Delightful dogfight as daring Deportes Santa Cruz duel with determined Unión San Felipe

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Competition: Chile Primera B
Competition: Tue 28.September
Match begins: 21:30 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Municipal de Santa Cruz (1500 seats)

Deportes Santa Cruz are considered as favourites to win this home fixture against Unión San Felipe, if the league standings are to be trusted. Or are we eyeing a possible shock?

Insights:
  • Deportes Santa Cruz have the most clean sheets (10) in Primera B
  • Unión San Felipe have the most dropped points from leading position (17) in Primera B

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Deportes Santa Cruz form and stats

The story so far in the Primera B for Deportes Santa Cruz, who have the most clean sheets (10) in Primera B, at their home stadium (Estadio Municipal de Santa Cruz) is 5 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats.

Deportes are confident in defense, having played 180 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.

Deportes manager O. Hurtado Galleguillos and his team return home after a 0-0 draw away versus Coquimbo Unido (placed 1st) in the Primera B.

Before that, Deportes Santa Cruz had a home game versus Deportes Temuco which ended with a victory 1-0.

Deportes have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Estadio Municipal de Santa Cruz with 15 goals in 10 league matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Deportes defense is not exactly impregnable. 16 goals conceded from 10 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Unión San Felipe form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Unión San Felipe so far with only 7 points returning home. The records show 2-1-6 (win-draw-lose).

Felipe won their last game, 1-0 versus Univ. Concepción played at home.

Prior to that match, the Unión San Felipe manager V. Rivero Faccioli faced defeat when travelling to Cobreloa and losing 1-2.

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Felipe playing away, we found one game. Results were zero away wins, one draw and zero home wins.

The visitors have scored 7 goals from 9 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. In the opposite end, Felipe have conceded 15 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

These sides met each other earlier this campaign: Unión San Felipe - Deportes 1-0. Head-2-head stats last five meetings: two - one - two (Deportes Santa Cruz wins - draws - Unión San Felipe wins). As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

DeportesC. Duma
C. Duma
5 goals
Deportes Santa CruzH. Becica
H. Becica
4 goals
Unión San FelipeJ. Méndez Gonzalez
J. Méndez Gonzalez
4 goals

Deportes Santa Cruz missing players

Unión San Felipe missing players

Deportes Santa Cruz Unión San Felipe
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
21 10 2 Played P 2 9 20
10 5 1 Won W 1 2 6
5 2 0 Drew D 0 1 4
6 3 1 Lost L 1 6 10
27 15 4 Scored S 1 7 21
25 16 3 Conceded C 1 15 30
90% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 89% 90%
62% 80% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 67% 70%
38% 40% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 67% 55%
33% 40% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 22% 25%
10% 20% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 10%
43% 50% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 56% 60%
48% 50% 50% Clean Sheets C S 50% 22% 25%
19% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 33% 25%
 
5 4.9 3.5 Corners for (avg) C F 1.5 3.9 4.6
5.5 5 5 Corners against (avg) C A 2.5 5.4 4.8
2.2 1.9 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.9 2.3
4 4 1 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
9 10.2 10.5 Shots (avg) S ( 4 6.8 9
3.6 3.9 5.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.5 3 3.7
36% 38% 36% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 22% 27%
Key stats in Primera B this season:
  • Deportes Santa Cruz have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Deportes Santa Cruz have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Unión San Felipe have scored away.
  • Deportes Santa Cruz have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Deportes Santa Cruz have the most clean sheets (10) in Primera B
  • Deportes Santa Cruz haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Unión San Felipe have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Unión San Felipe have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Unión San Felipe have the most dropped points from leading position (17) in Primera B
  • Unión San Felipe have the the worst goal difference (-8) away in Primera B

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Coquimbo Unido 21 9 10 2 26 15 12 5 6 1 11 6 9 4 4 1 15 9 11 37
2 Deportes Santa Cruz 21 10 5 6 27 25 10 5 2 3 15 16 11 5 3 3 12 9 2 35
3 Puerto Montt 21 8 9 4 21 20 11 5 5 1 13 9 10 3 4 3 8 11 1 33
4 Santiago Morning 20 8 8 4 30 23 10 3 4 3 13 10 10 5 4 1 17 13 7 32
5 Copiapo 21 8 8 5 30 27 10 3 6 1 15 9 11 5 2 4 15 18 3 32
6 San Marcos 21 10 2 9 30 28 10 5 1 4 16 12 11 5 1 5 14 16 2 32
7 Deportes Temuco 21 8 7 6 29 21 11 5 4 2 17 9 10 3 3 4 12 12 8 31
8 Rangers 20 8 5 7 26 25 10 5 2 3 15 9 10 3 3 4 11 16 1 29
9 Magallanes 21 7 8 6 24 25 10 4 2 4 13 12 11 3 6 2 11 13 -1 29
10 Deportes Iquique 21 6 5 10 33 36 10 3 3 4 19 17 11 3 2 6 14 19 -3 23
11 Univ. Concepción 21 5 8 8 25 28 10 3 4 3 14 12 11 2 4 5 11 16 -3 23
12 Unión San Felipe 20 6 4 10 21 30 11 4 3 4 14 15 9 2 1 6 7 15 -9 22
13 Fernandez Vial 16 6 3 7 25 21 7 3 2 2 11 8 9 3 1 5 14 13 4 21
14 San Luis 21 4 9 8 17 22 10 2 3 5 9 12 11 2 6 3 8 10 -5 21
15 Cobreloa 20 4 8 8 19 28 10 4 2 4 14 16 10 0 6 4 5 12 -9 20
16 Barnechea 20 4 5 11 20 29 11 1 3 7 7 15 9 3 2 4 13 14 -9 17
16 Lautaro de Buin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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.