Match week two of the Primera Division campaign and the sides have done their adjustments after the first match. Here's the Melgar - Sporting Cristal guide:
- Melgar have won all their matches at home so far.
- Sporting Cristal haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1000 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
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!
Melgar form and stats
The season before, Melgar's league stats were 9 wins, 4 draws and 4 losses, producing 4th place in the Primera Division. In these 17 matches they scored 34 goals and let in 15. Appearing at their own stadium in the previous season Melgar delivered 3-3-3 (win-draw-lost) with 15 goals and 8 conceded.
Melgar are confident in defense, having played 871 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.
A good away victory last time out for Melgar, who won 1-0 against Carlos Manucci (placed 15th). The victory against Carlos Manucci came after Vidales's winning goal. The Melgar manager Lavallén was very happy afterwards with the decision to bring on that player in the 77th minute. Defender Reyna got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.84/10. Reyna served one assist, hit two key passes and won 9 of 13 duels.
The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Melgar handle that role? We have found 16 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 7 wins, 4 draws and 5 defeats.
A fact related to the "Both teams to score yes/no" betting option: A review of the 15 latest league matches highlights that 14 of them had at least one goal from each side.
Sporting Cristal form and stats
Let's have a look at how Sporting Cristal performed last season in the Primera Division: They landed a 2nd position in the league table after playing out 10 victories, 4 draws and 3 defeats. In total they scored 39 and conceded 23 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 7 - drew 1 and lost 1 with 24/12 goals scored/conceded. Cristal have been producing wins at home as well, producing a total of five victories in a row regardless of arena.
Merlo, Chávez, Távara and Loyola scored in Sporting Cristal's previous match, the home game against Sport Huancayo that ended 4-3. A loony fixture with masses of goals last time out for Sporting Cristal, as mentioned above. 7 goals in that fixture, will this game be as gleeful? Távara got a match rating of 8.45 in that game, top player of the team. Távara scored one goal, served one assist, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 39 successful passes (of 46 total).
Prior to that result Cristal won their away game at Carlos Manucci. The scoreline was 3-1.Head 2 Head
Sporting Cristal - Melgar 2-2 was the output when these contenders previously did battle, earlier this season. Last ten meetings with these teams: Melgar won five, Sporting Cristal were winners in four and we saw one draw. five games with over 2,5 goals, five matches with two goals or less. The matches between these teams have had a tendency to be rough and physical, having seen 8 sending-offs from the last ten encounters.Top Goalscorers
  B. Cuesta 7 goals |   I. Ávila Acero 7 goals |  K. Quevedo Mathey 4 goals |
Melgar missing players
Sporting Cristal missing players
| Melgar | Sporting Cristal | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 19 | 8 | 3 | Played | P | 1 | 9 | 19 |
| 14 | 8 | 3 | Won | W | 0 | 4 | 12 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 24 | 13 | 5 | Scored | S | 1 | 10 | 39 |
| 11 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 7 | 23 |
| 95% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 42% | 38% | 33% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 67% | 74% |
| 32% | 25% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 11% | 47% |
| 16% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 11% | 42% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 26% |
| 16% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 44% | 58% |
| 74% | 100% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 32% |
| 16% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 22% | 11% |
| 7.4 | 7.9 | 7.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 1 | 6.7 | 6.8 |
| 3.9 | 2.9 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 10 | 6.3 | 5.6 |
| 2.5 | 2.1 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.8 | 2.4 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 14.4 | 16 | 11.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12 | 11.6 | 12.4 |
| 5.6 | 6.6 | 4.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6 | 3.8 | 5.2 |
| 22% | 25% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 17% | 29% | 40% |
| 8.5 | 6.9 | 8.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13 | 11.4 | 12.1 |
| 3.1 | 2.2 | 3.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 7 | 4.1 | 4.2 |
- Melgar have not yet conceded a single goal in all their home games.
- Melgar have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Melgar have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Melgar have won all their matches at home so far.
- Melgar have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Melgar haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Sporting Cristal 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 | Deportivo Binacional | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| 2 | Sport Boys | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 3 | Cienciano | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | Sporting Cristal | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Alianza Lima | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | ADT | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Melgar | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | Academia Cantolao | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Ayacucho | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Deportivo Municipal | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Universitario | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Alianza Atletico | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Sport Huancayo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 0 |
| 14 | Atlético Grau | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 15 | Carlos Manucci | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 16 | Carlos Stein | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 17 | César Vallejo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -4 | 0 |
