Match Report
5 points and 5 places separated them: La Serena 8th with 30, Huachipato 13th with 25. La Serena had been over-performing their table position on recent form: 2nd in the league over the last five rounds against 8th overall. Per game in the league, La Serena were scoring 1.55 and conceding 1.59, Huachipato 1.38 and 1.86, against a competition average of 1.43 goals per team per game.
Three consecutive wins preceded this game for Huachipato.
The head-to-head ledger counts 5 games: 0 La Serena wins, 4 for Huachipato, 1 draw, at 3.2 goals per meeting. The host's record in this fixture is thin — 40% of meetings won. Goals tend to flow: 60% of the meetings produced three or more, and both sides scored in 60%.
The venue was Estadio La Portada de La Serena in La Serena. It was 0-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 0-0.