Home advantage could prove decisive in Malacateco - Santa Lucia battle

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Competition: Guatemala Liga Nacional
Competition: Wed 10.August
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Municipal Santa Lucía (7000 seats)

Malacateco are ready to battle it out with Santa Lucia in this Liga Nacional fixture. Everything you can know about the game is located right here!

Insights:
  • Malacateco have the the best goal difference (+5) at home in Liga Nacional
  • Santa Lucia have the most conceded goals (7) in Liga Nacional

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Malacateco and Santa Lucia.

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Malacateco form and stats

As mentioned below, Malacateco are feasting on a winning streak here so far with maximum points from their first 2 Liga Nacional games.

The Malacateco followers enjoyed the previous game, watching their team host Santa Lucia and win 3-1.

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Xelaju (0-1).

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Malacateco matches with similar probabilities have ended with 6 wins, 0 draws and 4 defeats (from 10 games).

Malacateco has scored 6 goals so far and conceded 1 goal from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.

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Santa Lucia form and stats

The Liga Nacional season is young and Santa Lucia have only just started going through their travel schedule, with 2 away games done and still no victory. 1 draw and 1 defeat so far.

Santa Lucia lost away at Malacateco (1-3) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick.

The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-3 defeat against Antigua GFC.

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Santa Lucia playing away, we found 9 games. Results were 3 away wins, 3 draws and 3 home wins.

As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Santa Lucia has managed 2 goals and let in 4 from 2 matches.

Head 2 Head

Malacateco have avoided defeat in the last 4 games (3-1-0) against Santa Lucia.

This duo encountered each other earlier this season: Malacateco - Santa Lucia 3-1.

Top Goalscorers

Santa LuciaI. Acuña Sánchez
I. Acuña Sánchez
2 goals
MalacatecoK. Aguilar de León
K. Aguilar de León
1 goals
Santa LuciaE. Herrera
E. Herrera
1 goals

Malacateco missing players

Santa Lucia missing players

Malacateco Santa Lucia
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
4 2 0 Played P 0 2 4
2 2 0 Won W 0 0 1
1 0 0 Drew D 0 1 1
1 0 0 Lost L 0 1 2
6 6 0 Scored S 0 2 3
2 1 0 Conceded C 0 4 7
75% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
50% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 75%
50% 100% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 50%
25% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 50% 25%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
25% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 100% 50%
50% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 25%
50% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 25%
 
3.5 4.5 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 3.5 5.2
6 5 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 7.5 5.5
3 3 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 7.5 5.2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
4.8 3.5 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 8 8.8
3.5 3.5 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 2.5 2.5
43% 86% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 40% 30%
 
6.5 1.5 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 11.5 8.2
2.2 1 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 4 4
Key stats in Liga Nacional this season:
  • Malacateco have the the best goal difference (+5) at home in Liga Nacional
  • Santa Lucia have the most conceded goals (7) in Liga Nacional
Malacateco Last season Santa Lucia
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
54 27   Played P   24 48
22 18   Won W   8 17
20 7   Drew D   8 17
12 2   Lost L   8 14
72 47   Scored S   26 65
48 14   Conceded C   26 56
83% 85%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   88% 90%
67% 67%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   67% 73%
31% 33%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   33% 40%
15% 15%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   17% 23%
11% 11%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   4% 10%
44% 41%   BTTS BTTS   46% 50%
44% 59%   Clean Sheets C S   33% 31%
28% 15%   Failed to Score F T   33% 29%
 
3.5 4   Corners for (avg) C F   3.2 3.9
4.6 3.9   Corners against (avg) C A   5.3 4.5
2.4 2.2   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.6 2.4
8 4   Red cards R C   2 4
 
8.1 10.4   Shots (avg) S (   7.1 9.6
4.1 5.8   Shots on Target (avg) S O   2.7 3.3
33% 30%   Goal Efficiency G E   41% 41%
 
10.4 9.8   Shots against (avg) S A   8.4 8.9
4.7 5   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   3.2 3.1

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Cobán Imperial 3 3 0 0 10 4 2 2 0 0 6 3 1 1 0 0 4 1 6 9
2 Antigua GFC 3 2 1 0 7 2 1 0 1 0 2 2 2 2 0 0 5 0 5 7
3 Malacateco 4 2 1 1 6 2 2 2 0 0 6 1 2 0 1 1 0 1 4 7
4 Xelaju 3 2 1 0 6 2 2 2 0 0 4 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 4 7
5 Guastatoya 3 1 2 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 5
6 Santa Lucia 4 1 1 2 3 7 2 1 0 1 1 3 2 0 1 1 2 4 -4 4
7 Achuapa 3 1 0 2 3 4 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 2 2 4 -1 3
8 Xinabajul 3 1 0 2 2 4 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 2 1 4 -2 3
9 Municipal 3 1 0 2 2 5 2 1 0 1 2 4 1 0 0 1 0 1 -3 3
10 Comunicaciones 3 0 2 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 2 -1 2
11 Iztapa 3 0 1 2 1 5 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 0 0 2 0 4 -4 1
12 Mixco 3 0 1 2 1 6 2 0 1 1 1 3 1 0 0 1 0 3 -5 1
Last season 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 22 12 5 5 39 24 11 7 3 1 27 14 11 5 2 4 12 10 15 41
2 Municipal 22 12 4 6 34 18 11 7 2 2 20 8 11 5 2 4 14 10 16 40
3 Guastatoya 22 10 7 5 32 18 11 8 1 2 22 5 11 2 6 3 10 13 14 37
4 Malacateco 22 9 8 5 29 22 11 7 4 0 16 4 11 2 4 5 13 18 7 35
5 Cobán Imperial 22 9 7 6 29 25 11 6 4 1 17 6 11 3 3 5 12 19 4 34
6 Antigua GFC 22 9 6 7 33 22 11 5 2 4 22 12 11 4 4 3 11 10 11 33
7 Achuapa 22 9 6 7 21 19 11 7 3 1 14 6 11 2 3 6 7 13 2 33
8 Santa Lucia 22 8 4 10 36 27 11 4 3 4 22 14 11 4 1 6 14 13 9 28
9 Iztapa 22 7 7 8 30 31 11 6 4 1 19 8 11 1 3 7 11 23 -1 28
10 Xelaju 22 6 5 11 17 31 11 6 2 3 12 9 11 0 3 8 5 22 -14 23
11 Solola 22 3 6 13 19 46 11 3 4 4 13 17 11 0 2 9 6 29 -27 15
12 Nueva Concepcion 22 4 3 15 21 57 11 3 2 6 12 21 11 1 1 9 9 36 -36 15

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.