Liga BetPlay preview: Can América de Cali edge out victory against Deportivo Pasto?

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Competition: Colombia Liga BetPlay
Competition: Sun 30.Jul
Match begins: 22:45 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero (35405 seats)

4th place in the Liga BetPlay table for América de Cali at present, a great performance. The match-going ticketholders hope for more excitement as 8th-placed Deportivo Pasto visit Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero.

Insights:
  • América de Cali have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Deportivo Pasto have the most scored goals in the second half (23) in Liga BetPlay

The hosts América saw competitive action as recent as four days ago, playing in the Copa Colombia. Thankfully the previous game, versus Atlético Nacional, was also a home game here at Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero. The away team is better rested.

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América de Cali form and stats

21 points is a decent return from 10 Liga BetPlay games here at Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero for América de Cali. The data says 6 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss. The opportunity of a proper winning streak is there for the hosts, with two straight wins here at Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero.

América de Cali's previous fixture was also a home event, the defeat 1-3 versus Atlético Nacional (in Copa Colombia).

Before that, América had a Liga BetPlay home game versus Deportes Tolima which ended with a victory 1-0.

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier América de Cali matches with similar probabilities have ended with 7 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats (from 11 games).

América have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero with 17 goals in 10 league matches. América de Cali are not conceding a lot of goals here at Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 10 matches.

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Deportivo Pasto form and stats

The visitors are W3-D2-L5 on the road this term. That's in the Liga BetPlay. The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Deportivo Pasto have lost on their last two travels.

Pasto delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against Alianza Petrolera in their previous match. Defender Malagón was the best team player with a rating of 7.74. Malagón scored one goal and won 3 of 4 duels.

Ahead of that game was the 0-0 draw at home against Millonarios.

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Deportivo Pasto playing away, we found 7 games. Results were 3 away wins, 1 draw and 3 home wins.

The attacking power of Pasto when travelling is not overwhelming with 9 goals scored from 10 league matches away. 13 goals have been conceded by Deportivo Pasto in these games.

Head 2 Head

América de Cali and Deportivo Pasto have faced each other earlier this season: Deportivo Pasto - América de Cali 2-4. Previous ten meetings featuring these contenders: América won six, Deportivo Pasto were winners in two and we saw two draws. six games with over 2,5 goals, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

América de CaliF. Suárez
F. Suárez
9 goals
Deportivo PastoE. López Gomez
E. López Gomez
9 goals
América de CaliA. Sarmiento Salas
A. Sarmiento Salas
6 goals

América de Cali missing players

Deportivo Pasto missing players

América de Cali Deportivo Pasto
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
27 14 5 Played P 6 13 28
13 9 4 Won W 0 3 9
6 3 1 Drew D 2 3 10
8 2 0 Lost L 4 7 9
41 23 8 Scored S 4 11 29
29 10 2 Conceded C 10 17 27
93% 86% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 83% 92% 82%
70% 57% 80% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 62% 57%
41% 36% 20% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 31% 32%
22% 29% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 23% 18%
15% 14% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 17% 8% 7%
52% 36% 40% BTTS BTTS 50% 46% 43%
41% 57% 60% Clean Sheets C S 17% 31% 43%
15% 21% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 31% 32%
 
4 4.7 5.6 Corners for (avg) C F 3.8 3.5 4.2
5 3.8 3.6 Corners against (avg) C A 5.3 6.3 5.2
2.4 1.9 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 3.3 2.6
6 4 1 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
14.3 16.9 20.2 Shots (avg) S ( 13.8 13.2 14.3
4.5 5.9 6.4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.2 4.3 4.4
34% 28% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 16% 20% 23%
 
12.1 10.5 8.2 Shots against (avg) S A 18.7 17 14.2
4.1 3.2 2.8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.2 5.8 4.4
Key stats in Liga BetPlay this season:
  • América de Cali have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • América de Cali have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Deportivo Pasto have scored away.
  • Deportivo Pasto have the most scored goals in the second half (23) in Liga BetPlay
  • Deportivo Pasto have won significantly less corners away then 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 Rionegro Águilas 20 11 6 3 32 21 10 8 2 0 20 7 10 3 4 3 12 14 11 39
2 Millonarios 20 10 8 2 30 18 10 7 3 0 19 9 10 3 5 2 11 9 12 38
3 Atlético Nacional 20 9 8 3 26 14 10 5 4 1 13 6 10 4 4 2 13 8 12 35
4 América de Cali 20 9 5 6 32 23 10 6 3 1 17 7 10 3 2 5 15 16 9 32
5 Boyaca Chico 20 7 9 4 24 18 10 6 4 0 16 5 10 1 5 4 8 13 6 30
6 Alianza Petrolera 20 9 3 8 27 22 10 8 0 2 19 9 10 1 3 6 8 13 5 30
7 Independiente Medellin 20 8 5 7 29 24 10 5 3 2 17 8 10 3 2 5 12 16 5 29
8 Deportivo Pasto 20 8 5 7 22 21 10 5 3 2 13 8 10 3 2 5 9 13 1 29
9 Junior 20 7 7 6 17 17 10 4 5 1 8 5 10 3 2 5 9 12 0 28
10 Santa Fe 20 7 5 8 29 25 10 6 1 3 17 6 10 1 4 5 12 19 4 26
11 La Equidad 20 5 11 4 20 17 10 5 4 1 14 7 10 0 7 3 6 10 3 26
12 Deportivo Pereira 20 6 7 7 24 25 10 4 4 2 16 13 10 2 3 5 8 12 -1 25
13 Deportes Tolima 20 5 9 6 23 26 10 5 3 2 15 11 10 0 6 4 8 15 -3 24
14 Deportivo Cali 20 5 8 7 20 26 10 3 6 1 10 7 10 2 2 6 10 19 -6 23
15 Atletico Bucaramanga 20 4 8 8 15 21 10 3 4 3 10 9 10 1 4 5 5 12 -6 20
16 Envigado 20 4 8 8 14 20 10 3 4 3 9 9 10 1 4 5 5 11 -6 20
17 Once Caldas 20 4 8 8 17 24 10 3 4 3 11 11 10 1 4 5 6 13 -7 20
18 Jaguares de Córdoba 20 4 7 9 16 26 10 4 4 2 13 9 10 0 3 7 3 17 -10 19
19 Union Magdalena 20 3 10 7 16 30 10 3 6 1 13 12 10 0 4 6 3 18 -14 19
20 Atlético Huila 20 5 3 12 20 35 10 3 3 4 11 14 10 2 0 8 9 21 -15 18