Deportivo Garcilaso (Home)
- Deportivo Garcilaso have won 1 of their last 5 Liga 1 2025 matches, drawn 2 and lost 2.
- Deportivo Garcilaso are the team in the higher spot in the Liga 1 2025 table with 21 points from 13 games, putting them 4th in the standings, while Sporting Cristal Lima have 19 points from 11 matches, putting them 6th in the table. For this upcoming fixture, our Deportivo Garcilaso vs Sporting Cristal Lima betting tips suggest a close match given the teams' league positions.
- Carlos Bustos, who took charge of Garcilaso on the 11th of July, has transformed them into a disciplined, organized unit who don’t play like they have much in the way of attacking flair, but are instead a structure-first team that try to keep possession, cover well and hit opponents on the break with their forwards making the runs.
- The home side have won just 2 of their 7 Liga 1 2025 home matches so far, drawing 4 and losing 1, while the Lima visitors have 1 win, 2 draws and 2 defeats from their 5 away games. In this context, the Deportivo Garcilaso vs Sporting Cristal Lima prediction is complicated by both teams' struggles to dominate on their favored terrains.
- Garcilaso average 1.43 goals per game at home and concede 1.14, while Sporting Cristal Lima average 1.20 per-game when they go on the road, scoring as many as they concede.
Sporting Cristal Lima (Away)
- Sporting Cristal Lima have won 1 of their last 5 Liga 1 2025 games, drawn 3 and lost 1.
- Sporting Cristal Lima are a very positive, high-tempo side who play a flexible 4-3-3 system with lots of high pressing, width and verticality. Our Deportivo Garcilaso vs Sporting Cristal Lima betting tips highlight how this aggressive approach could unlock opportunities, despite recent results.
- Paulo Autuori has done a great job at Sporting Cristal Lima since taking over on the 16th of April, 2025, reintroducing a flexible, high-pressing 4-3-3 that emphasizes verticality and wing attacks, making them a potent attacking unit.
Head-to-Head
Sporting Cristal Lima have won 4 of their 5 Liga 1 2025 head-to-head meetings with Deportivo Garcilaso, with the other game finishing in a draw.
Key Players
- Leandro Sosa is in fine form for the Lima-based visitors with 4 goals in 11 Liga 1 2025 appearances so far, while Felipe Vizeu has the knack of getting the important goals in games, banging in 2 in his last 5 appearances.
- Pablo Erustes has also been in red-hot form for Garcilaso, hitting all 3 of his side’s goals in their last 5 games, and Kevin Sandoval, with 5 in 13, is their top scorer in the competition overall.
Betting Insights
- Sporting Cristal Lima are priced as a slight favourite at 2.94 to win the game on Sunday, which looks about right considering their head-to-head advantage and the fact Deportivo Garcilaso are without a win in their last 2 home fixtures against Cristal, but 2.28 is too short for the Cusco side and the 3.4 about a tie also seems a bit short considering both have been in mixed form recently. This match, therefore, presents an intriguing case for Deportivo Garcilaso vs Sporting Cristal Lima betting tips, particularly with value emerging in the draw market.
- The Over 2.5 goals bet at 1.89 looks a decent bet, however, as Autuori’s reinvented Cristal side, which has more momentum than Garcilaso, will try to press on and try to get a breakout goal against Bustos’ compact, disciplined unit, which should thrive in the counter-attacking game.
Prediction
Sporting Cristal Lima to edge it .
