Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Sporting CP & Marítimo face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the League Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
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.
Sporting CP form and stats
Sporting CP have been very solid at home in the Liga Portugal so far, with 15 points collected from 6 matches (5-0-1). This has contributed greatly to their 4th position in the table.
Sporting CP are returning here after guesting Rio Ave in a League Cup game and winning with a 2-0 scoreline.
A home victory ahead of that game, as anticipated. The team were solid favourites against Farense and won 6-0.
Sporting CP are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Estádio José Alvalade in their league games, having scored an impressive 16 goals in 6 matches. From these home matches, Sporting CP have conceded only 4 goals.
Marítimo form and stats
Last season their League Cup adventure ended in the 1st round.Marítimo have only collected 4 points from their away games in the Liga Portugal, after 1-1-5 (7 played).
Marítimo aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 242 league minutes without a goal. Ramírez was the last player to find the net.
Two away games in a row for Marítimo, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-2 vs Farense in the League Cup.
The match earlier was the League Cup-battle against Rio Ave, a home loss (0-1). With the host team given a winning chance of approximately 80% by the bookmakers, any favourable result for the visitors would be a small shock. Inspecting historical matches with similar odds and Marítimo as the away team, we found 4 results. The numbers from these were 0 away wins, 0 draws and 4 defeats. The outsiders lost 2 of these fixtures by a margin of at least two goals.
The visitors have scored 4 goals from 7 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. People interested in "over 2,5 goals" betting will like to know that Marítimo concede an average of more than 2,5 goals per away match all on their own.
Head 2 Head
Sporting CP have pulled off a streak of 4 consecutive matches without losing (3-1-0) when facing Marítimo.Top Goalscorers
  Pote 7 goals |  M. Edwards 5 goals |  N. Santos 4 goals |
Sporting CP missing players
Marítimo missing players
| Sporting CP | Marítimo | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 7 | Won | W | 2 | 5 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 3 | 6 | ||
| 9 | 4 | Lost | L | 7 | 14 | ||
| 44 | 27 | Scored | S | 10 | 21 | ||
| 29 | 12 | Conceded | C | 28 | 40 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 60% | ||
| 56% | 54% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 40% | ||
| 24% | 31% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 42% | 24% | ||
| 12% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 16% | ||
| 44% | 38% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 44% | ||
| 32% | 38% | Clean Sheets | C S | 17% | 24% | ||
| 24% | 23% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 36% | ||
| 6.3 | 6.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.7 | 5.8 | ||
| 3.5 | 3.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 4.3 | ||
| 3 | 2.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.3 | 2.5 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 5 | ||
| 14.4 | 15.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.3 | 11.6 | ||
| 5.4 | 5.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.1 | 3.9 | ||
| 34% | 39% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 22% | ||
| 9.2 | 7.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14.7 | 13.4 | ||
| 3.3 | 2.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.8 | 4.9 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Sporting CP | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 6 |
| 2 | Farense | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | -4 | 3 |
| 3 | Rio Ave | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -1 | 3 |
| 4 | Marítimo | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -3 | 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 | Benfica | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 37 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 30 | 37 |
| 2 | Porto | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 31 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 22 | 29 |
| 3 | Sporting Braga | 13 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 29 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 7 | 17 | 28 |
| 4 | Sporting CP | 13 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 26 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 25 |
| 5 | Casa Pia | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 23 |
| 6 | Vitória SC | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 23 |
| 7 | Portimonense | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 7 | -2 | 19 |
| 8 | Chaves | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 11 | -3 | 19 |
| 9 | Arouca | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | -5 | 19 |
| 10 | Rio Ave | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 13 | -2 | 18 |
| 11 | Boavista | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 23 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 11 | -9 | 17 |
| 12 | Estoril | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 | -4 | 16 |
| 13 | Vizela | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | -2 | 15 |
| 14 | Santa Clara | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | -2 | 13 |
| 15 | Famalicao | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 11 | -7 | 11 |
| 16 | Gil Vicente | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 21 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -10 | 9 |
| 17 | Marítimo | 13 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 27 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 19 | -19 | 6 |
| 18 | Paços de Ferreira | 13 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 26 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 12 | -19 | 2 |
