Melgar receive Sport Huancayo as odds-on favourites: Big football preview

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Competition: Peru Primera Division
Competition: Sat 23.July
Match begins: 23:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio de la Universidad Nacional San Agustín (65000 seats)

Melgar will contest Sport Huancayo in this Primera Division match. Everything you need to learn about the fixture is right here!

Insights:
  • Melgar have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Sport Huancayo haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

These teams have little in common geographically as Sport Huancayo have to travel 1100 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.

Melgar and Sport Huancayo should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Melgar form and stats

Melgar have collected 0 points from their Primera Division home games so far after 0-0-1.

The Melgar club members got no joy from their last match, also played here at Estadio de la Universidad Nacional San Agustín: A 0-1 defeat against Sporting Cristal (placed 2nd). This team accomplished a eleven league matches long run without a defeat until that game!

A strong away win before that one, visiting Carlos Mannucci and winning 1-0.

Trench warfare? In this team's last 10 league matches, 9 have had two goals or less.

Melgar has scored 0 goals so far and conceded 1 goal from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.

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Sport Huancayo form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Primera Division travels is 0 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat.

Sport Huancayo's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Atletico Grau that finished 1-1. Midfielder Benites was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.11. Benites scored one goal, hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 3 of 4 times and had 24 successful passes (of 28 total).

A 3-4 defeat away at Sporting Cristal before that.

A new game in only three days for Sport Huancayo, the Primera Division home match versus Carlos Mannucci. Busy days.

It's early days yet, but Sport Huancayo has scored 3 and conceded 4 goals from their travels in the league so far (1 game).

Head 2 Head

These competitors have fought before this season: Sport Huancayo - Melgar 3-0. Head to head totals (for the preceeding ten meetings): Melgar won six games, three matches ended in a draw and Sport Huancayo have one win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: six / four The games between these teams have sometimes been a bit rough, having seen 5 sending-offs from the last ten encounters.

Top Goalscorers

Sport HuancayoL. Benítes Vargas
L. Benítes Vargas
12 goals
MelgarB. Cuesta
B. Cuesta
7 goals
Sport HuancayoR. Huaccha Jurado
R. Huaccha Jurado
6 goals

Melgar missing players

Sport Huancayo missing players

Melgar Sport Huancayo
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
20 9 3 Played P 4 11 20
14 8 3 Won W 2 6 12
2 0 0 Drew D 1 2 5
4 1 0 Lost L 1 3 3
24 13 5 Scored S 5 20 39
12 1 0 Conceded C 4 16 23
95% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
40% 33% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 64% 75%
30% 22% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 36% 40%
15% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 36% 30%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 36% 30%
15% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 50% 55% 55%
70% 89% 100% Clean Sheets C S 25% 27% 35%
20% 11% 0% Failed to Score F T 25% 18% 10%
 
7.7 8.3 8.3 Corners for (avg) C F 5.2 4.8 5.3
3.8 2.8 2 Corners against (avg) C A 2.8 3.8 4.7
2.5 2.1 2.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.2 2.3 2
4 1 1 Red cards R C 2 3 5
 
14.8 16.6 19.3 Shots (avg) S ( 11.2 13.3 14.4
5.5 6.2 7.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.5 5.6 5.5
22% 23% 22% Goal Efficiency G E 23% 32% 35%
 
8.4 7 8 Shots against (avg) S A 10 10.1 11.1
3.2 2.7 2.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 4.3 4.4
Key stats in Primera Division this season:
  • Melgar have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Melgar have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Melgar haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Sport Huancayo haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 2 2 0 0 5 2 1 1 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 3 6
2 Sporting Cristal 2 2 0 0 5 3 1 1 0 0 4 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 6
3 Universitario 2 1 1 0 5 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 4 0 4 4
4 Cienciano 2 1 1 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 4
5 Academia Cantolao 2 1 1 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 4
6 Deportivo Binacional 2 1 0 1 4 1 1 1 0 0 4 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 3 3
7 Sport Boys 2 1 0 1 4 3 1 1 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 1 3
8 ADT 2 1 0 1 3 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 3
9 Melgar 2 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 3
10 César Vallejo 2 1 0 1 3 4 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 -1 3
11 Ayacucho 2 0 2 0 3 3 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 2
12 Deportivo Municipal 2 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 2
13 Sport Huancayo 2 0 1 1 4 5 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 3 4 -1 1
14 Atletico Grau 2 0 1 1 2 3 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 -1 1
15 Carlos Stein 2 0 1 1 2 3 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 1
16 Alianza Atletico 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
17 Carlos Mannucci 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
18 UTC Cajamarca 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 -3 0
19 Universidad San Martín 2 0 0 2 0 8 1 0 0 1 0 4 1 0 0 1 0 4 -8 0

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.