Betting preview: Achuapa vs Iztapa should be interesting

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Competition: Guatemala Liga Nacional
Competition: Wed 02.March
Match begins: 21:15 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Municipal Manuel Ariza (1500 seats)

Achuapa - Iztapa in Liga Nacional: Stats, squad info, results, the latest developments and news. Read our thorough preview!

Insights:
  • Achuapa have the fewest scored goals in the second half (9) in Liga Nacional
  • Iztapa have the most points from losing position (16) in Liga Nacional

It's no vacation for neither Achuapa nor Iztapa as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Achuapa form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Liga Nacional this season. Achuapa have only managed 3 wins, 2 draws and 6 losses from their games here at Estadio Municipal Manuel Ariza.

It's back home for Achuapa, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Cobán Imperial away with the result 1-0. López found the net in that victory.

Before that, Achuapa drew at home versus Nueva Concepción.

This is expected to be a close game, with Achuapa perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Achuapa as a small favourite), we find twelve games. Achuapa has won four of these, drawn zero and lost eight.

Achuapa are traveling soon after this match as the Liga Nacional match at Municipal awaits in three days.

Achuapa have scored 5 goals here in 11 league matches, a depressing statistic. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. From these home matches, Achuapa have conceded only 10 goals.

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Iztapa form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Iztapa so far with only 3 points returning home. The records show 0-3-8 (win-draw-lose). Travelling has not been lucrative for the away team as they have returned home without a win in 17 away games in a row.

Iztapa go into this game after a win, the home game against Municipal that ended 2-1.

Prior to that match, the Iztapa manager Alvarado faced defeat when travelling to Antigua GFC and losing 1-2.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found six similar matches played by Iztapa in our archives, and the results are: one win for Iztapa, one draw and four defeats.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Santa Lucia in just three days.

Iztapa have conceded 26 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

Iztapa - Achuapa 3-2 was the output when this pair of teams formerly played each other, also in this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last six matches): Achuapa two wins, zero draws and Iztapa four victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

IztapaC. Félix Suénaga
C. Félix Suénaga
9 goals
IztapaC. Hernández
C. Hernández
7 goals
IztapaN. Foglia
N. Foglia
4 goals

Achuapa missing players

Iztapa missing players

Achuapa Iztapa
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
31 15 5 Played P 5 17 33
6 5 1 Won W 0 0 10
8 3 0 Drew D 1 4 7
17 7 4 Lost L 4 13 16
18 9 1 Scored S 2 15 40
35 15 8 Conceded C 9 38 53
84% 87% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 97%
48% 47% 60% Over 1.5 O 1.5 80% 71% 61%
26% 20% 20% Over 2.5 O 2.5 40% 53% 45%
10% 7% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 29% 27%
3% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 24% 21%
29% 20% 0% BTTS BTTS 40% 53% 48%
32% 40% 20% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 18%
55% 53% 80% Failed to Score F T 60% 47% 36%
 
4.1 4.9 6 Corners for (avg) C F 3.6 5.2 5.8
5.1 4.1 3.6 Corners against (avg) C A 4 3.4 3
1.6 1.8 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.6 1.8 2
5 2 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
6.7 6.6 6.6 Shots (avg) S ( 7.4 8.2 9.4
3 2.9 3.6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 2.6 2.8
18% 21% 6% Goal Efficiency G E 20% 33% 41%
 
7.1 4.3 4.8 Shots against (avg) S A 11 11.6 10.1
2.7 1.7 2.4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.4 4.5 3.5
Key stats in Liga Nacional this season:
  • Achuapa have the fewest matches over the total-line (5) in Liga Nacional
  • Achuapa have the fewest points (11) at home in Liga Nacional
  • Achuapa have the fewest scored goals (5) at home in Liga Nacional
  • Achuapa have the fewest scored goals in the second half (9) in Liga Nacional
  • Achuapa have the most matches under the total-line (16) in Liga Nacional
  • Achuapa have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Iztapa have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Iztapa have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Iztapa have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Iztapa have scored more than double the goals of Achuapa.
  • Iztapa have the most matches over the total-line (13) in Liga Nacional
  • Iztapa have the most points from losing position (16) in Liga Nacional
  • Iztapa have yet to win a game away.
  • Iztapa 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 Antigua GFC 22 14 4 4 36 13 11 8 3 0 25 7 11 6 1 4 11 6 23 46
2 Comunicaciones 22 13 5 4 37 19 11 7 3 1 21 9 11 6 2 3 16 10 18 44
3 Municipal 22 11 6 5 30 15 11 7 3 1 19 7 11 4 3 4 11 8 15 39
4 Malacateco 22 10 6 6 36 23 11 8 1 2 25 9 11 2 5 4 11 14 13 36
5 Santa Lucia 22 8 12 2 28 25 11 4 6 1 16 13 11 4 6 1 12 12 3 36
6 Xelajú 22 8 6 8 18 23 11 6 3 2 12 4 11 2 3 6 6 19 -5 30
7 Iztapa 22 8 4 10 30 36 11 8 1 2 19 10 11 0 3 8 11 26 -6 28
8 Solola 22 6 7 9 21 32 11 3 3 5 11 17 11 3 4 4 10 15 -11 25
9 Guastatoya 22 5 8 9 18 23 11 4 5 2 13 11 11 1 3 7 5 12 -5 23
10 Cobán Imperial 22 5 5 12 22 31 11 3 3 5 9 10 11 2 2 7 13 21 -9 20
11 Achuapa 22 3 7 12 12 24 11 3 2 6 5 10 11 0 5 6 7 14 -12 16
12 Nueva Concepción 22 4 4 14 12 36 11 4 4 3 9 9 11 0 0 11 3 27 -24 16

Read more about Liga Nacional

Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatamala (National football league of Guatemala) is the top level of Guatemalan football. It was formerly known as Liga Mayor “A”. It was founded in 1919. The league has twelve teams meeting each other twice in two stages, Apertura and Clausura.