Sporting Cristal have traveled here for an interesting Copa Libertadores fight against São Paulo. Prepare for the match with this cup preview!
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Paulo and Sporting Cristal.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 4300 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
São Paulo form and stats
Last season, Paulo's Copa Libertadores journey ended in the group stage.Home games in the Paulista A1 have been a walk in the park for São Paulo so far, with 16 points won from 6 matches; 5 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses. This match is a Copa Libertadores match, and the hometeam has the total statistics 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss in this competition. Paulo haven’t lost a league-game in twelve attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Novorizontino, 73 days ago.
The São Paulo goalkeeper Alejandro Cristoph Duarte Preuss is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 277 minutes without conceding a goal in the Paulista A1.
A nice win for Paulo last time playing, versus Palmeiras. That was also a home game and the match ended 2-0 with Luan and Luciano scoring for the victors.
A 0-0 draw away in the Paulista A1 before that, with Palmeiras the opponent.Paulo are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found 13 matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won eight, drew four and lost one.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Paulo as they have a new game in only four days, a Serie A match thankfully also at home. Fluminense are visiting.
Paulo are showing their attacking force in their league home games this season, scoring more than 2,5 goals per game on average (16 goals in 6 games). Paulo are not conceding a lot of goals here at Estádio Cícero Pompeu de Toledo in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 6 matches.
Sporting Cristal form and stats
They also participated in Copa Libertadores last season. This ended in the 2nd round.3-0-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Sporting Cristal in their Primera Division matches away. Total Copa Libertadores statistics for Sporting Cristal: 1 win, 1 draw and 3 losses.
Sporting Cristal play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-3 to Cesar Vallejo. Gianfranco Chávez was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.04. The defender Chávez won 6 of 8 duels.
That result followed a home victory 2-0 versus Rentistas in the Copa Libertadores.We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Cristal played away with similar odds. This revealed two games. The visitors overcame the odds to win one time, zero were draws and the home team won as expected one time.
Sporting Cristal have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 9 goals from 4 away matches. 4 goals have been conceded by Sporting Cristal in these games.
Head 2 Head
The last H2H meeting was Sporting Cristal - São Paulo 0-3, played this season.Top Goalscorers
  C. Gonzáles Crespo 3 goals |  A. Hohberg González 3 goals | O. Merlo 2 goals |
São Paulo missing players
Sporting Cristal missing players
| São Paulo | Sporting Cristal | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 15 | 10 | Won | W | 8 | 16 | ||
| 7 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | ||
| 49 | 31 | Scored | S | 22 | 43 | ||
| 17 | 9 | Conceded | C | 10 | 24 | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 76% | 85% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 83% | 88% | ||
| 48% | 46% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 56% | ||
| 28% | 38% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 17% | 20% | ||
| 12% | 23% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 8% | ||
| 44% | 46% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 52% | ||
| 48% | 46% | Clean Sheets | C S | 42% | 36% | ||
| 16% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 17% | 16% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.6 | ||
| 3 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 10.2 | 11.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13 | 11.8 | ||
| 4.6 | 5.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.2 | 5 | ||
| 40% | 42% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 37% | 35% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Racing Club | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 11 |
| 2 | São Paulo | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| 3 | Sporting Cristal | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -4 | 4 |
| 4 | Rentistas | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | -4 | 3 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | São Paulo | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 28 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 19 | 27 |
| 2 | Ferroviaria | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 21 |
| 3 | Ponte Preta | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 13 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | -3 | 13 |
| 4 | Sao Bento | 12 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 | -6 | 9 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Sporting Cristal | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 11 | 21 |
| 2 | Alianza Lima | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 16 |
| 3 | Cesar Vallejo | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 15 |
| 4 | Sport Huancayo | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| 5 | Sport Boys | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 10 |
| 6 | Alianza Universidad | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -4 | 10 |
| 7 | Real Garcilaso | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -1 | 7 |
| 8 | Deportivo Municipal | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | -8 | 7 |
| 9 | Deportivo Binacional | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 20 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 13 | -13 | 3 |
| 10 | Alianza Atletico | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Carlos Stein | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |