The Comunicaciones & Iztapa managers M. Tapia and R. Cepeda Alvarado are both dreading and looking forward to this decisive game in the upper regions of the Liga Nacional league table.
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
Comunicaciones form and stats
Perfect Liga Nacional season at home so far for Comunicaciones, who have the most points (9) at home in Liga Nacional, 3 wins from 3 appearances.
A nice win for Comunicaciones last time playing, versus Antigua GFC. That was also a home game and the match ended 2-1. Heartbreak before that as Comunicaciones lost 0-1 at Malacateco's place.
Comunicaciones are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Estadio Nacional Mateo Flores in their league games, having scored an impressive 8 goals in 3 matches. 3 goals have been conceded.
Iztapa form and stats
Things could have gone better for Iztapa in their Liga Nacional away matches, but 3 points from 3 games is all right.
Iztapa won their last game, 5-0 versus Xelaju played at home. Prior to that result Iztapa won their away game at Malacateco. The scoreline was 3-1.
As mentioned above, Iztapa was the only team on the pitch versus Xelaju in their previous game, winning 5-0. This could be a tougher task.
Iztapa are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 4 away goals from 3 games (in the league). As for defending, Iztapa rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 5 goals from these away matches.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have met before this season: Iztapa - Comunicaciones 1-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last eight matches): Comunicaciones three wins, four draws and Iztapa one victory. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.Comunicaciones missing players
Iztapa missing players
| Comunicaciones | Iztapa | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | 8 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 4 | 14 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 5 | 8 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 83% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 33% | 67% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 67% | 57% |
| 17% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 43% |
| 17% | 33% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 67% | 67% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 67% | 71% |
| 17% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 14% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.8 | 1.3 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 4.3 | 3.1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 50 | 19 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 26 | 106 |
| 12 | 4 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 10 | 53 |
| 83% | 200% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 40% | 26% |
- All of Comunicaciones's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- All of Iztapa's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Comunicaciones has the most dropped points from leading position (4) in Liga Nacional
- Comunicaciones has the most points (9) at home in Liga Nacional
- Comunicaciones has the most scored goals in the first half (7) in Liga Nacional
- Comunicaciones have won all their matches at home so far.
- Comunicaciones haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Comunicaciones is in the best form (3-2-1)
- Iztapa has the most points from losing position (4) in Liga Nacional
- Iztapa has the most scored goals (14) in Liga Nacional
- Iztapa has the most scored goals in the second half (10) in Liga Nacional
- Iztapa has the the best goal difference (+6) in Liga Nacional
- Iztapa haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Iztapa | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| 2 | Comunicaciones | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 |
| 3 | Malacateco | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -2 | 10 |
| 4 | Antigua GFC | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 5 | Xelaju | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 11 | -6 | 7 |
| 6 | Cotzumalguapa | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -2 | 6 |