Cobán Imperial favourites for feisty fight facing Malacateco

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Competition: Guatemala Liga Nacional
Competition: Sat 26.March
Match begins: 21:30 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Verapaz Jose Angel Rossi (15000 seats)

Cobán Imperial have not been spoiled with points this season. Could they get some points when Malacateco visit Estadio Verapaz Jose Angel Rossi?

Insights:
  • Cobán Imperial have the most dropped points from leading position (18) in Liga Nacional
  • Malacateco have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (9) 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

The story so far in the Liga Nacional for Cobán Imperial at their home stadium (Estadio Verapaz Jose Angel Rossi) is 3 wins, 3 draws and 5 defeats. Hopes of three in a row are alive for Imperial after consecutive victories at their own ground.

The Cobán Imperial club members enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Malacateco and win 1-0.

In the preceding match a 4-1 victory visiting Comunicaciones.

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Imperial matches with similar probabilities have ended with five wins, one draw and one defeat (from seven games).

Cobán Imperial have scored 9 league goals here from 11 matches, not a lot. Imperial have only conceded 10 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Malacateco form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Malacateco so far with only 11 points returning home. The records show 2-5-4 (win-draw-lose).

Two away games in a row for Malacateco, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-1 versus Cobán Imperial.

Prior to that match, a home win 1-0 against Nueva Concepcion.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Malacateco when being an outsider away as they are today, we find eight matches with the visitors losing three times, drawing three and winning two games.

Malacateco have conceded 14 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The last H2H encounter ended Malacateco - Cobán Imperial 0-0, played this season. Cobán Imperial-Malacateco H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Cobán Imperial two wins, Malacateco four wins, four draws. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

ImperialR. Betancourth Cue
R. Betancourth Cue
12 goals
MalacatecoE. Herrera Morales
E. Herrera Morales
11 goals

Cobán Imperial missing players

Malacateco missing players

Cobán Imperial Malacateco
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
36 18 4 Played P 6 21 42
13 8 1 Won W 0 4 21
8 4 0 Drew D 4 8 10
15 6 3 Lost L 2 9 11
42 19 3 Scored S 5 19 60
41 13 5 Conceded C 7 26 38
89% 89% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 86% 90%
64% 61% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 62% 67%
44% 22% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 33% 36%
17% 6% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 17% 14% 14%
8% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 17% 10% 12%
47% 33% 25% BTTS BTTS 50% 43% 43%
31% 39% 25% Clean Sheets C S 33% 29% 43%
33% 39% 50% Failed to Score F T 50% 43% 24%
 
5 5.9 5.8 Corners for (avg) C F 3.3 2.9 3.4
3.4 3.4 6.2 Corners against (avg) C A 3.7 5.3 4.7
2.5 2.2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.2 2.5 2.3
2 2 1 Red cards R C 3 4 8
 
10.4 11.6 11.5 Shots (avg) S ( 7 5.7 8.3
4.2 4.5 5.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 2.3 4.2
28% 23% 13% Goal Efficiency G E 28% 40% 34%
 
7.3 6.1 8.5 Shots against (avg) S A 7.8 10.8 10.7
3.5 2.9 3.8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 4.3 4.9
Key stats in Liga Nacional this season:
  • Cobán Imperial have the most dropped points from leading position (18) in Liga Nacional
  • Malacateco have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (9) in Liga Nacional
  • Malacateco have the most conceded goals in the second half (28) in Liga Nacional

  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 Cotzumalguapa 22 8 12 2 28 25 11 4 6 1 16 13 11 4 6 1 12 12 3 36
6 Xelaju 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 Concepcion 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.