Municipal scrimmages with Xelajú in Liga Nacional face-off

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Competition: Guatemala Liga Nacional
Competition: Sun 19.December
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio El Trébol (30000 seats)

The home team, Municipal, should be front runners in this match, but Xelajú have displayed both flair and heroism. Read more about the game!

Insights:
  • Municipal is in the best form (5-1-0) in Liga Nacional
  • Xelajú have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Municipal form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Estadio El Trébol as Municipal have scored 19 goals to get 24 points from 11 games. The overall stats in the Liga Nacional are 7-3-1 (wins-draws-losses).

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Ricardo Antonio Jerez Figueroa not having conceded a league goal in 548 minutes.

A good away victory last time out for Municipal, who won 1-0 against Xelajú.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Antigua GFC in a game that was won 1-0.

Municipal have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Estadio El Trébol with 19 goals in 11 league matches. Municipal have only conceded 7 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Xelajú form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Xelajú so far with only 9 points returning home. The records show 2-3-6 (win-draw-lose).

Xelajú are looking to quickly end their 195 minutes long goal drought in the Liga Nacional.

The manager Rubirosa Serrano was unhappy after their last game, a Liga Nacional match played at their home ground Estadio Mario Camposeco. Xelajú suffered a 0-1 loss to Municipal.

Preceding that, the 0-1 home loss versus Comunicaciones.

The visitors have scored 6 goals from 11 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Xelajú's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 19 goals from these trips.

Head 2 Head

Municipal and Xelajú have played each other already this season: Xelajú - Municipal 0-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Municipal six wins, three draws and Xelajú one victory. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

MunicipalJ. Martínez
J. Martínez
12 goals
XelajúJ. Orozco Peñuelas
J. Orozco Peñuelas
5 goals
MunicipalG. Britos
G. Britos
4 goals

Municipal missing players

Xelajú missing players

Municipal Xelajú
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
23 11 3 Played P 3 11 23
12 7 0 Won W 0 2 8
6 3 2 Drew D 0 3 6
5 1 1 Lost L 3 6 9
31 19 5 Scored S 1 6 18
15 7 6 Conceded C 8 19 24
91% 91% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 91%
52% 64% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 82% 61%
30% 45% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 36% 26%
17% 27% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 9% 4%
9% 9% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
35% 36% 100% BTTS BTTS 33% 36% 26%
52% 64% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 18% 39%
22% 9% 0% Failed to Score F T 67% 45% 43%
 
4.6 6 5.3 Corners for (avg) C F 4 2.9 4
3.9 3.8 6 Corners against (avg) C A 2 4.1 3.4
1.9 1.9 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.7 3.5 2.9
4 2 1 Red cards R C 0 5 6
 
8.9 11.5 10.7 Shots (avg) S ( 6.3 7.6 8.5
3.6 4 2.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.3 2.3 2.7
38% 45% 71% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 24% 30%
 
9.6 10.4 11.7 Shots against (avg) S A 12.3 11.1 9.2
3.4 3.4 4.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.7 4 3
Key stats in Liga Nacional this season:
  • 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 Xelajú have scored away.
  • Municipal have the most clean sheets (12) in Liga Nacional
  • Municipal have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Municipal is in the best form (5-1-0) in Liga Nacional
  • Xelajú have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Xelajú have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Xelajú have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Xelajú haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 Santa Lucia 22 8 12 2 28 25 11 4 6 1 16 13 11 4 6 1 12 12 3 36
6 Xelajú 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.