Soccer betting preview: Santos welcomes Internacional in what could be a tight duel

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Competition: Brazil Serie A
Competition: Thu 09.June
Match begins: 00:30 (UTC)
Venue: Estádio Urbano Caldeira (16798 seats)

Stats, recent trends, game results, player info, head-2-head, lineups and a lot else: Tipsway offers all you should know about Santos - Internacional!

Insights:
  • Santos have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Internacional have won significantly less corners away then at home.

Internacional have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 1100 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.

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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Santos form and stats

When playing at home in the Serie A, Santos have managed 3 wins, 1 draw and suffered 1 defeat from 5 games.

The Santos coach Bustos and his crew return home after a 2-2 draw away versus Athletico PR (placed 8th). Leonardo, a natural forward, was the champion performer for the team in that match, scoring a rating of 8.34 (out of 10). Leonardo scored two goals and hit one key pass.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Palmeiras (0-1).

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 Santos have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 10 matches with the results: Won 4, drawn 4 and lost 2.

There will be little rest for Santos after this match as they are travelling to Atlético Mineiro for a Serie A game in only three days.

Santos have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Estádio Urbano Caldeira with 9 goals in 5 league matches. Santos are not conceding a lot of goals here at Estádio Urbano Caldeira in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 3 from 5 matches.

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Internacional form and stats

As the visiting team in Serie A matches, Internacional have produced an overall stat of 2-2-1 so far.

It's the second away game in a row for Internacional, but there's smiles all around after the 2-0 victory versus Bragantino (placed 14th) last time out. Patrick, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.63. Patrick hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 38 successful passes (of 41 total).

Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Atletico GO.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Internacional playing away and similar expectations, we found 12 relevant matches. Results were 3 Internacional wins, 4 draws and 5 defeats.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Flamengo in just three days.

They concede less than a goal on average per away game (4 so far).

Head 2 Head

Head to head totals (for the former ten meetings): Santos won two games, five matches ended in a draw and Internacional got three wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: four / six

Top Goalscorers

SantosM. Santos Almeida
M. Santos Almeida
5 goals
InternacionalT. Barcellos Freda
T. Barcellos Freda
3 goals
SantosV. de Souza Zanocelo
V. de Souza Zanocelo
2 goals

Santos missing players

Internacional missing players

Santos Internacional
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
9 5 0 Played P 1 5 9
3 3 0 Won W 1 2 3
3 1 0 Drew D 0 2 5
3 1 0 Lost L 0 1 1
12 9 0 Scored S 1 5 10
8 3 0 Conceded C 0 4 8
78% 80% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 89%
56% 60% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 80% 78%
56% 60% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 22%
22% 20% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 11%
11% 20% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
44% 40% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 40% 56%
33% 40% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 40% 33%
44% 40% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 20% 22%
 
4.4 4 0 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4.8 6.4
5.7 5.8 0 Corners against (avg) C A 5 5 5.6
2 2.2 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 4.2 3.4
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
13.4 16 0 Shots (avg) S ( 13 10.2 12.3
4.8 6.4 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.4 4
28% 28% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 29% 28%
 
16.2 16.8 0 Shots against (avg) S A 14 12.4 12.3
4.7 4.2 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3 3.2 4.1
Key stats in Serie A this season:
  • Internacional have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Internacional haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Santos have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Santos have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Corinthians 9 5 3 1 13 8 4 2 2 0 6 2 5 3 1 1 7 6 5 18
2 Palmeiras 9 4 4 1 13 5 5 2 2 1 8 4 4 2 2 0 5 1 8 16
3 Atlético Mineiro 9 4 4 1 13 8 5 3 1 1 9 5 4 1 3 0 4 3 5 16
4 Coritiba 9 4 2 3 13 11 4 4 0 0 8 2 5 0 2 3 5 9 2 14
5 America Mineiro 9 4 2 3 11 10 4 3 1 0 8 3 5 1 1 3 3 7 1 14
6 Sao Paulo 9 3 5 1 15 11 4 3 1 0 10 4 5 0 4 1 5 7 4 14
7 Internacional 9 3 5 1 10 8 4 1 3 0 5 4 5 2 2 1 5 4 2 14
8 Athletico PR 9 4 1 4 8 11 5 3 1 1 6 4 4 1 0 3 2 7 -3 13
9 Santos 9 3 3 3 12 8 5 3 1 1 9 3 4 0 2 2 3 5 4 12
10 Botafogo 8 3 3 2 11 9 3 1 1 1 5 5 5 2 2 1 6 4 2 12
11 Flamengo 9 3 3 3 10 9 5 2 1 2 5 4 4 1 2 1 5 5 1 12
12 Fluminense 9 3 2 4 8 9 4 1 1 2 3 4 5 2 1 2 5 5 -1 11
13 Avai 9 3 2 4 10 13 5 3 1 1 8 6 4 0 1 3 2 7 -3 11
14 Bragantino 9 2 4 3 10 10 5 1 2 2 6 5 4 1 2 1 4 5 0 10
15 Ceara 9 2 4 3 10 12 4 0 2 2 4 7 5 2 2 1 6 5 -2 10
16 Juventude 9 2 4 3 9 14 5 1 2 2 4 7 4 1 2 1 5 7 -5 10
17 Goias 8 2 3 3 8 11 4 1 3 0 5 4 4 1 0 3 3 7 -3 9
18 Cuiaba 9 2 2 5 7 12 4 0 2 2 2 4 5 2 0 3 5 8 -5 8
19 Atletico GO 9 1 4 4 6 12 5 1 2 2 4 4 4 0 2 2 2 8 -6 7
20 Fortaleza 9 1 2 6 6 12 5 0 2 3 2 5 4 1 0 3 4 7 -6 5

Read more about Serie A

The Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, often called the Brasileirão (or just Série A), is the primary football competition in Brazil. It has 20 teams playing each other twice from May to December, a total of 38 fixtures. The top team is crowned as the champion and the bottom four are relegated.