Liga Portugal match prediction: Little separates Marítimo and Arouca in quality

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Competition: Portugal Liga Portugal
Competition: Sun 23.October
Match begins: 14:30 (UTC)
Venue: Estádio dos Barreiros (10932 seats)

Club members at Estádio dos Barreiros haven’t enjoyed many wins this season, with Marítimo languishing in the 18th position. The visiting Arouca will hope to defend their higher league place in this fixture.

Insights:
  • Marítimo have the most conceded goals (25) in Liga Portugal
  • Arouca have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.

Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an animated fixture!

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Marítimo form and stats

0 victories, 0 draws and 4 defeats. That’s what Marítimo, who have the most conceded goals (25) in Liga Portugal, have to build on here at Estádio dos Barreiros in the Liga Portugal. The season ticket holders are starting to dread their visits here at Estádio dos Barreiros, with the home team losing four in a row. They have not avoided a defeat here since the Chaves game.

The regulars hope that Marítimo will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 2-4 away defeat in the Taça De Portugal fixture against Mafra.

Before that, Marítimo played out a Liga Portugal draw 1-1 when visiting Boavista.

This is expected to be a close game, with Marítimo perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Marítimo as a small favourite), we find 14 games. Marítimo has won 5 of these, drawn 4 and lost 5.

Marítimo aren't scoring a lot here at Estádio dos Barreiros in the league, with only {3 goals} from 4 games. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Marítimo defense is not exactly impregnable. 7 goals conceded from 4 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Arouca form and stats

1 win, 2 draws and 1 loss. That’s the product of Arouca playing as the away team in the Liga Portugal this season. Two points from the last two away games for Arouca, which the math geniuses among you will translate to two draws.

Two away games in a row for Arouca, whose coach Freitas could celebrate last time after the Taça De Portugal win against Fontinhas. That victory felt sweet as this team had gone five league matches without winning.

Before that, Arouca secured a home win against Famalicão with the score 4-1.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Arouca playing away and similar expectations, we found 6 relevant matches. Results were 1 Arouca win, 4 draws and 1 defeat.

The visitors have scored 3 goals from 4 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Arouca struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 6 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

Data for the former ten meetings involving these two sides are: four wins for Marítimo, two draws and four wins for Arouca. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.

Top Goalscorers

AroucaR. Mújica
R. Mújica
3 goals
MarítimoBruno Xadas
Bruno Xadas
2 goals
AroucaA. Watshini Bukia
A. Watshini Bukia
2 goals

Marítimo missing players

Arouca missing players

Marítimo Arouca
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
9 4 2 Played P 2 4 9
0 0 0 Won W 1 1 3
1 0 0 Drew D 1 2 3
8 4 2 Lost L 0 1 3
6 3 1 Scored S 3 3 11
25 7 3 Conceded C 2 6 17
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 75% 89%
89% 75% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 75% 78%
78% 75% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 50% 67%
33% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 25% 44%
33% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 22%
67% 75% 50% BTTS BTTS 100% 50% 56%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 22%
33% 25% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 50% 33%
 
5.9 7.8 5.5 Corners for (avg) C F 3.5 2.5 3
5.6 6 6.5 Corners against (avg) C A 3.5 5.5 5.1
2.6 2 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 1.5 2.2
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
13.1 16.2 15.5 Shots (avg) S ( 11.5 8.2 8.7
3.6 4 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 1.8 2.8
19% 19% 10% Goal Efficiency G E 75% 43% 44%
 
17.7 15.5 15 Shots against (avg) S A 8.5 10.8 11.1
7 5.8 8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.5 3.2 4.4
Key stats in Liga Portugal this season:
  • Arouca have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Marítimo have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Marítimo have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • Marítimo have lost all their home matches so far.
  • Marítimo have the fewest points (0) at home in Liga Portugal
  • Marítimo have the most conceded goals (25) in Liga Portugal
  • Marítimo have the most conceded goals in the second half (16) in Liga Portugal
  • Marítimo have the most dropped points from leading position (12) in Liga Portugal
  • Marítimo have the the worst goal difference (-19) in Liga Portugal
  • Marítimo have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Marítimo haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Marítimo is in the worst form (0-1-5)

  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 9 8 1 0 23 5 5 5 0 0 18 5 4 3 1 0 5 0 18 25
2 Porto 9 7 1 1 22 6 4 4 0 0 15 2 5 3 1 1 7 4 16 22
3 Sporting Braga 9 6 1 2 24 10 5 3 1 1 11 4 4 3 0 1 13 6 14 19
4 Casa Pia 9 5 2 2 9 5 5 2 1 2 3 2 4 3 1 0 6 3 4 17
5 Sporting CP 9 5 1 3 18 12 4 3 0 1 10 3 5 2 1 2 8 9 6 16
6 Boavista 9 5 1 3 9 13 5 3 1 1 6 6 4 2 0 2 3 7 -4 16
7 Estoril 9 4 3 2 11 7 4 1 2 1 5 5 5 3 1 1 6 2 4 15
8 Portimonense 9 5 0 4 8 9 5 3 0 2 4 4 4 2 0 2 4 5 -1 15
9 Vitória SC 9 4 2 3 7 6 4 2 1 1 2 1 5 2 1 2 5 5 1 14
10 Chaves 9 3 3 3 8 9 4 0 3 1 3 4 5 3 0 2 5 5 -1 12
11 Arouca 9 3 3 3 11 17 5 2 1 2 8 11 4 1 2 1 3 6 -6 12
12 Vizela 9 3 2 4 7 9 4 1 1 2 3 4 5 2 1 2 4 5 -2 11
13 Rio Ave 9 2 3 4 13 17 4 2 0 2 6 5 5 0 3 2 7 12 -4 9
14 Gil Vicente 9 2 3 4 8 12 5 1 2 2 3 5 4 1 1 2 5 7 -4 9
15 Famalicão 9 2 1 6 6 12 4 2 0 2 5 4 5 0 1 4 1 8 -6 7
16 Santa Clara 9 1 2 6 6 11 5 1 2 2 5 6 4 0 0 4 1 5 -5 5
17 Paços de Ferreira 9 0 2 7 6 17 5 0 1 4 3 11 4 0 1 3 3 6 -11 2
18 Marítimo 9 0 1 8 6 25 4 0 0 4 3 7 5 0 1 4 3 18 -19 1

Read more about Liga Portugal

The Primeira Liga, also known as Liga NOS, is the top level of football in Portugal. It has 18 teams each playing 34 fixtures to decide the final league table. Portuguese football is dominated by “The Big Three”: Benfica, Porto and Sporting CP (Lisbon). These three clubs generally end up in the top three positions.