This match features two contenders living in the lower section of the Liga Portugal, Arouca holding 13th position and Famalicão sitting at 15th. A nice opportunity for one of the teams to upgrade their situation.
- Arouca have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Famalicão have the fewest scored goals (0) away in Liga Portugal
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.
Arouca form and stats
When playing at home in the Liga Portugal, Arouca have managed 1 win, 1 draw and suffered 2 defeats from 4 games.
Arouca shared the glory with Paços de Ferreira in their last match, an away game that ended all square 1-1. The hometeam coach Freitas made a successful contribution in the game against Paços de Ferreira, bringing on Dabbagh who scored the equalizer in the 1-1 draw. Defender Opoku got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.45/10. Opoku served one assist, hit one key pass and won 10 of 14 duels.
In the match before that, Arouca hosted Vitória SC and drew the game 2-2.As for conceded goals, Arouca's unpleasant statistic is 10 goals surrendered.
Famalicão form and stats
0 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses. That’s the product of Famalicão playing as the away team in the Liga Portugal this season. The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Famalicão have lost on their last two travels.
Famalicão had fun at their own home (Estádio Municipal de Arouca) last time out, beating Boavista 4-0. Youssouf, Rodríguez, Rodrigues and Assunção scored. Those three points felt nice as this club had gone three league fixtures without victory. As mentioned above, Famalicão was the only team on the pitch versus Boavista in their previous game, winning 4-0. This could be a tougher task. The attacker Rodríguez got a match rating of 8.44 in that game. Rodríguez scored one goal, signed up for two assists, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times.
It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Casa Pia wasn't a success with a 0-1 loss.A fact for sports gamblers considering a bet on only one (or no) team scoring in this fixture: This club have played 8 consecutive league matches with just one or no team finding the net.
Famalicão have the goal stats of 0-4 (for/against) from 4 business trips in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last eight matches): Arouca four wins, two draws and Famalicão two victories. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  R. Mújica 3 goals |   Z. Youssouf 2 goals | Quaresma 1 goals |
Arouca missing players
Famalicão missing players
| Arouca | Famalicão | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 4 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 16 | 10 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| 88% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 75% | 88% |
| 75% | 75% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 25% | 38% |
| 62% | 75% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 38% | 50% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 12% | 25% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 25% | 25% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 38% |
| 38% | 25% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 100% | 75% |
| 3 | 3.5 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 3.8 | 3.8 |
| 5.1 | 4.8 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 6 | 5.6 |
| 2.5 | 3.5 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2.2 | 2.2 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8.1 | 8 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 12 | 10.4 |
| 2.5 | 3.2 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 2.8 | 3.2 |
| 35% | 31% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 19% |
| 11.1 | 11.5 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 12.5 | 13.8 |
| 4.4 | 5.5 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 3.5 | 4.1 |
- Arouca have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Arouca have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Arouca have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Famalicão have scored away.
- Arouca haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Famalicão have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Famalicão have failed to score a single goal away.
- Famalicão have the fewest scored goals (0) away in Liga Portugal
- Famalicão have yet to win a game away.
| 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 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 16 | 22 |
| 2 | Sporting Braga | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 15 | 19 |
| 3 | Porto | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 19 |
| 4 | Casa Pia | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 17 |
| 5 | Portimonense | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 15 |
| 6 | Boavista | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -4 | 15 |
| 7 | Sporting CP | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 13 |
| 8 | Estoril | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 12 |
| 9 | Vitória SC | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 11 |
| 10 | Rio Ave | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | -2 | 9 |
| 11 | Chaves | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -2 | 9 |
| 12 | Gil Vicente | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -3 | 9 |
| 13 | Arouca | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | -9 | 9 |
| 14 | Vizela | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -3 | 8 |
| 15 | Famalicão | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | -3 | 7 |
| 16 | Santa Clara | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | -4 | 5 |
| 17 | Paços de Ferreira | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -10 | 2 |
| 18 | Maritimo | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 17 | -19 | 0 |
