Cienciano will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 2 points behind UTC Cajamarca.
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Primera Division.
Cienciano's stadium, Estadio Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, has a grass surface. UTC Cajamarca have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for UTC Cajamarca when playing on grass; 4 wins, 15 draws and 16 losses from 35 matches. They have scored 31 goals in these games and conceded 54.
These teams have little in common geographically as UTC Cajamarca have to travel 2000 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
Cienciano form and stats
Overall Primera Division stats at home this season for Cienciano, who have the most scored goals (19) at home in Primera Division, are 5-2-3 (wins-draw-losses). Two defeats in a row at home hurts for Cienciano, their manager M. Grioni and the supporters. There are certain expectations for improvement.
Before that game, the home loss against Sporting Cristal with the scoreline 2-3.
There will be little rest for Cienciano after this match as they are travelling to Carlos Stein for a Primera Division game in only one day.
Cienciano have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Estadio Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería with 19 goals in 10 league matches. 12 goals have been conceded. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.
UTC Cajamarca form and stats
2-6-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for UTC Cajamarca in their Primera Division matches away. Cajamarca has built quite a streak of draws from their away games now, as four in a row has ended all square. Will this streak be broken in today's game?
The Cajamarca goalkeeper Salomon Alexis Libman Pastor is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 242 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.
Impressive finishing from Erinson Ramirez, Mauro Guevgeozian and Emiliano Trovento secured the home win 3-0 against Deportivo Binacional in their previous game. Before that, Cajamarca travelled to Atlético Grau and returned home with a draw after the game finished 0-0.
A new game in only one day for Cajamarca, the Primera Division home match versus Ayacucho. Busy days.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Cajamarca as they have only managed to score 7 times from 10 away games in the league. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (7 so far).
Head 2 Head
UTC Cajamarca - Cienciano 3-0 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last nine matches): Cienciano two wins, four draws and UTC Cajamarca three victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Guevgeozián Crespo 11 goals |   L. García Uribe 6 goals | J. Romagnoli 4 goals |
Cienciano missing players
UTC Cajamarca missing players
| Cienciano | UTC Cajamarca | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 21 | 12 | 5 | Played | P | 4 | 10 | 20 |
| 8 | 5 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 10 | 5 | 3 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 31 | 23 | 5 | Scored | S | 3 | 7 | 27 |
| 29 | 18 | 9 | Conceded | C | 2 | 7 | 20 |
| 86% | 83% | 60% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 75% | 70% | 85% |
| 67% | 75% | 60% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 50% | 75% |
| 62% | 75% | 60% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 10% | 50% |
| 38% | 58% | 60% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 10% | 25% |
| 24% | 33% | 40% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 48% | 58% | 60% | BTTS | BTTS | 25% | 30% | 55% |
| 33% | 33% | 40% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 50% | 35% |
| 33% | 25% | 40% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 50% | 25% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 3.1 | 2.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 261 | 159 | 44 | Total Shots | T S | 34 | 103 | 246 |
| 103 | 66 | 19 | Shots on Target | S O | 11 | 26 | 86 |
| 30% | 35% | 26% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 27% | 27% | 31% |
- Cienciano has the most scored goals (19) at home in Primera Division
- Cienciano have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Cienciano have scored at least twice as many goals at home as UTC Cajamarca have scored away.
- UTC Cajamarca has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (7) in Primera Division
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Universitario | 19 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 38 | 18 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 10 | 20 | 42 |
| 2 | Sport Huancayo | 19 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 23 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 35 |
| 3 | Sporting Cristal | 19 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 38 | 23 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 26 | 15 | 15 | 33 |
| 4 | César Vallejo | 19 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 25 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 33 |
| 5 | Carlos Manucci | 19 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 28 | 22 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 19 | 8 | 6 | 29 |
| 6 | UTC Cajamarca | 19 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 24 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 29 |
| 7 | Alianza Universidad | 19 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 21 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 4 | 29 |
| 8 | Melgar | 19 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 23 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 13 | 3 | 28 |
| 9 | Ayacucho | 19 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 28 | 21 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 27 |
| 10 | Cienciano | 19 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 27 | 23 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 27 |
| 11 | Deportivo Binacional | 19 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 24 | 29 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 19 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 10 | -5 | 23 |
| 12 | Alianza Lima | 19 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 19 | 20 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -1 | 22 |
| 13 | Academia Cantolao | 19 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 21 | 33 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 15 | -12 | 22 |
| 14 | Deportivo Municipal | 19 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 20 | 24 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 11 | -4 | 21 |
| 15 | Real Garcilaso | 19 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 26 | 31 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 16 | -5 | 21 |
| 16 | Universidad San Martín | 19 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 20 | 27 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 15 | -7 | 21 |
| 17 | Sport Boys | 19 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 24 | 33 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 18 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 15 | -9 | 19 |
| 18 | Carlos Stein | 19 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 18 | 28 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 8 | -10 | 17 |
| 19 | Atlético Grau | 19 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 17 | 27 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 15 | -10 | 17 |
| 20 | Deportivo Llacuabamba | 19 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 25 | 42 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 19 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 23 | -17 | 11 |