Primera B match prediction: Little separates Deportes Santa Cruz and Barnechea in quality

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Competition: Chile Primera B
Competition: Tue 14.March
Match begins: 23:30 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Municipal de Santa Cruz (1500 seats)

Deportes Santa Cruz prepare to contest Barnechea in this Primera B fixture. Everything you can know about the fixture is right here!

Both sides have had a decent time to rest since their last competitive action. Let's trust this will be an enthusiastic fixture!

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Deportes Santa Cruz form and stats

The story so far in the Primera B for Deportes Santa Cruz at their home stadium (Estadio Municipal de Santa Cruz) is 0 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat.

Deportes Santa Cruz are returning here after visiting Univ. Concepción and winning with a 1-0 scoreline. Gervasio scored the goal(s). Sweet to taste a league win after three fixtures without.

Ahead of that match, Deportes lost 0-3 at home to La Serena.

This is expected to be a close game, with Deportes Santa Cruz perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Deportes Santa Cruz as a small favourite), we find 14 games. Deportes Santa Cruz has won 6 of these, drawn 2 and lost 6.

Deportes Santa Cruz has scored {2 goals} so far and conceded {5 goals} from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.

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Barnechea form and stats

Barnechea are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Primera B, having played 2 games and collected 3 points (1 win, 0 draws and 1 loss).

308 minutes! That's how long the Barnechea goalkeeper Alvaro Luis Salazar Bravo and his defense have shut out their league opponents.

Barnechea played 0-0 against Deportes Iquique in their previous match.

Preceding that game was the away victory against Cobreloa with the score of 1-0.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 7 similar matches played by Barnechea in our archives, and the results are: 0 wins for Barnechea, 4 draws and 3 defeats.

Barnechea have the goal stats of 2-5 (for/against) from 2 business trips in the league at this early stage of the season.

Head 2 Head

Head-to-head numbers (for the former ten meetings): Deportes Santa Cruz won three games, two matches ended with a draw and Barnechea got five wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: three / seven.

Top Goalscorers

Deportes Santa CruzI. Lemmo Gervasio
I. Lemmo Gervasio
2 goals
BarnecheaC. Bravo Araneda
C. Bravo Araneda
2 goals
Deportes Santa CruzC. Sepúlveda Huerta
C. Sepúlveda Huerta
1 goals

Deportes Santa Cruz missing players

Barnechea missing players

Deportes Santa Cruz Barnechea
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
4 2 1 Played P 1 2 4
1 0 0 Won W 0 1 2
2 1 0 Drew D 0 0 1
1 1 1 Lost L 1 1 1
3 2 0 Scored S 1 2 4
5 5 3 Conceded C 5 5 5
75% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 75%
50% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 50% 50%
50% 100% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 50% 25%
25% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 50% 25%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 50% 25%
25% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 50% 25%
50% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 50% 75%
50% 50% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 25%
 
3.8 5.5 8 Corners for (avg) C F 2 2.5 4.5
4.5 2.5 4 Corners against (avg) C A 9 8 6.2
2.5 1.5 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 4 3.5
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
10.8 15 14 Shots (avg) S ( 13 11.5 12.2
3.5 5.5 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3 3.8
21% 18% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 33% 27%
 
11 8 7 Shots against (avg) S A 18 16 13.5
3.5 4.5 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 10 6 3.8
Deportes Santa Cruz Last season Barnechea
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
32 16   Played P   16 32
9 9   Won W   3 12
9 5   Drew D   4 8
14 2   Lost L   9 12
34 23   Scored S   18 47
39 11   Conceded C   28 43
91% 94%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 100%
72% 75%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   88% 81%
41% 31%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   50% 41%
16% 12%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   31% 28%
6% 0%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   19% 19%
47% 44%   BTTS BTTS   69% 62%
31% 50%   Clean Sheets C S   12% 19%
31% 12%   Failed to Score F T   19% 19%
 
5.2 6   Corners for (avg) C F   5 4.4
5.5 5.2   Corners against (avg) C A   4.8 5.4
2.6 2.4   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.4 2.7
4 2   Red cards R C   0 6
 
11.8 13.2   Shots (avg) S (   10.5 10.3
4.8 5.1   Shots on Target (avg) S O   4.6 4.6
22% 28%   Goal Efficiency G E   25% 32%
 
