The league table is allowed to rest as Real Cartagena and Cúcuta Deportivo battle for Copa Betplay honors in this first 3rd Round leg of two fixtures.
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.
Real Cartagena form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Copa Betplay for Cartagena, as the manager Cardetti led his troops to eliminate Boyaca Chico and Cortulua, and reach the 3rd Round. Real Cartagena participated in Copa Betplay the last season, where they reached the 1st round and lost against Atletico Huila.Real Cartagena have played 5 Primera B games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 2-2-1 (wins-draws-losses).
A draw after 90 minutes last time out for Cartagena, who played 2-2 against Cúcuta Deportivo. That match was also played at this venue (Estadio Olímpico Jaime Morón León).
In the preceding match a 2-0 victory visiting Tigres.This is expected to be a close game, with Real Cartagena perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Real Cartagena as a small favourite), we find 10 games. Real Cartagena has won 1 of these, drawn 6 and lost 3.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Real Cartagena, as the Primera B home game vs Fortaleza CEIF is only four days away.
A decent goal production from Cartagena in their home games so far, with 8 goals from 5 league matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Real Cartagena defense is not exactly impregnable. 8 goals conceded from 5 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Cúcuta Deportivo form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Once Caldas and Deportes Quindio in order to reach 3rd round of Copa Betplay. Cúcuta's mission in Copa Betplay last season failed in the 8th finals.1 win, 4 draws and 1 loss. That’s the product of Cúcuta Deportivo playing as the away team in the Primera B this season.
Cúcuta Deportivo are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 2-2 draw at Real Cartagena.
A home win before that, celebrating 2-0 vs Bogota.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 14 similar matches played by Cúcuta Deportivo in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Cúcuta, 6 draws and 6 defeats.
After this away game Cúcuta Deportivo return home for a Primera B game against Universitario Popayan. That game is only four sleeps after this.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Cúcuta Deportivo have scored 7 goals in 6 league games away. As opposed to that, Cúcuta have seen the ball go into their own net 7 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Cúcuta Deportivo have won at least one point in the last 10 fixtures (8-2-0) facing Real Cartagena.Top Goalscorers
  S. Giraldo 3 goals |  J. Pérez Castillo 1 goals |
Real Cartagena missing players
Cúcuta Deportivo missing players
| Real Cartagena | Cúcuta Deportivo | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 4 | Won | W | 4 | 12 | ||
| 8 | 5 | Drew | D | 4 | 8 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 5 | 5 | ||
| 36 | 15 | Scored | S | 13 | 29 | ||
| 31 | 13 | Conceded | C | 15 | 19 | ||
| 92% | 82% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 84% | ||
| 88% | 73% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 62% | 56% | ||
| 44% | 55% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 23% | 32% | ||
| 36% | 36% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 23% | 16% | ||
| 8% | 9% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 4% | ||
| 48% | 55% | BTTS | BTTS | 38% | 36% | ||
| 28% | 27% | Clean Sheets | C S | 31% | 48% | ||
| 32% | 36% | Failed to Score | F T | 31% | 32% | ||
| 5 | 6.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.2 | 3.8 | ||
| 5 | 3.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.7 | 3.9 | ||
| 2.4 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.8 | 3.4 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | ||
| 9.4 | 11 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.9 | 9.7 | ||
| 4.2 | 4.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.8 | 3.9 | ||
| 34% | 31% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 36% | 30% | ||
| 8.8 | 7.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.2 | 7.9 | ||
| 3.4 | 2.6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 3.6 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Patriotas Boyaca | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 21 |
| 2 | Cortulua | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 21 |
| 3 | Real Cartagena | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 21 |
| 4 | Llaneros | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 21 |
| 5 | Cúcuta Deportivo | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 20 |
| 6 | Deportes Quindio | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 19 |
| 7 | Valledupar | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 15 |
| 8 | Fortaleza CEIF | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 15 |
| 9 | Orsomarso | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | -2 | 14 |
| 10 | Real Santander | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 13 |
| 11 | Tigres | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 6 | -2 | 13 |
| 12 | Leones FC | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 16 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 9 | -2 | 10 |
| 13 | Universitario Popayan | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | -4 | 10 |
| 14 | Atletico | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -7 | 8 |
| 15 | Bogota | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 9 | -9 | 8 |
| 16 | Barranquilla | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 19 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 | -12 | 5 |
