Deportes Santa Cruz vs Fernández Vial full preview

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Competition: Chile Primera B
Competition: Tue 26.July
Match begins: 22:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Municipal de Santa Cruz (1500 seats)

Both the home- and away side have had some difficulties so far, but a win in this vital match would certainly help. Get ready for Deportes Santa Cruz - Fernández Vial!

Insights:
  • Deportes Santa Cruz have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Fernández Vial have the fewest scored goals (13) in Primera B

This should be an entertaining game with lots of action and bustle as both teams are well recovered since they last saw competitive action. Get this show on the road!

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Deportes Santa Cruz form and stats

4 victories, 4 draws and 1 defeat. That’s what Deportes Santa Cruz have to build on here at Estadio Municipal de Santa Cruz in the Primera B. When Deportes Santa Cruz hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Recoleta, San Luis, Deportes Santa Cruz, Univ. Concepcion and Santiago Wanderers), they have won 3 of 4 matches! After failing to beat Copiapo here at Estadio Municipal de Santa Cruz, Deportes Santa Cruz has put together a very nice winning streak on their own turf with four wins in a row.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Gonzalo Flores not having conceded a league goal in 198 minutes.

The home team returns to Estadio Municipal de Santa Cruz after drawing with Magallanes (placed 1st) on their last time out; the game ended 0-0.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Santiago Morning in a game that was won 1-0.

Sports bettors, take note: A review of the 10 most recent league matches reveals that 8 of them had at least one goal scored by each team.

The Deportes Santa Cruz fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 11 in 9 matches. Deportes Santa Cruz are not conceding a lot of goals here at Estadio Municipal de Santa Cruz in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 6 from 9 matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches. Deportes has at home met teams with this table position (low), four times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 4 of 4 times.

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Fernández Vial form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Fernández Vial so far with only 8 points returning home. The records show 1-5-3 (win-draw-lose).

Fernández Vial delivered a 0-0 draw playing at home against Recoleta (placed 17th) in their previous match.

Preceding that game was the away victory against Rangers with the score of 3-1.

The visitors have scored 8 goals from 9 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. 12 goals have been conceded by Fernández in these games.

Head 2 Head

Fernández Vial - Deportes Santa Cruz 1-0 was the outcome when this pair of participants last did battle, earlier this season. Head-2-head stats last three meetings: zero - zero - three (Deportes wins - draws - Fernández Vial wins). As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one had two or less. The matches between these sides have sometimes been a bit wild, having seen 2 sending-offs from the last three duels.

Top Goalscorers

Deportes Santa CruzP. Muñoz Zúñiga
P. Muñoz Zúñiga
8 goals
Deportes Santa CruzH. Becica
H. Becica
4 goals
Fernández VialK. Harbottle Carrasco
K. Harbottle Carrasco
3 goals

Deportes Santa Cruz missing players

Fernández Vial missing players

Deportes Santa Cruz Fernández Vial
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
19 9 4 Played P 3 9 18
4 4 3 Won W 0 1 2
7 4 1 Drew D 3 5 11
8 1 0 Lost L 0 3 5
17 11 5 Scored S 2 8 13
21 6 0 Conceded C 2 12 18
89% 89% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 33% 78% 72%
63% 67% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 67% 50%
37% 22% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 44% 28%
11% 11% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 33% 22%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
47% 44% 0% BTTS BTTS 33% 56% 44%
32% 56% 100% Clean Sheets C S 67% 22% 33%
32% 11% 25% Failed to Score F T 67% 44% 50%
 
4.6 5.7 5.2 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4 5
5.5 5.2 4.8 Corners against (avg) C A 4.7 4.7 4.1
2.8 2.2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 3.3 2.9
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 2 3
 
11.8 14.1 15 Shots (avg) S ( 10.3 10.6 9.6
4.7 5.3 4.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.3 3.8 4
19% 23% 28% Goal Efficiency G E 20% 24% 18%
 
11.6 9.9 9 Shots against (avg) S A 8 12.4 10.6
4.3 3.2 2.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.3 4.9 4.3
Key stats in Primera B this season:
  • Deportes Santa Cruz have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Fernández Vial have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Fernández Vial have the fewest scored goals (13) in Primera B
  • Fernández Vial have won significantly less corners away then 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 Magallanes 19 15 3 1 36 13 10 9 1 0 18 3 9 6 2 1 18 10 23 48
2 Cobreloa 19 11 4 4 23 15 9 8 1 0 16 5 10 3 3 4 7 10 8 37
3 Unión San Felipe 19 10 6 3 25 14 9 6 3 0 12 3 10 4 3 3 13 11 11 36
4 Rangers 19 10 3 6 28 23 10 4 1 5 16 18 9 6 2 1 12 5 5 33
5 Copiapo 18 8 4 6 28 18 9 6 2 1 18 5 9 2 2 5 10 13 10 28
6 Barnechea 19 6 8 5 28 24 9 4 4 1 17 9 10 2 4 4 11 15 4 26
7 Puerto Montt 19 6 8 5 20 20 10 6 4 0 14 3 9 0 4 5 6 17 0 26
8 Deportes Iquique 18 5 6 7 20 25 9 5 3 1 14 8 9 0 3 6 6 17 -5 21
9 Melipilla 19 5 6 8 17 23 9 4 2 3 10 9 10 1 4 5 7 14 -6 21
10 Deportes Temuco 18 5 6 7 19 27 10 5 3 2 14 14 8 0 3 5 5 13 -8 21
11 Santiago Morning 19 4 8 7 22 28 10 2 5 3 10 11 9 2 3 4 12 17 -6 20
12 Deportes Santa Cruz 19 4 7 8 17 21 9 4 4 1 11 6 10 0 3 7 6 15 -4 19
13 San Luis 19 4 7 8 16 27 10 2 5 3 6 9 9 2 2 5 10 18 -11 19
14 Univ. Concepcion 19 3 9 7 18 19 9 1 5 3 12 13 10 2 4 4 6 6 -1 18
15 Santiago Wanderers 18 4 6 8 16 23 8 2 2 4 8 11 10 2 4 4 8 12 -7 18
16 Fernández Vial 18 2 11 5 13 18 9 1 6 2 5 6 9 1 5 3 8 12 -5 17
17 Recoleta 19 2 8 9 17 25 10 2 4 4 14 15 9 0 4 5 3 10 -8 14

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.