Evenly matched teams: Nueva Concepción vs Iztapa match preview

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Competition: Guatemala Liga Nacional
Competition: Sun 17.April
Match begins: 21:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio José Luis Ibarra (3000 seats)

Nueva Concepción are depending on their home crowd to assist them when playing this fixture versus Iztapa. Who triumphs at Estadio José Luis Ibarra?

Insights:
  • Nueva Concepción have the fewest clean sheets (8) in Liga Nacional
  • Iztapa have the most points from losing position (16) in Liga Nacional

The visiting Iztapa played their last game only four days ago, a Liga Nacional match.

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Nueva Concepción form and stats

When playing at home in the Liga Nacional, Nueva Concepción, who have the fewest clean sheets (8) in Liga Nacional, have managed 4 wins, 4 draws and suffered 3 defeats from 11 games.

Nueva Concepción are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 1-5 away versus Coban Imperial. Concepción were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one.

Before that game, the home loss against Antigua GFC with the scoreline 0-3.

This is expected to be a close game, with Nueva Concepción perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Nueva Concepción as a small favourite), we find seven games. Nueva Concepción has won two of these, drawn five and lost zero.

Nueva Concepción are traveling soon after this match as the Liga Nacional match at Municipal awaits in three days.

Concepción aren't scoring a lot here at Estadio José Luis Ibarra in the league, with only 9 goals from 11 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Nueva Concepción have only conceded 9 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Iztapa form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Iztapa so far with only 3 points returning home. The records show 0-3-8 (win-draw-lose). Travelling has not been lucrative for the away team as they have returned home without a win in 20 away games in a row.

Iztapa have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper. It's been 192 minutes since they last conceded in Liga Nacional.

Iztapa won their last game, 2-0 versus Comunicaciones played at home.

A draw for Iztapa before that, at their own venue hosting Xelaju (0-0).

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found six similar matches played by Iztapa in our archives, and the results are: one win for Iztapa, one draw and four defeats.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Coban Imperial in just three days.

Iztapa have conceded 26 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

These competitors have met before this season: Iztapa - Concepción 2-1. Nueva Concepción-Iztapa H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Nueva Concepción three wins, Iztapa four wins, three draws. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

IztapaC. Félix Suénaga
C. Félix Suénaga
12 goals
IztapaC. Hernández
C. Hernández
8 goals
ConcepciónI. Dos Santos
I. Dos Santos
6 goals

Nueva Concepción missing players

Iztapa missing players

Nueva Concepción Iztapa
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
38 19 6 Played P 6 20 40
7 7 3 Won W 0 0 12
6 5 1 Drew D 1 5 10
25 7 2 Lost L 5 15 18
25 17 6 Scored S 1 16 48
74 21 6 Conceded C 10 46 62
95% 89% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 83% 95% 92%
74% 58% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 70% 62%
45% 32% 17% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 55% 45%
21% 11% 17% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 35% 30%
13% 5% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 25% 20%
39% 37% 33% BTTS BTTS 17% 50% 45%
21% 42% 50% Clean Sheets C S 17% 5% 25%
45% 32% 17% Failed to Score F T 83% 50% 38%
 
3.1 3.6 4.5 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4.9 5.7
5.6 5.1 4 Corners against (avg) C A 5.2 4.1 3.3
2.5 3 3.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.2 2.1 2.2
6 3 2 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
7.1 9.2 10.2 Shots (avg) S ( 5.8 7 9.2
2.7 3.6 3.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.2 2.4 2.9
24% 25% 26% Goal Efficiency G E 14% 34% 40%
 
12.8 11.3 12.5 Shots against (avg) S A 8.8 10.6 9.7
5.1 4.2 4.2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3 4.3 3.3
Key stats in Liga Nacional this season:
  • Iztapa have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Iztapa have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Iztapa have the most matches over the total-line (14) in Liga Nacional
  • Iztapa have the most points from losing position (16) in Liga Nacional
  • Iztapa have yet to win a game away.
  • Nueva Concepción have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Nueva Concepción have the fewest clean sheets (8) in Liga Nacional
  • Nueva Concepción have the fewest scored goals in the first half (8) in Liga Nacional
  • Nueva Concepción have the most conceded goals in the first half (43) in Liga Nacional
  • Nueva Concepción have the the worst goal difference (-24) in Liga Nacional

  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.