Sporting Meda vs Lusitania FC Lourosa: Match guide and preview

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Competition: Portugal 2. Division: Group B
Date: Sat 20.April
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estádio Dr. Augusto César de Carvalho (3000 seats)

Struggling Sporting Meda will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Lusitania FC Lourosa in the upcoming league round. It’s 18th vs 2nd 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.

Lusitania FC Lourosa play their home games on grass, while this game is played on artificial turf. Recent stats for Lusitania FC Lourosa when playing on artificial turf are 0 wins, 0 draws and 6 defeats from six matches. They have scored 3 goals and conceded 13 times in these games.

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Sporting Meda form and stats

With 0 wins, 1 draw and 10 defeats from their home games, Sporting Meda, who have the fewest points (1) at home in 2. Division: Group B, are certainly not brimming with confidence. All in all it has been a very rough period for Sporting Meda who hasn’t won a game in their last 33 attempts. Their previous win was against Pescadores. With 16 home games in a row without a win, the Sporting Meda fans could feel they are not getting value for their money. It remains to be seen whether this unfortunate streak, which started after the Pescadores game long ago, can be stopped today.

In their previous game, the manager Rogério Afonso led his Sporting Meda to a defeat in the 2. Division: Group B match away at Gafanha. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Estádio Dr. Augusto César de Carvalho. Ahead of that match, Sporting Meda lost 2-3 at home to Cinfães.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Sporting Meda here at Estádio Dr. Augusto César de Carvalho, with less than one goal per game on average (6 from 11 games). As for conceded goals, Sporting Meda's unpleasant statistic is 6 goals surrendered.

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Lusitania FC Lourosa form and stats

The visitors, who have the most points (20) away in 2. Division: Group B, are W5-D5-L1 on the road this term. Things are running smoothly for Lusitania FC Lourosa who hasn't tasted defeat in their last 25 matches, regardless of venue and tournament. Their last defeat was against Coimbrões. Lusitania FC Lourosa are enjoying a nice run from their away games now, having played twelve in a row without losing.

Lusitania FC Lourosa are travelling after their nice 2-1 home win in the 2. Division: Group B against Amarante. Ahead of that match was the victory versus Gondomar at their stadium, the result 2-1.

Lusitania FC Lourosa are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 15 away goals from 11 games. Lusitania FC Lourosa are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 9 times in 11 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

The two sides played each other earlier this season: Lusitania FC Lourosa - Sporting Meda 5-1. Last one meeting between the teams: Sporting Meda won 0, Lusitania FC Lourosa won 1 and 0 draws.

Top Goalscorers

Diogo Cunha
7 goals
G. Zakpa
6 goals
Leo
5 goals

Sporting Meda missing players

Lusitania FC Lourosa missing players

Sporting Meda Lusitania FC Lourosa
Total Home Statistic Away Total
30 15 Played 15 30
18 12 Scored 21 47
88 44 Conceded 12 24
100% 100% Over 0.5 73% 80%
87% 87% Over 1.5 73% 70%
70% 73% Over 2.5 47% 50%
40% 47% Over 3.5 20% 20%
30% 40% Over 4.5 7% 10%
47% 53% Both teams to score 60% 57%
0% 0% Clean Sheet 40% 43%
53% 47% Failed To Score 27% 20%
 
0.7 0 Corners For (avg) 0.7 1.4
1.5 0 Corners Against (avg) 0.9 0.8
0.4 0 Yellow Cards (avg) 0.3 0.4
2 0 Red Cards (total) 0 0
Key stats this season:
  • Sporting Meda hasn't played a single 0-0 game.
  • Sporting Meda is involved in more matches over 2.5 home, than away.
  • Sporting Meda has failed to keep a clean sheet in 30 matches.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Gondomar 22 13 5 4 33 13 11 9 1 1 20 5 11 4 4 3 13 8 20 44
2 Lusitania FC Lourosa 22 11 9 2 36 19 11 6 4 1 21 10 11 5 5 1 15 9 17 42
3 Lusitano FCV 22 11 6 5 41 17 11 7 2 2 22 5 11 4 4 3 19 12 24 39
4 Espinho 22 10 8 4 26 14 11 7 4 0 17 6 11 3 4 4 9 8 12 38
5 Paredes 22 11 4 7 35 20 12 8 2 2 28 10 10 3 2 5 7 10 15 37
6 Sanjoanense 22 10 7 5 27 21 10 6 3 1 12 6 12 4 4 4 15 15 6 37
7 Águeda 22 9 8 5 30 20 11 5 6 0 15 7 11 4 2 5 15 13 10 35
8 Amarante 22 9 6 7 24 18 12 6 3 3 15 9 10 3 3 4 9 9 6 33
9 Coimbrões 22 8 8 6 23 23 10 6 2 2 13 8 12 2 6 4 10 15 0 32
10 União Madeira 22 9 4 9 19 24 10 5 2 3 10 9 12 4 2 6 9 15 -5 31
11 Gafanha 22 9 4 9 36 41 11 5 2 4 16 16 11 4 2 5 20 25 -5 31
12 Marítimo II 22 6 10 6 27 27 12 4 7 1 12 10 10 2 3 5 15 17 0 28
13 Cinfães 22 7 4 11 18 23 12 4 3 5 11 13 10 3 1 6 7 10 -5 25
14 Pedras Rubras 22 5 9 8 24 26 10 3 5 2 13 11 12 2 4 6 11 15 -2 24
15 Penalva Castelo 22 6 5 11 22 41 11 4 3 4 15 18 11 2 2 7 7 23 -19 23
16 Leca 22 5 5 12 20 34 11 2 2 7 9 17 11 3 3 5 11 17 -14 20
17 Cesarense 22 3 9 10 25 32 11 2 4 5 13 15 11 1 5 5 12 17 -7 18
18 Sporting Meda 22 0 1 21 9 62 11 0 1 10 6 32 11 0 0 11 3 30 -53 1