Santa Maria vs Taguatinga betting preview: Even match expected

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Competition: Brazil Brasiliense
Competition: Sun 13.February
Match begins: 18:30 (UTC)
Venue: Estádio Zequinha Roriz (22000 seats)

Taguatinga have come here for an absorbing battle versus the home side Santa Maria. Read up on the match with this in-depth Brasiliense preview!

Insights:
  • Santa Maria have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Taguatinga have yet to win a game away.

These teams have little in common geographically as Taguatinga have to travel 2100 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.

It's no vacation for neither Santa nor Taguatinga as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Santa Maria form and stats

The previous season, Santa Maria's league stats were 0 wins, 3 draws and 8 losses, resulting in 11th spot in the Brasiliense. During these eleven matches they scored 6 goals and let in 27. Playing as the home team in the previous season Santa Maria managed 0-3-2 (win-draw-lost) with 2 goals and 8 conceded.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Santa Maria have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found four matches with the results: Won one, drawn one and lost two.

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Taguatinga form and stats

Let's have a look at how Taguatinga performed last season in the Brasiliense: They landed a 5th position in the league table after playing out 5 victories, 3 draws and 3 defeats. In total they scored 18 and conceded 15 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 4 - drew 0 and lost 2 with 14/11 goals scored/conceded.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Taguatinga playing away and similar expectations, we found six relevant matches. Results were two Taguatinga wins, two draws and two defeats.

Head 2 Head

Santa - Taguatinga 2-1 was the end result in these teams' last head to head game, played this season. As for the last five games between these two teams, there's two Santa Maria victories, one draw and two Taguatinga wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.

Santa Maria missing players

Taguatinga missing players

Santa Maria Taguatinga
Total Home vs Statistics Stat vs Away Total
7 4 0 Played P 0 4 7
2 1 0 Won W 0 0 1
2 1 0 Drew D 0 2 4
3 2 0 Lost L 0 2 2
10 7 0 Scored S 0 4 8
13 10 0 Conceded C 0 7 10
86% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 75% 71%
86% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 75% 71%
86% 100% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 43%
43% 75% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 25% 29%
29% 50% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 25% 29%
86% 100% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 75% 71%
14% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 29%
14% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 29%
 
5 5.5 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 4.5 4
3.6 3.8 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 5.2 5
3.6 3 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 3.5 2.8
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
9.3 11.5 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 7.8 7.4
2.7 4 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 2.2 2.2
53% 44% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 44% 36%
 
13.4 12.8 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 10.8 9.4
5.9 4.5 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 5 4.6
Key stats in Brasiliense this season:
  • All of Santa Maria's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
  • Santa Maria have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Santa Maria have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Santa Maria have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Santa Maria haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Taguatinga have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Taguatinga have yet to win a game away.

Last season Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Gama 11 10 1 0 23 4 6 5 1 0 15 3 5 5 0 0 8 1 19 31
2 Brasiliense 11 9 1 1 21 1 6 5 1 0 13 0 5 4 0 1 8 1 20 28
3 Luziania 11 5 4 2 18 9 6 3 1 2 10 5 5 2 3 0 8 4 9 19
4 Real FC 11 4 6 1 14 6 5 3 1 1 9 3 6 1 5 0 5 3 8 18
5 Sobradinho 11 5 2 4 16 17 6 4 2 0 12 5 5 1 0 4 4 12 -1 17
6 Paracatu 11 4 3 4 9 7 5 2 1 2 4 3 6 2 2 2 5 4 2 15
7 Capital 11 4 3 4 10 11 5 3 1 1 5 2 6 1 2 3 5 9 -1 15
8 Formosa 11 3 5 3 14 10 6 1 4 1 6 6 5 2 1 2 8 4 4 14
9 Ceilândia 11 3 3 5 11 10 6 2 1 3 6 5 5 1 2 2 5 5 1 12
10 Taguatinga 11 1 4 6 5 11 5 1 2 2 4 5 6 0 2 4 1 6 -6 7
11 Santa Maria 11 0 3 8 6 27 5 0 3 2 2 8 6 0 0 6 4 19 -21 3
12 Bolamense 11 0 1 10 4 38 5 0 0 5 3 17 6 0 1 5 1 21 -34 1
Last season Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Gama 11 10 1 0 41 8 6 5 1 0 20 5 5 5 0 0 21 3 33 31
2 Brasiliense 11 9 1 1 38 7 6 5 0 1 23 4 5 4 1 0 15 3 31 28
3 Real FC 11 7 2 2 25 9 6 3 2 1 14 5 5 4 0 1 11 4 16 23
4 Formosa 11 6 1 4 19 19 5 3 0 2 7 7 6 3 1 2 12 12 0 19
5 Taguatinga 11 5 3 3 18 15 5 1 3 1 4 4 6 4 0 2 14 11 3 18
6 Capital 11 3 6 2 15 12 6 2 3 1 8 6 5 1 3 1 7 6 3 15
6 Unai 5 2 1 2 10 9 3 2 1 0 9 6 2 0 0 2 1 3 1 7
7 Luziania 11 4 2 5 22 21 6 2 0 4 11 13 5 2 2 1 11 8 1 14
8 Sobradinho 11 4 1 6 13 24 5 1 1 3 7 13 6 3 0 3 6 11 -11 13
9 Paracatu 11 3 2 6 19 22 6 3 1 2 16 11 5 0 1 4 3 11 -3 11
10 Ceilândia 11 2 2 7 8 26 5 1 1 3 4 11 6 1 1 4 4 15 -18 8
11 Ceilandense 11 0 3 8 1 27 5 0 1 4 1 14 6 0 2 4 0 13 -26 3
12 Paranoa 11 0 2 9 8 37 5 0 0 5 2 17 6 0 2 4 6 20 -29 2

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