Match Report
Mixco (2nd, 44 pts) visited Malacateco (5th, 31 pts) with 13 points between them. On recent form Malacateco sat only 14th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 5th overall. Scoring rates set the scale: Malacateco 1.18 scored and 1.41 conceded per game, Mixco 1.5 and 0.91, with the league averaging 1.2.
Malacateco had gone 5 games without a win.
The head-to-head ledger counts 8 games: 1 Malacateco win, 6 for Mixco, 1 draw, at 2.25 goals per meeting. Playing at home matters in this fixture: 63% of the meetings went to the host.
The match was played at Estadio Municipal Santa Lucía (capacity 8,500). Half-time and full-time told different stories: Malacateco led 1-0 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 1-2.
Goal scorers
Malacateco: Angel Lopez (37') · Mixco: Edilson Reyes (50'), Nicolas Martinez Vargas (56')
Key stats
Possession: Malacateco 64% · Mixco 36% · Total shots: 7-8 · On target: 3-6 · Corners: 7-4