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Santa Cruz First Half Goals
In 110 LFPB matches, 72.7% of Santa Cruz’s first halves produced a goal, 7th of the 17 published clubs in the division. They scored before halftime in 39.1% of them and conceded in 52.7%.
What Santa Cruz’s first halves look like
Away from home the back line is barely the same unit: 69.1% of away matches bring an early goal against Santa Cruz, next to 36.4% at home. Early scoring in Santa Cruz’s matches tends to happen at the wrong end. They let one in before the break in 52.7% of matches and find the net in 39.1%, 13.6pp apart.
The record here is thinner than most of the division's: 110 matches against a typical 159. Home advantage is worth a little to Santa Cruz rather than a lot: 41.8% of home matches bring an early goal of theirs against 36.4% away.
A Santa Cruz away first half is worth 1.51 goals on average, a home one 1.00. An early goal in Santa Cruz’s matches tends to be the only one: a second follows just 47% of the time, where the division manages 51%.
Every figure on this page rests on 110 completed Santa Cruz matches over 3 seasons (2022 to 2024). That is enough to separate a clear tendency from noise, and not enough to split it much further by venue or opponent.
Santa Cruz first-half profile
| A goal before halftime (over 0.5) | 72.7% |
|---|---|
| Two or more (over 1.5) | 34.5% |
| Three or more (over 2.5) | 13.6% |
| Average first-half goals in their matches | 1.25 |
| Matches in which they scored before halftime | 39.1% |
| Matches in which they conceded before halftime | 52.7% |
| First-half goals scored per match | 0.45 |
| First-half goals conceded per match | 0.81 |
| Matches counted | 110 |
| Seasons covered | 3 (2022 to 2024) |
The over rows count goals by either side; the scored and conceded rows split that between them.
Home and away
| Venue | Over 0.5 | Over 1.5 | Scored | Conceded | Avg goals | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 63.6% | 29.1% | 41.8% | 36.4% | 1.00 | 55 |
| Away | 81.8% | 40.0% | 36.4% | 69.1% | 1.51 | 55 |
Santa Cruz score before halftime 41.8% of the time at home against 36.4% away, a gap of 5.4pp. Each row rests only on the matches played at that venue, so read them as two separate samples rather than one split in half.
Santa Cruz against LFPB
| Line | Santa Cruz | LFPB | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Over 0.5 | 72.7% | 72.6% | +0.1pp |
| Over 1.5 | 34.5% | 36.7% | −2.2pp |
| Over 2.5 | 13.6% | 15.9% | −2.3pp |
Counted from 110 matches · 3 seasons · 2022 to 2024.
How to read these numbers
- These are historical rates over pooled seasons, not a forecast. A club that has changed manager, division or squad reads as the average of every version of itself on record.
- The opponent matters as much as the club. A high-scoring side against a defense that rarely concedes early is a different fixture from the same side against one that does.
For the model’s estimate of an actual upcoming fixture rather than this club’s history, see first half goals predictions and how the model works.
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