Liga Nacional match prediction: Little separates Vida and Marathón in quality

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Competition: Honduras Liga Nacional
Competition: Sun 22.August
Match begins: 01:15 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Municipal Ceibeño Nilmo Edwards

Marathón have travelled here for an intriguing fight against the home side Vida. Get ready for the fixture with this in-depth Liga Nacional preview!

Insights:
  • Marathón have the most scored goals (9) in Liga Nacional

Marathón could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Concacaf League game only three sleeps ago.

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Vida form and stats

Vida have played 1 Liga Nacional games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 0-1-0 (wins-draws-losses). The last three games played by Vida, regardless of arena, have all ended draws.

An away draw last time out for Vida, facing Olimpia in a game that ended 1-1.

Before that, Vida played out a draw 3-3 when visiting Real Sociedad.

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

The match schedule is unforgiving for Vida as they have a new game in only four days, a Liga Nacional match thankfully also at home. Victoria are visiting.

Vida has scored 1 goal so far and conceded 1 goal from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.

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Marathón form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team, who have the most scored goals (9) in Liga Nacional, on their Liga Nacional travels is 1 win, 0 draws and 0 defeats.

Marathón are travelling after their nice 2-1 home win in the Concacaf League against Diriangen.

Prior to that match, a home win 2-0 against Motagua in the Liga Nacional.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found five similar matches played by Marathón in our archives, and the results are: four wins for Marathón, one draw and zero defeats.

It's early days yet, but Marathón has scored 2 and conceded 1 goals from their travels in the league so far (1 game).

Head 2 Head

Head-to-head totals (for the former ten meetings): Vida won three games, three matches ended with a tie and Marathón got four wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: four / six

Top Goalscorers

MarathónC. Lanza Martínez
C. Lanza Martínez
2 goals
VidaE. Fúnez
E. Fúnez
1 goals
VidaR. Sander
R. Sander
1 goals

Vida missing players

Marathón missing players

Vida Marathón
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
3 1 0 Played P 1 1 3
0 0 0 Won W 1 1 3
3 1 0 Drew D 0 0 0
0 0 0 Lost L 0 0 0
5 1 0 Scored S 2 2 9
5 1 0 Conceded C 1 1 2
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
100% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 100%
33% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 100% 67%
33% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 33%
33% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 33%
100% 100% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 100% 67%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 33%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
6.3 6 0 Corners for (avg) C F 8 8 8
4.7 6 0 Corners against (avg) C A 8 8 6
2.3 4 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 3 1.7
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
6.3 1 0 Shots (avg) S ( 15 15 14.7
2.7 1 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6 6 7.7
62% 100% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 33% 39%
Key stats in Liga Nacional this season:
  • Marathón have the most points from losing position (3) in Liga Nacional
  • Marathón have the most scored goals (9) in Liga Nacional
  • Marathón have the most scored goals in the first half (4) in Liga Nacional
  • Marathón have the most scored goals in the second half (5) in Liga Nacional
  • Marathón have the the best goal difference (+7) in Liga Nacional
  • Marathón is in the best form (3-0-0)
Vida Last season Marathón
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
34 17   Played P   17 34
10 4   Won W   5 12
13 8   Drew D   5 7
11 5   Lost L   7 15
53 27   Scored S   16 45
50 26   Conceded C   22 42
91% 94%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 100%
76% 76%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   71% 76%
62% 59%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   18% 41%
41% 47%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   12% 21%
18% 24%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   6% 9%
56% 65%   BTTS BTTS   41% 47%
18% 12%   Clean Sheets C S   29% 29%
35% 29%   Failed to Score F T   29% 24%
 
5.1 5.1   Corners for (avg) C F   5.8 5.4
6.1 4.7   Corners against (avg) C A   4.8 4.8
2.4 2.5   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   3.7 3.2
3 2   Red cards R C   7 11
 
4.6 1.9   Shots (avg) S (   6.6 6.8
2.6 1.3   Shots on Target (avg) S O   2.3 2.7
53% 90%   Goal Efficiency G E   43% 47%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Marathón 3 3 0 0 9 2 2 2 0 0 7 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 7 9
2 Motagua 3 2 0 1 4 2 1 1 0 0 3 0 2 1 0 1 1 2 2 6
3 Olimpia 3 1 2 0 5 2 2 0 2 0 2 2 1 1 0 0 3 0 3 5
4 Real Espana 2 1 1 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 3 1 2 4
5 Real Sociedad 3 1 1 1 5 6 2 0 1 1 3 6 1 1 0 0 2 0 -1 4
6 UPNFM 3 1 1 1 5 6 1 1 0 0 3 0 2 0 1 1 2 6 -1 4
7 Vida 3 0 3 0 5 5 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 0 2 0 4 4 0 3
8 Honduras Progreso 3 0 1 2 2 6 1 0 0 1 1 2 2 0 1 1 1 4 -4 1
9 Platense 3 0 1 2 1 6 2 0 1 1 1 3 1 0 0 1 0 3 -5 1
10 Victoria 2 0 0 2 0 3 2 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0