Santos vs Avaí betting tip 2024 - Picks and Predictions for the Serie B match on August 17th, 2024

Santos and Avaí will play on August 17th, 2024, Saturday at 19:00h (UTC), in an event counting for the Serie B in Brazil, check the Santos vs Avaí betting tip 2024 to win with your bets.

Stadium and City where Santos vs Avaí will occur

The game takes place in the small Estádio Urbano Caldeira stadium, in the city of Santos, with a capacity for 16798 spectators, that will try to help the team achieve a positive result.

Where to follow the live game

Including statistics, events and odds, you can follow the match live at Betarena, with access to all the information to help with your sports betting.

Introduction to the Santos vs Avaí betting tip 2024

Despite the season change, the Serie B has not changed much regarding goals. Today's average goals in the competition are still similar to what was seen in the tournament's last edition. The current mark is 2.17 goals per game, which is very close to the 2.09 goals per game of the last championship.

Santos last match

In the last match they played, Santos collected a win. The opposing team was Paysandu, and the match - which ended with the result of 0-3 - was valid for Serie B. Coach F. Carille's disposed his team in a 4-1-4-1 formation.

The forecast was that the match between the two teams would be quite close, hence the home win had odds of 2.40.

Despite the victory, the team did not have a great performance in general. One of the few athletes who achieved some prominence in the match was Julio Furch, who appeared well in the most decisive moments of the game and was a crucial player in the victory of Santos.

Avaí last match

On the other hand, the visiting team arrives at this match after a victory in the last round. In a dispute valid for Serie B, Avaí, who used a 4-4-2 formation, faced the Operário PR team with a final score of 1-0.

The odds for the home team to win before the match were 2.10, so it was logical to expect a fairly even match.

Santos vs Avaí h2h

Santos occupied 4th place when they went against Avaí, who was in 16th place, in their last match at Serie B. Santos first went in with a 4-3-3 formation, which was engaged by Avaí with a 4-2-3-1 deployment.

The last time these teams met was for a Serie B match, on 26-04-2024, referring to the 2024 season, which ended with a 0-2 win for Santos.

Santos

Serie B leaderboard now

The Santos team with 37 points currently occupies the 1st place of the leaderboard, being in the qualifying place for the Promotion, with a campaign of 11 wins, 4 draws and 5 losses.

This means that Novorizontino team, in 2nd place, is close behind in the 21st round with a disadvantage of 1 point.

Santos analysis

The ratio of goals scored to goals conceded for Santos is positive: after 20 rounds the team has scored 33 goals, conceding only 14.

Playing at home shows more positive results for the team with 7 wins, 1 loss and, 1 draw compared to the 4 games they won as the visiting team.

Santos is a more offensive team than Avaí, having 1994 attacks vs. 1909 from Avaí, having scored 33 times. In comparison, Avaí converted into goal 16 times.

Best goalscorer from Santos

In the individual highlights of the team in the offensive sector, the focus falls on Guilherme Augusto so far in the competition. With 6 goals with his signature, the Attacker has helped his team Santos to achieve victorious results this season.

Avaí

Serie B leaderboard now

Avaí arrives in this game with 28 points, and in 10th place in the Serie B, having won 7 games in total and lost 6 times, making a total of 7 draws.

In the 21st round, the team has the same number of points when compared to Goiás team who occupies position 9.

Avaí analysis

Avaí counted 16 goals scored and 15 conceded at the end of Serie B day number 20.

Recent games have demonstrated that Avaí is having difficulties in scoring goals, as they have recorded a low number of goals and a high number of matches where they failed to score. This suggests that their attacking play needs to be improved, with a focus on creating more quality chances.

The outcome of the match promises to be less than positive for the team, which is awaiting a complicated away game and has some less than comforting attacking numbers: only 0.8 goals on average per game in this tournament.

Best goalscorer from Avaí

In this season, the individual highlight is Mauricio that has dominated the offensive side. The Attacker has already scored 3 times this season, becoming crucial in the positive results that Avaí achieved in several matches.

Now a few markets where you can get some return from your bets:

Goals Top Betting Tips

It can also be interesting to bet on who will score in this match. The featured player of Santos is Guilherme Augusto, who has already scored 6 goals in the competition. On the other hand, the leading scorer of Avaí is Mauricio, he has scored in 3 opportunities.

75-90 minutes into the game is a good time to bet with most goals being made in this period.

Taking into consideration that Avaí scores an average of 0.56 goals per match when playing away, we should consider the under 2.5 betting market, especially because this team usually does not concede goals when playing out of their stadium.

Currently, at Bet365, the odds for the Total Goals Under 2.5 market are quoted at 1.62.

Corners Top Betting Tips

One should consider that the combined number of corners of both teams will give an average of 5.55 corners per game if one would like to have good betting results.

Cards Top Betting Tips

Highly disciplined, the teams have an average of only 4.4 yellow cards per match, when added together. In other words, the 'Under 4.5 cards' option looks like a great alternative for bettors.

This is a match with several good betting entries to have some return on sports betting.

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