League round two of the Segunda Liga campaign and the contenders have learned from the first fixture. Here's the best Leixões - Santa Clara pre-match guide:
Leixões and Santa Clara 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.
Leixões form and stats
The season before, Leixões's league results were 10 wins, 9 draws and 15 losses, results that produced 15th place in the Segunda Liga. From these 34 matches they scored {38 goals} and conceded 49. Appearing at their own stadium in the previous season Leixões generated 6-4-7 (win-draw-lost) with {18 goals} and 18 conceded.
Leixões are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-3 away versus Penafiel.
A 0-0 scoreline against Portimonense (after extra-time, 5-4 on penalties) before that, played at their own home stadium in the League Cup.
Santa Clara form and stats
Let's have a look at how Santa Clara performed last season in the Liga Portugal: They landed a 18th position in the league table after playing out 5 victories, 7 draws and 22 defeats. In total they scored 26 and conceded {58 goals} in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 1 - drew 2 and lost 14 with 8/29 goals scored/conceded.
Santa Clara won their last game, 2-0 versus Torreense played at home.
One game before, 0-0 at home vs Tondela (after extra-time, 2-4 on penalties) in the League Cup.
Head 2 Head
Stats for the last ten meetings involving these two sides are: two wins for Leixões, four draws and four wins for Santa Clara. Over 2,5 goals: three times; under 2,5 goals: seven games.
Top Goalscorers
![]() A. Pinto Lopes 1 goals | ![]() B. Pereira Soares Almeida 1 goals |
Leixões missing players
Santa Clara missing players
| Leixões | Santa Clara | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| 10 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Leixões | Last season | Santa Clara | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 34 | 17 | Played | P | 17 | 34 | ||
| 10 | 6 | Won | W | 1 | 5 | ||
| 9 | 4 | Drew | D | 2 | 7 | ||
| 15 | 7 | Lost | L | 14 | 22 | ||
| 38 | 18 | Scored | S | 8 | 26 | ||
| 49 | 18 | Conceded | C | 29 | 58 | ||
| 94% | 94% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 88% | 91% | ||
| 74% | 65% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 47% | 65% | ||
| 41% | 29% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 47% | 53% | ||
| 24% | 12% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 12% | 24% | ||
| 15% | 12% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 6% | 6% | ||
| 50% | 41% | BTTS | BTTS | 29% | 47% | ||
| 21% | 29% | Clean Sheets | C S | 18% | 15% | ||
| 35% | 35% | Failed to Score | F T | 65% | 47% | ||
| 5.8 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.3 | 4.5 | ||
| 6.1 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.7 | 5.8 | ||
| 2.6 | 2.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4.2 | 3.4 | ||
| 10 | 4 | Red cards | R C | 4 | 7 | ||
| 11.1 | 10.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.2 | 11 | ||
| 4.1 | 3.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 3.7 | ||
| 27% | 28% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 15% | 20% | ||
| 12.9 | 12.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14.2 | 13.4 | ||
| 4.7 | 4.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.9 | 4.6 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | UD Oliveirense | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 2 | AVS | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | Uniao de Leiria | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | Santa Clara | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | Penafiel | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Mafra | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | Feirense | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | Maritimo | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | Benfica II | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -1 | 3 |
| 10 | Tondela | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Academico Viseu | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Porto II | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 | Vilaverdense | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 1 |
| 14 | Pacos de Ferreira | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 1 |
| 15 | CF Os Belenenses | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 1 |
| 16 | Nacional | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 17 | Torreense | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
| 18 | Leixões | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 0 |
| Last season | Total | Home | Away | ||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Moreirense | 34 | 24 | 7 | 3 | 77 | 38 | 17 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 49 | 21 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 28 | 17 | 39 | 79 |
| 2 | Farense | 34 | 21 | 6 | 7 | 57 | 34 | 17 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 37 | 14 | 17 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 20 | 20 | 23 | 69 |
| 3 | Estrela Amadora | 34 | 16 | 15 | 3 | 55 | 35 | 17 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 28 | 18 | 17 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 27 | 17 | 20 | 63 |
| 4 | Academico Viseu | 34 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 51 | 45 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 27 | 19 | 17 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 24 | 26 | 6 | 53 |
| 5 | Porto II | 34 | 14 | 9 | 11 | 48 | 40 | 17 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 27 | 13 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 21 | 27 | 8 | 51 |
| 6 | Mafra | 34 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 46 | 49 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 23 | 22 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 23 | 27 | -3 | 47 |
