Deportivo Municipal supporters put their faith in manager Lisi to deliver victory against Sport Boys

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Competition: Peru Primera Division
Competition: Sun 07.August
Match begins: 18:15 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Municipal Iván Elías Moreno (13000 seats)

Deportivo Municipal will challenge Sport Boys in this Primera Division fixture. Everything you need to learn about the match is located here!

Insights:
  • Deportivo Municipal have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Sport Boys have the most scored goals (9) in Primera Division

Municipal's stadium, Estadio Municipal Iván Elías Moreno, has a artifical turf surface. Sport Boys have grass 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 Sport Boys when playing on artifical turf; 5 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses from nine matches. They have scored 13 goals in these games and conceded 10.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Deportivo Municipal form and stats

Only two Primera Division home games for Deportivo Municipal so far, yet both highs and lows with 1 win, 1 draw and 0 defeat.

The Deportivo Municipal goalkeeper Diego Melian de Leon is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 197 minutes without conceding a goal in the Primera Division.

Deportivo Municipal enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Universitario's place. The match ended 1-0 with Ovelar scoring. Melián loved the game against Universitario. With a stunning seven saves the goalkeeper played a huge part in the 1-0 victory. Goalkeeper Melián got the top rating on the team in that game; 8.2 out of ten. Melián topped it up with a clean sheet.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting ADT in a game that was won 1-0.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Municipal have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 12 games) they have won 5 times, drawn 4 and lost 3.

Trench warfare? Looking at this club's last 10 league games, 8 have contained zero, one or two goals.

It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Deportivo Municipal at home in the league. 1 on target and 0 scored by the opposition; from 2 matches.

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Sport Boys form and stats

It's not happening yet for Sport Boys on their Primera Division travels, with zero points from their first 2 away games. Maybe today will be different? Three consecutive losses in away matches means Sport Boys are growing more and more desperate for a good performance on the road.

The manager Alayo was unhappy after their last game, played at their home stadium Estadio Miguel Grau del Callao. Sport Boys suffered a 1-2 loss to César Vallejo (placed 2nd).

Prior to that match, the Boys manager Alayo faced defeat when travelling to Carlos Stein and losing 2-3.

We have checked recent matches where Sport Boys have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 9 games were 4 victories, 3 draws and 2 defeats.

Observe that 9 of this team's 11 most recent league games have ended with three goals or more.

As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Sport Boys has managed 3 goals and let in 6 from 2 matches.

Head 2 Head

The records show that this isn''t the first time these two teams meet this campaign, as the results database show this recent game: Sport Boys - Municipal 1-2. Deportivo Municipal-Sport Boys H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Deportivo Municipal three wins, Sport Boys four wins, three draws. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5). The games between these sides have had a tendency to be ill-tempered, having seen 8 sending-offs from the last ten encounters.

Top Goalscorers

Deportivo MunicipalR. Ovelar Maldonado
R. Ovelar Maldonado
7 goals
Sport BoysM. Guevgeozián Crespo
M. Guevgeozián Crespo
6 goals
Deportivo MunicipalA. Ascues Earl
A. Ascues Earl
5 goals

Deportivo Municipal missing players

Sport Boys missing players

Deportivo Municipal Sport Boys
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
23 12 3 Played P 3 11 23
9 5 3 Won W 1 2 7
6 3 0 Drew D 1 2 3
8 4 0 Lost L 1 7 13
33 12 4 Scored S 3 10 26
39 16 1 Conceded C 5 23 40
96% 92% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 96%
74% 58% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 91% 83%
48% 42% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 64% 65%
35% 25% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 27% 26%
26% 17% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 18% 17%
61% 50% 33% BTTS BTTS 67% 64% 61%
26% 33% 67% Clean Sheets C S 0% 9% 22%
17% 25% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 27% 22%
 
4.3 5.6 5.7 Corners for (avg) C F 3.3 4.8 4.4
5.3 4.4 4.3 Corners against (avg) C A 5.3 6.3 6.1
2.7 2.8 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.7 3.1 2.9
8 3 1 Red cards R C 1 3 6
 
10.6 12.5 14.3 Shots (avg) S ( 10 11 12.1
4 4.2 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.7 3.2 4
36% 24% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 60% 29% 28%
 
11.6 10.1 8.3 Shots against (avg) S A 13 12.9 12.6
4.7 3.8 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 5.3 4.9
Key stats in Primera Division this season:
  • Deportivo Municipal have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Sport Boys have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Sport Boys have the fewest matches under the total-line (5) in Primera Division
  • Sport Boys have the most scored goals (9) in Primera Division
  • Sport Boys haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 Alianza Lima 5 4 1 0 7 2 2 2 0 0 4 1 3 2 1 0 3 1 5 13
2 César Vallejo 5 4 0 1 7 5 2 2 0 0 4 2 3 2 0 1 3 3 2 12
3 Cienciano 5 3 2 0 5 1 2 1 1 0 3 1 3 2 1 0 2 0 4 11
4 Sporting Cristal 4 3 1 0 7 3 2 1 1 0 4 3 2 2 0 0 3 0 4 10
5 Atlético Grau 5 3 1 1 8 5 3 2 0 1 5 3 2 1 1 0 3 2 3 10
6 Melgar 4 3 0 1 3 1 3 2 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 9
7 Deportivo Municipal 5 2 2 1 3 3 2 1 1 0 1 0 3 1 1 1 2 3 0 8
8 Deportivo Binacional 5 2 1 2 7 3 2 2 0 0 6 0 3 0 1 2 1 3 4 7
9 Universitario 5 2 1 2 7 3 3 1 1 1 3 2 2 1 0 1 4 1 4 7
10 Sport Boys 5 2 0 3 9 8 3 2 0 1 6 2 2 0 0 2 3 6 1 6
11 Alianza Atletico 4 2 0 2 6 5 2 2 0 0 5 2 2 0 0 2 1 3 1 6
12 ADT 5 2 0 3 4 5 3 2 0 1 2 1 2 0 0 2 2 4 -1 6
13 Academia Cantolao 5 1 2 2 4 6 2 1 0 1 2 2 3 0 2 1 2 4 -2 5
14 Sport Huancayo 4 1 1 2 8 6 2 1 1 0 5 1 2 0 0 2 3 5 2 4
15 Carlos Stein 5 1 1 3 6 9 2 1 1 0 5 4 3 0 0 3 1 5 -3 4
16 Ayacucho 5 0 3 2 6 8 3 0 1 2 1 3 2 0 2 0 5 5 -2 3
17 UTC Cajamarca 5 1 0 4 3 10 2 1 0 1 2 3 3 0 0 3 1 7 -7 3
18 Carlos Manucci 4 0 1 3 0 6 3 0 1 2 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 4 -6 1
19 Universidad San Martin 5 0 1 4 3 14 2 0 1 1 3 7 3 0 0 3 0 7 -11 1

Read more about Primera Division

The Peruvian First Division, also known as the Primera Division or the Copa Movistar, is the top level of football in Peru. Seasons run from February to December with 18 teams playing 44 fixtures each to create a final league table. Universitario, Alianza Lima and Sporting Cristal are by far the dominant winner of this league since it was founded in 1912.