11.1 10.1   Shots against (avg) S A   10.8 12.9
4.3 3.5   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   4.3 4.9

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Deportes Iquique 5 3 2 0 10 5 3 2 1 0 7 3 2 1 1 0 3 2 5 11
2 La Serena 5 3 1 1 7 3 2 1 1 0 3 1 3 2 0 1 4 2 4 10
3 San Luis 4 3 0 1 7 4 2 2 0 0 2 0 2 1 0 1 5 4 3 9
4 Deportes Temuco 5 2 2 1 5 3 2 1 1 0 3 1 3 1 1 1 2 2 2 8
5 Barnechea 4 2 1 1 4 5 2 1 1 0 2 0 2 1 0 1 2 5 -1 7
6 Santiago Morning 4 2 0 2 7 4 2 2 0 0 7 2 2 0 0 2 0 2 3 6
7 Recoleta 5 1 3 1 5 5 3 1 1 1 3 3 2 0 2 0 2 2 0 6
8 Unión San Felipe 4 2 0 2 4 5 2 1 0 1 2 3 2 1 0 1 2 2 -1 6
9 Santiago Wanderers 4 1 2 1 5 5 3 1 2 0 4 2 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 5
10 Deportes Santa Cruz 4 1 2 1 3 5 2 0 1 1 2 5 2 1 1 0 1 0 -2 5
11 Cobreloa 3 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 0 1 2 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 4
12 Antofagasta 4 1 1 2 2 5 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 1 2 1 5 -3 4
13 Rangers 4 0 3 1 4 5 2 0 1 1 2 3 2 0 2 0 2 2 -1 3
14 Puerto Montt 4 0 3 1 2 4 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 2 4 -2 3
15 San Marcos 5 0 1 4 5 10 2 0 0 2 2 5 3 0 1 2 3 5 -5 1
16 Univ. Concepción 2 0 0 2 1 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 2 -2 0
Last season Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Magallanes 32 22 6 4 61 23 16 13 2 1 30 5 16 9 4 3 31 18 38 72
2 Cobreloa 32 20 8 4 41 24 16 14 2 0 25 8 16 6 6 4 16 16 17 68
3 Copiapo 32 15 7 10 46 34 16 10 4 2 31 14 16 5 3 8 15 20 12 52
4 Unión San Felipe 32 15 7 10 38 35 16 11 3 2 23 12 16 4 4 8 15 23 3 52
5 Puerto Montt 32 12 11 9 36 31 16 7 6 3 19 12 16 5 5 6 17 19 5 47
6 Univ. Concepción 32 12 10 10 42 34 16 6 6 4 25 20 16 6 4 6 17 14 8 46
7 Rangers 32 14 4 14 39 40 16 6 1 9 23 26 16 8 3 5 16 14 -1 46
8 Barnechea 32 12 8 12 47 43 16 9 4 3 29 15 16 3 4 9 18 28 4 44
9 Santiago Wanderers 32 10 12 10 37 37 16 5 6 5 21 19 16 5 6 5 16 18 0 42
10 Deportes Temuco 32 10 8 14 31 41 16 8 4 4 23 20 16 2 4 10 8 21 -10 38
11 Deportes Santa Cruz 32 9 9 14 34 39 16 9 5 2 23 11 16 0 4 12 11 28 -5 36
12 Deportes Iquique 32 8 11 13 31 38 16 7 6 3 22 14 16 1 5 10 9 24 -7 35
13 Recoleta 32 8 10 14 34 41 16 5 4 7 21 22 16 3 6 7 13 19 -7 34
14 Santiago Morning 32 8 10 14 37 47 16 5 5 6 18 18 16 3 5 8 19 29 -10 34
15 San Luis 32 7 13 12 27 42 16 3 9 4 10 15 16 4 4 8 17 27 -15 34
16 Melipilla 32 7 9 16 30 49 16 6 4 6 17 17 16 1 5 10 13 32 -19 30
17 Fernandez Vial 32 3 17 12 26 39 16 1 9 6 12 17 16 2 8 6 14 22 -13 26

Read more about Primera B

The Campeonato Primera B is the second level of the Chilean football league. It has 16 teams and the season runs from February to December with each team playing 30 fixtures. The winner is promoted while teams in the second to sixth place in the league table enter a promotion playoff.