Soccer betting preview: Santiago Morning welcomes Copiapó in what could be a tight duel

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Competition: Chile Primera B
Competition: Wed 08.September
Match begins: 15:30 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Municipal de La Pintana (6000 seats)

Santiago Morning are enjoying their 2nd, while Copiapó are bringing up the rear 4 points behind in the league table. Will they reduce the gap?

Insights:
  • Santiago Morning have the most clean sheets (9) in Primera B
  • Copiapó have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Copiapó, who are travelling more than 800 kilometers to play this game.

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Santiago Morning form and stats

The overall Primera B stats at home this season for Santiago Morning, who have the most clean sheets (9) in Primera B, are 2-4-2 (wins-draws-losses). Santiago has a nice streak going on as they have played 14 consecutive leaguegames without losing (regardless of home/away). They are keen to extend their tally, a streak that began after the Deportes Santa Cruz defeat 134 days ago.

An away draw last time out for Santiago, facing Deportes Santa Cruz in a game that ended 1-1.

In the preceding match a 1-0 victory visiting Magallanes.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Santiago Morning have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found twelve matches with the results: Won four, drawn seven and lost one.

Santiago Morning has scored 9 league goals at home this season, in 8 matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. From these home matches, Santiago have conceded only 6 goals.

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Copiapó form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Primera B travels is 4 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats.

Copiapó has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to Deportes Temuco for a Primera B game that ended a draw (1-1).

Ahead of that game was the 2-2 draw at home against Puerto Montt.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 17 similar matches played by Copiapó in our archives, and the results are: four wins for Copiapó, seven draws and six defeats.

A new game in only four days for Copiapó, the Primera B home match versus Rangers. Busy days.

Copiapó have scored 11 goals on their travels this season, from 9 away games in the league. Copiapó struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 14 goals conceded from these games. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.

Head 2 Head

Copiapó - Santiago 2-2 was the story when these teams last met, some time ago this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Santiago four wins, three draws and Copiapó three victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Santiago MorningS. Pino Briceño
S. Pino Briceño
7 goals
Santiago MorningL. Barrera
L. Barrera
5 goals
SantiagoO. Ortega
O. Ortega
4 goals

Santiago Morning missing players

Copiapó missing players

Santiago Morning Copiapó
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
17 8 4 Played P 3 9 17
7 2 1 Won W 0 4 6
8 4 2 Drew D 2 2 7
2 2 1 Lost L 1 3 4
26 9 4 Scored S 1 11 20
15 6 2 Conceded C 2 14 22
82% 62% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 89% 88%
76% 62% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 67% 71%
47% 50% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 56% 41%
24% 12% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 22% 24%
6% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 22% 12%
47% 38% 25% BTTS BTTS 33% 56% 53%
53% 62% 75% Clean Sheets C S 33% 22% 29%
18% 38% 50% Failed to Score F T 67% 33% 29%
 
3.5 4.5 5.2 Corners for (avg) C F 3 3.8 4.2
4.8 5.6 5.5 Corners against (avg) C A 6 4.1 4.4
2.6 2.8 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.7 2.4 2.4
2 1 0 Red cards R C 1 3 4
 
8.4 9.2 9.2 Shots (avg) S ( 10.3 9.2 9.6
3.9 3.9 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.3 3.1 3.5
39% 29% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 14% 39% 33%
Key stats in Primera B this season:
  • Copiapó have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Santiago Morning have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Santiago Morning have the most clean sheets (9) in Primera B
  • Santiago Morning have the the best goal difference (+11) in Primera B
  • Santiago Morning have won significantly more corners at home than away.

  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 Santa Cruz 18 9 3 6 24 23 9 4 2 3 14 16 9 5 1 3 10 7 1 30
2 Santiago Morning 17 7 8 2 26 15 8 2 4 2 9 6 9 5 4 0 17 9 11 29
3 Coquimbo Unido 17 7 8 2 23 14 10 4 5 1 9 5 7 3 3 1 14 9 9 29
4 Puerto Montt 18 7 8 3 18 15 9 4 4 1 10 7 9 3 4 2 8 8 3 29
5 Deportes Temuco 18 6 7 5 24 20 9 3 4 2 12 9 9 3 3 3 12 11 4 25
6 Copiapó 17 6 7 4 20 22 8 2 5 1 9 8 9 4 2 3 11 14 -2 25
7 Magallanes 17 6 6 5 20 21 8 3 1 4 10 12 9 3 5 1 10 9 -1 24
8 Univ. Concepción 18 5 8 5 25 25 9 3 4 2 14 11 9 2 4 3 11 14 0 23
9 San Marcos 18 7 2 9 21 26 9 4 1 4 12 12 9 3 1 5 9 14 -5 23
10 Rangers 16 6 4 6 21 17 8 4 1 3 13 8 8 2 3 3 8 9 4 22
11 Cobreloa 17 4 8 5 16 20 9 4 2 3 13 12 8 0 6 2 3 8 -4 20
12 Fernández Vial 12 6 1 5 19 13 5 3 1 1 8 4 7 3 0 4 11 9 6 19
13 Union San Felipe 17 5 3 9 18 27 9 3 2 4 12 14 8 2 1 5 6 13 -9 18
14 Barnechea 17 4 5 8 16 21 10 1 3 6 5 12 7 3 2 2 11 9 -5 17
15 Deportes Iquique 18 4 4 10 26 32 8 1 3 4 13 14 10 3 1 6 13 18 -6 16
16 Lautaro de Buin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
16 San Luis 17 3 6 8 10 16 8 1 2 5 5 9 9 2 4 3 5 7 -6 15

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.