| 7 | Feirense | 34 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 43 | 37 | 17 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 22 | 20 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 21 | 17 | 6 | 46 |
| 8 | Vilafranquense | 34 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 42 | 36 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 23 | 19 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 19 | 17 | 6 | 46 |
| 9 | Torreense | 34 | 13 | 5 | 16 | 38 | 41 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 22 | 15 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 16 | 26 | -3 | 44 |
| 10 | UD Oliveirense | 34 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 51 | 50 | 17 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 27 | 21 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 24 | 29 | 1 | 43 |
| 11 | Tondela | 34 | 8 | 16 | 10 | 35 | 35 | 17 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 17 | 18 | 17 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 18 | 17 | 0 | 40 |
| 12 | Penafiel | 34 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 36 | 47 | 17 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 19 | 21 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 17 | 26 | -11 | 39 |
| 13 | Nacional | 34 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 35 | 46 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 18 | 21 | 17 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 17 | 25 | -11 | 39 |
| 14 | Benfica II | 34 | 10 | 8 | 16 | 52 | 58 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 27 | 25 | 17 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 25 | 33 | -6 | 38 |
| 15 | Leixões | 34 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 38 | 49 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 20 | 31 | -11 | 38 |
| 16 | Belenenses | 34 | 9 | 8 | 17 | 41 | 59 | 17 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 19 | 32 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 22 | 27 | -18 | 35 |
| 17 | Trofense | 34 | 8 | 8 | 18 | 31 | 51 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 19 | 30 | 17 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 21 | -20 | 32 |
| 18 | Sporting Covilha | 34 | 7 | 7 | 20 | 31 | 57 | 17 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 25 | 17 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 18 | 32 | -26 | 28 |
| Last season | 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 | 34 | 28 | 3 | 3 | 82 | 20 | 17 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 48 | 12 | 17 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 34 | 8 | 62 | 87 |
| 2 | Porto | 34 | 27 | 4 | 3 | 73 | 22 | 17 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 44 | 11 | 17 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 29 | 11 | 51 | 85 |
| 3 | Sporting Braga | 34 | 25 | 3 | 6 | 75 | 30 | 17 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 40 | 11 | 17 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 35 | 19 | 45 | 78 |
| 4 | Sporting CP | 34 | 23 | 5 | 6 | 71 | 32 | 17 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 42 | 12 | 17 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 29 | 20 | 39 | 74 |
| 5 | Arouca | 34 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 36 | 37 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 22 | 17 | 17 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 20 | -1 | 54 |
| 6 | Vitória SC | 34 | 16 | 5 | 13 | 34 | 39 | 17 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 12 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 16 | 27 | -5 | 53 |
| 7 | Chaves | 34 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 35 | 40 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 20 | 21 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 19 | -5 | 46 |
| 8 | Famalicao | 34 | 13 | 5 | 16 | 39 | 47 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 21 | 19 | 17 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 18 | 28 | -8 | 44 |
| 9 | Boavista | 34 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 43 | 54 | 17 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 23 | 21 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 20 | 33 | -11 | 44 |
| 10 | Casa Pia | 34 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 31 | 40 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 23 | -9 | 41 |
| 11 | Vizela | 34 | 11 | 7 | 16 | 34 | 38 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 18 | 19 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 16 | 19 | -4 | 40 |
| 12 | Rio Ave | 34 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 36 | 43 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 18 | 14 | 17 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 18 | 29 | -7 | 40 |
| 13 | Gil Vicente | 34 | 10 | 7 | 17 | 32 | 41 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 14 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 17 | 27 | -9 | 37 |
| 14 | Estoril | 34 | 10 | 5 | 19 | 33 | 49 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 20 | 24 | 17 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 25 | -16 | 35 |
| 15 | Portimonense | 34 | 10 | 4 | 20 | 25 | 48 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 21 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 11 | 27 | -23 | 34 |
| 16 | Maritimo | 34 | 7 | 5 | 22 | 32 | 63 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 21 | 23 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 40 | -31 | 26 |
| 17 | Pacos de Ferreira | 34 | 6 | 5 | 23 | 26 | 62 | 17 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 13 | 33 | 17 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 29 | -36 | 23 |
| 18 | Santa Clara | 34 | 5 | 7 | 22 | 26 | 58 | 17 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 18 | 29 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 29 | -32 | 22 |