Junior will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 4 points behind Deportivo Pasto.
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.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1600 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
Junior form and stats
Junior have played 5 Liga BetPlay games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 4-1-0 (wins-draws-losses). Hopes of three in a row are alive for Junior after consecutive victories at their own ground.
Stress levels are on the rise for Junior's attacking players as they have now played 180 minutes without scoring in a league game. M. Borja was their last goal scorer.
An away draw last time out for Junior, facing Patriotas Boyacá in a game that ended 0-0. Preceding that match was a Copa Libertadores defeat to Barcelona (0-2).
The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Junior's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played six games, won three matches, drawn two and lost one.
The manager J. Comesaña López will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Atletico Nacional in only three days.
Junior have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez with 8 goals in 5 league matches. 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 3 from 5 matches.
Deportivo Pasto form and stats
2-3-0 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Deportivo Pasto in their Liga BetPlay matches away. It's three draws from Pasto's last three away games, a decent catch but one that could be so much better.
Deportivo Pasto go into this game after a win, the home game against Boyaca Chico that ended 2-1. Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to Rionegro Águilas.
Looking at the earlier recent performances of Pasto when being an outsider away as they are today, we find ten matches with the visitors losing six times, drawing zero and winning four games.
After this away game Pasto return home for a Liga BetPlay game against Deportivo Cali. That game is only three sleeps after this.
Pasto find the net regularly in their away games. 5 goals from 5 away fixtures in the league. Pasto are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 3 times in 5 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Junior five wins, one draw and Deportivo Pasto four victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Borja Hernández 5 goals |   J. Pajoy Ortíz 4 goals | J. Medina Escobar 3 goals |
Junior missing players
Deportivo Pasto missing players
| Junior | Deportivo Pasto | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 5 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 11 |
| 4 | 4 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | 8 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 5 | 16 |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 64% | 80% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 80% | 91% |
| 45% | 60% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 60% | 73% |
| 27% | 40% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 20% | 45% |
| 18% | 20% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 18% |
| 9% | 20% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 36% | 40% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 60% | 55% |
| 55% | 60% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 40% | 45% |
| 45% | 20% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 20% | 9% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.4 | 2.4 | 4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.8 | 2.7 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 63 | 40 | 17 | Total Shots | T S | 11 | 20 | 47 |
| 30 | 20 | 6 | Shots on Target | S O | 4 | 10 | 28 |
| 33% | 40% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 50% | 57% |
- Deportivo Pasto have not yet lost a game away.
- Junior have not yet lost a game at home.
- 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 | Deportes Tolima | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 23 |
| 2 | Deportivo Pasto | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 21 |
| 3 | Santa Fe | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 20 |
| 4 | Once Caldas | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 19 |
| 5 | Atletico Nacional | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 22 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 18 |
| 6 | América de Cali | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 18 |
| 7 | Deportivo Cali | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 17 |
| 8 | Junior | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 17 |
| 9 | Alianza Petrolera | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 17 |
| 10 | La Equidad | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 20 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 15 |
| 11 | Envigado | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 15 |
| 12 | Deportivo Pereira | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 9 | -2 | 13 |
| 13 | Independiente Medellin | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 8 | -3 | 12 |
| 14 | Rionegro Águilas | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | -3 | 11 |
| 15 | Jaguares de Cordoba | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 9 | -5 | 11 |
| 16 | Atletico Bucaramanga | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 | -8 | 11 |
| 17 | Cucuta Deportivo | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 17 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | -4 | 10 |
| 18 | Millonarios | 11 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -6 | 9 |
| 19 | Patriotas Boyacá | 11 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | -7 | 6 |
| 20 | Boyaca Chico | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 11 | -13 | 5 |