Cobán Imperial - Comunicaciones: Small difference between teams clash

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Competition: Guatemala Liga Nacional
Competition: Wed 03.May
Match begins: 21:30 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Verapaz Jose Angel Rossi (15000 seats)

Get ready for a show! The leading antagonists are Cobán Imperial and Comunicaciones, 3 points is the objective and 90 minutes the playing time.

Insights:
  • Cobán Imperial have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Comunicaciones have the most clean sheets (20) in Liga Nacional

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.

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Cobán Imperial form and stats

9-2-0 is the performance here at Estadio Verapaz Jose Angel Rossi so far in the Liga Nacional, giving Cobán Imperial a total of 29 from their 11 games here. Outstanding results! Two defeats in a row at home hurts for Imperial, their manager Olivera and the supporters. There are certain expectations for improvement.

Janderson was the last player to score a league goal for Cobán Imperial and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as Cobán Imperial haven't scored in 238 minutes.

A good away victory last time out for Cobán Imperial, who won 1-0 against Xinabajul. At last, a league win after four fixtures without one.

Before that game, the home loss against Municipal with the scoreline 0-2.

This is expected to be a close game, with Cobán Imperial perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Imperial as a small favourite), we find 4 games. Cobán Imperial has won 1 of these, drawn 1 and lost 2.

It should be considered that a glance at the 26 latest league matches shows that 21 of them qualified as a both teams to score: NO result (only one or none of the teams scored).

The match schedule is unforgiving for Cobán Imperial as they have a new game in only four days, a Liga Nacional match thankfully also at home. Malacateco are visiting.

A decent goal production from Cobán Imperial in their home games so far, with 18 goals from 11 league matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Cobán Imperial are not conceding a lot of goals here at Estadio Verapaz Jose Angel Rossi in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 11 matches.

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Comunicaciones form and stats

4 wins, 2 draws and 5 losses. That’s the product of Comunicaciones playing as the away team in the Liga Nacional this season. The visitors have performed well in their home games as well, building a total win streak of four games home and away. Comunicaciones hope to make it five in this match.

Comunicaciones play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-1 victory visiting Xelaju.

Before that, Comunicaciones secured a home win against Mixco with the score 1-0.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 18 similar matches played by Comunicaciones in our archives, and the results are: 12 wins for Comunicaciones, 2 draws and 4 defeats.

After this away game Comunicaciones return home for a Liga Nacional game against Municipal. That game is only four sleeps after this.

The visiting Comunicaciones have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 13 goals from 11 games. It's worth mentioning that 8 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Comunicaciones have conceded 16 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The contenders have met each other before in this season, with the result Comunicaciones - Imperial 1-0 registered in the official records. Last ten meetings between these participants: Cobán Imperial won five, Comunicaciones triumphed in two and we saw three draws. five games with more than 2,5 goals, five matches with less than 2,5 goals.

Top Goalscorers

Cobán ImperialN. Martínez Vargas
N. Martínez Vargas
13 goals
Cobán ImperialJ. Pereira Rodrigues
J. Pereira Rodrigues
12 goals
Cobán ImperialR. Betancourth Cue
R. Betancourth Cue
4 goals

Cobán Imperial missing players

Comunicaciones missing players

Cobán Imperial Comunicaciones
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
48 23 4 Played P 4 23 46
20 14 3 Won W 2 9 23
14 4 0 Drew D 0 7 15
14 5 1 Lost L 2 7 8
53 28 7 Scored S 6 31 70
43 16 4 Conceded C 9 28 43
85% 87% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 87% 85%
52% 52% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 74% 67%
33% 35% 75% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 48% 48%
19% 13% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 17% 26%
6% 4% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 17% 11%
38% 39% 75% BTTS BTTS 75% 57% 48%
40% 48% 25% Clean Sheets C S 0% 30% 43%
38% 26% 0% Failed to Score F T 25% 26% 24%
 
4.6 5.6 6.2 Corners for (avg) C F 1.5 3.5 4.3
4.2 3.3 5 Corners against (avg) C A 5.8 5.7 4.6
3.4 3.6 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 5.5 3.5 3.2
12 6 1 Red cards R C 1 2 6
 
9.2 11.8 14.2 Shots (avg) S ( 6.5 7.5 9.3
3.9 5.3 7.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.8 3 3.6
28% 23% 23% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 46% 43%
 
8.5 7.5 9 Shots against (avg) S A 9.8 8.6 7
3.3 3 4.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.8 3 2.5
Key stats in Liga Nacional this season:
  • Cobán Imperial have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Cobán Imperial have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Comunicaciones have the fewest dropped points from leading position (10) in Liga Nacional
  • Comunicaciones have the most clean sheets (20) in Liga Nacional
  • Comunicaciones have won significantly less corners away then at home.

  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 12 5 5 47 27 11 8 2 1 28 10 11 4 3 4 19 17 20 41
2 Cobán Imperial 22 11 6 5 35 27 11 9 2 0 18 7 11 2 4 5 17 20 8 39
3 Comunicaciones 22 11 6 5 33 25 11 7 4 0 20 9 11 4 2 5 13 16 8 39
4 Malacateco 22 10 4 8 30 26 11 9 2 0 20 7 11 1 2 8 10 19 4 34
5 Municipal 22 9 6 7 31 22 11 5 3 3 15 11 11 4 3 4 16 11 9 33
6 Guastatoya 22 7 9 6 20 18 11 5 4 2 15 8 11 2 5 4 5 10 2 30
7 Xelaju 22 7 8 7 29 22 11 5 5 1 18 9 11 2 3 6 11 13 7 29
8 Achuapa 22 7 7 8 27 37 11 7 3 1 19 12 11 0 4 7 8 25 -10 28
9 Iztapa 22 7 6 9 31 35 11 6 2 3 22 14 11 1 4 6 9 21 -4 27
10 Xinabajul 22 7 5 10 23 29 11 5 4 2 15 10 11 2 1 8 8 19 -6 26
11 Mixco 22 2 10 10 17 35 11 2 5 4 12 16 11 0 5 6 5 19 -18 16
12 Cotzumalguapa 22 3 6 13 20 40 11 3 3 5 10 18 11 0 3 8 10 22 -20 15

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.