Municipal vs Comunicaciones match preview: Even contest expected at Estadio El Trébol

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Competition: Guatemala Liga Nacional
Competition: Thu 26.May
Match begins: 21:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio El Trébol (30000 seats)

Municipal and Comunicaciones are both thriving in the Liga Nacional with their 3rd and 2nd places respectively. This could be a fun game!

Insights:
  • Municipal have the most clean sheets (25) in Liga Nacional
  • Comunicaciones have the most scored goals (37) in Liga Nacional

There's local pride at stake here, as these teams are practically neighbours. Expect lots of passion from both players and supporters.

These are active days for the team playing at home, as they were in action only four days ago in the Liga Nacional. This match was also played here at Estadio El Trébol. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Comunicaciones have had more rest.

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Municipal form and stats

Municipal are steadily winning Liga Nacional games and points here at Estadio El Trébol. 7 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat is the summary from 11 games.

The home regulars saw a 1-1 draw versus Guastatoya last time out and are looking for a win here.

Preceding that game was the away draw at Guastatoya that finished 1-1.

The manager Otazú will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Comunicaciones in only three days.

The Municipal fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 19 goals in 11 league matches. From these home matches, Municipal have conceded only 7 goals.

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Comunicaciones form and stats

6-2-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Comunicaciones in their Liga Nacional matches away. In general it has been a productive period now for Comunicaciones as they haven't lost any of their last ten games.

Comunicaciones's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Malacateco that finished 0-0.

Before that, Comunicaciones travelled to Malacateco and returned home with a draw after the game finished 1-1.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 20 similar matches played by Comunicaciones in our archives, and the results are: 10 wins for Comunicaciones, 4 draws and 6 defeats.

A quick return to home after this game, as Comunicaciones are hosting Municipal in the Liga Nacional only three days away.

Comunicaciones have scored 16 goals on their travels this season, from 11 away games in the league. Comunicaciones are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 10 times in 11 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: Comunicaciones - Municipal 2-0. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: one - three - six (Municipal wins - draws - Comunicaciones wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

MunicipalJ. Martínez
J. Martínez
17 goals
MunicipalM. Rotondi
M. Rotondi
13 goals
ComunicacionesL. García
L. García
13 goals

Municipal missing players

Comunicaciones missing players

Municipal Comunicaciones
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
52 26 4 Played P 6 27 54
26 15 3 Won W 2 12 27
14 7 0 Drew D 2 7 17
12 4 1 Lost L 2 8 10
70 42 7 Scored S 8 32 81
36 17 1 Conceded C 8 23 46
88% 88% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 85% 83%
60% 65% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 83% 63% 65%
33% 38% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 30% 39%
17% 27% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 19% 26%
6% 8% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 17% 7% 13%
37% 35% 0% BTTS BTTS 67% 33% 41%
48% 54% 75% Clean Sheets C S 0% 37% 43%
27% 23% 25% Failed to Score F T 33% 44% 33%
 
4.6 5.6 3.8 Corners for (avg) C F 4.8 4.6 5.3
3.9 3.7 3.8 Corners against (avg) C A 3 4.2 3.9
2.3 2.1 3.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.4 2.2
8 5 1 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
7.7 9 8.5 Shots (avg) S ( 12.8 8.7 10.2
3.1 3.3 4.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6.8 3.3 3.8
43% 50% 41% Goal Efficiency G E 20% 36% 39%
 
8.2 8 11.2 Shots against (avg) S A 8.5 7.3 7
2.7 2.4 3.2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.8 3.3 3
Key stats in Liga Nacional this season:
  • Comunicaciones have the fewest dropped points from leading position (8) in Liga Nacional
  • Comunicaciones have the most points (20) away in Liga Nacional
  • Comunicaciones have the most scored goals (16) away in Liga Nacional
  • Comunicaciones have the most scored goals (37) in Liga Nacional
  • Comunicaciones have the most scored goals in the first half (37) in Liga Nacional
  • Comunicaciones have the most scored goals in the second half (44) in Liga Nacional
  • Comunicaciones have the the best goal difference (+6) away in Liga Nacional
  • Municipal have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Municipal have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Municipal have the most clean sheets (25) in Liga Nacional
  • Municipal have won significantly more corners at home than away.

  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 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.