Preview: Municipal favourite to defeat Guastatoya at Estadio El Trébol

Days
Hours
Minutes
Seconds
Competition: Guatemala Liga Nacional
Competition: Sat 22.January
Match begins: 21:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio El Trébol (30000 seats)

Municipal are thought of as probable winners of this home fixture vs Guastatoya, if the league positions are thought to provide some clues. Or are we eyeing a possible shock?

Insights:
  • Municipal have the most clean sheets (15) in Liga Nacional
  • Guastatoya have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

W D D L W

Municipal form and stats

24 points is a decent return from 11 Liga Nacional games here at Estadio El Trébol for Municipal. The data says 7 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Ricardo Antonio Jerez Figueroa not having conceded a league goal in 347 minutes.

It's back home for Municipal, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Cotzumalguapa away with the result 2-0. Martínez and Franco found the net in that victory.

Before that, Municipal played out a draw 0-0 when visiting Comunicaciones.

The Municipal fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 19 goals in 11 league matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Municipal are not conceding a lot of goals here at Estadio El Trébol in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 11 matches.

W D L D L

Guastatoya form and stats

There's been little loot from Guastatoya's travels as they have only collected 6 points from 11 away games in the Liga Nacional. Guastatoya only have 1 win to counter their 7 defeats and 3 draws.

Guastatoya go into this game after a win, the home game against Iztapa that ended 3-0.

Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Cotzumalguapa that ended 1-1.

Goals are few and far between in Guastatoya's away league games. Only 5 goals from 11 travels. 12 goals have been conceded by Guastatoya in these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches. Guastatoya has visited these top teams three times, and 3 of 3 has ended with 2 goals or more!

Head 2 Head

Guastatoya - Municipal 1-0 was the product when this pair of contenders formerly played each other, also in this season. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: three - four - three (Municipal wins - draws - Guastatoya wins). As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), eight had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

MunicipalJ. Martínez
J. Martínez
13 goals
MunicipalG. Britos
G. Britos
4 goals
MunicipalP. Altán Hernández
P. Altán Hernández
3 goals

Municipal missing players

Guastatoya missing players

Municipal Guastatoya
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
27 13 3 Played P 3 11 23
13 7 3 Won W 0 1 6
8 4 0 Drew D 0 3 8
6 2 0 Lost L 3 7 9
33 19 5 Scored S 3 5 21
16 8 1 Conceded C 7 12 23
85% 85% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 82% 87%
48% 54% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 36% 52%
26% 38% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 27% 39%
15% 23% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 9% 13%
7% 8% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
30% 31% 33% BTTS BTTS 100% 36% 39%
56% 62% 67% Clean Sheets C S 0% 27% 35%
30% 23% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 55% 39%
 
4.6 6 8.7 Corners for (avg) C F 5 4.9 4.5
4.1 3.9 2.7 Corners against (avg) C A 6 5.6 4.2
1.9 2 1.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.9 3
4 2 1 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
8.5 10.6 13 Shots (avg) S ( 7.7 5.4 7
3.4 3.5 4.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.3 2 2.7
36% 43% 36% Goal Efficiency G E 30% 28% 37%
 
9 9.5 8 Shots against (avg) S A 15 9.9 7.9
3 2.9 2.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.7 3.3 2.5
Key stats in Liga Nacional this season:
  • Guastatoya have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • 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.
  • Municipal have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Guastatoya have scored away.
  • Municipal have the most clean sheets (15) 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 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.