Loyal fans at Estádio Municipal 22 de Junho haven’t witnessed many victories this season, with Famalicão struggling in the 13th position. The opposing Rio Ave will hope to protect their higher league spot in this game.
- Famalicão have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Liga Portugal
- Rio Ave have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
Famalicão and Rio Ave should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Famalicão form and stats
When playing at home in the Liga Portugal, Famalicão have managed 4 wins, 0 draws and suffered 3 defeats from 7 games.
Famalicão faced defeat in their previous match, away at Porto (1-4). Youssouf (midfield) was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.22/10. Youssouf dribled past the opponent 3 of 3 times and had 20 successful passes (of 22 total).
Before that game, a strong away victory at Leixoes (after extra-time). A Taça De Portugal game. The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Famalicão have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 8 matches with the results: Won 3, drawn 4 and lost 1.
Famalicão are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 10 goals in 7 games. Famalicão have conceded 8 in these home matches.
Rio Ave form and stats
Rio Ave have only collected 7 points from their away games in the Liga Portugal, after 1-4-3 (8 played).
Rio are looking to quickly end their 225 minutes long goal drought in the Liga Portugal.
Home advantage was not enough for Rio Ave in their previous game as they lost hosting Pacos de Ferreira, 0-1. That defeat was their first after four consecutive league fixtures winning points. Santos, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.15. Santos won 2 of 4 duels.
Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to Vitoria Guimaraes.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 11 similar matches played by Rio Ave in our archives, and the results are: 5 wins for Rio Ave, 4 draws and 2 defeats.
Low-scoring game? 8 of this side's most recent 10 league matches have had zero, one or two goals.
Rio Ave's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 13 goals from these trips.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last nine matches): Famalicão three wins, five draws and Rio Ave one victory. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  A. Yakubu 6 goals |  E. Boateng 4 goals |   I. Jaime Pajuelo 3 goals |
Famalicão missing players
Rio Ave missing players
| Famalicão | Rio Ave | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 16 | 7 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 8 | 16 |
| 5 | 4 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| 9 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 16 | 10 | 6 | Scored | S | 4 | 8 | 17 |
| 23 | 8 | 1 | Conceded | C | 4 | 13 | 20 |
| 88% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 88% | 94% |
| 62% | 71% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 62% | 50% |
| 50% | 71% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 50% | 38% |
| 25% | 14% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 38% | 31% |
| 19% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | 12% |
| 38% | 43% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | 44% |
| 31% | 29% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 31% |
| 44% | 29% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 38% | 31% |
| 4.2 | 3.9 | 3.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 4.2 | 4.2 |
| 5 | 5.4 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 6.1 | 5.8 |
| 2.8 | 2.6 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4.5 | 3.1 | 3 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 11.1 | 9.9 | 9.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.5 | 9.8 | 10.5 |
| 3.3 | 3.1 | 3.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6 | 2.9 | 3.2 |
| 30% | 45% | 86% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 35% | 33% |
| 14.4 | 14.3 | 8.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.5 | 16.6 | 15 |
| 5 | 5 | 2.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 4.9 | 4.4 |
- Famalicão have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Famalicão have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Liga Portugal
- Famalicão haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Rio Ave have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
| 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 | 16 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 40 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 28 | 41 |
| 2 | Sporting Braga | 16 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 37 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 7 | 25 | 37 |
| 3 | Porto | 16 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 40 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 28 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 29 | 36 |
| 4 | Sporting CP | 16 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 31 | 18 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 13 | 29 |
| 5 | Casa Pia | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 27 |
| 6 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 11 | -2 | 24 |
| 7 | Arouca | 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 25 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 13 | -7 | 23 |
| 8 | Vizela | 16 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 18 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 21 |
| 9 | Chaves | 16 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 12 | -5 | 21 |
| 10 | Rio Ave | 16 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 13 | -3 | 20 |
| 11 | Portimonense | 16 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 8 | -4 | 20 |
| 12 | Boavista | 15 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 24 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 12 | -9 | 20 |
| 13 | Famalicão | 16 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 16 | 23 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 15 | -7 | 17 |
| 14 | Estoril | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 8 | -6 | 16 |
| 15 | Santa Clara | 16 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 6 | -7 | 14 |
| 16 | Gil Vicente | 15 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 22 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 14 | -10 | 12 |
| 17 | Maritimo | 16 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 31 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 23 | -21 | 10 |
| 18 | Pacos de Ferreira | 16 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 30 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 15 | -21 | 6 |
