Struggling Imperatriz will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Santa Cruz in the upcoming league round. It’s 10th vs 1st and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
It's quite the trip for Santa Cruz when visiting Imperatriz as the cities are 1700 kilometers apart.
Imperatriz form and stats
Overall Serie C stats at home this season for Imperatriz, who have the fewest scored goals (7) in Serie C, are 0-1-4 (wins-draw-losses). The home team are struggling everywhere these days as they haven't won a league-game, regardless of being the home or the away team, in twelve attempts. The season ticket holders are starting to dread their visits here at Estádio Frei Epifânio D'Abadia, with the home team losing four in a row. They have not avoided a defeat here since the Remo game.
Imperatriz faced defeat in their previous match, away at Remo (0-5). Prior to that, an away loss at Jacuipense.
As you see from the result above, Imperatriz suffered greatly in their last game. Thankfully the team has a new chance to prove themselves in this one.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Imperatriz here at Estádio Frei Epifânio D'Abadia in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (4 from 5 games). Imperatriz have conceded 8 from these games.
Santa Cruz form and stats
The visitors, who have the most scored goals (18) in Serie C, are W3-D2-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Serie C. The fact that Santa Cruz have won four matches in a row should scare the hosts and makes this contest more interesting. It could be a hat trick of victories away for Santa, as they have won on their previous two travels.
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Santa goalkeeper is eager to challenge this, with his 189 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
Prior to that result Santa won their away game at Treze. The scoreline was 1-0.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Santa Cruz have scored 6 goals in 6 league games away. The Santa Cruz defense is a tough nut to crack, having conceded less than half a goal per away game on average (3 goals in 6 games).
Head 2 Head
Santa Cruz - Imperatriz 2-0 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. As for the last three games between these two teams, there's zero Imperatriz victories, zero draws and three Santa Cruz wins. Over/under statistics; one of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  W. Lima Silva e Silva 6 goals |  D. Bittencourt Morais 3 goals |
Imperatriz missing players
Santa Cruz missing players
| Imperatriz | Santa Cruz | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 5 | 1 | Played | P | 3 | 6 | 12 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 11 | 4 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Scored | S | 3 | 6 | 18 |
| 32 | 8 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 92% | 80% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 67% | 67% | 83% |
| 83% | 80% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 33% | 33% | 50% |
| 75% | 80% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 33% | 42% |
| 33% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 17% | 25% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 58% | 80% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 33% | 42% |
| 8% | 20% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 50% | 50% |
| 42% | 20% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 50% | 25% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.2 | 0.3 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.9 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 58 | 9 | 9 | Total Shots | T S | 19 | 40 | 91 |
| 13 | 1 | 1 | Shots on Target | S O | 5 | 16 | 39 |
| 38% | 200% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 60% | 38% | 46% |
- Imperatriz has the fewest clean sheets (1) at home in Serie C
- Imperatriz has the fewest clean sheets (1) in Serie C
- Imperatriz has the fewest matches under the total-line (3) in Serie C
- Imperatriz has the fewest points (1) at home in Serie C
- Imperatriz has the fewest scored goals (7) in Serie C
- Imperatriz has the fewest scored goals in the second half (4) in Serie C
- Imperatriz has the most conceded goals (32) in Serie C
- Imperatriz has the most conceded goals in the first half (15) in Serie C
- Imperatriz has the most conceded goals in the second half (17) in Serie C
- Imperatriz has the most matches over the total-line (8) in Serie C
- Imperatriz has the the worst goal difference (-25) in Serie C
- Imperatriz has the the worst goal difference (-4) at home in Serie C
- Imperatriz have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Imperatriz have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Imperatriz have yet to win a game.
- Imperatriz is in the worst form (0-0-6)
- Santa Cruz has the fewest conceded goals (3) away in Serie C
- Santa Cruz has the most points (11) away in Serie C
- Santa Cruz has the most scored goals (18) in Serie C
- Santa Cruz has the the best goal difference (+3) away in Serie C
- Santa Cruz have scored more than double the goals of Imperatriz.
| 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 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 27 |
| 2 | Vila Nova | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 23 |
| 3 | Remo | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 17 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 22 |
| 4 | Ferroviario | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 17 |
| 5 | Manaus | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 17 |
| 6 | Jacuipense | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 | -2 | 16 |
| 7 | Paysandu | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 15 |
| 8 | Treze | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 13 |
| 9 | Botafogo PB | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | -5 | 11 |
| 10 | Imperatriz | 12 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 32 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 24 | -25 | 1 |