2. Division: Group A match preview and statistics: Cerveira fight Sporting Braga II

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Competition: Portugal 2. Division: Group A
Competition: Sun 16.February
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)

Struggling Cerveira will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Sporting Braga II in the upcoming league round. It’s 15th vs 4th and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

This pitch has artifical turf, which is not Sporting Braga II's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on artifical turf Sporting Braga II have performed like this: Played four matches resulting in 3 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat with the goal stats 11-4 (scored/conceded).

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Cerveira form and stats

Cerveira's results here in the 2. Division: Group A have been very modest with 2 victories, 3 draws and 6 defeats.

Ahead of that match, Cerveira lost 1-3 at home to Merelinense.

As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today?

Cerveira has scored 11 league goals at home this season, in 11 matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 20 goals have been conceded.

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Sporting Braga II form and stats

4-2-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Sporting Braga II in their 2. Division: Group A matches away. It's a growing despair in Sporting Braga II as they have recorded three consecutive losses.

Sporting Braga II failed to get anything from their last game, a 2. Division: Group A home match vs Vitória Guimarães II (placed 3rd) that ended with defeat 2-3. It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Fafe wasn't a success with a 1-2 loss.

Sporting Braga II has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 16 goals from 10 games. Sporting Braga II have conceded 14 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The two sides played each other earlier this season: Sporting Braga II - Cerveira 5-0.

Cerveira missing players

Sporting Braga II missing players

Cerveira Sporting Braga II
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
21 11 3 Played P 2 10 21
4 2 2 Won W 2 4 12
5 3 0 Drew D 0 2 3
12 6 1 Lost L 0 4 6
23 11 4 Scored S 5 16 42
47 20 4 Conceded C 0 14 23
95% 91% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
86% 73% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 80% 86%
67% 64% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 50% 57%
43% 27% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 40% 38%
19% 9% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 24%
57% 64% 67% BTTS BTTS 0% 50% 48%
19% 18% 33% Clean Sheets C S 100% 20% 38%
29% 27% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 30% 14%
 
2.7 2.6 2.5 Corners for (avg) C F 6 5.6 4.9
7.2 6.4 10 Corners against (avg) C A 3 3.8 3.1
2.6 3 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.9 2.2
3 2 1 Red cards R C 0 1 4
 
92 41 25 Total Shots T S 25 70 150
34 13 7 Shots on Target S O 10 27 64
38% 54% 43% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 48% 50%
Key stats in 2. Division: Group A this season:
  • Cerveira has the most dropped points from leading position (14)
  • Cerveira have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Cerveira have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Sporting Braga II 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 Vizela 21 15 3 3 52 19 11 8 2 1 32 11 10 7 1 2 20 8 33 48
2 Fafe 21 13 3 5 29 16 11 10 0 1 21 8 10 3 3 4 8 8 13 42
3 Vitória Guimarães II 21 12 5 4 43 21 11 8 2 1 27 8 10 4 3 3 16 13 22 41
4 Sporting Braga II 21 12 3 6 42 23 11 8 1 2 26 9 10 4 2 4 16 14 19 39
5 Merelinense 21 10 6 5 36 27 10 7 1 2 20 11 11 3 5 3 16 16 9 36
6 AR São Martinho 21 11 4 6 41 24 11 6 2 3 25 14 10 5 2 3 16 10 17 34
7 Maria da Fonte 21 8 8 5 40 28 10 5 2 3 26 13 11 3 6 2 14 15 12 32
8 Montalegre 21 9 5 7 36 29 10 6 2 2 20 11 11 3 3 5 16 18 7 32
9 Berço 21 8 6 7 34 30 9 4 4 1 17 10 12 4 2 6 17 20 4 30
10 Maritimo II 21 7 8 6 33 33 10 4 5 1 16 14 11 3 3 5 17 19 0 29
11 Chaves II 21 7 7 7 41 33 10 4 3 3 23 13 11 3 4 4 18 20 8 28
12 União Madeira 21 9 1 11 32 45 10 4 1 5 16 17 11 5 0 6 16 28 -13 28
13 Mirandela 21 7 5 9 20 28 11 5 3 3 14 10 10 2 2 6 6 18 -8 26
14 Pedras Salgadas 21 4 6 11 17 39 11 3 3 5 9 16 10 1 3 6 8 23 -22 18
15 Cerveira 21 4 5 12 23 47 11 2 3 6 11 20 10 2 2 6 12 27 -24 17
16 Braganca 21 3 6 12 20 30 11 2 3 6 14 16 10 1 3 6 6 14 -10 15
17 Oliveirense 21 2 9 10 19 32 11 1 8 2 11 11 10 1 1 8 8 21 -13 15
18 Câmara de Lobos 21 2 2 17 11 65 10 1 1 8 7 22 11 1 1 9 4 43 -54 8

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The Campeonato de Portugal is the third-level football league in Portugal. It currently has four divisions based on geographic criteria. Each division has 18 teams who play each other home and away to decide a final league table. The top eight teams in total (two from each division) play a playoff to decide promotion.