📊 Form Guide

Academia Puerto Cabello

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Academia Puerto Cabello will be looking for a repeat result of a 4-1 Copa Sudamericana victory against Vasco da Gama.

In that game, Academia Puerto Cabello managed 39% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 6 on target. At the other end, Vasco da Gama got 11 shots on goal with 4 on target. João Victor (38') scored for Vasco da Gama.

It has not been often in recent games where Academia Puerto Cabello have shown defensive steel. It will be a concern for them that Academia Puerto Cabello have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 10 goals on the way.

Melgar

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Following on from being beaten in their last game against Lanús in Copa Sudamericana competition, Melgar and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that match, Melgar managed 60% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 0 of them on target. For their opponents, Lanus got 12 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target.

Demonstrating their bias toward eventful encounters, the back of the net has been hit 21 times in the prior six games in which Melgar have taken to the field, yielding a mean average of 3.5 goals per clash. Their opponents have got 11 from this total. That trend might not be continued into this game, of course.

🤜🤛 Head to head

The previous league game featuring these clubs was Copa Sudamericana match day 3 on 23/04/2025 when it finished Melgar 1-0 Academia Puerto Cabello.

That time, Melgar had 48% possession and 12 shots at goal with 5 on target. The scorer was Pier Barrios (42').

Academia Puerto Cabello got 10 attempts at goal with 2 on target.

🗞️ Team News: Academia Puerto Cabello

The Academia Puerto Cabello boss will be grateful not to have any fitness concerns whatsoever coming into this game thanks to a fully injury-free group to pick from.

We think that Academia Puerto Cabello look set to make use of the 4-4-1-1 formation for the game with Luis Romero, Luis Casiani, Edwin Peraza, Oscar Gonzalez, Heiber Linares, Oscar Hernandez, Junior Cedeno, Harrison Contreras, Gerardo Padron, Dimas Meza and Junior Paredes.

📰 Team News: Melgar

Owing to a fully healthy squad available to choose from, the Melgar boss does not have any fitness concerns whatsoever before this game.

There’s a good chance that El Dominó will likely utilise a 4-1-4-1 formation, choosing Jorge Cabezudo, Pier Barrios, Matias Lazo, Leonel Gonzalez, Mathias Llontop, Horacio Orzan, Brian Guzman, Walter Tandazo, Alexis Arias, Kenji Cabrera and Carlos Liza.

🧠 Prediction

Looking at these two, we feel that Melgar and Academia Puerto Cabello should both be able to find the back of the net here although it’s difficult to select a clear winner.

We’ll see, but this looks like it could end up all-square. We’re therefore anticipating a 1-1 score draw at the end of this game.

Andre Moura, 00:03 14/05/2025