Unión Española vs Universidad Católica Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Unión Española

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Unión Española will play in this game following a 2-2 Campeonato Nacional tied result vs Palestino.

It’s not been often in recent times where Unión Española have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The reality is that Rojos de Santa Laura have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 games, leaking 9 goals in the process.

Universidad Católica

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In their last fixture, Universidad Católica drew 1-1 in the Campeonato Nacional tie with Curicó Unido.

A sequence of resolute displays from the Universidad Católica defensive players has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally amounting to 4 from their last 6 outings combined. Over that same time, the number of goals that they have scored themselves is 8. We will find out whether or not that trend can be sustained here.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their most recent head-to-head clashes stretching back to 26/02/2017 shows us that Unión Española have won 3 of these games & Universidad Católica 1, with the number of draws standing at 2.

An aggregate of 13 goals were scored between them in this period, with 7 of them from Rojos de Santa Laura and 6 netted by Cruzados. That’s an average goals per game of 2.17.

📰 Team News: Unión Española

Unión Española boss Ronald Fuentes will be grateful not to have any fitness concerns to speak of ahead of this game owing to a completely injury-free squad to choose from.

📰 Team News: Universidad Católica

Católica manager Ariel Holan has a number of players out of action. César Munder (Sprained ankle), Juan Fuentes (Foot Injury), Edson Puch (Torn muscle bundle), José Pedro Fuenzalida (Sprained ankle), Alexander Aravena (Muscle bruise), Tomás Asta-Buruaga (Torn muscle bundle), Gastón Lezcano (Torn muscle bundle), Francisco Silva (Torn muscle bundle) and Germán Lanaro (Ruptured cruciate ligament) won’t be making appearances.

🧠 Prediction

We’re thinking that Unión Española will need to apply a lot of pressure to register a score against this Universidad Católica team who we think might be able to grind out a win.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a narrow 0-1 win for Universidad Católica after 90 minutes.

It should be a good one.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 00:09 14/01/2021