Deportivo Municipal will hope to employ their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opposition. The hosting team are currently 5 points behind Sporting Cristal.
- All of Deportivo Municipal's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Sporting Cristal have not yet lost a game.
Sporting Cristal play their home games on grass, while this match will take part on artifical turf. Up to date results for Sporting Cristal when playing on artifical turf are 5 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat from seven matches. They have scored {17 goals} and conceded 4 times on these occasions.
This is a match between teams from the same area, a local derby. The community is buzzing.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Deportivo Municipal form and stats
The complete Primera Division results playing at home this season for Deportivo Municipal are 2-0-2 (wins-draws-losses).
The Municipal followers enjoyed the previous fixture, watching their team host Union Comercio and win 2-0. Finally, a league victory after three fixtures without. Olivares, who usually plays near the opponent's goal, was the champion player for the team in that game, scoring a rating of 8.75 (out of 10). Olivares scored two goals and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
1-1 away at Atletico Grau before that.Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 6 goals have been conceded.
Sporting Cristal form and stats
Sporting Cristal are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Primera Division, having played 2 games and collected 2 points (0 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses).
Sporting Cristal go into this game after a win, the home game against Academia Cantolao that ended 2-0. Defender Ignácio was the best team player with a rating of 7.31. Ignácio won 8 of 14 duels.
A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs Atletico Grau.As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Sporting Cristal has managed {5 goals} and let in 5 from 2 matches.
Head 2 Head
Sporting Cristal have pulled off a sequence of 9 consecutive games without defeat (7-2-0) when facing Deportivo Municipal.Top Goalscorers
  C. Olivares Burga 3 goals |   A. Hohberg González 3 goals | B. Varanda de Oliveira 2 goals |
Deportivo Municipal missing players
Sporting Cristal missing players
| Deportivo Municipal | Sporting Cristal | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | Conceded | C | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 83% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| 33% | 33% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 33% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 50% | 17% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 50% | 17% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 50% | 67% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 33% | 33% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 5 | 7.7 | 8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 10 | 7.5 | 6.7 |
| 5.2 | 5.7 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 4.5 | 5 |
| 3.3 | 3 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4 | 3 | 3.3 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | 14 | 16 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13 | 11 | 10.3 |
| 3.2 | 4.3 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 7 | 7 | 4.8 |
| 37% | 31% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 14% | 36% | 34% |
| 9.8 | 11 | 11 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 5 | 14 | 12 |
| 3.8 | 5 | 6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 1 | 4 | 3.2 |
- All of Deportivo Municipal's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- All of Sporting Cristal's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Deportivo Municipal have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Deportivo Municipal haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Sporting Cristal have not yet lost a game.
- Sporting Cristal have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Sporting Cristal have yet to win a 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 | Universitario | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 15 |
| 2 | Sporting Cristal | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 15 |
| 3 | Alianza Lima | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 15 |
| 4 | Deportivo Garcilaso | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 13 |
| 5 | Alianza Atletico | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 13 |
| 6 | César Vallejo | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 13 |
| 7 | Carlos Manucci | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 13 |
| 8 | Sport Huancayo | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 12 |
| 9 | Real Garcilaso | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -1 | 12 |
| 10 | Deportivo Municipal | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -3 | 10 |
| 11 | ADT | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| 12 | Cienciano | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | -1 | 9 |
| 13 | Union Comercio | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 12 | -4 | 9 |
| 14 | Atletico Grau | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 8 |
| 15 | UTC Cajamarca | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 16 | Sport Boys | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 7 |
| 17 | Academia Cantolao | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 13 | -13 | 3 |
| 18 | Melgar | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | -7 | 2 |
| 19 | Deportivo Binacional | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | -10 | 1 |
