An important duel in the bottom section of the Mineiro 1, with both Villa Nova and Coimbra experiencing more worry than joy. This match is a classic "six-pointer" with the home team placed 11th and the visitors in 10th place.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Villa and Coimbra.
Villa Nova form and stats
0 victories, 1 draw and 3 defeats. That’s what Villa Nova have to build on here at Estádio Municipal Castor de Cifuentes in the Mineiro 1. It's trouble wherever Villa are playing these days as they have suffered four straight defeats now, regardless of arena. They really need to get back to winning ways. With Villa having lost three times in a row here, the pressure is increasing on the manager A. Fonseca dos Santos.
Villa faced defeat in their previous match, away at Uberlandia (1-2). Before that game, the home loss against Atletico Mineiro with the scoreline 1-3.
The Villa fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 5 in 4 matches. Villa are struggling defensively, conceding on average more than two goals per home game (9 from 4 played).
Coimbra form and stats
1-1-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Coimbra in their Mineiro 1 matches away.
Coimbra failed to get anything from their last game, a Mineiro 1 home match vs Tombense (placed 1st) that ended with defeat 1-2. Preceding that game was the away victory against Cruzeiro with the score of 1-0.
Goals are few and far between in Coimbra's away league games. Only 1 goal from 5 travels. Coimbra are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 4 times in 5 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  L. da Silva Carvalho 2 goals |  R. Reydel Mol de Morais 1 goals | P. do Pilar Silva 1 goals |
Villa Nova missing players
Coimbra missing players
| Villa Nova | Coimbra | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 5 | 10 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 10 | 5 | 2 | Scored | S | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 19 | 9 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 80% | 80% |
| 90% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 20% | 50% |
| 70% | 100% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 30% | 50% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 70% | 100% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 30% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 40% | 30% |
| 30% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 80% | 60% |
| 5.3 | 5 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 4.6 | 5.9 |
| 5.5 | 4.5 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 3.6 | 4.8 |
| 3.1 | 3 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2.4 | 2.2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 74 | 44 | 12 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 44 | 108 |
| 20 | 14 | 4 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 12 | 27 |
| 50% | 36% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 8% | 15% |
- All of Villa Nova's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Coimbra has the fewest matches over the total-line (1)
- Coimbra has the fewest scored goals (4)
- Coimbra have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Coimbra have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Villa Nova has the fewest clean sheets (0)
- Villa Nova has the fewest matches under the total-line (3)
- Villa Nova has the most conceded goals in the first half (9)
- Villa Nova has the most matches over the total-line (7)
- Villa Nova have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Villa Nova have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Villa Nova have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Villa Nova have scored more than double the goals of Coimbra.
- Villa Nova have yet to win a game at home.
- Villa Nova haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Tombense | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 11 | 23 |
| 2 | America Mineiro | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 22 |
| 3 | Caldense | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 20 |
| 4 | Atletico Mineiro | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 19 |
| 5 | Cruzeiro | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 17 |
| 6 | Uberlandia | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -1 | 14 |
| 7 | CAP Patrocinense | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 12 |
| 8 | Boa | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -1 | 11 |
| 9 | URT | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 13 | -10 | 11 |
| 10 | Coimbra | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | -6 | 7 |
| 11 | Villa Nova | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 10 | -9 | 4 |
| 12 | Tupynambas | 10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 25 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | -19 | 3 |