Palestino vs Deportes Santa Cruz — Copa Chile 2024
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on goals from last 8+ matches
Palestino37%
Deportes Santa Cruz41%✓ Correct in 49 of 100 matches — 5 more than always backing the home side
The model picks a winner (home or away) for each finished match using only pre-kickoff data, then checks it against the real result: 48.6% correct across 15,072 matches, vs 43.8% for always backing the home side.
Home picks 50.1% correct · Away picks 45.3% correct
Football matches only. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Expected goals in this match
What is xG?
Every shot is scored 0–1 by how likely it is to be a goal from that spot — a chance in the middle of the box ≈ 0.4, a long shot from a tight angle ≈ 0.03, a penalty ≈ 0.76. Add them up over a match and that is the xG.
The scoreline can lie: you can win 1-0 on a fluke while creating half the chances. xG shows who was really closer to scoring — and over a season it predicts results better than goals alone.
Both teams create about equally
Season form · 8 home / 9 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Over65
- Under35
3+ goals likely
Both teams score
- Yes66
- No34
Both teams likely to score
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
Palestino ↓
Most likely 1–1 (10%) · grid covers 95% of scorelines
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Total goals
Double chance
Winning margin
Team goals
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Combos
Model probabilities, not odds. For information only.
How is this calculated?
Every number below comes from this match — nothing is made up.
Recent form of each side
Palestino at home — creates 2.25, concedes 2.13 · 8 matches
Deportes Santa Cruz away — creates 1.33, concedes 1.00 · 9 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
Palestino attack 2.25 + Deportes Santa Cruz defence 1.00 → ÷2 → 1.63
Deportes Santa Cruz attack 1.33 + Palestino defence 2.13 → ÷2 → 1.73
Each side's attack is blended with the other's defence, then averaged.
Chance of every scoreline
From those two numbers a Poisson distribution gives the probability of each exact score — the grid shown above.
The answer to "why 41%?"
Deportes Santa Cruz at 41% is simply the biggest of the three — that is the pick.
What the model can't see
It reads only the stats of recent matches. It knows nothing about:
- injuries & suspensions
- the matchday lineup
- motivation — cup, relegation, a title race
- weather & pitch condition
- in-game coaching decisions
So 41% does not mean "Deportes Santa Cruz will win" — it means "on the available stats, this is the most likely result."
Statistical model based on expected goals (xG). For informational purposes only.
Match Events
Head to Head
Deportes LimacheDeportes Santa Cruz
Antofagasta
U. Catolica
Universidad de Chile
Deportes Iquique
Coquimbo Unido
D. Puerto Montt
Curico Unido
A. Italiano
Rangers de Talca
Union San Felipe
Deportes Temuco
Union La CaleraPalestino
Everton de Vina
Cobreloa
Union Espanola
Concepción
Recoleta
Deportes Copiapo
D. La Serena
Colo Colo
Nublense
Huachipato
Santiago Wanderers
O'Higgins
San Luis
Universidad de Concepcion
Cobresal
San Marcos de Arica
MagallanesIf points are equal: 1. Goal difference 2. Goals scored 3. Head-to-head
P = Played · W = Won · D = Drawn · L = Lost · GF = Goals for · GA = Goals against · GD = Goal difference · Pts = Points
Palestino host Deportes Santa Cruz on Saturday, 11 July 2026 at 19:00. The match is part of the Copa Chile 2024/2025 season.
Copa Chile: Palestino 3–2 Deportes Santa Cruz
Palestino beat Deportes Santa Cruz 3-2 in Copa Chile on July 11, 2026.
Goals: B. Carrasco (33' pen), D. Arias (51'), J. Benitez (75'), N. Da Silva (84'), H. Herrera (89').
The match was played at Estadio Municipal de La Cisterna in Santiago de Chile.