Caldas will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 2 points behind Loures.
- Caldas have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Loures have the most points from losing position (8) in 2. Division: Group F
Caldas and Loures should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Caldas's stadium, Campo da Mata, has a grass surface. Loures have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Loures when playing on grass; 6 wins, 12 draws and 13 losses from 31 matches. They have scored 23 goals in these games and conceded 28.
Caldas are fighting like crazy to avoid relegation and desperately need points in this fixture. Loures are fighting to avoid relegation and will work hard for points.
Caldas form and stats
The story so far in the 2. Division: Group F for Caldas at their home stadium (Campo da Mata) is 4 wins, 2 draws and 4 defeats.
Caldas lost their last game at Torreense (placed 1st) after a 0-4 scoreline. Previous to that game, a home match hosting Sintrense in a game that was won 1-0.
Caldas were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one.
A decent goal production from Caldas in their home games so far, with 15 goals from 10 league matches. 12 goals have been conceded.
Loures form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their 2. Division: Group F travels is 2 wins, 4 draws and 3 defeats.
Adílio Varela scored in Loures's previous match, the home game against Pero Pinheiro that ended 1-0.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Loures as they have only managed to score 7 times from 9 away games in the league. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (8 so far).
Head 2 Head
This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Loures - Caldas 3-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last seven matches): Caldas zero wins, four draws and Loures three victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.Caldas missing players
Loures missing players
| Caldas | Loures | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 20 | 10 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 9 | 20 |
| 9 | 4 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| 8 | 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 25 | 15 | 3 | Scored | S | 2 | 7 | 22 |
| 25 | 12 | 6 | Conceded | C | 3 | 8 | 17 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 67% | 89% | 95% |
| 70% | 80% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 56% | 60% |
| 50% | 60% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 22% | 25% |
| 30% | 30% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 5% |
| 50% | 60% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 56% | 40% |
| 35% | 30% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 22% | 40% |
| 15% | 10% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 33% | 25% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.2 | 1.4 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 1.9 | 2.3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 10.4 | 12.2 | 11.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 16.3 | 11.6 | 11.1 |
| 4.3 | 5.6 | 3.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6.7 | 4.8 | 4.6 |
| 27% | 24% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 10% | 16% | 23% |
- Caldas have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Caldas have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Loures have scored away.
- Caldas haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Loures have the most points from losing position (8) in 2. Division: Group F
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Torreense | 20 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 41 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 6 | 31 | 50 |
| 2 | Alverca | 20 | 16 | 1 | 3 | 44 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 25 | 8 | 34 | 49 |
| 3 | União Santarém | 19 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 31 | 23 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 8 | 32 |
| 4 | Loures | 20 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 32 |
| 5 | Caldas | 20 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 25 | 25 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 0 | 30 |
| 6 | Sintrense | 19 | 9 | 0 | 10 | 28 | 31 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 19 | -3 | 27 |
| 7 | Sacavenense | 20 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 20 | 23 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 12 | -3 | 23 |
| 8 | Pero Pinheiro | 19 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 10 | -6 | 21 |
| 9 | União Almeirim | 20 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 17 | 26 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 11 | -9 | 18 |
| 10 | 1º Dezembro | 19 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 16 | 26 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 21 | -10 | 18 |
| 11 | Lourinhanense | 19 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 15 | 42 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 17 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 25 | -27 | 9 |
| 12 | Pero Pinheiro | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 13 | Fatima | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | -19 | -2 |