O’Higgins vs Cobreloa Match Preview

Match info:

O’Higgins vs Cobreloa 

Competition – Chile Apertura

Stadium – El Teniente

Date:  8th November 2013

Kick-off time – 23:00 GMT+1

2nd place O’Higgins host 4th position Cobreloa at the Estadio El Teniente this Friday evening in the Chile Apertura.


Recent form:

O’Higgins –W L W D D W W

Cobreloa – L W L L L L W

O’Higgins have lost 1 their last 7 while Cobreloa have lost 5 of their last 7.

Form

The Chile Apertura Table currently looks like this:

A win for O’Higgins will put them level on points with current leaders Universidad Catolica while a win for Cobreloa will move them into 3rd place.

Head-to-head

These two sides have met 17 times in recent years and nothing separates them (O’Higgins 5 wins,  Cobreloa 5 wins, 7 draws).

History

The last 5 meetings between these two sides finished 1:1, 2:2, 1:2, 1:0 and 1:0.

Possible line-ups

O’Higgins (4-4-2)

Garces
Figueroa
Uglessich
Barroso
Opazo
Vidal
Leal
Hernández
Fuentes
Calandria
López

Cobreloa (4-5-1)

Palos
Reynoso
Silva
Suarez
Roco
Lima
Gaitán
Pérez
Chávez
González
Herrera

Bookmakers make O’Higgins slight favourites to come out on top in this match.

Odds: O’Higgins (21/20) Draw (12/5) Cobreloa (5/2) Gamingtips Prediction – O’Higgins 1:1 Cobreloa 

Very little separated these two sides last season.

O’Higgins finished 4th last season (3 points behind Cobreloa) – they scored 28 goals in 17 games and conceded 19.

Cobreloa finished 3rd last season – they scored 33 goals in 17 and conceded 18.

O’Higgins come into this tie in much better form than Cobreloa and are deserved favourites on paper.

O’Higgins have lost just 1 of the last 5 meetings against Cobreloa.

Cobreloa are currently 6 points behind O’Higgins and they will need to avoid defeat if they are to have any chance of  getting close to the leaders of the Chile Apertura with just 4 games left.

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