Liga Nacional preview and stats: Malacateco - Solola at Estadio Municipal Santa Lucía

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Competition: Guatemala Liga Nacional
Competition: Sun 27.February
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Municipal Santa Lucía (7000 seats)

Liga Nacional: Malacateco host Solola in what could be an absorbing football fixture. Tipsway gives you all the pre-match info you need!

Insights:
  • Malacateco have the most conceded goals in the second half (26) in Liga Nacional
  • Solola is in the worst form (0-1-5)

It's no vacation for neither Malacateco nor Solola as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Malacateco form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Estadio Municipal Santa Lucía as Malacateco have scored 25 goals to get 25 points from 11 games. The overall stats in the Liga Nacional are 8-1-2 (wins-draws-losses). 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 17 games in a row here without a defeat.

The spoils were shared in Malacateco's previous game, also at home. Visiting Solola travelled back with a draw after a 0-0 scoreline.

Prior to that, an away loss at Guastatoya.

The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Malacateco home games with this odds we find four games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in three wins, one draw and zero defeats. Looking at the victories, two matches were won by at least two goals.

The Malacateco manager Ayala has got the team scoring with 25 from 11 home games in the league. From these home matches, Malacateco have conceded only 9 goals.

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Solola form and stats

Playing away, Solola have won 3 games, drawn 4 and suffered 4 defeats in the Liga Nacional this season. The sun doesn’t shine and the birds do not sing for Solola, who have now gone eleven games without a victory. The Achuapa game was their last win and it’s been a dry spell since.

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

Preceding that match was the 0-0 draw at home vs Comunicaciones.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Solola played away with similar odds. This revealed eleven games. The visitors overcame the odds to win two times, three were draws and the home team won as expected six times.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Solola as they have only managed to score 10 times from 11 away games in the league. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. As opposed to that, Solola have seen the ball go into their own net 15 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Malacateco - Solola 2-0 was the output when this pair of contenders formerly did battle, some time ago this season. As for the last two games between these two teams, there's two Malacateco victories, zero draws and zero Solola wins. Over/under statistics; zero of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less. The matches between these sides have sometimes been from the last two encounters.

Top Goalscorers

MalacatecoE. Herrera Morales
E. Herrera Morales
11 goals
MalacatecoJ. Morán Urizar
J. Morán Urizar
7 goals

Malacateco missing players

Solola missing players

Malacateco Solola
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
37 19 6 Played P 4 16 33
17 14 5 Won W 1 3 6
11 3 0 Drew D 1 6 11
9 2 1 Lost L 2 7 16
53 36 15 Scored S 5 13 25
33 11 4 Conceded C 12 25 50
86% 89% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 81% 82%
65% 68% 83% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 75% 73%
35% 37% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 75% 31% 39%
16% 16% 17% Over 3.5 O 3.5 75% 31% 21%
14% 16% 17% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 12% 9%
43% 42% 50% BTTS BTTS 75% 38% 39%
46% 58% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 31% 30%
24% 11% 0% Failed to Score F T 25% 50% 48%
 
3.3 3.4 3.3 Corners for (avg) C F 4 3.4 3.8
4.9 4.3 3 Corners against (avg) C A 5.2 6 5.4
2.4 2.1 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.1 2.3
7 3 1 Red cards R C 2 4 7
 
7.9 9.7 9.8 Shots (avg) S ( 8.8 7.3 5.4
3.9 5.4 6.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.2 3.1 2.1
37% 35% 39% Goal Efficiency G E 38% 26% 36%
 
10.6 9.9 8.2 Shots against (avg) S A 18 11.4 7.4
4.6 5 3.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.5 4.2 2.8
Key stats in Liga Nacional this season:
  • Malacateco have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Malacateco have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Malacateco have scored more than double the goals of Solola.
  • Malacateco have the most conceded goals in the second half (26) in Liga Nacional
  • Solola have the fewest dropped points from leading position (5) in Liga Nacional
  • Solola is in the worst form (0-1-5)

  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 Santa Lucia 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.