Gremio U20 vs Santa Cruz U20 in Sao Paolo Youth Cup preview: Key statistics and predictions

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Competition: Brazil Sao Paolo Youth Cup
Competition: Wed 12.January
Match begins: 20:15 (UTC)
Venue: Estádio Municipal Zezinho Magalhães (20000 seats)

Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Gremio U20 & Santa Cruz U20 face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Sao Paolo Youth Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Gremio U20 and Santa Cruz U20.

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Gremio U20 form and stats

Gremio U20 have reached this Sao Paolo Youth Cup stage through battling and winning against Mixto U20, XV de Jau U20 and Castanhal U20. Gremio U20 participated in Sao Paolo Youth Cup the last season, where they reached the final.

This match is a Sao Paolo Youth Cup match, and the hometeam has the total statistics 2 wins, 0 draws and 1 loss in this competition.

In their previous game, led his Gremio U20 to a defeat in the Sao Paolo Youth Cup match away at XV de Jau U20. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Estádio Municipal Zezinho Magalhães.

Before that match, a Sao Paolo Youth Cup win away at Castanhal U20.

The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Gremio U20 home games with this odds we find five games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in four wins, one draw and zero defeats. Looking at the victories, four matches were won by at least two goals.

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Santa Cruz U20 form and stats

The traveling awayteam has defeated Uniao Iacanga U20, Novorizontino U20 and Uniao ABC U20 in order to reach 2nd round of Sao Paolo Youth Cup. Santa was sent out of Sao Paolo Youth Cup in the 3rd round last season.

The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Sao Paolo Youth Cup stats, they have 2 wins, 0 draws and 1 loss both home and away.

Santa Cruz U20 play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting Uniao Iacanga U20.

Prior to that match, the Santa Cruz U20 manager faced defeat when travelling to Novorizontino U20 and losing 1-2.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Santa Cruz U20 played away with similar odds. This revealed one game. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, zero were draws and the home team won as expected one time.

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Gremio U20 missing players

Santa Cruz U20 missing players

Gremio U20 Santa Cruz U20
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
25 13   Played P   11 25
12 7   Won W   4 14
7 4   Drew D   1 4
6 2   Lost L   6 7
58 29   Scored S   16 47
33 11   Conceded C   18 25
92% 85%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 100%
84% 85%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   82% 76%
60% 54%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   45% 40%
44% 23%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   36% 32%
40% 15%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   36% 24%
56% 38%   BTTS BTTS   55% 44%
36% 54%   Clean Sheets C S   9% 36%
16% 23%   Failed to Score F T   36% 20%
 
6.8 7.2   Corners for (avg) C F   3.9 3.9
3.9 3.4   Corners against (avg) C A   5.3 6.2
2.6 2.2   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.7 2.8
8 4   Red cards R C   2 3
 
15.7 17.6   Shots (avg) S (   9.1 9.4
6.3 7.6   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3.6 3.4
39% 38%   Goal Efficiency G E   28% 29%
 
8.7 8.2   Shots against (avg) S A   15.7 14.8
3.8 3.8   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   7.1 5.9