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Competition: Guatemala Liga Nacional
Competition: Sun 24.July
Match begins: 02:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Mario Camposeco (11000 seats)

A new Liga Nacional season is about to start and this is the premier real match for Xelajú and Iztapa. Game on!

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Xelajú form and stats

Last season, Xelajú's league stats were 8 wins, 6 draws and 8 losses, ending with 6th spot in the Liga Nacional. Over these 22 matches they scored 18 goals and gave away 23. Performing as the home team in the last season Xelajú managed 6-3-2 (win-draw-lost) with 12 goals and 4 conceded.

Up until that fixture this team had gone seven consecutive league rounds without a loss.

Xelajú have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and one practice match played. These training games have ended with 0 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Xelajú scored 0 goals and let in 1 goal during these one game.

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Iztapa form and stats

Let's have a look at how Iztapa performed last season in the Liga Nacional: They landed a 7th position in the league table after playing out 8 victories, 4 draws and 10 defeats. In total they scored 30 and conceded 36 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 0 - drew 3 and lost 8 with 11/26 goals scored/conceded.

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Iztapa playing away, we found 6 games. Results were 1 away win, 2 draws and 3 home wins.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Xelajú five wins, two draws and Iztapa three victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less. The matches between these sides have sometimes been brutal, having seen 5 red cards from the last ten duels.

Xelajú missing players

Iztapa missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Xelajú Iztapa
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
0 0 0 Played P 0 0 0
0 0 0 Won W 0 0 0
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
0 0 0 Lost L 0 0 0
0 0 0 Scored S 0 0 0
0 0 0 Conceded C 0 0 0
0% 0% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
0 0 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0 0
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
0 0 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 0 0
0 0 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 0 0
0% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 0%
 
0 0 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 0 0
0 0 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 0 0
Xelajú Last season Iztapa
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
46 23   Played P   23 46
15 12   Won W   1 15
11 5   Drew D   6 12
20 6   Lost L   16 19
36 24   Scored S   22 60
55 14   Conceded C   50 68
91% 87%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   91% 89%
61% 48%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   70% 63%
30% 26%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   57% 48%
11% 4%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   39% 33%
2% 0%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   26% 22%
30% 26%   BTTS BTTS   52% 46%
35% 52%   Clean Sheets C S   9% 28%
43% 35%   Failed to Score F T   48% 37%
 
4.1 5   Corners for (avg) C F   4.4 5.7
3.7 2.8   Corners against (avg) C A   4.4 3.7
3 2.5   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2 2.1
11 1   Red cards R C   1 3
 
8.5 10.6   Shots (avg) S (   7.7 10
3.2 4.5   Shots on Target (avg) S O   2.7 3.4
25% 24%   Goal Efficiency G E   36% 38%
 
8.2 6.8   Shots against (avg) S A   10.8 9.8
2.9 2.2   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   4.2 3.4

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Achuapa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Antigua GFC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Coban Imperial 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Comunicaciones 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Guastatoya 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Iztapa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Malacateco 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Mixco 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Municipal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Santa Lucia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Xelajú 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Xinabajul 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Last season Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Comunicaciones 22 12 5 5 39 24 11 7 3 1 27 14 11 5 2 4 12 10 15 41
2 Municipal 22 12 4 6 34 18 11 7 2 2 20 8 11 5 2 4 14 10 16 40
3 Guastatoya 22 10 7 5 32 18 11 8 1 2 22 5 11 2 6 3 10 13 14 37
4 Malacateco 22 9 8 5 29 22 11 7 4 0 16 4 11 2 4 5 13 18 7 35
5 Coban Imperial 22 9 7 6 29 25 11 6 4 1 17 6 11 3 3 5 12 19 4 34
6 Antigua GFC 22 9 6 7 33 22 11 5 2 4 22 12 11 4 4 3 11 10 11 33
7 Achuapa 22 9 6 7 21 19 11 7 3 1 14 6 11 2 3 6 7 13 2 33
8 Santa Lucia 22 8 4 10 36 27 11 4 3 4 22 14 11 4 1 6 14 13 9 28
9 Iztapa 22 7 7 8 30 31 11 6 4 1 19 8 11 1 3 7 11 23 -1 28
10 Xelajú 22 6 5 11 17 31 11 6 2 3 12 9 11 0 3 8 5 22 -14 23
11 Solola 22 3 6 13 19 46 11 3 4 4 13 17 11 0 2 9 6 29 -27 15
12 Nueva Concepcion 22 4 3 15 21 57 11 3 2 6 12 21 11 1 1 9 9 36 -36 15

Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Achuapa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Antigua GFC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Coban Imperial 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Comunicaciones 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Guastatoya 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Iztapa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Malacateco 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Mixco 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Municipal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Santa Lucia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Xelajú 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Xinabajul 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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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.