Unión Comercio vs Sporting Cristal match preview

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Competition: Peru Primera Division
Date: Sun 25.August
Match begins: 18:30 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio IPD de Nueva Cajamarca (12000 seats)

The visiting Sporting Cristal side should be favourites in this visit to Unión Comercio, as the away team holds a 17 point advantage from their 17 league games this season.

Unión Comercio and Sporting Cristal 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.

Sporting Cristal play their home games on grass, while this game is played on artificial turf. Recent stats for Sporting Cristal when playing on artificial turf are 1 win, 1 draw and 2 defeats from four matches. They have scored 7 goals and conceded 6 times in these games. Sporting Cristal have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 1300 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.

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Unión Comercio form and stats

When playing at home, Unión Comercio have managed 2 wins, 3 draws and suffered 3 defeats from 8 games.

A good away victory last time out for Unión Comercio, who won 2-0 against Molinos El Pirata. In the match before that, Unión Comercio hosted Sport Boys and drew the game 1-1.

Unión Comercio has scored 8 goals at home this season, in 8 matches. From these home matches, Unión Comercio have conceded only 6 goals.

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Sporting Cristal form and stats

As the visiting team Sporting Cristal, who have the fewest conceded goals (13) in Primera Division, have produced an overall stat of 2-4-2 so far. Sporting Cristal has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.

Sporting Cristal are travelling after their nice 4-2 home win in the Primera Division against Sport Boys. Before that, Sporting Cristal secured a home win against Zulia with the score 3-2.

The visitors have scored 7 goals from 8 away games, an average of less than one per game. It's not easy to score on Sporting Cristal as they have only conceded 6 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

These teams' last encounter with each other was the Sporting Cristal - Unión Comercio 1-0 earlier this season. Unión Comercio-Sporting Cristal H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Unión Comercio 2 wins, Sporting Cristal 5 wins, 3 draws. 5 of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

C. Palacios
7 goals / 1 assists
S. Gularte
5 goals / 1 assists
E. Herrera
5 goals / 3 assists

Unión Comercio missing players

Sporting Cristal missing players

Unión Comercio Sporting Cristal
Total Home Home vs top Statistic Away vs low Away Total
20 9 1 Played 4 9 20
4 2 0 Won 1 2 11
7 4 0 Drew 2 4 5
9 3 1 Lost 1 3 4
19 9 0 Scored 4 8 36
24 7 1 Conceded 3 8 17
95% 89% 100% Over 0.5 75% 78% 90%
70% 67% 0% Over 1.5 75% 78% 80%
30% 11% 0% Over 2.5 25% 22% 45%
20% 11% 0% Over 3.5 0% 0% 30%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 0% 0% 15%
45% 33% 0% BTTS 25% 33% 45%
25% 33% 0% Clean Sheets 50% 44% 45%
35% 44% 100% Failed To Score 50% 44% 20%
 
5.7 6 6 Corners For (avg) 6.8 5.8 6
4.4 3.9 4 Corners Against (avg) 3.2 3.7 3.6
2.7 1.8 1 Yellow Cards (avg) 1.5 2.4 2.2
2 0 0 Red Cards 1 2 4
Key stats this season:
  • Sporting Cristal have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.

Unión Comercio
All Primera Division
All Home Away
02-06-19 PD Unión Comercio 0 - 1 Real Garcilaso
07-06-19 PD Alianza Lima 1 - 1 Unión Comercio
14-07-19 PD Universitario 2 - 1 Unión Comercio
21-07-19 PD Unión Comercio 1 - 1 Sport Boys
17-08-19 PD Molinos El Pirata 0 - 2 Unión Comercio
25-08-19 PD Unión Comercio 18:30 Sporting Cristal
31-08-19 PD Universidad San Martín 16:00 Unión Comercio
08-09-19 PD Unión Comercio - Cesar Vallejo
15-09-19 PD Carlos Manucci - Unión Comercio
22-09-19 PD Unión Comercio - Academia Cantolao
Sporting Cristal
All Copa Libertadores Primera Division Club Friendlies Copa Sudamericana
All Home Away
13-07-19 PD Sporting Cristal 3 - 0 Sport Huancayo
20-07-19 PD Alianza Lima 2 - 1 Sporting Cristal
23-07-19 CS Zulia 1 - 0 Sporting Cristal
30-07-19 CS Sporting Cristal 3 - 2 Zulia
18-08-19 PD Sporting Cristal 4 - 2 Sport Boys
25-08-19 PD Unión Comercio 18:30 Sporting Cristal
31-08-19 PD Cesar Vallejo 01:00 Sporting Cristal
08-09-19 PD Sporting Cristal - Academia Cantolao
15-09-19 PD Deportivo Municipal - Sporting Cristal
22-09-19 PD Sporting Cristal - Ayacucho

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Deportivo Binacional 17 12 0 5 44 23 9 8 0 1 27 8 8 4 0 4 17 15 21 36
2 Sporting Cristal 17 9 5 3 28 13 9 7 1 1 21 7 8 2 4 2 7 6 15 32
3 César Vallejo 17 9 2 6 25 21 9 7 2 0 15 5 8 2 0 6 10 16 4 29
4 Deportivo Municipal 17 7 7 3 27 20 9 5 4 0 16 6 8 2 3 3 11 14 7 28
5 Alianza Lima 17 7 5 5 30 24 9 5 3 1 19 12 8 2 2 4 11 12 6 26
6 Real Garcilaso 17 7 5 5 19 15 8 4 3 1 11 6 9 3 2 4 8 9 4 26
7 Ayacucho 17 7 4 6 26 23 8 5 2 1 15 5 9 2 2 5 11 18 3 25
8 UTC Cajamarca 17 6 7 4 26 24 8 5 3 0 17 7 9 1 4 4 9 17 2 25
9 Academia Cantolao 17 6 7 4 18 17 9 3 3 3 10 13 8 3 4 1 8 4 1 25
10 Sport Huancayo 17 6 6 5 22 23 9 4 1 4 10 13 8 2 5 1 12 10 -1 24
11 Melgar 17 6 5 6 26 25 8 3 3 2 12 11 9 3 2 4 14 14 1 23
12 Universitario 17 6 5 6 25 27 8 4 2 2 14 12 9 2 3 4 11 15 -2 23
13 Alianza Universidad 17 5 7 5 18 18 9 4 4 1 13 8 8 1 3 4 5 10 0 22
14 Carlos Manucci 17 4 4 9 22 27 8 3 2 3 16 15 9 1 2 6 6 12 -5 16
15 Unión Comercio 17 3 6 8 15 21 8 2 3 3 8 6 9 1 3 5 7 15 -6 15
16 Universidad San Martín 17 3 6 8 13 32 8 3 4 1 10 8 9 0 2 7 3 24 -19 15
17 Molinos El Pirata 17 3 5 9 17 29 8 3 3 2 10 7 9 0 2 7 7 22 -12 14
18 Sport Boys 17 2 4 11 9 28 9 2 2 5 6 11 8 0 2 6 3 17 -19 10

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