It's only the second game in the Liga 3 for these sides. And fresh bodies and minds here at Complexo Desportivo FC Alverca as Alverca host Académica. Check out this preview!
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Alverca form and stats
The Alverca coach Pereira and his pawns return home after a 1-1 draw away versus Oliveira Hospital (placed 8th).
Prior to that, an away loss at Sporting Braga II.The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Alverca have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 11 games) they have won 8 times, drawn 1 and lost 2.
Académica form and stats
Let's have a look at how Académica performed last season in the Segunda Liga: They landed a 18th position in the league table after playing out 3 victories, 8 draws and 23 defeats. In total they scored 35 and conceded {62 goals} in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 1 - drew 3 and lost 13 with 17/36 goals scored/conceded.
Académica's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus 1 Dezembro that finished 1-1.
The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-1 defeat against Moncarapachense.Académica are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 4 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats. From a total of 10 matches.
Head 2 Head
Head to head data (for the preceeding two meetings): Alverca won two games, zero matches ended with a draw and Académica have zero wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: two / zero.
Alverca missing players
Académica missing players
| Alverca | Académica | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 33% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 8 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Alverca | Last season | Académica | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 28 | 14 | Played | P | 14 | 28 | ||
| 13 | 7 | Won | W | 5 | 11 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Drew | D | 4 | 6 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Lost | L | 5 | 11 | ||
| 37 | 18 | Scored | S | 17 | 30 | ||
| 27 | 8 | Conceded | C | 19 | 35 | ||
| 93% | 86% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 93% | ||
| 79% | 64% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 79% | 68% | ||
| 43% | 29% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 43% | 39% | ||
| 11% | 7% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 21% | 18% | ||
| 4% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 7% | 7% | ||
| 61% | 36% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 43% | ||
| 25% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 21% | 32% | ||
| 21% | 29% | Failed to Score | F T | 36% | 32% | ||
| 4.8 | 4.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.6 | 4.7 | ||
| 4.5 | 3.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.4 | 5.6 | ||
| 2.6 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.3 | 2.8 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 4 | 9 | ||
| 9.4 | 9.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.2 | 7.7 | ||
| 4.2 | 4.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.1 | 3.2 | ||
| 33% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 34% | ||
| 8.8 | 8.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.8 | 10.7 | ||
| 4.1 | 3.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.8 | 4.4 | ||
| 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 Covilha | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| 2 | Sporting CP II | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Caldas | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Atletico CP | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Alverca | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Académica | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | 1 Dezembro | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Oliveira Hospital | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Amora | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 10 | Pero Pinheiro | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4 | 0 |
