Football preview: Xelajú vs Municipal - predictions and stats

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Competition: Guatemala Liga Nacional
Competition: Sun 12.February
Match begins: 02:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Mario Camposeco (11000 seats)

Statistics, patterns, results, player info, head to head, selected XIs and a lot else: Tipsway offers all you want to know about Xelajú - Municipal!

Insights:
  • Xelajú have the fewest matches over the total-line (8) in Liga Nacional
  • Municipal have the the best goal difference (+5) away in Liga Nacional

This looks to be an appealing game with lots of action and bustle as both contenders are well revitalized since they last saw competitive action. Game on!

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Xelajú form and stats

The overall Liga Nacional results at home this season for Xelajú are 5-5-1 (wins-draws-losses).

Xelajú are confident in defense, having played 345 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.

Happy days for Xelajú in their previous game, a fixture away at Achuapa that ended with a 1-0 victory.

In the game before, an away victory match versus Mixco with a 3-0 scoreline.

This is expected to be a close game, with Xelajú perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Xelajú as a small favourite), we find 11 games. Xelajú has won 2 of these, drawn 4 and lost 5.

Not much happening? In this club's last 13 league games, 10 have had zero, one or two goals.

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

The Xelajú fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 18 goals in 11 league matches. Xelajú have only conceded 9 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Municipal form and stats

The visitors are W4-D3-L4 on the road this term. That's in the Liga Nacional.

Municipal's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Mixco that finished 2-2.

A 2-2 draw at Iztapa's stadium before that.

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 15 relevant matches. Results were 6 Municipal wins, 4 draws and 5 defeats.

Few goals the story here? 10 of this side's last 13 league rounds have contained two goals or less.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Municipal manager Otazú as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Achuapa.

The visiting Municipal have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 16 goals from 11 games.

Head 2 Head

Municipal have pulled off a streak of 4 consecutive matches without defeat (1-3-0) when facing Xelajú.

This was the scoreline when the participants met earlier this campaign; Xelajú - Municipal 1-1. The games between these sides sometimes lean towards being ill-tempered, having seen 6 sending-offs from the last ten duels.

Top Goalscorers

XelajúD. Lom
D. Lom
11 goals
XelajúJ. Cardona Luna
J. Cardona Luna
4 goals
XelajúE. Cardoza
E. Cardoza
3 goals

Xelajú missing players

Municipal missing players

Xelajú Municipal
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
28 13 2 Played P 3 15 30
10 6 0 Won W 1 4 11
9 6 2 Drew D 0 4 8
9 1 0 Lost L 2 7 11
36 21 2 Scored S 4 19 40
24 9 2 Conceded C 4 17 31
96% 92% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 93% 93%
61% 69% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 53% 60%
32% 38% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 47% 37%
18% 23% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 33% 30%
7% 8% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 13% 17%
43% 54% 100% BTTS BTTS 67% 47% 43%
29% 38% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 33%
32% 15% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 40% 30%
 
4.6 6.2 5 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4.3 5
4.8 2.8 2.5 Corners against (avg) C A 3.3 4.4 4.2
3.2 2.5 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.3 2.7 2.9
4 2 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
9.2 13.6 14.5 Shots (avg) S ( 8.3 8.6 9.2
4 6.2 4.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.3 3.5 3.4
32% 26% 22% Goal Efficiency G E 57% 37% 39%
 
7.5 6.5 5.5 Shots against (avg) S A 10.7 12.1 8.9
3.2 2.8 1.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.3 4.4 3.2
Key stats in Liga Nacional this season:
  • Municipal have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Municipal have the the best goal difference (+5) away in Liga Nacional
  • Xelajú have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Xelajú have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Xelajú have the fewest matches over the total-line (8) in Liga Nacional
  • Xelajú have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Xelajú 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 12 5 5 47 27 11 8 2 1 28 10 11 4 3 4 19 17 20 41
2 Coban Imperial 22 11 6 5 35 27 11 9 2 0 18 7 11 2 4 5 17 20 8 39
3 Comunicaciones 22 11 6 5 33 25 11 7 4 0 20 9 11 4 2 5 13 16 8 39
4 Malacateco 22 10 4 8 30 26 11 9 2 0 20 7 11 1 2 8 10 19 4 34
5 Municipal 22 9 6 7 31 22 11 5 3 3 15 11 11 4 3 4 16 11 9 33
6 Guastatoya 22 7 9 6 20 18 11 5 4 2 15 8 11 2 5 4 5 10 2 30
7 Xelajú 22 7 8 7 29 22 11 5 5 1 18 9 11 2 3 6 11 13 7 29
8 Achuapa 22 7 7 8 27 37 11 7 3 1 19 12 11 0 4 7 8 25 -10 28
9 Iztapa 22 7 6 9 31 35 11 6 2 3 22 14 11 1 4 6 9 21 -4 27
10 Xinabajul 22 7 5 10 23 29 11 5 4 2 15 10 11 2 1 8 8 19 -6 26
11 Mixco 22 2 10 10 17 35 11 2 5 4 12 16 11 0 5 6 5 19 -18 16
12 Cotzumalguapa 22 3 6 13 20 40 11 3 3 5 10 18 11 0 3 8 10 22 -20 15

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.