Rangers fights Deportes Santa Cruz in Primera B battle

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Competition: Chile Primera B
Competition: Mon 14.December
Match begins: 23:15 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Fiscal de Talca (8200 seats)

There should be a significant difference in quality between these teams based on table positions so far, with Rangers leading Deportes Santa Cruz by 17 points.

Insights:
  • Rangers have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Deportes Santa Cruz has the most conceded goals (40) in Primera B

These are busy days for the home team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Primera B. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at San Luis.

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Rangers form and stats

23 points is a decent return from 11 Primera B games here at Estadio Fiscal de Talca for Rangers. The data says 7 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses.

Rangers travelled for their previous game, a trip to San Luis that ended 1-1. In the match before that, Rangers hosted Copiapo and drew the game 1-1.

There will be little rest for Rangers after this match as they are travelling to Deportes Temuco for a Primera B game in only four days.

A decent goal production from Rangers in their home games so far, with 21 goals from 11 league matches. On the other hand, Rangers have conceded 12 goals. 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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Deportes Santa Cruz form and stats

Deportes Santa Cruz, who have the most conceded goals (40) in Primera B, have only collected 9 points from their away games in the Primera B, after 2-3-6 (11 played). Bitter travels for Deportes as they have lost five games in a row away from home. The last time they avoided an away-from-home loss was the Barnechea match.

Deportes are travelling after their nice 4-1 home win in the Primera B against Cobreloa (placed 9th). Preceding that game, the 1-2 loss visiting Deportes Temuco's place.

F. Carmona certainly enjoyed Deportes Santa Cruz's last game versus Cobreloa, appearing multiple times in the match report with three goals and the 4-1 victory.

Deportes are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 11 away goals from 11 games (in the league). Deportes's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 18 goals from these trips.

Head 2 Head

The last H2H meeting was Deportes Santa Cruz - Rangers 0-2, played this season. Head-2-head stats last four meetings: two - one - one (Rangers wins - draws - Deportes Santa Cruz wins). As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two had two or less.

Rangers missing players

Deportes Santa Cruz missing players

Rangers Deportes Santa Cruz
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
22 11 3 Played P 3 11 22
9 7 2 Won W 0 2 5
8 2 0 Drew D 2 3 3
5 2 1 Lost L 1 6 14
34 21 6 Scored S 4 11 22
28 12 5 Conceded C 7 18 40
91% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 91% 95%
68% 73% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 73% 77%
45% 64% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 55% 55%
27% 36% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 27% 27%
18% 18% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 18% 23%
59% 73% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 64% 55%
32% 27% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 18% 9%
18% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 27% 41%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.3 1.9 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.3 2.5 2.4
1 0 0 Red cards R C 2 2 4
 
9 10.4 12.7 Shots (avg) S ( 6.3 5.6 7.7
4.2 4.9 5.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.7 2.9 3
39% 39% 35% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 34% 33%
Key stats in Primera B this season:
  • Deportes Santa Cruz has the fewest clean sheets (2) in Primera B
  • Deportes Santa Cruz has the most conceded goals (40) in Primera B
  • Deportes Santa Cruz has the most conceded goals in the second half (27) in Primera B
  • Deportes Santa Cruz has the the worst goal difference (-18) in Primera B
  • Rangers have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Rangers have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Rangers haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 Nublense 21 12 4 5 35 23 11 10 1 0 25 10 10 2 3 5 10 13 12 40
2 Union San Felipe 23 10 8 5 30 20 11 5 5 1 13 8 12 5 3 4 17 12 10 38
3 Rangers 22 9 8 5 34 28 11 7 2 2 21 12 11 2 6 3 13 16 6 35
4 Puerto Montt 22 9 6 7 29 21 11 6 5 0 20 6 11 3 1 7 9 15 8 33
5 Melipilla 22 9 6 7 23 19 11 5 3 3 12 6 11 4 3 4 11 13 4 33
6 San Marcos 22 10 3 9 22 23 8 5 2 1 9 4 14 5 1 8 13 19 -1 33
7 Magallanes 22 7 10 5 25 21 10 3 7 0 11 8 12 4 3 5 14 13 4 31
8 Copiapo 21 8 6 7 39 33 12 6 2 4 25 18 9 2 4 3 14 15 6 30
9 Cobreloa 22 8 5 9 28 29 10 5 1 4 15 10 12 3 4 5 13 19 -1 29
10 Deportes Temuco 21 7 6 8 25 29 11 5 2 4 11 11 10 2 4 4 14 18 -4 27
11 Deportes Valdivia 21 5 9 7 25 27 12 5 5 2 16 12 9 0 4 5 9 15 -2 24
12 Santiago Morning 20 5 8 7 23 29 11 1 6 4 11 17 9 4 2 3 12 12 -6 23
13 Barnechea 22 5 8 9 25 34 11 4 4 3 18 17 11 1 4 6 7 17 -9 23
14 San Luis 21 4 8 9 19 28 11 2 4 5 12 13 10 2 4 4 7 15 -9 20
15 Deportes Santa Cruz 22 5 3 14 22 40 11 3 0 8 11 22 11 2 3 6 11 18 -18 18

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.