Cerveira vs Sporting Braga II match preview

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Competition: Portugal 2. Division: Group A
Competition: Sun 20.December
Match begins: 11:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estádio Municipal Rafael Pedreira (2500 seats)

Cerveira will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 14 points behind Sporting Braga II.

Insights:
  • Cerveira has the most matches under the total-line (5) in 2. Division: Group A
  • Sporting Braga II has the most scored goals (29) in 2. Division: Group A

Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!

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 five matches resulting in 4 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat with the goal stats 14-4 (scored/conceded).

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Cerveira form and stats

2-1-1 (win-draw-lost) are the 2. Division: Group A numbers at home for Cerveira so far this season. Cerveira has recorded two wins in a row here at Estádio Municipal Rafael Pedreira, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.

A nice win for Cerveira last time playing, versus Bragança. That was also a home game and the match ended 1-0. Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Vianense (0-1).

The lack of attacking qualities in Cerveira means that they have only scored 2 goals in 4 league home games, less than half a goal per match. Cerveira have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 1 goal.

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Sporting Braga II form and stats

Sporting Braga II are yet to lose a point on their 2. Division: Group A travels this season with 3 wins from 3 away games.

The Sporting Braga II goalkeeper is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 208 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.

Braga go into this game after a win, the home game against Mirandela that ended 3-0.

The prediction for this game is lots of goals as Braga alone have scored more than three on average in their league games away (12 from 3 played). Sporting Braga II are tight as a drum on their travels, having allowed the opposition only 1 goal away.

Head 2 Head

Numbers for the last two meetings between these two teams are: zero wins for Cerveira, zero draws and two wins for Sporting Braga II. Over 2,5 goals: two times; under 2,5 goals: zero games.

Top Goalscorers

Sporting Braga IIV. Carvalho Oliveira
V. Carvalho Oliveira
8 goals
Sporting Braga IIE. Ferreira Soares
E. Ferreira Soares
3 goals
Sporting Braga IIH. Tchuda da Silva
H. Tchuda da Silva
3 goals

Cerveira missing players

Sporting Braga II missing players

Cerveira Sporting Braga II
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
8 4 2 Played P 2 3 8
3 2 0 Won W 2 3 8
1 1 1 Drew D 0 0 0
4 1 1 Lost L 0 0 0
5 2 0 Scored S 8 12 29
6 1 1 Conceded C 1 1 4
88% 75% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
38% 0% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 100%
12% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 100% 100%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 100% 75%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 33% 25%
12% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 50% 33% 50%
50% 75% 50% Clean Sheets C S 50% 67% 50%
50% 50% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.5 3 3.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1 1.6
2 2 1 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
6.9 8.8 8.5 Shots (avg) S ( 13 13 13.3
2.5 2.8 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6 6 6.1
25% 18% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 67% 67% 58%
Key stats in 2. Division: Group A this season:
  • All of Sporting Braga II's away-matches have had more than 3,5 goals.
  • Cerveira has the most matches under the total-line (5) in 2. Division: Group A
  • Sporting Braga II has the fewest conceded goals (1) away in 2. Division: Group A
  • Sporting Braga II has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2) in 2. Division: Group A
  • Sporting Braga II has the fewest matches under the total-line (0) in 2. Division: Group A
  • Sporting Braga II has the most matches over the total-line (5) in 2. Division: Group A
  • Sporting Braga II has the most points (9) away in 2. Division: Group A
  • Sporting Braga II has the most scored goals (12) away in 2. Division: Group A
  • Sporting Braga II has the most scored goals (29) in 2. Division: Group A
  • Sporting Braga II has the most scored goals in the first half (9) in 2. Division: Group A
  • Sporting Braga II has the most scored goals in the second half (20) in 2. Division: Group A
  • Sporting Braga II has the the best goal difference (+11) away in 2. Division: Group A
  • Sporting Braga II has the the best goal difference (+25) in 2. Division: Group A
  • Sporting Braga II have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Sporting Braga II have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Sporting Braga II have scored more than double the goals of Cerveira.
  • Sporting Braga II have won all their games so far.
  • Sporting Braga II haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Sporting Braga II is in the best form (6-0-0)

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Sporting Braga II 8 8 0 0 29 4 5 5 0 0 17 3 3 3 0 0 12 1 25 24
2 Merelinense 8 5 1 2 11 4 3 3 0 0 5 0 5 2 1 2 6 4 7 16
3 Montalegre 8 4 3 1 13 6 4 2 1 1 9 4 4 2 2 0 4 2 7 15
4 Mirandela 8 3 4 1 9 7 4 1 3 0 4 2 4 2 1 1 5 5 2 13
5 Vilaverdense 8 2 5 1 13 11 4 2 1 1 10 8 4 0 4 0 3 3 2 11
6 Vianense 8 3 2 3 6 9 4 2 1 1 3 5 4 1 1 2 3 4 -3 11
7 Cerveira 8 3 1 4 5 6 4 2 1 1 2 1 4 1 0 3 3 5 -1 10
8 Vidago 8 2 3 3 8 11 4 2 1 1 5 4 4 0 2 2 3 7 -3 9
9 Maria da Fonte 8 1 3 4 8 14 4 1 3 0 7 6 4 0 0 4 1 8 -6 6
10 Pedras Salgadas 8 1 3 4 6 13 4 1 1 2 2 6 4 0 2 2 4 7 -7 6
11 Bragança 7 1 1 5 2 10 4 0 1 3 0 5 3 1 0 2 2 5 -8 4
12 Aguia FC Vimioso 7 0 2 5 4 19 3 0 1 2 1 5 4 0 1 3 3 14 -15 2

Read more about 2. Division: Group A

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.