Open game expected at Estádio Municipal Eng. Manuel Branco Teixeira: Chaves vs Portimonense preview

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Competition: Portugal Liga Portugal
Competition: Sat 11.March
Match begins: 15:30 (UTC)
Venue: Estádio Municipal Eng. Manuel Branco Teixeira (9000 seats)

Chaves - Portimonense: Liga Portugal cellar dwellers desperate for points and triumph. Check out all the interesting data and tables before the match!

Insights:
  • Portimonense have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Chaves form and stats

With 2 Liga Portugal wins, 5 draws and 4 defeats from their home games, Chaves are certainly not brimming with confidence. With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on Chaves to get some points in this home game.

Chaves experienced an unexpected loss 1-3 against Porto in their previous match, also played in front of their own fans. The striker Mendes was declared "man of the match" for Chaves with a rating of 7.04/10. Mendes hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 21 successful passes (of 23 total).

Heartbreak before that as Chaves lost 0-1 at Rio Ave's place.

This is expected to be a close game, with Chaves perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Chaves as a small favourite), we find 15 games. Chaves has won 5 of these, drawn 6 and lost 4.

Chaves are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 12 goals in 11 games. Chaves's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 15 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. Chaves has at home met teams with this table position (low), three times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 2 of 3 times.

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Portimonense form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Portimonense so far with only 9 points returning home. The records show 3-0-8 (win-draw-lose). When Portimonense is visiting a side on the bottom half, they have won 2 of 2 matches. Paços de Ferreira, Santa Clara, Maritimo, Estoril and Portimonense is teams we like to compare Chaves with. Bitter travels for Portimonense as they have lost five games in a row away from home. The last time they avoided an away-from-home loss was the Gil Vicente match.

Portimonense aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 180 league minutes without a goal. Junior was the last player to find the net.

Portimonense's previous game was their home loss versus Sporting CP (0-1). Alves was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.31. The defender Alves won 7 of 8 duels.

Prior to that match, the Portimonense manager Brito faced defeat when travelling to Famalicao and losing 0-1.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 12 similar matches played by Portimonense in our archives, and the results are: 5 wins for Portimonense, 3 draws and 4 defeats.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Portimonense as they have only managed to score 8 times from 11 away games in the league. In the opposite end, Portimonense have conceded 18 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

The two sides played each other earlier this match year: Portimonense - Chaves 1-0. Statistics for the previous ten meetings involving these two squads are: five wins for Chaves, one draw and four wins for Portimonense. Over 2,5 goals: six times; under 2,5 goals: four games.

Top Goalscorers

ChavesH. Hernández Marrero
H. Hernández Marrero
6 goals
ChavesS. de Sousa Vitoria
S. de Sousa Vitoria
5 goals
PortimonenseW. Ferreira dos Santos
W. Ferreira dos Santos
4 goals

Chaves missing players

Portimonense missing players

Chaves Portimonense
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
23 11 3 Played P 2 11 23
6 2 1 Won W 2 3 8
8 5 2 Drew D 0 0 2
9 4 0 Lost L 0 8 13
22 12 3 Scored S 4 8 18
31 15 2 Conceded C 0 18 29
91% 91% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 96%
74% 82% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 45% 48%
39% 36% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 45% 39%
17% 27% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 27% 13%
9% 9% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 9% 4%
57% 73% 67% BTTS BTTS 0% 18% 30%
17% 9% 33% Clean Sheets C S 100% 18% 26%
35% 27% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 64% 48%
 
4.4 4.5 3.7 Corners for (avg) C F 7 5.1 5.5
7.1 6 6.7 Corners against (avg) C A 5 5.8 5.7
3.2 3.5 4.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.5 3
5 3 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
13.2 15.1 11 Shots (avg) S ( 11.5 10.6 12
4.3 4.8 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 3.5 3.7
22% 23% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 21% 21%
 
16 15.2 15.7 Shots against (avg) S A 17 17.9 15.9
5 4.6 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 6.7 5.8
Key stats in Liga Portugal this season:
  • Portimonense have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Portimonense have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Portimonense haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 Benfica 23 20 2 1 58 13 12 11 1 0 37 9 11 9 1 1 21 4 45 62
2 Porto 23 17 3 3 52 15 11 9 0 2 32 7 12 8 3 1 20 8 37 54
3 Sporting Braga 23 17 1 5 50 22 11 8 1 2 23 6 12 9 0 3 27 16 28 52
4 Sporting CP 23 15 2 6 46 23 11 9 0 2 29 7 12 6 2 4 17 16 23 47
5 Vitória SC 23 12 4 7 24 22 12 8 2 2 14 8 11 4 2 5 10 14 2 40
6 Casa Pia 23 10 5 8 20 23 12 5 3 4 10 9 11 5 2 4 10 14 -3 35
7 Arouca 23 9 7 7 26 31 12 7 1 4 18 15 11 2 6 3 8 16 -5 34
8 Boavista 23 8 6 9 27 35 12 5 5 2 15 15 11 3 1 7 12 20 -8 30
9 Vizela 23 8 5 10 26 23 11 4 2 5 12 9 12 4 3 5 14 14 3 29
10 Gil Vicente 23 8 5 10 25 29 12 4 4 4 11 11 11 4 1 6 14 18 -4 29
11 Rio Ave 23 7 6 10 21 27 11 6 1 4 12 8 12 1 5 6 9 19 -6 27
12 Famalicao 23 8 3 12 22 31 11 6 1 4 12 9 12 2 2 8 10 22 -9 27
13 Portimonense 23 8 2 13 18 29 12 5 2 5 10 11 11 3 0 8 8 18 -11 26
14 Chaves 23 6 8 9 22 31 11 2 5 4 12 15 12 4 3 5 10 16 -9 26
15 Estoril 23 6 4 13 19 34 11 3 2 6 11 20 12 3 2 7 8 14 -15 22
16 Maritimo 23 4 4 15 17 42 11 3 2 6 10 13 12 1 2 9 7 29 -25 16
17 Santa Clara 23 3 6 14 17 35 12 2 4 6 13 23 11 1 2 8 4 12 -18 15
18 Paços de Ferreira 23 3 3 17 17 42 12 1 2 9 8 23 11 2 1 8 9 19 -25 12

Read more about Liga Portugal

The Primeira Liga, also known as Liga NOS, is the top level of football in Portugal. It has 18 teams each playing 34 fixtures to decide the final league table. Portuguese football is dominated by “The Big Three”: Benfica, Porto and Sporting CP (Lisbon). These three clubs generally end up in the top three positions.