It's a new Liga Pro campaign and Macará are eager to get started here at Estadio Bellavista de Ambato. Emelec are coming to visit and this should be a thrilling season kickoff.
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
Macará form and stats
This is expected to be a close game, with Macará perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Macará as a small favourite), we find one game. Macará has won zero of these, drawn zero and lost one.
Macará could celebrate like crazy last season after winning the Liga Pro. Home supporters are hoping for more of the same this season. In the home games here at Estadio Bellavista de Ambato they witnessed 8 victories, 6 draws and 1 defeat. In total the trophy was secured after W17 - D11 - L2 from 30 games.
Emelec form and stats
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found three similar matches played by Emelec in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Emelec, zero draws and one defeat.
Emelec played three friendlies in their break from official games, resulting in 2 victories, 0 draws and 1 defeat. In these three matches Emelec scored 6 and conceded 3 goals.
Let's have a look at how Emelec performed last season in the Liga Pro: They landed a 8th position in the league table after playing out 14 victories, 4 draws and 12 defeats. In total they scored 43 and conceded 30 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 5 - drew 3 and lost 7 with 19/16 goals scored/conceded.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: two - zero - eight (Macará wins - draws - Emelec wins). As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.Top Goalscorers
L. Vega 1 goals |
Macará missing players
Emelec missing players
| Macará | Emelec | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 3.5 | 3 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 17 | 17 | 12.5 |
| 5.5 | 4 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 5 | 3.5 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2 | 1.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | 7 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 15 | 15 | 27 |
| 10 | 5 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 9 | 9 | 14 |
| 30% | 20% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 22% | 22% | 21% |
| Macará | Last season | Emelec | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 34 | 17 | Played | P | 16 | 32 | ||
| 18 | 8 | Won | W | 6 | 15 | ||
| 12 | 7 | Drew | D | 3 | 4 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 7 | 13 | ||
| 52 | 26 | Scored | S | 21 | 46 | ||
| 23 | 11 | Conceded | C | 17 | 33 | ||
| 94% | 94% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 94% | 97% | ||
| 79% | 76% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 69% | 66% | ||
| 35% | 29% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 53% | ||
| 6% | 6% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 19% | 19% | ||
| 3% | 6% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 6% | 6% | ||
| 56% | 53% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 53% | ||
| 38% | 41% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 25% | ||
| 12% | 12% | Failed to Score | F T | 31% | 25% | ||
| 3.9 | 4.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4.9 | ||
| 4.2 | 3.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.8 | 4.1 | ||
| 2.6 | 1.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.2 | 3 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 4 | 7 | ||
| 312 | 163 | Total Shots | T S | 127 | 296 | ||
| 123 | 53 | Shots on Target | S O | 61 | 133 | ||
| 42% | 49% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 34% | 35% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Aucas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Barcelona | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Delfin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Deportivo Cuenca | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | El Nacional | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Emelec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Guayaquil City | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Independiente del Valle | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | LDU Portoviejo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | LDU Quito | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Macará | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | Mushuc Runa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Olmedo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | Orense | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | Técnico Universitario | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | Universidad Católica | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |