Game week two of the Potiguar season and the teams have had a few days to digest the first match. Here's the Santa Cruz de Natal RN - América RN preview:
- Santa Cruz de Natal RN have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- América RN have yet to win a game away.
It's no vacation for neither Santa Cruz de Natal RN nor América RN 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.
Santa Cruz de Natal RN form and stats
The story so far in the Potiguar for Santa Cruz de Natal RN at their home stadium (Estádio Maria Lamas Farache) is 1 win, 0 draws and 0 defeats.
Santa are traveling soon after this match as the Potiguar match at Forca e Luz awaits in four days.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Santa Cruz de Natal RN at home in the league. 3 on target and 0 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.
América RN form and stats
Let's have a look at how América RN performed last season in the Serie D: They landed a 1st position in the league table after playing out 8 victories, 4 draws and 2 defeats. In total they scored 24 and conceded 8 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 4 - drew 2 and lost 1 with 12/4 goals scored/conceded. The visitors are W0-D1-L0 on the road this term. That's in the Potiguar.
América RN has another fixture away, a Potiguar game, against ASSU in just four days. A tough schedule for the visitors!
As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, América RN has managed 2 goals and let in 2 from 1 match.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result América RN - Santa 2-1 entered in the official records. Numbers for the last nine meetings between these two teams are: two wins for Santa Cruz de Natal RN, two draws and five wins for América RN. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: four games.Top Goalscorers
  W. Freitas da Silva 9 goals |  G. Miranda 2 goals | L. Santos Silva 2 goals |
Santa Cruz de Natal RN missing players
América RN missing players
| Santa Cruz de Natal RN | América RN | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 3 | 9 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | 6 | 1 | Scored | S | 0 | 3 | 14 |
| 12 | 6 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 67% | 89% |
| 88% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 67% | 78% |
| 75% | 100% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 67% | 56% |
| 12% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 22% |
| 12% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 62% | 75% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 67% | 44% |
| 25% | 25% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 44% |
| 12% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 22% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.6 | 2.5 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 7.1 | 7.5 | 9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 14.7 | 9.8 |
| 2.1 | 2.5 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 4.3 | 3.1 |
| 65% | 60% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 23% | 50% |
- All of Santa Cruz de Natal RN's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- América RN have yet to win a game away.
- Santa Cruz de Natal RN have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Santa Cruz de Natal RN have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Santa Cruz de Natal RN haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Santa Cruz de Natal RN | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2 | ABC | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | América RN | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Forca e Luz | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Globo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 8 | Potiguar Mossoro | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 0 |