Fasten your seatbelt before the show! Today's starring antagonists are Santa Cruz and Nacional de Patos, a win is the main plot and 1 1/2 hours the length.
- Santa Cruz have the fewest conceded goals (6) in Serie D
- Nacional de Patos is in the best form (4-0-2) in Serie D
It's no vacation for neither Santa nor Nacional de Patos 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 form and stats
Overall Serie D statistics playing at home this season for Santa Cruz are 4-1-0 (wins-draws-losses).
Santa Cruz are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 1-2 away versus Sousa. Until that game this club had gone seven consecutive league meetings without a loss.
0-0 away at Pacajus before that.Santa Cruz are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 6 goals in 5 games.
Nacional de Patos form and stats
1-0-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Nacional de Patos in their Serie D matches away.
Nacional go into this game after a win, the home game against Campinense that ended 2-1.
Before that one, a nice away victory 2-0 at Globo.There's been a serious shortage of goals from Nacional de Patos's away games in the league this season with only {2 goals} from 4 matches. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (3 so far).
Head 2 Head
The newest reported result involving both these squads is the Nacional de Patos - Santa Cruz 2-2 played not long ago this season.
Top Goalscorers
  E. Mendes de Carvalho 4 goals | W. Lima Silva e Silva 3 goals |  J. dos Santos Ferreira Filho 3 goals |
Santa Cruz missing players
Nacional de Patos missing players
| Santa Cruz | Nacional de Patos | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 5 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| 5 | 4 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 12 | 6 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 2 | 12 |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 80% | 80% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 20% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 25% | 50% |
| 40% | 20% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 30% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 30% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 30% |
| 70% | 100% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 40% |
| 20% | 20% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 75% | 30% |
| 5.6 | 6.6 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 4.2 | 4 |
| 4.9 | 5 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 7 | 5.9 |
| 3.2 | 2.8 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2 | 1.8 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 13.1 | 15 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 9.5 | 11.3 |
| 5.1 | 5.4 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 2 | 2.9 |
| 24% | 22% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 25% | 41% |
| 11.2 | 10 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 11.2 | 9.9 |
| 3.8 | 4 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 5 | 4.2 |
- Nacional de Patos have the fewest conceded goals (3) away in Serie D
- Nacional de Patos haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Nacional de Patos is in the best form (4-0-2) in Serie D
- Santa Cruz have not yet conceded a single goal in all their home games.
- Santa Cruz have not yet lost a game at home.
- Santa Cruz have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Santa Cruz have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Nacional de Patos have scored away.
- Santa Cruz have the fewest conceded goals (6) in Serie D
- Santa Cruz have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (0) in Serie D
- Santa Cruz have the most clean sheets (5) at home in Serie D
- Santa Cruz have the most clean sheets (7) in Serie D
- Santa Cruz have the most dropped points from leading position (8) in Serie D
- Santa Cruz have the the best goal difference (+6) in Serie D
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Nacional de Patos | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 19 |
| 2 | Santa Cruz | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 |
| 3 | Sousa | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 16 |
| 4 | Potiguar Mossoró | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 15 |
| 5 | Pacajus | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 15 |
| 6 | Iguatu | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 13 |
| 7 | Campinense | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 12 |
| 8 | Globo | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 25 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 15 | -20 | 4 |
