Betting preview: Santa Cruz vs Nacional Potosí should be interesting

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Competition: Bolivia Liga De Futbol Prof
Competition: Sat 08.October
Match begins: 19:00 (UTC)

A cursory glance at the Liga De Futbol Prof table suggest an advantage to Nacional Potosí when they visit Santa Cruz. Even so; let's wait before we hand out the points!

Insights:
  • Santa Cruz have the most conceded goals (40) in Liga De Futbol Prof
  • Nacional Potosí haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Santa Cruz form and stats

Santa Cruz have collected 13 points from their Liga De Futbol Prof home games so far after 3-4-3.

Santa Cruz are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 1-3 away versus Oriente Petrolero.

Before that, Santa Cruz drew at home versus Real Tomayapo.

This is expected to be a close game, with Santa perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Santa Cruz as a small favourite), we find 6 games. Santa Cruz has won 4 of these, drawn 1 and lost 1.

Goal fest? We don't know what will happen in this one, but we do know that 18 of the 24 latest league matches with this club has contained three goals or more.

The Santa Cruz fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 11 in 10 matches. Santa Cruz's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 12 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. When Santa Cruz hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Independiente Petrolero, Universitario de Vinto, Club Universitario, Real Tomayapo and Royal Pari), the matches have ended over 2.5 goals 5 of 6 times.

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Nacional Potosí form and stats

Playing away, Nacional Potosí have won 3 games, drawn 2 and suffered 5 defeats in the Liga De Futbol Prof this season.

Nacional had fun at their own home last time out, beating Guabira 3-1. Reyes and Álvarez (2) scored.

Before that, Nacional Potosí secured a home win against Royal Pari with the score 1-0.

After this away game Nacional Potosí return home for a Liga De Futbol Prof game against Municipal Vinto. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Nacional have scored 13 goals on their travels this season, from 10 away games in the league. Nacional Potosí struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 19 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

Nacional Potosí - Santa 3-1 was the story when this pair of contenders previously did battle, some time ago this season. The referee got to use his red card when these clubs last faced each other, and the criminal was Mercado (Santa Cruz). H2H stats regardless of arena (last seven matches): Santa Cruz two wins, two draws and Nacional Potosí three victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Nacional PotosíT. Tobar Reyes
T. Tobar Reyes
20 goals
Nacional PotosíC. Álvarez
C. Álvarez
8 goals

Santa Cruz missing players

Nacional Potosí missing players

Santa Cruz Nacional Potosí
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
36 18 6 Played P 5 19 38
9 5 2 Won W 1 5 19
7 6 0 Drew D 1 3 7
20 7 4 Lost L 3 11 12
40 22 6 Scored S 7 26 67
68 25 10 Conceded C 10 38 59
94% 89% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
81% 78% 83% Over 1.5 O 1.5 60% 79% 82%
69% 67% 83% Over 2.5 O 2.5 60% 63% 63%
36% 22% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 60% 47% 47%
14% 6% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 20% 26% 24%
64% 67% 67% BTTS BTTS 60% 63% 71%
8% 17% 0% Clean Sheets C S 20% 11% 16%
33% 28% 33% Failed to Score F T 20% 26% 13%
 
3.5 4.3 4 Corners for (avg) C F 3 4 4.8
6.1 5.2 5.7 Corners against (avg) C A 4.4 5.1 4.5
3.4 3.6 4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.6 3.9 3.4
8 1 0 Red cards R C 0 6 9
 
10.2 11.2 10.5 Shots (avg) S ( 8.6 8.7 10.6
4.3 4.6 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.6 3.4 4.6
26% 27% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 39% 40% 38%
 
12.3 12.4 13.2 Shots against (avg) S A 13.2 13.1 10.4
5.5 4.7 5.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.6 6.3 4.8
Key stats in Liga De Futbol Prof this season:
  • Nacional Potosí haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Santa Cruz have the fewest clean sheets (3) in Liga De Futbol Prof
  • Santa Cruz have the fewest matches under the total-line (7) in Liga De Futbol Prof
  • Santa Cruz have the most conceded goals (40) in Liga De Futbol Prof
  • Santa Cruz have the most conceded goals in the second half (44) in Liga De Futbol Prof
  • Santa Cruz have the the worst goal difference (-22) in Liga De Futbol Prof
  • Santa Cruz have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Santa Cruz is in the worst form (0-1-5)

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 The Strongest 20 14 4 2 45 16 10 7 2 1 23 11 10 7 2 1 22 5 29 46
2 Bolivar 21 14 4 3 44 18 11 8 2 1 24 7 10 6 2 2 20 11 26 46
3 Always Ready 20 14 3 3 47 17 10 9 0 1 30 4 10 5 3 2 17 13 30 45
4 Nacional Potosí 20 11 3 6 33 32 10 8 1 1 20 13 10 3 2 5 13 19 1 36
5 Oriente Petrolero 20 10 3 7 28 18 11 8 2 1 21 4 9 2 1 6 7 14 10 33
6 Guabira 20 8 5 7 28 28 9 5 3 1 15 7 11 3 2 6 13 21 0 29
7 Aurora 20 7 6 7 19 29 10 4 4 2 9 12 10 3 2 5 10 17 -10 27
8 Municipal Vinto 21 5 11 5 28 25 11 5 3 3 18 13 10 0 8 2 10 12 3 26
9 Wilstermann 20 6 6 8 21 26 10 5 2 3 16 12 10 1 4 5 5 14 -5 24
10 Blooming 20 6 4 10 25 33 10 5 3 2 17 9 10 1 1 8 8 24 -8 22
11 Club Universitario 20 6 4 10 19 36 10 6 1 3 15 12 10 0 3 7 4 24 -17 22
12 Real Tomayapo 20 6 3 11 22 32 10 4 2 4 14 12 10 2 1 7 8 20 -10 21
13 Independiente Petrolero 20 5 5 10 26 28 10 5 3 2 18 10 10 0 2 8 8 18 -2 20
14 Royal Pari 20 5 3 12 19 31 9 4 2 3 13 13 11 1 1 9 6 18 -12 18
15 Santa Cruz 20 4 4 12 18 40 10 3 4 3 11 12 10 1 0 9 7 28 -22 16
16 Universitario de Vinto 20 3 6 11 18 31 10 3 3 4 13 12 10 0 3 7 5 19 -13 15