Atlético Nacional look forward to facing Junior FC with expectations of securing all three points. Will they? Open our match preview!
- Atlético Nacional have the fewest conceded goals (6) in Liga BetPlay
- Junior FC have yet to win a game away.
Both sides have had enough rest since their previous effort on the pitch. Let's look for an in-your-face fixture!
Atlético Nacional form and stats
Atlético Nacional, who have the fewest conceded goals (6) in Liga BetPlay, have collected 10 points from their Liga BetPlay home games so far after 2-4-0. Two draws in a row at home now for Atlético.
Atlético Nacional are returning here after guesting Patronato in a Copa Libertadores fixture and winning with a 2-1 scoreline. Pabón, who plays in attack, was the declared top player for the team in that match, and was presented with a rating of 8.62 (out of 10). Pabón scored two goals, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times.
Before that, Atlético played out a Liga BetPlay draw 0-0 when visiting La Equidad.The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Atlético Nacional have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 11 games) they have won 4 times, drawn 6 and lost 1.
Not much happening? In this team's last 11 league matches, 9 have contained less than three goals (under 2.5).
Atlético are not conceding a lot of goals here at Estadio Atanasio Girardot in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 3 from 6 matches.
Junior FC form and stats
0 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Junior FC playing as the away team in the Liga BetPlay this season.
Junior FC are travelling after their nice 1-0 home win in the match against Alianza Petrolera (placed 9th). That victory felt good as this side had gone four league matches without winning. González came off the bench to score the winning goal in the match against Alianza Petrolera last time out, making the manager Montero feel like a tactical genius. Goalkeeper Martínez got the top player rating of the team with 7.71/10. Martínez topped it up with a clean sheet.
Preceding that game, the 2-2 draw paying a visit to Unión Magdalena.Junior FC are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 0 wins, 4 draws and 4 defeats. From a total of 8 matches.
Low-scoring game? 9 of this side's latest 11 league fixtures have contained zero, one or two goals.
After this away game Junior return home for a Liga BetPlay game against Boyaca Chico. That game is only three sleeps after this.
The visitors have scored 3 goals from 5 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. As opposed to that, Junior FC have seen the ball go into their own net 7 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Atlético four wins, four draws and Junior FC two victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less. The matches between these sides have had a tendency to be rough and physical, having seen 6 sending-offs from the last ten duels.
Top Goalscorers
  J. Duque Montoya 21 goals | J. Barrera Escalona 10 goals |  L. González Cova 9 goals |
Atlético Nacional missing players
Junior FC missing players
| Atlético Nacional | Junior FC | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 5 | 11 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 11 | 6 | 2 | Scored | S | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Conceded | C | 4 | 7 | 11 |
| 73% | 67% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 91% |
| 55% | 50% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 60% | 55% |
| 18% | 17% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 20% | 18% |
| 9% | 17% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 20% | 9% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 45% | 50% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 40% | 45% |
| 55% | 50% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 27% |
| 27% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 67% | 60% | 36% |
| 5.1 | 5.2 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.7 | 3.4 | 4.7 |
| 5.5 | 5.2 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.3 | 6.6 | 5 |
| 2.3 | 2.3 | 3.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 3.4 | 3.3 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12.3 | 10.7 | 10.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6.7 | 8.2 | 12.5 |
| 4.3 | 4.5 | 4.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.7 | 2.8 | 4.2 |
| 23% | 22% | 22% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 12% | 21% | 17% |
| 12.1 | 11.5 | 11.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 16.3 | 15.8 | 12.8 |
| 4.1 | 4.8 | 4.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.7 | 5.6 | 4.2 |
- Atlético Nacional have not yet lost a game at home.
- Atlético Nacional have the fewest conceded goals (6) in Liga BetPlay
- Junior FC have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Junior FC have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Junior FC have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Junior FC have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Junior FC have yet to win a game away.
- Junior FC 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 | Millonarios | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 21 |
| 2 | America de Cali | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 21 |
| 3 | Boyaca Chico | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 20 |
| 4 | Rionegro Aguilas | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 19 |
| 5 | Atlético Nacional | 11 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 18 |
| 6 | Deportivo Pasto | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | -1 | 17 |
| 7 | Santa Fe | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 16 |
| 8 | Deportes Tolima | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 15 |
| 9 | Alianza Petrolera | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 14 |
| 10 | Envigado | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 14 |
| 11 | Independiente Medellin | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 13 |
| 12 | Atletico Huila | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 12 | -4 | 13 |
| 13 | Unión Magdalena | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | -2 | 12 |
| 14 | Deportivo Pereira | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -4 | 12 |
| 15 | Junior FC | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | -3 | 11 |
| 16 | Atletico Bucaramanga | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -4 | 11 |
| 17 | Jaguares de Cordoba | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | -2 | 10 |
| 18 | Once Caldas | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -4 | 10 |
| 19 | La Equidad | 11 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | -4 | 9 |
| 20 | Deportivo Cali | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | -7 | 8 |
