The Liga 3 standings tell a tale about these participants so far, with Alverca ahead of Académica by 8 points. Match preview to follow:
- Alverca have the the best goal difference (+5) at home in Liga 3
- Académica is in the worst form (1-0-5)
This has all the signs of an appealing match with lots of action and excitement as both participants are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Get this show on the road!
Alverca form and stats
When playing at home in the Liga 3, Alverca have managed 2 wins, 3 draws and suffered 1 defeat from 6 games.
Alverca are confident in defense, having played 221 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.
The Alverca coach Pires and his team return home after a 0-0 draw away versus Caldas (placed 1st).
Previous to that game, a home match hosting Académica in a game that was won 4-0.Trouble hitting the net? Looking at this team's last 10 league games, 8 have produced less than three goals (under 2.5).
Alverca are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 7 goals in 6 games. As for guarding their own goal, Alverca have only let in {2 goals} at home.
Académica form and stats
0 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses. That’s the product of Académica playing as the away team in the Liga 3 this season. Three consecutive losses in away matches means Académica are growing more and more desperate for a good performance on the road.
Two away games in a row for Académica, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-4 versus Alverca. As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Alverca was particularly ugly (0-4). The humiliation is still top of mind.
That result followed a home victory 3-0 versus Vitoria Setubal.As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Académica playing away, we found 6 games. Results were 0 away wins, 0 draws and 6 home wins.
Goals are few and far between in Académica's away league games. Only {2 goals} from 5 travels.
Head 2 Head
The sides have met each other before in this season, with the final score Alverca - Académica 4-0 registered in the official records.
Top Goalscorers
  R. Nogueira Rodrigues 2 goals |  D. Oliveira da Costa 2 goals | T. Ruan da Silva 1 goals |
Alverca missing players
Académica missing players
| Alverca | Académica | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 11 | 7 | 3 | Scored | S | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | Conceded | C | 2 | 10 | 16 |
| 70% | 67% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 50% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 80% | 78% |
| 20% | 17% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 40% | 44% |
| 20% | 17% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 20% | 22% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 11% |
| 30% | 17% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 40% | 33% |
| 50% | 67% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 22% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 60% | 44% |
| 6.3 | 6.4 | 8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 7 | 5.8 | 5.7 |
| 5.1 | 4.4 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 12 | 5.8 | 6.3 |
| 2.6 | 2 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 3.2 | 2.8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 11.1 | 12.6 | 13 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9 | 10 | 9.2 |
| 5.1 | 5.6 | 5.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 2.8 | 3 |
| 24% | 25% | 27% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 14% | 26% |
| 9 | 8.2 | 8.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 21 | 13 | 12.6 |
| 4.4 | 3.6 | 6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 9 | 5.4 | 5.2 |
- Académica have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Académica have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Académica have the fewest points (1) away in Liga 3
- Académica have the fewest scored goals in the second half (4) in Liga 3
- Académica have the most conceded goals in the second half (12) in Liga 3
- Académica have the the worst goal difference (-8) away in Liga 3
- Académica have the the worst goal difference (-9) in Liga 3
- Académica have yet to win a game away.
- Académica haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Académica is in the worst form (1-0-5)
- Alverca have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Alverca have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Académica have scored away.
- Alverca have the the best goal difference (+5) at home in Liga 3
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Caldas | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 17 |
| 2 | CF Os Belenenses | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 16 |
| 3 | Amora | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 16 |
| 4 | Alverca | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 14 |
| 5 | Uniao de Leiria | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 14 |
| 6 | Sporting CP II | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 12 |
| 7 | Fontinhas | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 11 |
| 8 | Vitoria Setubal | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 21 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | -4 | 11 |
| 9 | Oliveira Hospital | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | -5 | 10 |
| 10 | Moncarapachense | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -6 | 9 |
| 11 | Real | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | -3 | 7 |
| 12 | Académica | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 10 | -9 | 6 |
