Santa Cruz de Natal RN have traveled here for an interesting fight against the hosts Palmeira. Prepare for the match with this Potiguar preview!
The visiting Santa Cruz de Natal RN played their last game only four days ago, a Potiguar match.
Palmeira form and stats
Palmeira are yet to win a home game, having collected 1 point from their first two Potiguar games here at Estádio José Nazareno do Nascimento.
Palmeira drew their last game, also a home match. Forca e Luz (placed 5th) was the opponent, 1-1 the score. Heartbreak before that as Palmeira lost 0-8 at ABC's place.
Palmeira are traveling soon after this match as the Potiguar match at America RN awaits in three days.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Palmeira at home in the league. 3 on target and 7 scored by the opposition; from 2 matches.
Santa Cruz de Natal RN form and stats
Four points from two away games for Santa Cruz de Natal RN, meaning one draw and one victory in the Potiguar so far.
Home advantage was not enough for Santa in their previous game, as they lost their Potiguar-match, hosting ABC, 1-5. Prior to that result Santa won their away game at Globo. The scoreline was 1-0.
Santa Cruz de Natal RN lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 1-5 beating and focus on this one.
As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Santa Cruz de Natal RN has managed 1 goal and let in 0 from 2 matches.
Head 2 Head
The last H2H meeting was Santa Cruz de Natal RN - Palmeira 1-2, played this season. Palmeira-Santa Cruz de Natal RN H2H statistics last three meetings regardless of arena: Palmeira two wins, Santa Cruz de Natal RN zero wins, one draw. two of these three matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  A. Silva de Assis 6 goals |  V. Sangiorgi 2 goals | W. Martins dos Santos 2 goals |
Palmeira missing players
Santa Cruz de Natal RN missing players
| Palmeira | Santa Cruz de Natal RN | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 5 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 6 | 13 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 6 | 14 |
| 29 | 12 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 4 | 21 |
| 91% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 83% | 92% |
| 73% | 80% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 33% | 69% |
| 55% | 40% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 54% |
| 36% | 20% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 17% | 31% |
| 18% | 20% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 15% |
| 45% | 60% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 17% | 54% |
| 9% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 67% | 31% |
| 55% | 40% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 23% |
| 5 | 4 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 3 | 3.3 |
| 5.2 | 5.7 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 4.5 | 5.8 |
| 2.9 | 2.7 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.8 | 2.9 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 50 | 20 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 33 | 87 |
| 13 | 6 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 12 | 29 |
| 31% | 50% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 50% | 45% |
- Palmeira has the fewest points from losing position (0)
- Palmeira has the fewest scored goals in the second half (3)
- Palmeira has the most conceded goals (16)
- Palmeira has the the worst goal difference (-13)
- Palmeira have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Palmeira have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Palmeira have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Palmeira have yet to win a game at home.
- Palmeira haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Palmeira is in the worst form (1-1-4)
- Santa Cruz de Natal RN has the fewest conceded goals (0) away
- Santa Cruz de Natal RN has the most clean sheets (4) away
- Santa Cruz de Natal RN has the most dropped points from leading position (8)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | ABC | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 19 | 12 |
| 2 | America RN | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 9 | 10 |
| 3 | Globo | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 9 |
| 4 | ASSU | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 5 | Forca e Luz | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -5 | 5 |
| 6 | Santa Cruz de Natal RN | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -8 | 5 |
| 7 | Potiguar Mossoro | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 9 | -6 | 4 |
| 8 | Palmeira | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 | -13 | 1 |