Santa Cruz RN vs Sousa — Serie D 2025
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on goals from last 9+ matches
Santa Cruz RN50%
Sousa21%✓ 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.
Santa Cruz RN creates 81% more chances
Season form · 9 home / 15 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Under69
- Over31
Fewer than 3 goals likely
Both teams score
- No64
- Yes36
One side may not score
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
Santa Cruz RN ↓
Most likely 1–0 (18%) · grid covers 99% 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
Santa Cruz RN at home — creates 1.11, concedes 1.11 · 9 matches
Sousa away — creates 0.27, concedes 1.40 · 15 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
Santa Cruz RN attack 1.11 + Sousa defence 1.40 → ÷2 → 1.25
Sousa attack 0.27 + Santa Cruz RN defence 1.11 → ÷2 → 0.69
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 50%?"
Santa Cruz RN at 50% 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 50% does not mean "Santa Cruz RN 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
If 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
Santa Cruz RN host Sousa on Saturday, 18 May 2024 at 18:00. The match is part of the Serie D 2025/2026 season.
Match Recap: Santa Cruz RN vs Sousa
Santa Cruz RN beat Sousa 2-0 in Serie D on May 18, 2024.
Goals: Paulinho (45+7' pen), Tiringa (63').
The match was played at Estádio Manoel Dantas Barretto in Ceara-Mirim, Rio Grande do Norte.