Evenly matched teams: Iztapa vs Antigua GFC match preview

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Competition: Guatemala Liga Nacional
Competition: Sun 24.April
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Municipal El Morón (3000 seats)

Estadio Municipal El Morón: Shake it up for a football festivity when Iztapa engage Antigua GFC. Get the latest news on the match here!

Insights:
  • Iztapa have the most points from losing position (16) in Liga Nacional
  • Antigua GFC have the fewest conceded goals (13) in Liga Nacional

11-12-17 (wins/draws/losses). These are the numbers for Antigua GFC when playing away games on grass, which is not the surface they have on their own home stadium (which has artifical turf). Their goal statistics from those 40 matches are 37-48 (scored/conceded).

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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Iztapa form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Estadio Municipal El Morón as Iztapa have scored 19 goals to get 25 points from 11 games. The overall stats in the Liga Nacional are 8-1-2 (wins-draws-losses).

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper not having conceded a league goal in 244 minutes.

Iztapa drew their last game, also a home match. Antigua GFC was the opponent, 0-0 the score.

Ahead of that match, Iztapa won a home game hosting Coban Imperial (3-0).

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 Iztapa have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 15 matches with the results: Won ten, drawn four and lost one.

Iztapa have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Estadio Municipal El Morón with 19 goals in 11 league matches. From these home matches, Iztapa have conceded only 10 goals. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Antigua GFC form and stats

As the visiting team matches, Antigua GFC, who have the fewest conceded goals (13) in Liga Nacional, have produced an overall stat of 6-1-4 so far. Antigua GFC has drawn their two previous away games.

387 minutes! That's how long the Antigua GFC goalkeeper and his defense have shut out their league opponents.

It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Iztapa in their previous outing. The match ended in a draw 0-0.

Prior to that match, a home win 5-0 against Solola.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 16 similar matches played by Antigua GFC in our archives, and the results are: six wins for Antigua, three draws and seven defeats.

They concede less than a goal on average per away game (6 so far). There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

Iztapa - Antigua GFC 0-0 was the result in these contenders' latest H2H game, played this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Iztapa four wins, two draws and Antigua GFC four victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Antigua GFCP. Báez Benítez
P. Báez Benítez
19 goals
IztapaC. Félix Suénaga
C. Félix Suénaga
12 goals
IztapaC. Hernández
C. Hernández
10 goals

Iztapa missing players

Antigua GFC missing players

Iztapa Antigua GFC
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
43 22 7 Played P 7 23 45
14 13 5 Won W 5 10 24
11 6 1 Drew D 1 5 10
18 3 1 Lost L 1 8 11
56 35 10 Scored S 7 22 73
63 16 4 Conceded C 3 18 35
91% 86% 86% Over 0.5 O 0.5 86% 87% 89%
63% 55% 43% Over 1.5 O 1.5 29% 48% 62%
47% 36% 29% Over 2.5 O 2.5 29% 30% 47%
30% 23% 14% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 4% 24%
21% 14% 14% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 4% 11%
44% 36% 29% BTTS BTTS 29% 26% 38%
28% 50% 57% Clean Sheets C S 57% 48% 47%
37% 27% 29% Failed to Score F T 29% 39% 27%
 
5.8 7 5.6 Corners for (avg) C F 4.7 4.3 4.6
3.5 2.8 2.7 Corners against (avg) C A 5.3 5.4 4.9
2.2 2.3 2.1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.3 2.7 2.4
3 2 0 Red cards R C 2 3 4
 
9.7 11.9 11.3 Shots (avg) S ( 7.4 8.1 9.5
3.3 3.8 3.6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3.3 4.1
39% 41% 40% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 29% 39%
 
9.8 9 7.9 Shots against (avg) S A 8.9 8.7 6.9
3.4 2.5 1.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.4 3.5 3
Key stats in Liga Nacional this season:
  • Antigua GFC have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Antigua GFC have the fewest conceded goals (13) in Liga Nacional
  • Antigua GFC have the fewest conceded goals (6) away in Liga Nacional
  • Antigua GFC have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (11) in Liga Nacional
  • Antigua GFC have the most clean sheets (11) away in Liga Nacional
  • Antigua GFC have the most scored goals in the second half (42) in Liga Nacional
  • Antigua GFC have the the best goal difference (+23) in Liga Nacional
  • Iztapa have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Iztapa have the most matches over the total-line (16) in Liga Nacional
  • Iztapa have the most points from losing position (16) in Liga Nacional
  • Iztapa have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded 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 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 Coban 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 Concepción 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.