Universidad de Chile vs Unión Española Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Universidad de Chile

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Universidad de Chile will be wanting a better result here after the 1-3 Campeonato Nacional losing effort in their last game against Huachipato.

Cris Martínez (60') was the scorer for Huachipato.

It has been seldom in recent games that Universidad de Chile have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The reality is that Universidad de Chile have been scored against in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 16 goals in the process. Previous results aside, we must now wait to see if that trend will be maintained in this game or not.

Unión Española

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After being beaten in their last game against Ñublense in Campeonato Nacional action, Unión Española and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

The attacking players from Unión Española have been starved of goals over their previous 6 encounters, contributing the poor return of just 3. In those fixtures, Rojos de Santa Laura have also seen the collective goal tally against them equal 10.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their most recent head-to-head meetings going back to 27/09/2020 shows us that Universidad de Chile have won 4 of them and Unión Española 1, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 1.

An aggregate of 19 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 12 for Los Azules and 7 for Rojos de Santa Laura. The average number of goals per game works out to 3.17.

The last league encounter featuring these clubs was Campeonato Nacional match day 21 on 07/08/2022 which ended up with the score at Unión Española 1-1 Universidad de Chile.

📋 Team News: Universidad de Chile

The Universidad de Chile manager Mauricio Pellegrino has no fitness worries at all ahead of this match with a completely injury-free squad available to choose from.

ℹ️ Team News: Unión Española

Unión Española boss Ronald Fuentes has not got a full squad to pick from. Stefano Magnasco (Cruciate Ligament Rupture) and Octavio Rivero (Ruptured cruciate ligament) will not be playing here.

🧠 Prediction

We believe that Unión Española will need to apply a lot of pressure to find the net against this Universidad de Chile side who we think might well score one, at least.

We’re going for a highly competitive game with a 1-0 win for Universidad de Chile when all is said and done.

It should be a good one.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 02:54 24/01/2023