Only a win will satisfy the home supporters in this Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa clash with Guayaquil City, having a healthy lead on the opposition in the Liga Pro table.
Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Guayaquil City have a different surface at their stadium (artificial turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 5-6-17 (win-draw-loss) from 28 matches.
Universidad Católica form and stats
The story so far for Universidad Católica at their home stadium (Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa) is 3 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats.In their previous game, the manager S. Escobar led his Universidad Católica to a defeat in the Liga Pro match away at Independiente del Valle. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa. Previous to that game, a home match hosting El Nacional in a game that was won 3-1.
Universidad Católica are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, having scored an impressive 11 goals in 4 games. As for guarding their own goal, Universidad Católica have only let in 2 goals at home.
Guayaquil City form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their travels is 1 win, 1 draw and 2 defeats.Guayaquil City are travelling after their nice 1-0 home win in the Liga Pro against Emelec. Preceding that game, the 2-3 loss visiting Mushuc Runa's place.
Guayaquil City are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 4 away goals from 4 games. For Guayaquil City, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 6 Universidad Católica victories, 1 draw and 3 Guayaquil City wins.Top Goalscorers
 
L. Amarilla
7 goals / 1 assists
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B. Vides
4 goals
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G. Mastriani
3 goals / 1 assists
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Universidad Católica missing players
Guayaquil City missing players
| Universidad Católica | Guayaquil City | |||
| Total | Home | Statistic | Away | Total |
| 9 | 4 | Played | 4 | 9 |
| 17 | 11 | Scored | 4 | 8 |
| 10 | 2 | Conceded | 8 | 12 |
| 89% | 75% | Over 0.5 | 100% | 100% |
| 78% | 75% | Over 1.5 | 75% | 67% |
| 78% | 75% | Over 2.5 | 50% | 22% |
| 33% | 50% | Over 3.5 | 50% | 22% |
| 11% | 25% | Over 4.5 | 25% | 11% |
| 67% | 50% | Both teams to score | 50% | 56% |
| 22% | 50% | Clean Sheet | 25% | 22% |
| 22% | 25% | Failed To Score | 25% | 22% |
| 4.6 | 5.8 | Corners For (avg) | 2 | 3.6 |
| 2.9 | 1.8 | Corners Against (avg) | 7.8 | 5.3 |
| 2.2 | 1.2 | Yellow Cards (avg) | 2.8 | 2.1 |
| 2 | 1 | Red Cards (total) | 1 | 1 |
- Guayaquil City hasn't played a single 0-0 game.
- Guayaquil City is involved in more matches over 2.5 away, than home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | D | P |
| 1 | Independiente del Valle | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 22 |
| 2 | Delfin | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 19 |
| 3 | Macará | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 18 |
| 4 | Universidad Católica | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 16 |
| 5 | Aucas | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 16 |
| 6 | Barcelona | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 15 |
| 7 | Olmedo | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 14 |
| 8 | Deportivo Cuenca | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | -1 | 14 |
| 9 | LDU Quito | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 13 |
| 10 | Emelec | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 13 |
| 11 | Guayaquil City | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -4 | 10 |
| 12 | Mushuc Runa | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -4 | 9 |
| 13 | Técnico Universitario | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -7 | 7 |
| 14 | El Nacional | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 10 | -8 | 6 |
| 15 | Fuerza Amarilla | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 12 | -16 | 4 |
| 16 | América de Quito | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | -7 | 3 |
