Balanced ball game between Siquinalá and Municipal expected

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Competition: Guatemala Liga Nacional
Date: Sat 30.November
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Municipal Mateo Sicay Paz (5500 seats)

The visiting Municipal side should be favourites in this visit to Siquinalá, as the away team holds a 24 point advantage from their 19 league games this season.

It's no vacation for neither Siquinalá nor Municipal as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Siquinalá form and stats

Siquinalá's struggle is real here at Estadio Municipal Mateo Sicay Paz with only 5 points collected from 9 Liga Nacional games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-2-6. Siquinalá are slowly digging their own grave here at Estadio Municipal Mateo Sicay Paz with the depressing streak of not having won a home game in eight attempts. The last victory here came in the Mixco match.

The fans are hoping that Siquinalá will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 1-3 away loss in the Liga Nacional game against Xelaju (placed 9th). Ahead of that match, Siquinalá lost 2-3 at home to Antigua GFC.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Siquinalá have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found five matches with the results: Won 0 Drawn 2 Lost 3.

There will be little rest for Siquinalá after this match as they are travelling to Malacateco for a Liga Nacional game in only four days.

Siquinalá has scored 10 league goals at home this season, in 9 matches. Siquinalá have conceded 16 from these games.

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Municipal form and stats

Municipal have only collected 8 points from their away games in the Liga Nacional, after 2-2-5 (9 played). The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Municipal have lost on their last two travels.

Municipal won their last game, 3-2 versus Cotzumalguapa played at home. Preceding that game, the 2-3 loss visiting Coban Imperial's place.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Municipal playing away and similar expectations, we found six relevant matches. Results were 3 Municipal wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat.

A quick return to home after this game, as Municipal are hosting Guastatoya in the Liga Nacional only four days away.

Municipal have scored 9 goals on their travels this season, from 9 away games in the league. 12 goals have been conceded by Municipal in these games.

Head 2 Head

This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Municipal - Siquinalá 3-2. H2H stats regardless of arena (last nine matches): Siquinalá 4 wins, 2 draws and Municipal 3 victories. As for goals, 5 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 4 games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

MunicipalE. Guerra
E. Guerra
8 goals
MunicipalO. Arce
O. Arce
5 goals
MunicipalA. Díaz
A. Díaz
4 goals

Siquinalá missing players

Municipal missing players

Siquinalá Municipal
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
19 9 3 Played P 3 9 19
2 1 0 Won W 0 2 10
4 2 0 Drew D 1 2 4
13 6 3 Lost L 2 5 5
18 10 2 Scored S 0 9 29
35 16 7 Conceded C 2 12 21
89% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 89% 95%
79% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 44% 58%
53% 56% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 44% 47%
37% 22% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 33% 37%
21% 11% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 22% 26%
53% 67% 33% BTTS BTTS 0% 44% 47%
21% 11% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 33% 42%
37% 22% 67% Failed to Score F T 100% 33% 16%
 
3.9 4.8 6 Corners For (avg) C F 5 4.1 5.6
6.1 4.6 4.3 Corners Against (avg) C A 5.3 4.2 3.8
3.2 3.2 3 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 2.7 3.4 3.3
7 6 1 Red Cards R C 0 2 4
 
197 134 57 Total Shots T S 27 83 219
82 59 23 Shots on Target S O 8 30 95
22% 17% 9% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 30% 31%
Key stats in Liga Nacional this season:
  • All of Siquinalá's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Municipal have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Siquinalá has the fewest clean sheets (1) at home
  • Siquinalá has the fewest points (5) at home
  • Siquinalá has the most conceded goals (16) at home
  • Siquinalá has the most conceded goals in the second half (19)
  • Siquinalá has the most dropped points from leading position (21)
  • Siquinalá has the the worst goal difference (-6) at home
  • Siquinalá have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Siquinalá have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Siquinalá haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Coban Imperial 19 10 5 4 32 20 9 6 3 0 18 7 10 4 2 4 14 13 12 35
2 Comunicaciones 19 10 5 4 30 18 9 6 1 2 17 10 10 4 4 2 13 8 12 35
3 Municipal 19 10 4 5 29 21 10 8 2 0 20 9 9 2 2 5 9 12 8 34
4 Antigua GFC 19 10 3 6 28 20 10 7 0 3 17 10 9 3 3 3 11 10 8 33
5 Guastatoya 19 9 4 6 27 21 9 5 2 2 15 8 10 4 2 4 12 13 6 31
6 Deportivo Sanarate 19 9 4 6 23 22 9 5 2 2 9 4 10 4 2 4 14 18 1 31
7 Malacateco 19 8 3 8 23 22 10 7 2 1 20 7 9 1 1 7 3 15 1 27
8 Iztapa 19 7 4 8 26 25 10 7 2 1 19 7 9 0 2 7 7 18 1 25
9 Xelaju 19 6 7 6 24 24 10 4 3 3 14 12 9 2 4 3 10 12 0 25
10 Cotzumalguapa 19 3 7 9 16 28 9 2 5 2 11 11 10 1 2 7 5 17 -12 16
11 Mixco 19 3 4 12 15 35 10 3 3 4 9 11 9 0 1 8 6 24 -20 13
12 Siquinalá 19 2 4 13 18 35 9 1 2 6 10 16 10 1 2 7 8 19 -17 10

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.