Santa Lucia favourites for feisty fight facing Cobán Imperial

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Competition: Guatemala Liga Nacional
Competition: Wed 02.March
Match begins: 17:15 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Municipal Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (9000 seats)

Most people believe in Santa Lucia in this game vs Cobán Imperial, but the visitors will battle to the end. Here's our match guide!

Insights:
  • Santa Lucia have the most dropped points from leading position (16) in Liga Nacional
  • Cobán Imperial have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Santa Lucia and Cobán Imperial.

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Santa Lucia form and stats

When playing at home in the Liga Nacional, Santa Lucia, who have the fewest clean sheets (4) at home in Liga Nacional, have managed 4 wins, 6 draws and suffered 1 defeat from 11 games.

A strong away win for Santa Lucia against Nueva Concepción the last match.

In the match before that, Santa hosted Xelajú and drew the game 1-1.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Santa Lucia have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 14 games) they have won five times, drawn five and lost four.

There will be little rest for Santa after this match as they are travelling to Iztapa for a Liga Nacional game in only three days.

Santa Lucia are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 16 goals in 11 games. On the other hand, Santa have conceded 13 goals. It's worth mentioning that 8 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Cobán Imperial form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Cobán Imperial so far with only 8 points returning home. The records show 2-2-7 (win-draw-lose).

Home advantage was not enough for Cobán Imperial in their previous game as they lost hosting Achuapa, 0-1.

A 2-3 defeat away at Municipal before that.

We have checked recent matches where Cobán Imperial have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those ten games were one victory, three draws and six defeats.

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

Imperial have scored 13 goals on their travels this season, from 11 away games in the league. As for defending, Cobán Imperial rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 21 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The most up to date registered history featuring both these squads is the Santa Lucia - Cobán Imperial 2-2 played not long ago this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last nine matches): Santa two wins, four draws and Cobán Imperial three victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Santa LuciaI. Acuña Sánchez
I. Acuña Sánchez
18 goals
Cobán ImperialR. Betancourth Cue
R. Betancourth Cue
10 goals
Santa LuciaV. Guay
V. Guay
6 goals

Santa Lucia missing players

Cobán Imperial missing players

Santa Lucia Cobán Imperial
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
33 17 4 Played P 4 16 31
12 5 1 Won W 1 4 10
13 7 2 Drew D 1 4 7
8 5 1 Lost L 2 8 14
41 20 4 Scored S 5 18 34
40 24 5 Conceded C 9 25 37
91% 94% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 88% 90%
73% 76% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 62% 65%
39% 41% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 75% 62% 42%
24% 29% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 25% 16%
9% 12% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 12% 6%
55% 59% 75% BTTS BTTS 50% 56% 45%
33% 24% 25% Clean Sheets C S 25% 25% 29%
21% 24% 25% Failed to Score F T 50% 31% 35%
 
4.1 5.1 4.8 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4.2 4.8
4.3 3.6 4.5 Corners against (avg) C A 4 3.3 3.6
2.5 2.4 2.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.2 2.8 2.6
2 2 1 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
9.4 11.5 8.8 Shots (avg) S ( 12.8 9.8 10.8
3.2 3.4 2.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.2 3.9 4.2
39% 35% 44% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 29% 26%
 
7.8 8.6 6.2 Shots against (avg) S A 8.2 8.8 7.9
2.9 3 2.2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.8 4.2 3.8
Key stats in Liga Nacional this season:
  • Cobán Imperial have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Santa Lucia have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Santa Lucia have the fewest clean sheets (4) at home in Liga Nacional
  • Santa Lucia have the most dropped points from leading position (16) in Liga Nacional
  • Santa Lucia 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 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 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 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.