Only the second game in the Liga Nacional for these teams and it's all to play for here at Estadio Municipal Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa as Cotzumalguapa welcomes Municipal. Check out this preview!
The hosts Cotzumalguapa saw competitive action as recent as four days ago, playing in the Concacaf League. Thankfully the previous game, versus Metropolitan, was also a home game here at Estadio Municipal Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa. The away team is better rested.
Cotzumalguapa form and stats
Last season, Cotzumalguapa's league statistics were 5 wins, 7 draws and 10 losses, resulting in a 10th position in the Liga Nacional. Over these 22 matches they scored 21 goals and conceded 29. Playing at home last season Cotzumalguapa managed 4-5-2 (win-draw-lost) with 16 goals and 11 conceded.
Cotzumalguapa's last game was hosting Metropolitan and winning 3-0.
A strong away win before that one, visiting Malacateco and winning 2-1.Cotzumalguapa are traveling soon after this match as the Liga Nacional match at Iztapa awaits in four days.
Municipal form and stats
Let's have a look at how Municipal performed last season in the Liga Nacional: They landed a 2nd position in the league table after playing out 12 victories, 4 draws and 6 defeats. In total they scored 32 and conceded 23 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 3 - drew 2 and lost 6 with 11/14 goals scored/conceded.
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Municipal goalkeeper is eager to challenge this, with his 212 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
Impressive finishing secured the home win 1-0 against Guastatoya in their previous game.
A draw for Municipal before that, at their own venue hosting Iztapa (0-0).A new game in only four days for Municipal, the Liga Nacional home match versus Malacateco. Busy days.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last five matches): Cotzumalguapa one win, zero draws and Municipal four victories. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.Cotzumalguapa missing players
Municipal missing players
| Cotzumalguapa | Municipal | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 29% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Cotzumalguapa | Last season | Municipal | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 38 | 19 | Played | P | 20 | 40 | ||
| 14 | 9 | Won | W | 7 | 20 | ||
| 11 | 5 | Drew | D | 7 | 10 | ||
| 13 | 5 | Lost | L | 6 | 10 | ||
| 38 | 19 | Scored | S | 25 | 68 | ||
| 37 | 9 | Conceded | C | 18 | 32 | ||
| 82% | 79% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 85% | 90% | ||
| 58% | 42% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 70% | 75% | ||
| 29% | 16% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 45% | 55% | ||
| 16% | 11% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 15% | 22% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 5% | ||
| 34% | 11% | BTTS | BTTS | 55% | 48% | ||
| 42% | 63% | Clean Sheets | C S | 35% | 40% | ||
| 42% | 47% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 22% | ||
| 3.7 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.9 | 5.8 | ||
| 6.1 | 4.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 4 | ||
| 2.4 | 2.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.4 | 2.5 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 4 | ||
| 10.1 | 11.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.6 | 11.4 | ||
| 4.1 | 4.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.4 | 4.7 | ||
| 23% | 22% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 34% | 36% | ||
| 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| 2 | Xelaju | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 3 | Cotzumalguapa | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Iztapa | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Municipal | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Achuapa | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Nueva Concepcion | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Malacateco | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 9 | Antigua GFC | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 10 | Guastatoya | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 11 | Coban Imperial | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 0 |
| 12 | Solola | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4 | 0 |