The first leg ended Sporting CP-Midtjylland 1-1. All is set for the decider in this Europa League Knockout Round Play-offs fixture!
It's quite the trip for Sporting CP when visiting Midtjylland as the cities are 2900 kilometers apart.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Midtjylland form and stats
Action has already taken place for Midtjylland in Europa League as they have defeated Sturm Graz, Lazio and Feyenoord to reach the Knockout Round Play-offs. Last season their Europa League adventure ended in the group stage.With 2 Superliga wins, 3 draws and 4 defeats from their home games, Midtjylland are certainly not brimming with confidence. 2W-3D-2L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the Europa League for Midtjylland.
The Midtjylland goalkeeper Jonas Lössl is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 270 minutes without conceding a goal in the Superliga.
Happy days for Midtjylland in their previous game, a fixture away at Viborg that ended with a 4-0 victory. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Midtjylland played a great game against Viborg and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one. What a game it was for Isaksen when beating Viborg, applying the finishing touch to three goals! The attacker Isaksen was announced as "man of the match" for Midtjylland with the rating of 9.54/10. Isaksen scored three goals and hit one key pass.
In the fixture before, 1-1 away to Sporting CP (Europa League).
The match schedule is unforgiving for Midtjylland as they have a new game in only four days, a Superliga match thankfully also at home. Brøndby are visiting.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Midtjylland here at MCH Arena in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (8 from 9 games). It's worth mentioning that 9 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. 13 goals have been conceded.
Sporting CP form and stats
Sporting CP was sent out of Champions League in the group stage last season.5 wins, 2 draws and 4 losses. That’s the product of Sporting CP playing as the away team in the Liga Portugal this season.
It's the second away game in a row for Sporting CP, but there's smiles all around after the 3-2 victory versus Chaves last time out. Gonçalves got a match rating of 9.05 in that game, top player of the team. Gonçalves scored two goals, hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 3 of 4 times and had 33 successful passes (of 37 total).
A 1-1 in a home match in the Europa League before that, facing Midtjylland. The team were unhappy with the result, being huge pre-match favourites.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Estoril in just four days.
Sporting CP are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 16 away goals from 11 games (in the league). Sporting CP have conceded 16 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
These two sides played each other before this campaign: Sporting CP - Midtjylland 1-1.
Top Goalscorers
  P. Pereira Gonçalves 12 goals |   G. Isaksen 7 goals |  N. Gomes dos Santos 6 goals |
Midtjylland missing players
Sporting CP missing players
| Midtjylland | Sporting CP | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 9 | 5 | Won | W | 6 | 14 | ||
| 10 | 4 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Lost | L | 4 | 8 | ||
| 37 | 17 | Scored | S | 16 | 51 | ||
| 24 | 13 | Conceded | C | 15 | 26 | ||
| 88% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 76% | 83% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 84% | ||
| 40% | 42% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 64% | ||
| 24% | 17% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 32% | ||
| 8% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 24% | ||
| 52% | 58% | BTTS | BTTS | 58% | 48% | ||
| 36% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 17% | 32% | ||
| 24% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 20% | ||
| 4.6 | 5.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.3 | 6.1 | ||
| 4.9 | 4.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.2 | 4 | ||
| 2.2 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.5 | 3 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 5 | ||
| 12.1 | 14.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.8 | 14.6 | ||
| 4.5 | 4.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.8 | 5.3 | ||
| 33% | 32% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 28% | 39% | ||
| 11.2 | 11 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.2 | 9.1 | ||
| 3.5 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.4 | 3.6 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Nordsjælland | 18 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 30 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 16 | 36 |
| 2 | Viborg | 18 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 25 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 32 |
| 3 | København | 18 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 31 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 13 | 11 | 30 |
| 4 | Midtjylland | 18 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 28 | 22 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 20 | 9 | 6 | 26 |
| 5 | AGF | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 20 | 18 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 25 |
| 6 | OB | 18 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 23 | 25 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 10 | -2 | 25 |
| 7 | Randers | 18 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 23 | 26 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 15 | -3 | 25 |
| 8 | Silkeborg | 18 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 27 | 28 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 14 | -1 | 24 |
| 9 | Brøndby | 18 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 28 | 30 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 17 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 13 | -2 | 24 |
| 10 | Horsens | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 24 | 27 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 15 | -3 | 22 |
| 11 | AaB | 18 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 29 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 17 | -12 | 14 |
| 12 | Lyngby | 18 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 16 | 33 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 16 | -17 | 9 |
| 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 | 21 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 54 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 35 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 4 | 41 | 56 |
| 2 | Porto | 21 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 48 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 31 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 36 | 51 |
| 3 | Sporting Braga | 21 | 16 | 1 | 4 | 47 | 20 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 26 | 14 | 27 | 49 |
| 4 | Sporting CP | 21 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 43 | 23 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 27 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 16 | 20 | 41 |
| 5 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 21 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 19 | 20 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 13 | -1 | 34 |
| 6 | Casa Pia | 21 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 20 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 12 | -2 | 32 |
| 7 | Arouca | 21 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 24 | 31 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 16 | -7 | 30 |
| 8 | Vizela | 21 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 23 | 21 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 2 | 26 |
| 9 | Chaves | 21 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 21 | 27 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 15 | -6 | 26 |
| 10 | Portimonense | 21 | 8 | 2 | 11 | 18 | 27 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 17 | -9 | 26 |
| 11 | Boavista | 21 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 24 | 34 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 19 | -10 | 26 |
| 12 | Rio Ave | 21 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 20 | 25 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 17 | -5 | 24 |
| 13 | Famalicao | 21 | 7 | 3 | 11 | 21 | 29 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 20 | -8 | 24 |
| 14 | Gil Vicente | 21 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 21 | 28 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 17 | -7 | 23 |
| 15 | Estoril | 21 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 19 | 29 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 17 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 12 | -10 | 22 |
| 16 | Santa Clara | 21 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 15 | 29 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 20 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 9 | -14 | 15 |
| 17 | Maritimo | 21 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 14 | 39 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 27 | -25 | 13 |
| 18 | Pacos de Ferreira | 21 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 15 | 37 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 20 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 17 | -22 | 12 |
