Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez: Junior vs Atlético Nacional Liga BetPlay news and facts

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Competition: Colombia Liga BetPlay
Competition: Tue 14.December
Match begins: 23:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez (46692 seats)

Top-drawer Atlético Nacional come to Junior after their 5-1-result versus Deportivo Pereira. Check out our broad preview!

Insights:
  • Junior have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Atlético Nacional have the most scored goals (37) in Liga BetPlay

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Junior and Atlético Nacional.

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Junior form and stats

18 points is a decent return from 9 Liga BetPlay games here at Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez for Junior. The data says 5 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss.

Junior faced defeat in their previous match, away at Deportivo Cali (0-2). Daniel Rosero Valencia, defender, was given a rating of 7.35/10 in that game, top of the team. Valencia won 7 of 10 duels.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Deportivo Pereira in a game that was won 3-0.

Junior are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 13 goals in 9 games. Junior are not conceding a lot of goals here at Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 5 from 9 matches.

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Atlético Nacional form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Atlético Nacional so far with only 9 points returning home. The records show 2-3-4 (win-draw-lose).

Gomez, Guzmán (3) and Andrade scored in Atlético's previous match, the home game against Deportivo Pereira that ended 5-1. As you can tell from the results above, Atlético was very dominant against Deportivo Pereira, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 5-1 (!) with Gomez, Guzmán (3) and Andrade providing the goals. Guzmán certainly enjoyed Atlético's last game versus Deportivo Pereira, appearing multiple times in the match report with three goals and the 5-1 victory. Yeison Guzmán got a match rating of 10.0 in that game, top player of the team. Guzmán scored three goals, hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 4 of 5 times and had 43 successful passes (of 45 total).

The game before that, was lost at home, a 1-2 defeat against Deportivo Cali.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Atlético as they have only managed to score 7 times from 9 away games in the league. Atlético have conceded 9 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Atlético Nacional - Junior 1-1 was the product when these two participants previously met, some time ago this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Junior three wins, five draws and Atlético Nacional two victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Atlético NacionalJ. Duque Montoya
J. Duque Montoya
21 goals
JuniorL. González Cova
L. González Cova
9 goals
Atlético NacionalJ. Barrera Escalona
J. Barrera Escalona
9 goals

Junior missing players

Atlético Nacional missing players

Junior Atlético Nacional
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
47 23 8 Played P 6 22 45
19 15 4 Won W 1 8 23
18 6 3 Drew D 4 7 13
10 2 1 Lost L 1 7 9
60 39 13 Scored S 4 29 80
46 17 8 Conceded C 3 22 39
87% 87% 88% Over 0.5 O 0.5 33% 82% 89%
70% 70% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 59% 69%
40% 52% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 17% 45% 44%
19% 22% 38% Over 3.5 O 3.5 17% 32% 33%
6% 9% 12% Over 4.5 O 4.5 17% 14% 16%
53% 48% 62% BTTS BTTS 17% 50% 49%
36% 52% 38% Clean Sheets C S 83% 36% 44%
23% 13% 12% Failed to Score F T 67% 32% 18%
 
4.8 5 4.1 Corners for (avg) C F 5.2 4.8 5.1
3.8 3 2.9 Corners against (avg) C A 4.3 4.4 4.1
2.4 2.6 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.7 2.8 2.3
9 4 3 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
6.8 7.7 8.6 Shots (avg) S ( 6.8 6 6.7
3.8 4.3 3.9 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.5 3.2 3.7
34% 39% 42% Goal Efficiency G E 27% 41% 48%
 
5.1 4.5 7.2 Shots against (avg) S A 6.2 5.1 4.9
2.6 2.1 2.6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.5 2.5 2.3
Key stats in Liga BetPlay this season:
  • Atlético Nacional have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Atlético Nacional have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Atlético Nacional have the most scored goals (37) in Liga BetPlay
  • Atlético Nacional have the most scored goals in the second half (48) in Liga BetPlay
  • Atlético Nacional have the the best goal difference (+22) in Liga BetPlay
  • Junior have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Junior 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 Atlético Nacional 18 10 4 4 37 15 9 8 1 0 30 6 9 2 3 4 7 9 22 34
2 Santa Fe 18 9 6 3 25 14 9 5 3 1 14 7 9 4 3 2 11 7 11 33
3 Millonarios 18 10 3 5 25 18 9 6 1 2 17 12 9 4 2 3 8 6 7 33
4 Deportivo Cali 18 8 7 3 19 14 9 3 5 1 7 6 9 5 2 2 12 8 5 31
5 Deportes Tolima 18 8 6 4 22 14 9 6 2 1 13 7 9 2 4 3 9 7 8 30
6 La Equidad 18 8 6 4 21 18 9 5 2 2 12 10 9 3 4 2 9 8 3 30
7 Junior 18 8 5 5 21 13 9 5 3 1 13 5 9 3 2 4 8 8 8 29
8 America de Cali 18 7 8 3 19 12 9 3 4 2 7 5 9 4 4 1 12 7 7 29
9 Independiente Medellin 18 6 8 4 17 15 9 3 6 0 10 7 9 3 2 4 7 8 2 26
10 Jaguares de Cordoba 18 7 4 7 21 21 9 5 1 3 11 9 9 2 3 4 10 12 0 25
11 Atletico Bucaramanga 18 6 6 6 20 16 9 5 2 2 13 6 9 1 4 4 7 10 4 24
12 Deportivo Pasto 18 4 11 3 19 20 9 2 6 1 8 7 9 2 5 2 11 13 -1 23
13 Boyaca Chico 18 5 4 9 17 20 9 4 2 3 10 6 9 1 2 6 7 14 -3 19
14 Deportivo Pereira 18 4 6 8 16 24 9 3 4 2 8 5 9 1 2 6 8 19 -8 18
15 Once Caldas 18 3 8 7 20 23 9 3 2 4 12 10 9 0 6 3 8 13 -3 17
16 Envigado 18 3 8 7 15 23 9 3 4 2 10 7 9 0 4 5 5 16 -8 17
17 Patriotas Boyaca 18 5 2 11 17 31 9 3 2 4 9 10 9 2 0 7 8 21 -14 17
18 Rionegro Aguilas 18 2 8 8 13 24 9 0 5 4 6 14 9 2 3 4 7 10 -11 14
19 Alianza Petrolera 18 0 6 12 10 39 9 0 3 6 5 20 9 0 3 6 5 19 -29 6