It's game two of the Primera Division season and everything to play for. Read our full preview of Alianza-Sonsonate!
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.
Alianza form and stats
Alianza haven’t lost a game in 15 attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus El Vencedor, 121 days ago. In general it's been a long time since Alianza tasted defeat here at Estadio Oscar Quiteno, as they have taken at least one point from their last 14 home games.
Alianza enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Isidro Metapán's place. The match ended 3-1 with I. Portillo and O. Blanco scoring. Ahead of that match, Alianza won a home game hosting FAS (1-0).
Alianza are traveling soon after this match as the Primera Division match at Chalatenango awaits in four days.
Last season, Alianza's league statistics were 15 wins, 4 draws and 3 losses, resulting in a 1st position in the Lpf. Over these 22 matches they scored 49 goals and conceded 16. Playing at home last season Alianza managed 10-0-1 (win-draw-lost) with 35 goals and 9 conceded.
Sonsonate form and stats
Sonsonate seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?
Sonsonate failed to get anything from their last game, a Primera Division home match vs El Vencedor (placed 2nd) that ended with defeat 0-2. Preceding that game, the 1-4 loss visiting Alianza's place.
A quick return to home after this game, as Sonsonate are hosting Jocoro in the Primera Division only four days away.
Let's have a look at how Sonsonate performed last season in the Primera Division: They landed a 12th position in the league table after playing out 4 victories, 6 draws and 12 defeats. In total they scored 26 and conceded 39 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 1 - drew 3 and lost 7 with 12/23 goals scored/conceded.
Head 2 Head
The last H2H meeting was Alianza - Sonsonate 4-1, played this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Alianza 9 wins, 1 draw and Sonsonate 0 victories. As for goals, 6 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 4 games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
 W. Maldonado López 5 goals |  R. González Montoya 5 goals | A. Montes Renderos 5 goals |
Alianza missing players
Sonsonate missing players
| Alianza | Sonsonate | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 26 | 14 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 13 | 27 |
| 17 | 12 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 11 |
| 7 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 7 | 10 |
| 46 | 30 | 2 | Scored | S | 2 | 17 | 35 |
| 20 | 10 | 1 | Conceded | C | 5 | 27 | 44 |
| 85% | 93% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 93% |
| 65% | 64% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 85% | 78% |
| 50% | 57% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 69% | 56% |
| 31% | 36% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 54% | 41% |
| 15% | 21% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 23% | 22% |
| 50% | 50% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 77% | 59% |
| 42% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 8% | 26% |
| 23% | 7% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 15% | 22% |
| 5 | 5.2 | 6 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 6 | 5 | 5.1 |
| 4.2 | 3.9 | 2 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 5.1 | 4.7 |
| 2.5 | 1.8 | 2 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.3 |
| 6 | 1 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 231 | 143 | 11 | Total Shots | T S | 16 | 62 | 172 |
| 110 | 65 | 8 | Shots on Target | S O | 5 | 28 | 78 |
| 42% | 46% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 32% | 33% |
- Alianza have not yet lost a game at home.
- Alianza have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Alianza have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Sonsonate have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Sonsonate haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Alianza | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | El Vencedor | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | FAS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Jocoro | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Santa Tecla | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Águila | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Chalatenango | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Municipal Limeño | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 11 | Isidro Metapán | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| 12 | Sonsonate | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |