Soccer match preview: Home crowd has high hopes when Montijo welcomes Valdivia

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

Valdivia play their home games on grass, while this game is played on artifical turf. Recent stats for Valdivia when playing on artifical turf are 2 wins, 4 draws and 10 defeats from 16 matches. They have scored 11 goals and conceded 25 times in these games.

Montijo form and stats

Montijo have only played one Tercera - Group 14 game here so far, a win. Last season their home statistics were 5 wins, 2 draws and 7 defeats from 14 matches.

A nice win for Montijo last time playing, versus Valdivia. That was also a home game and the match ended 3-0. In the preceding match a 1-0 victory visiting Trujillo.

The 3-0 win against Valdivia was decided after a strong and deadly first half, making the second half more of a journey towards the final whistle.

The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Montijo home games with this odds we find one game with a similar winning chance. Resulting in one win, zero draws and zero defeats. Looking at the victories, one match were won by at least two goals.

At Estadio Municipal Emilio Macarro Rodriguez, Montijo has the goal stats of 3-0 (for/against) from 1 league fixture.

Last season, Montijo's league statistics were 9 wins, 4 draws and 15 losses, resulting in a 15th position in the Tercera - Group 14. Over these 28 matches they scored 34 goals and conceded 40. Playing at home last season Montijo managed 5-2-7 (win-draw-lost) with 19 goals and 20 conceded.

Valdivia form and stats

The visitors' first away game in the Tercera - Group 14 ended in defeat. Last season Valdivia had these away match statistics: Played 14; won 0, drew 2 and lost 12.

Robert was the last player to score for the away team. Valdivia haven't scored a league goal in the last 273 minutes.

Valdivia play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-3 to Montijo (placed 1st).

Valdivia lost heavily in their last match (against Montijo as mentioned above) and the damage happened in the first half. Something did not go right in the pre-game preparations.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Valdivia played away with similar odds. This revealed two games. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, zero were draws and the home team won as expected two times.

Valdivia have the goal stats of 0-3 (for/against) from 1 business trip in the league at this early stage of the season.

Let's have a look at how Valdivia performed last season in the Tercera - Group 14: They landed a 20th position in the league table after playing out 1 victory, 4 draws and 23 defeats. In total they scored 18 and conceded 65 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 0 - drew 2 and lost 12 with 7/31 goals scored/conceded.

Head 2 Head

The most recent history between these sides is the Montijo - Valdivia 3-0 played earlier this season. As for the last nine games between these two teams, there's six Montijo victories, zero draws and three Valdivia wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.

Montijo missing players

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