It's time for cup football and it's the Concacaf League Preliminary Round between Motagua and Comunicaciones. Here's the biggest preview available before kick-off:
There haven't been much time to rest for the hosts, as they played a Liga Nacional match only four days ago. That game was an away game at Real de Minas, so at least Motagua are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!
Motagua form and stats
Motagua was eliminated in the final last season in the Concacaf League. Deportivo Saprissa was too strong.Only two Liga Nacional home games for Motagua so far, yet both highs and lows with 1 win, 1 draw and 0 defeat.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Jonathan Felipe Rougier not having conceded a league goal in 238 minutes.
A good away victory last time out for Motagua, who won 3-0 against Real de Minas. In the match before that, Motagua hosted Olimpia and drew the Liga Nacional game 0-0.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Motagua as they have a new game in only three days, a Liga Nacional match thankfully also at home. Marathon are visiting.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Motagua at home in the league. 2 on target and 1 scored by the opposition; from 2 matches.
Comunicaciones form and stats
They also participated in Concacaf League last season. This ended in the quarter-finals, when Olimpia drew the shortest straw.Still no away game victory in the Liga Nacional for Comunicaciones with 2 draws and 1 loss from their first 3 attempts.
Comunicaciones had fun at their own home (Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino) last time out, beating Iztapa 3-0. Prior to that match, a home win 2-1 against Antigua GFC in the Liga Nacional.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Comunicaciones manager M. Tapia as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Cotzumalguapa.
The attacking power of Comunicaciones when travelling is not overwhelming with 2 goals scored from 3 league matches away. As opposed to that, Comunicaciones have seen the ball go into their own net 3 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Motagua missing players
Comunicaciones missing players
| Motagua | Comunicaciones | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 15 | 7 | Won | W | 5 | 14 | ||
| 6 | 5 | Drew | D | 5 | 8 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | ||
| 46 | 26 | Scored | S | 20 | 45 | ||
| 23 | 9 | Conceded | C | 14 | 25 | ||
| 84% | 77% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 76% | 69% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 82% | 76% | ||
| 60% | 46% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 55% | 52% | ||
| 28% | 31% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 45% | 32% | ||
| 20% | 31% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 18% | 12% | ||
| 48% | 46% | BTTS | BTTS | 82% | 64% | ||
| 44% | 54% | Clean Sheets | C S | 9% | 28% | ||
| 24% | 23% | Failed to Score | F T | 9% | 8% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2.2 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.3 | 2.6 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 4 | 7 | ||
| 274 | 160 | Total Shots | T S | 90 | 199 | ||
| 117 | 65 | Shots on Target | S O | 33 | 61 | ||
| 38% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 61% | 74% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Motagua | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 13 |
| 2 | Olimpia | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 3 | UPNFM | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 7 | -1 | 7 |
| 4 | Real de Minas | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -3 | 4 |
| 5 | Real Sociedad | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -5 | 1 |
| 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 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 14 |
| 2 | Malacateco | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | -1 | 13 |
| 3 | Iztapa | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 11 |
| 4 | Antigua GFC | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -1 | 8 |
| 5 | Xelaju | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 11 | -6 | 8 |
| 6 | Cotzumalguapa | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -2 | 7 |