Soccer betting preview: Nueva Concepción welcomes Xelajú in what could be a tight duel

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Competition: Guatemala Liga Nacional
Competition: Sun 27.March
Match begins: 21:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio José Luis Ibarra (3000 seats)

Here's every piece of data you need to learn, and some more, going into the Nueva Concepción - Xelajú game!

Insights:
  • Nueva Concepción have the fewest clean sheets (7) in Liga Nacional
  • Xelajú have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.

Both contenders have had plenty of rest since their last competitive action. Let's have faith in that this will be an animated match!

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Nueva Concepción form and stats

4-4-3 (win-draw-lost) are the Liga Nacional numbers at home for Nueva Concepción so far this season.

Times are rough for the home team, having gone 206 minutes without scoring a league goal. Bradley was the last player to find the net.

The regulars are hoping that Nueva Concepción will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 0-1 away loss in the match against Malacateco.

Preceding that match was the home game against Comunicaciones that was lost 0-1.

This is expected to be a close game, with 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 have scored 9 league goals here from 11 matches, not a lot. From these home matches, Concepción have conceded only 9 goals.

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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). Recent form does not give Xelajú much hope, as the visitors have lost three games in a row. Nueva Concepción will be a tough nut to crack.

Two away games in a row for Xelajú, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-6 versus Antigua GFC.

A loss against Malacateco was the result prior to that, in a home game.

The attacking power of Xelajú when travelling is not overwhelming with 6 goals scored from 11 league matches away. Xelajú's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 19 goals from these trips.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met previously this season: Xelajú - Nueva Concepción 2-1. Numbers for the prior three meetings featuring these two teams are: one win for Nueva Concepción, zero draws and two wins for Xelajú. Over 2,5 goals: one time; under 2,5 goals: two games.

Top Goalscorers

ConcepciónI. Dos Santos
I. Dos Santos
6 goals
XelajúO. Moreira Ferreira
O. Moreira Ferreira
5 goals
XelajúJ. Barrera Pérez
J. Barrera Pérez
5 goals

Nueva Concepción missing players

Xelajú missing players

Nueva Concepción Xelajú
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
35 17 5 Played P 4 18 36
6 6 1 Won W 1 3 13
6 5 2 Drew D 1 5 9
23 6 2 Lost L 2 10 14
23 16 4 Scored S 3 11 29
66 18 7 Conceded C 7 34 42
94% 88% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 92%
74% 59% 80% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 78% 58%
43% 29% 20% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 39% 31%
20% 12% 20% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 22% 11%
11% 6% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 6% 3%
40% 41% 60% BTTS BTTS 50% 39% 31%
20% 41% 20% Clean Sheets C S 25% 17% 39%
46% 29% 20% Failed to Score F T 25% 44% 39%
 
3 3.5 4.8 Corners for (avg) C F 4 3.1 4.1
5.6 5 4.4 Corners against (avg) C A 4.8 4.2 3.4
2.5 2.9 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 5.8 3.4 3
5 2 2 Red cards R C 1 8 9
 
7.1 9.4 12.2 Shots (avg) S ( 5 6.6 8.5
2.7 3.6 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.8 2.1 3.2
24% 26% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 43% 30% 26%
 
12.4 10.6 12 Shots against (avg) S A 13.5 10.3 8.6
5.1 4.2 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6 4 3.1
Key stats in Liga Nacional this season:
  • Nueva Concepción have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Nueva Concepción have the fewest clean sheets (7) in Liga Nacional
  • Nueva Concepción have the fewest scored goals in the first half (7) in Liga Nacional
  • Nueva Concepción have the most conceded goals in the first half (40) in Liga Nacional
  • Nueva Concepción have the the worst goal difference (-24) 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 Cotzumalguapa 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 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.