Primera B preview: Can América de Quito edge out victory against Guayaquil?

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Competition: Ecuador Primera B
Competition: Wed 20.July
Match begins: 22:00 (UTC)

The host team, América de Quito, should be expected winners in this game, but Guayaquil have proven both skill and bravery. Read more about the match!

Insights:
  • América de Quito have the fewest conceded goals (9) in Primera B
  • Guayaquil have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (5) in Primera B

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!

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América de Quito form and stats

América de Quito are steadily winning Primera B games and points here. 5 wins, 3 draws and 0 defeats is the summary from 8 games. América has recorded two wins in a row here, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.

América de Quito are confident in defense, having played 332 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.

A nice win for América last time playing, versus Imbabura. That was also a home game and the match ended 1-0.

A strong away win before that one, visiting Chacaritas and winning 1-0.

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier América de Quito matches with similar probabilities have ended with 2 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats (from 6 games).

Sports gamblers, take note: A review of the 12 latest league games highlights that 9 of them had goals from both sides.

América have proved capable of finding the net in their games here with 13 goals in 8 league matches. América de Quito have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 1 goal. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Guayaquil form and stats

Playing away, Guayaquil, who have the fewest conceded goals (7) away in Primera B, have won 2 games, drawn 3 and suffered 3 defeats in the Primera B this season.

Guayaquil have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper. It's been 180 minutes since they last conceded in Primera B.

Guayaquil go into this game after a win, the home game against Independiente Juniors that ended 1-0. Those three points felt nice as this club had gone four league rounds without victory.

Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to Libertad.

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Guayaquil playing away, we found 6 games. Results were 3 away wins, 0 draws and 3 home wins.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Guayaquil as they have only managed to score 5 times from 8 away games in the league. It's not easy to score on Guayaquil as they have only conceded 7 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

The two teams involved faced each other before this campaign: Guayaquil - América 3-2. As for the last five games between these two teams, there's two América de Quito victories, zero draws and three Guayaquil wins. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less. The matches between these clubs have sometimes been aggressive, having seen 5 red cards from the last five duels.

América de Quito missing players

Guayaquil missing players

América de Quito Guayaquil
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
16 8 2 Played P 2 8 16
8 5 2 Won W 0 2 6
5 3 0 Drew D 0 3 5
3 0 0 Lost L 2 3 5
23 13 5 Scored S 1 5 18
9 1 0 Conceded C 4 7 17
88% 75% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 75% 88%
56% 50% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 50% 56%
31% 25% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 25% 38%
19% 25% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 19%
6% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 12%
31% 12% 0% BTTS BTTS 50% 38% 44%
56% 88% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 50% 44%
25% 25% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 38% 25%
 
3.2 3.4 3.5 Corners for (avg) C F 2 2.7 3.2
5.1 4.8 5 Corners against (avg) C A 6.5 6.7 5.5
2.8 3 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 3.9 3.8
5 2 0 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
9.2 9.1 11.5 Shots (avg) S ( 8 8 8.1
4.2 4 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 3.4 3.5
34% 41% 62% Goal Efficiency G E 14% 17% 33%
 
11.1 8.9 4.5 Shots against (avg) S A 18 13.6 12.9
4.6 3.1 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.5 4.7 4.3
Key stats in Primera B this season:
  • América de Quito have not yet lost a game at home.
  • América de Quito have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • América de Quito have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Guayaquil have scored away.
  • América de Quito have the fewest conceded goals (1) at home in Primera B
  • América de Quito have the fewest conceded goals (9) in Primera B
  • América de Quito have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (5) in Primera B
  • América de Quito have the most clean sheets (7) at home in Primera B
  • América de Quito have the the best goal difference (+12) at home in Primera B
  • América de Quito have the the best goal difference (+14) in Primera B
  • Guayaquil have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Guayaquil have the fewest conceded goals (7) away in Primera B
  • Guayaquil have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (5) in Primera B
  • Guayaquil have the fewest matches under the total-line (4) in Primera B
  • Guayaquil have the most dropped points from leading position (12) in Primera B

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 América de Quito 16 8 5 3 23 9 8 5 3 0 13 1 8 3 2 3 10 8 14 29
2 Chacaritas 16 8 4 4 18 15 8 7 0 1 12 4 8 1 4 3 6 11 3 28
3 El Nacional 16 7 4 5 21 17 8 6 1 1 14 6 8 1 3 4 7 11 4 25
4 Libertad 16 7 4 5 19 19 8 3 3 2 11 10 8 4 1 3 8 9 0 25
5 Guayaquil 16 6 5 5 18 17 8 4 2 2 13 10 8 2 3 3 5 7 1 23
6 Imbabura 16 6 3 7 24 20 8 2 2 4 7 9 8 4 1 3 17 11 4 21
7 Olmedo 16 5 6 5 16 20 8 3 2 3 8 12 8 2 4 2 8 8 -4 21
8 Independiente Juniors 16 5 4 7 10 15 8 3 4 1 5 3 8 2 0 6 5 12 -5 19
9 Manta 16 3 5 8 9 19 8 2 2 4 6 11 8 1 3 4 3 8 -10 14
10 Puerto Quito 16 2 6 8 8 15 8 2 4 2 6 5 8 0 2 6 2 10 -7 12

Read more about Primera B

The Primera Categoria Serie B, often shortened to Serie B or Primera B, is the second-highest level of football in Ecuador. Like Serie A the competition format often changes every year. Currently it holds ten teams and the season runs from February to December in two stages.