Sport Huancayo supporters put their faith in manager Tucto to deliver victory against Melgar

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Competition: Peru Primera Division
Competition: Sun 09.April
Match begins: 20:30 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Huancayo (20000 seats)

Most would pick Sport Huancayo in this match against Melgar, but the away side will resist to the bitter end. Here's the complete Tipsway match preview!

Insights:
  • Sport Huancayo have the most scored goals in the second half (12) in Primera Division
  • Melgar have the fewest scored goals (1) in Primera Division

Melgar have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 1100 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.

There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Copa Libertadores game only three days ago.

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Sport Huancayo form and stats

Sport Huancayo must be fairly happy with 6 points from their first three Primera Division games here at Estadio Huancayo.

The Sport Huancayo goalkeeper Angel Gustavo Zamudio Chavez is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 236 minutes without conceding a goal in the Primera Division.

An away draw last time out for Huancayo, facing Carlos Manucci in a game that ended 0-0. Defender Colombo got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.25/10. Colombo won 4 of 8 duels.

In the preceding match a 2-0 victory visiting Cesar Vallejo.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Sport Huancayo handle that role? We have found 11 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 6 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats.

With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (7 in 3 games), Sport Huancayo's attacking play is working. 4 goals have been conceded.

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Melgar form and stats

As the visiting team matches, Melgar, who have the fewest scored goals (1) in Primera Division, have produced an overall stat of 0-2-3 so far.

Melgar delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against Olimpia in their previous game; a Copa Libertadores fixture. The attacker Cuesta got a match rating of 7.81 in that game. Cuesta scored one goal, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

A draw for Melgar before that, at their own venue hosting Real Garcilaso (1-1).

Melgar are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 0 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats. From a total of 5 matches.

Little scoring action? 6 league matches in a row with this team have had two goals or less.

As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Melgar has managed {0 goals} and let in 5 from 5 matches.

Head 2 Head

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

Top Goalscorers

Sport HuancayoR. Huaccha Jurado
R. Huaccha Jurado
4 goals
Sport HuancayoL. Benítes Vargas
L. Benítes Vargas
2 goals
Sport HuancayoR. Colombo
R. Colombo
2 goals

Sport Huancayo missing players

Melgar missing players

Sport Huancayo Melgar
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
8 3 2 Played P 1 4 6
4 2 1 Won W 0 0 0
1 0 0 Drew D 1 2 3
3 1 1 Lost L 0 2 3
14 7 5 Scored S 0 0 1
10 4 3 Conceded C 0 2 5
88% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 50% 67%
88% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 33%
62% 100% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 0%
38% 67% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
12% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
38% 67% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 17%
50% 33% 50% Clean Sheets C S 100% 50% 33%
25% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 100% 83%
 
4.4 6 7.5 Corners for (avg) C F 5 4.2 4.2
5 3 2.5 Corners against (avg) C A 4 5 3.8
2.4 2.7 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4 4.2 4
1 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
15.7 22.3 24.5 Shots (avg) S ( 9 11.5 11.3
5.6 7.7 9 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 3.5 3.2
28% 30% 28% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 5%
 
15.3 11.3 11 Shots against (avg) S A 12 11.5 10.3
4.7 2.7 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 1 3 3.7
Key stats in Primera Division this season:
  • All of Sport Huancayo's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
  • Melgar have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Melgar have failed to score a single goal away.
  • Melgar have the fewest scored goals (1) in Primera Division
  • Melgar have yet to win a game.
  • Sport Huancayo have scored more than double the goals of Melgar.
  • Sport Huancayo have the most scored goals in the second half (12) in Primera Division
  • Sport Huancayo have won significantly more corners at home than 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 8 6 0 2 12 7 3 3 0 0 6 0 5 3 0 2 6 7 5 18
2 Real Garcilaso 10 5 2 3 13 13 5 4 0 1 9 6 5 1 2 2 4 7 0 17
3 Sporting Cristal 8 4 4 0 14 7 5 4 1 0 8 1 3 0 3 0 6 6 7 16
4 Universitario 9 5 1 3 14 7 5 4 0 1 12 3 4 1 1 2 2 4 7 16
5 Deportivo Garcilaso 8 4 2 2 16 9 5 2 2 1 10 6 3 2 0 1 6 3 7 14
6 Alianza Atletico 7 4 2 1 15 10 3 3 0 0 8 3 4 1 2 1 7 7 5 14
7 Carlos Manucci 8 4 2 2 9 7 3 1 2 0 3 1 5 3 0 2 6 6 2 14
8 Sport Huancayo 8 4 1 3 14 10 3 2 0 1 7 4 5 2 1 2 7 6 4 13
9 Cesar Vallejo 7 4 1 2 11 8 5 3 1 1 9 5 2 1 0 1 2 3 3 13
10 ADT 8 3 3 2 9 6 5 3 1 1 7 2 3 0 2 1 2 4 3 12
11 Atletico Grau 8 3 2 3 14 10 5 2 2 1 9 4 3 1 0 2 5 6 4 11
12 Deportivo Municipal 8 3 2 3 8 11 5 2 1 2 5 7 3 1 1 1 3 4 -3 11
13 Union Comercio 9 3 1 5 11 15 4 3 1 0 7 3 5 0 0 5 4 12 -4 10
14 UTC Cajamarca 8 2 3 3 5 5 5 2 2 1 4 1 3 0 1 2 1 4 0 9
15 Cienciano 7 3 0 4 8 11 2 2 0 0 5 1 5 1 0 4 3 10 -3 9
16 Sport Boys 8 2 1 5 6 12 5 2 1 2 6 6 3 0 0 3 0 6 -6 7
17 Melgar 7 0 3 4 1 8 2 0 1 1 1 3 5 0 2 3 0 5 -7 3
18 Academia Cantolao 8 1 0 7 5 18 3 1 0 2 4 5 5 0 0 5 1 13 -13 3
19 Deportivo Binacional 8 0 2 6 7 18 3 0 1 2 4 7 5 0 1 4 3 11 -11 2

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.