Cotzumalguapa welcome Malacateco for another interesting Liga Nacional fixture here at Estadio Municipal Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Cotzumalguapa form and stats
Three Liga Nacional home games done for Cotzumalguapa, who are not happy collecting 3 points from these matches.
The Cotzumalguapa supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Iztapa in Liga Nacional and win 2-0. Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Comunicaciones (0-2).
Cotzumalguapa made it very difficult for themselves, when S. Crisanto got a red card in the 39th minute. The match was still a draw at this point. But even with this card, Cotzumalguapa won the match 2-0!
The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Cotzumalguapa have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found six matches with the results: Won one, drawn one and lost four.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Cotzumalguapa here at Estadio Municipal Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (2 from 3 games). Cotzumalguapa are not conceding a lot of goals here at Estadio Municipal Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 2 from 3 matches.
Malacateco form and stats
Still no away game victory in the Liga Nacional for Malacateco, who have the most conceded goals (10) in Liga Nacional, with 1 draw and 1 loss from their first 2 attempts.
Before that, Malacateco secured a home win against Comunicaciones with the score 1-0.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found two similar matches played by Malacateco in our archives, and the results are: zero wins for Malacateco, one draw and one defeat.
It's early days yet, but Malacateco has scored 2 and conceded 4 goals from their travels in the league so far (2 games).
Head 2 Head
Malacateco - Cotzumalguapa 1-2 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. Numbers for the last four meetings between these two teams are: three wins for Cotzumalguapa, zero draws and one win for Malacateco. Over 2,5 goals: one time; under 2,5 goals: three games.Top Goalscorers
  M. Icuté Fuentes 2 goals |  P. Báez Benítez 2 goals | T. Moreira Possas 1 goals |
Cotzumalguapa missing players
Malacateco missing players
| Cotzumalguapa | Malacateco | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 60% | 33% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 83% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 67% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 50% | 33% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 100% | 83% |
| 20% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 60% | 67% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 4 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2.5 | 3.2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 53 | 38 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 21 | 70 |
| 20 | 16 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 4 | 21 |
| 20% | 12% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 50% | 33% |
- All of Malacateco's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Cotzumalguapa has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (0) in Liga Nacional
- Cotzumalguapa has the fewest points (3) at home in Liga Nacional
- Cotzumalguapa has the fewest scored goals (2) at home in Liga Nacional
- Cotzumalguapa has the fewest scored goals (4) in Liga Nacional
- Cotzumalguapa has the fewest scored goals in the second half (1) in Liga Nacional
- Cotzumalguapa haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Cotzumalguapa is in the worst form (2-0-3)
- Malacateco has the fewest points (1) away in Liga Nacional
- Malacateco has the most conceded goals (10) in Liga Nacional
- Malacateco has the most conceded goals in the first half (6) in Liga Nacional
- Malacateco has the the worst goal difference (-3) in Liga Nacional
- Malacateco have scored in all their matches so far.
- Malacateco have yet to win a game away.
- Malacateco 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 | Comunicaciones | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| 2 | Iztapa | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 8 |
| 3 | Antigua GFC | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 4 | Xelajú | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -1 | 7 |
| 5 | Malacateco | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -3 | 7 |
| 6 | Cotzumalguapa | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 6 |