Home advantage could prove decisive in Malacateco - Cobán Imperial battle

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Competition: Guatemala Liga Nacional
Competition: Sun 30.January
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Municipal Santa Lucía (7000 seats)

A good game and three points is the only event that will suffice for the Malacateco regulars in this Estadio Municipal Santa Lucía clash with Cobán Imperial, having a solid lead on their opponents in the Liga Nacional standings.

Insights:
  • Malacateco is in the best form (3-3-0) in Liga Nacional
  • Cobán Imperial have the most dropped points from leading position (15) in Liga Nacional

Both sides have had time to rest since their last effort on the pitch. Let's agree to expect an active game!

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Malacateco form and stats

Malacateco are steadily winning Liga Nacional games and points here at Estadio Municipal Santa Lucía. 8 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats is the summary from 11 games. The Malacateco fans aren't used to losing league-games here at Estadio Municipal Santa Lucía and will expect new points from this game. Malacateco has played 13 games in a row here without a defeat.

Malacateco shared the glory with Nueva Concepcion in their last match, an away game that ended all square 3-3.

Before that, Malacateco had a home game versus Xelaju which ended with a victory 2-0.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Malacateco handle that role? We have found 14 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are seven wins, five draws and two defeats.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Malacateco as they are travelling to their away game against Iztapa in the Liga Nacional. That match is three days after this one.

Goals decide football matches and Malacateco are scoring many of them at home; 25 on target from 11 league matches. From these home matches, Malacateco have conceded only 9 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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Cobán Imperial form and stats

Cobán Imperial have only collected 8 points from their away games in the Liga Nacional, after 2-2-7 (11 played).

The Cobán Imperial goalkeeper is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 197 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.

Imperial are travelling after their nice 2-0 home win in the match against Comunicaciones.

A 0-0 draw at Solola's stadium before that.

We have checked recent matches where Cobán Imperial have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those twelve games were one victory, four draws and seven defeats.

A new game in only three days for Cobán Imperial, the Liga Nacional home match versus Xelaju. Busy days.

Cobán Imperial have scored 13 goals on their travels this season, from 11 away games in the league. Cobán Imperial have conceded 21 goals in these games. Cobán Imperial has visited these top teams three times, and 3 of 3 has ended with 2 goals or more!

Head 2 Head

Malacateco and Cobán Imperial have met already this season: Cobán Imperial - Malacateco 1-1. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Malacateco victories, three draws and three Cobán Imperial wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

MalacatecoM. Rotondi
M. Rotondi
18 goals
MalacatecoE. Herrera Morales
E. Herrera Morales
10 goals
Cobán ImperialR. Betancourth Cue
R. Betancourth Cue
9 goals

Malacateco missing players

Cobán Imperial missing players

Malacateco Cobán Imperial
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
30 15 3 Played P 3 12 24
14 12 3 Won W 0 2 6
9 1 0 Drew D 1 3 6
7 2 0 Lost L 2 7 12
47 32 8 Scored S 4 13 24
28 9 2 Conceded C 6 21 31
90% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 92% 92%
70% 73% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 67% 67%
33% 33% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 67% 42%
20% 20% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 25% 12%
17% 20% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 8% 4%
43% 40% 67% BTTS BTTS 100% 58% 46%
47% 60% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 17% 25%
20% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 38%
 
3.3 3.3 5 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4.5 5
5.2 4.8 6.7 Corners against (avg) C A 4 3.2 3.6
2.3 2.2 1.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.6 2.5
6 3 0 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
8.5 11.1 13.3 Shots (avg) S ( 6.3 10.4 11.7
4.3 6.1 7.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 4.1 4.4
36% 35% 36% Goal Efficiency G E 44% 27% 23%
 
11 11.4 9.3 Shots against (avg) S A 13 9.5 8.5
4.9 5.5 6.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.7 4.4 4.1
Key stats in Liga Nacional this season:
  • Cobán Imperial have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Cobán Imperial have the most dropped points from leading position (15) in Liga Nacional
  • Malacateco have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Malacateco have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Cobán Imperial have scored away.
  • Malacateco have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Malacateco have the most conceded goals in the second half (22) in Liga Nacional
  • Malacateco have the most scored goals in the first half (24) in Liga Nacional
  • Malacateco haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Malacateco is in the best form (3-3-0) 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.