 2 26 17 16 4 5 7 16 22 3 48
7 O'Higgins 33 12 8 13 39 38 16 4 5 7 18 24 17 8 3 6 21 14 1 44
8 Cobresal 32 12 7 13 41 39 16 8 4 4 25 15 16 4 3 9 16 24 2 43
9 Huachipato 32 12 7 13 42 43 16 9 5 2 27 15 16 3 2 11 15 28 -1 43
10 Santiago Wanderers 32 12 7 13 41 50 16 9 3 4 24 19 16 3 4 9 17 31 -9 43
11 Curicó Unido 33 12 7 14 37 50 17 9 2 6 23 22 16 3 5 8 14 28 -13 43
12 Everton 32 9 13 10 36 38 16 6 6 4 20 16 16 3 7 6 16 22 -2 40
13 Univ. Concepcion 32 9 13 10 36 43 16 5 5 6 19 22 16 4 8 4 17 21 -7 40
14 La Serena 33 10 9 14 34 39 16 6 3 7 17 17 17 4 6 7 17 22 -5 39
15 Audax Italiano 32 9 10 13 44 49 16 7 5 4 26 19 16 2 5 9 18 30 -5 37
16 Colo-Colo 32 9 10 13 32 42 16 6 2 8 17 22 16 3 8 5 15 20 -10 37
17 Deportes Iquique 32 8 10 14 35 45 16 5 5 6 16 20 16 3 5 8 19 25 -10 34
18 Coquimbo Unido 32 8 7 17 28 44 16 4 4 8 12 21 16 4 3 9 16 23 -16 31

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.