União de Leiria have journeyed here for an engaging fight against the hosts Alverca. Get smart on the game with this thorough Liga 3 preview!
It's no vacation for neither Alverca nor União de Leiria as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Alverca form and stats
All-inclusive Liga 3 results playing at home this season for Alverca are 0-0-1 (wins-draws-losses).
The Alverca regulars got no joy from their last match, also played here at Complexo Desportivo FC Alverca: A 0-1 defeat against União de Leiria (placed 1st).
In the game before, an away victory match versus Amora with a 3-2 scoreline.This is expected to be a close game, with Alverca perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Alverca as a small favourite), we find 8 games. Alverca has won 3 of these, drawn 2 and lost 3.
Early season league goal statistics from Alverca's 1 home game: 0 goals, 1 conceded.
União de Leiria form and stats
1-0-0 is the win-draw-loss statistic for União de Leiria in their Liga 3 matches away.
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. União de Leiria goalkeeper is eager to challenge this, with his 254 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
Two away matches in a row for União de Leiria, whose manager da Costa could celebrate last time after the win against Alverca.
A home win before that, celebrating 4-0 vs Vitoria Setubal.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 9 similar matches played by Leiria in our archives, and the results are: 3 wins for União de Leiria, 2 draws and 4 defeats.
União de Leiria have the goal stats of 1-0 (for/against) from 1 business trip in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
Alverca and União de Leiria have faced each other before this season: Alverca - União de Leiria 0-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last seven matches): Alverca three wins, one draw and União de Leiria three victories. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  G. Almeida Gregório 3 goals | D. Horta Leitão 2 goals |  T. Ruan da Silva 1 goals |
Alverca missing players
União de Leiria missing players
| Alverca | União de Leiria | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 100% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 4.5 | 5 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 5.5 | 6 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2.5 | 3 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1 | 0.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10.5 | 6 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 8 | 7.5 |
| 5.5 | 3 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 27% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 100% | 83% |
| 8.5 | 8 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 6 | 3.5 |
| 2.5 | 1 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 3 | 1.5 |
| Alverca | Last season | União de Leiria | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 30 | 15 | Played | P | 15 | 30 | ||
| 17 | 10 | Won | W | 6 | 17 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 6 | 8 | ||
| 9 | 3 | Lost | L | 3 | 5 | ||
| 43 | 25 | Scored | S | 20 | 49 | ||
| 33 | 15 | Conceded | C | 16 | 26 | ||
| 97% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 87% | 93% | ||
| 77% | 80% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 73% | 80% | ||
| 57% | 53% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 43% | ||
| 17% | 27% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 20% | 20% | ||
| 7% | 7% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 13% | 7% | ||
| 53% | 53% | BTTS | BTTS | 53% | 47% | ||
| 27% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 27% | 40% | ||
| 23% | 13% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 20% | ||
| 5.3 | 6.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.8 | 4.8 | ||
| 4.7 | 3.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.5 | 3.4 | ||
| 2.9 | 2.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2.5 | ||
| 4 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 10.7 | 11.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.1 | 10.4 | ||
| 4.1 | 4.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.1 | ||
| 35% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 40% | ||
| 8.8 | 8.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7.9 | 7.2 | ||
| 3.5 | 2.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 3.1 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | União de Leiria | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| 2 | Fontinhas | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | CF Os Belenenses | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | Alverca | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | Moncarapachense | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | Academica | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -1 | 3 |
| 7 | Caldas | 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 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Real | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Sporting CP II | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 11 | Amora | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -2 | 0 |
| 12 | Vitoria Setubal | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -4 | 0 |
