Home advantage could prove decisive in Melgar - Sporting Cristal battle

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Competition: Peru Primera Division
Competition: Sun 16.February
Match begins: 20:30 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio de la Universidad Nacional San Agustín (65000 seats)

The new season is about to kick off and the fans are tingling with excitement. It’s all to play for as Melgar welcome Sporting Cristal for the opening game at Estadio de la Universidad Nacional San Agustín. Read on!

The visiting Sporting Cristal played their last game only three days ago, a Copa Libertadores match.

It's quite the trip for Sporting Cristal when visiting Melgar as the cities are 1000 kilometers apart.

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Melgar form and stats

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Melgar handle that role? We have found four games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are two wins, zero draws and two defeats.

The match schedule is unforgiving for Melgar as they have a new game in only two days, a Copa Sudamericana match thankfully also at home. Nacional Potosi are visiting.

It's been an intense period of training leading up to this game for Melgar, who have participated in two training matches. Melgar have won 0 of these, drawn 2 and were beaten in 0 games.

Last season, Melgar's league statistics were 7 wins, 3 draws and 7 losses, resulting in a 9th position in the Primera Division. Over these 17 matches they scored 29 goals and conceded 22. Playing at home last season Melgar managed 5-1-3 (win-draw-lost) with 18 goals and 11 conceded.

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Sporting Cristal form and stats

Sporting Cristal are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is one win, two draws and one defeat. From a total of four matches.

It's a day of discovery for Sporting Cristal as they finally learn what impact all the hours of pre-season training, along with the changes in personnel, have had on their performance in an official game. It's never easy knowing what to expect based on friendly games, of which Sporting Cristal have played two with the results W1-D1-L0 (win-draw-lost). In these games Sporting Cristal has scored 3 goals and conceded 2 times.

Let's have a look at how Sporting Cristal performed last season in the Primera Division: They landed a 3rd position in the league table after playing out 9 victories, 4 draws and 4 defeats. In total they scored 31 and conceded 20 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 3 - drew 3 and lost 3 with 12/14 goals scored/conceded.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Melgar victories, three draws and three Sporting Cristal wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

MelgarO. Arce Jaramillo
O. Arce Jaramillo
2 goals
MelgarA. Arias Tuesta
A. Arias Tuesta
1 goals
MelgarJ. Sánchez Alegria
J. Sánchez Alegria
1 goals

Melgar missing players

Sporting Cristal missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Melgar Sporting Cristal
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
2 1 1 Played P 0 1 2
1 0 0 Won W 0 0 1
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
1 1 1 Lost L 0 1 1
5 1 1 Scored S 0 1 4
4 2 2 Conceded C 0 2 4
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
100% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 100%
100% 100% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 100% 100%
50% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 50%
50% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 50%
100% 100% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 100% 100%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
4.5 8 8 Corners for (avg) C F 0 5 3
4.5 3 3 Corners against (avg) C A 0 2 3.5
3 3 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 3 3.5
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 3 3
 
26 18 18 Total Shots T S 0 9 16
12 7 7 Shots on Target S O 0 5 9
42% 14% 14% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 20% 44%
Melgar Last season Sporting Cristal
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
34 17   Played P   18 36
13 8   Won W   5 18
8 4   Drew D   7 10
13 5   Lost L   6 8
55 30   Scored S   19 60
47 22   Conceded C   21 35
100% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   83% 92%
85% 88%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   72% 78%
56% 65%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   33% 47%
29% 29%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   17% 28%
21% 18%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   17% 17%
65% 65%   BTTS BTTS   50% 53%
21% 24%   Clean Sheets C S   33% 39%
15% 12%   Failed to Score F T   33% 17%
 
5.9 7.3   Corners for (avg) C F   5.5 6
4 4   Corners against (avg) C A   5 4.3
3.1 2.7   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.6 2.3
7 4   Red cards R C   2 4
 
414 232   Total Shots T S   226 515
148 80   Shots on Target S O   97 212
37% 38%   Goal Efficiency G E   20% 28%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Academia Cantolao 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Alianza Lima 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Alianza Universidad 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Atletico Grau 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Ayacucho 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Carlos Manucci 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Carlos Stein 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Cesar Vallejo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Cienciano 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Deportivo Binacional 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Deportivo Llacuabamba 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Deportivo Municipal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 Melgar 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Real Garcilaso 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15 Sport Boys 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
16 Sport Huancayo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
17 Sporting Cristal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
18 Universidad San Martin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
19 Universitario 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
20 UTC Cajamarca 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Academia Cantolao 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Alianza Lima 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Alianza Universidad 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Atletico Grau 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Ayacucho 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Carlos Manucci 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Carlos Stein 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Cesar Vallejo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Cienciano 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Deportivo Binacional 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Deportivo Llacuabamba 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Deportivo Municipal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 Melgar 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Real Garcilaso 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15 Sport Boys 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
16 Sport Huancayo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
17 Sporting Cristal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
18 Universidad San Martin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
19 Universitario 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
20 UTC Cajamarca 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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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.