Enjoying a 5 point dominance in the league standings, Salgueiro club members long to see their team collect full points from this game against Afogados.
- Salgueiro have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Afogados have the most dropped points from leading position (14) in Pernambucano 1
It's no vacation for neither Salgueiro nor Afogados as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Salgueiro form and stats
2-2-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Pernambucano 1 numbers at home for Salgueiro so far this season.
The Salgueiro fans enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Afogados and win 3-2. Sweet to taste a league win after three games without one.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Retrô (0-1).The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Salgueiro have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 14 games) they have won 6 times, drawn 7 and lost 1.
Trouble hitting the net? Looking at this club's last 10 league matches, 8 have seen two goals or less.
Early season league goal statistics from Salgueiro's 6 home games: {6 goals}, 6 conceded.
Afogados form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Afogados so far with only 3 points returning home. The records show 0-3-3 (win-draw-lose). The pressure to perform on the road is increasing on Guimarães, the Afogados manager, as the last three away games were defeats.
Afogados play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 2-3 to Salgueiro (placed 6th).
A home win before that, celebrating 1-0 vs Íbis.We have checked recent matches where Afogados have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 9 games were 3 victories, 3 draws and 3 defeats.
Low-scoring game? 9 of this side's last 12 league fixtures have contained zero, one or two goals.
Afogados are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 8 away goals from 6 games (in the league). For Afogados, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
The 6 latest matches featuring these teams have all finished as Salgueiro wins. Another one?This is what happened when the contenders faced each other earlier this campaign; Salgueiro - Afogados 3-2. The matches between these teams have sometimes been hot-tempered, having seen 6 sending-offs from the last ten encounters.
Top Goalscorers
  H. Magalhaes da Silva 1 goals |  M. Freire da Silva 1 goals | G. Almeida Augusto 1 goals |
Salgueiro missing players
Afogados missing players
| Salgueiro | Afogados | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 3 | 6 | 12 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 11 | 6 | 1 | Scored | S | 3 | 8 | 13 |
| 11 | 6 | 0 | Conceded | C | 3 | 14 | 19 |
| 83% | 83% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 83% |
| 25% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 25% |
| 17% | 17% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 50% | 25% |
| 8% | 17% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 50% | 25% |
| 33% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| 42% | 33% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 42% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 3.7 | 3.8 | 2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.7 | 4 | 4 |
| 6.4 | 5 | 10 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7 | 6.2 | 5.1 |
| 2.9 | 3 | 6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.3 | 3.2 | 2.6 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 6.2 | 6.7 | 7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6.7 | 7.3 | 10.8 |
| 2.1 | 2.3 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.7 | 3.8 | 4.3 |
| 43% | 43% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 27% | 35% | 25% |
| 11.5 | 10.7 | 19 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 17.3 | 13.7 | 12.2 |
| 4.7 | 4 | 7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.7 | 5.7 | 4.9 |
- Afogados have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Afogados have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Afogados have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Afogados have the most conceded goals (14) away in Pernambucano 1
- Afogados have the most dropped points from leading position (14) in Pernambucano 1
- Afogados have yet to win a game away.
- Afogados haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- All of Afogados's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Salgueiro have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than 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 | Sport Recife | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 29 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 23 | 30 |
| 2 | Retrô | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 24 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 3 | 19 | 27 |
| 3 | Náutico | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 12 | 25 |
| 4 | Petrolina | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 19 |
| 5 | Santa Cruz | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 15 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 18 |
| 6 | Salgueiro | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 16 |
| 7 | Porto | 12 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 14 |
| 8 | Central | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | -3 | 14 |
| 9 | Maguary PE | 12 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 7 | -2 | 13 |
| 10 | Íbis | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 22 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | -9 | 12 |
| 11 | Afogados | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 14 | -6 | 11 |
| 12 | Belo Jardim | 12 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 26 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | -17 | 5 |
| 13 | Caruaru City | 12 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 27 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 16 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 11 | -23 | 2 |
