Preview: 44 points are between the participants until now, Sporting CP on top. Can Paços de Ferreira upset the odds?
- Paços de Ferreira have the fewest clean sheets (3) in Liga Portugal
- Sporting CP have the most matches over the total-line (20) in Liga Portugal
This has all the signs of an entertaining match with lots of spark and bustle as both contenders are well recovered since they last played a game. Let's go!
Paços de Ferreira form and stats
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Liga Portugal this season. Paços de Ferreira have only managed 2 wins, 2 draws and 11 losses from their games here at Estádio da Capital do Móvel. The Ferreira manager da Silva might feel some added pressure to get something from this game after two straight home defeats.
It's back home for Paços de Ferreira, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Vizela away with the result 2-1. Bernardo and Gaitán found the net in that victory. Sweet to taste a league win after five matches without one. The striker Thomas was declared "man of the match" for Paços de Ferreira with the rating of 7.43/10. Thomas served one assist and hit one key pass.
Preceding that match was the home game against Porto that was lost 0-2.No one expects the home team to get anything from this game. It's not often a home team are such massive outsiders as in this game. We've searched our database for matches where Paços de Ferreira had similar winning odds as today, and found 4 games. In these, the hosts won 0, drew 0 and lost 4. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Paços de Ferreira lost 4 similar games by at least two goals.
Ferreira aren't scoring a lot here at Estádio da Capital do Móvel in the league, with only {10 goals} from 15 games. Paços de Ferreira have conceded 28 from these games.
Sporting CP form and stats
The visitors are W8-D3-L4 on the road this term. That's in the Liga Portugal. In general it has been a productive period now for Sporting CP as they haven't lost any of their last ten games.
Morita scored in Sporting CP's previous match, the home game against Famalicao that ended 2-1. Midfield player Santos was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.85/10. Santos hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 38 successful passes (of 46 total).
Before that one, a nice away victory 2-0 at Vitória SC.Sporting CP has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 23 goals from 15 games. 19 goals have been conceded by Sporting CP in these games.
Head 2 Head
The 14 most recent fixtures involving these two teams have all ended as Sporting CP wins. Will history repeat itself?Here's what happened when the teams faced each other earlier this campaign; Sporting CP - Ferreira 3-0.
Top Goalscorers
  P. Pereira Gonçalves 15 goals |  F. Machado Mota de Castro Trincão 8 goals |  N. Gomes dos Santos 7 goals |
Paços de Ferreira missing players
Sporting CP missing players
| Paços de Ferreira | Sporting CP | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 30 | 15 | 5 | Played | P | 5 | 15 | 30 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 3 | 8 | 20 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 20 | 11 | 4 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 23 | 10 | 2 | Scored | S | 5 | 23 | 61 |
| 52 | 28 | 8 | Conceded | C | 2 | 19 | 28 |
| 97% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 80% | 93% | 97% |
| 73% | 80% | 80% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 40% | 67% | 83% |
| 50% | 47% | 20% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 20% | 53% | 67% |
| 23% | 20% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 27% | 27% |
| 7% | 7% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 20% | 13% |
| 50% | 47% | 40% | BTTS | BTTS | 20% | 47% | 43% |
| 10% | 7% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 60% | 33% | 43% |
| 43% | 47% | 60% | Failed to Score | F T | 40% | 27% | 17% |
| 5.7 | 6.7 | 4.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 6.2 | 7 |
| 6.1 | 6.5 | 6.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.4 | 3.2 | 2.8 |
| 3.4 | 3.1 | 3.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.6 | 3.1 | 2.5 |
| 9 | 7 | 4 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 11.7 | 13.9 | 12.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14.6 | 14.2 | 16.6 |
| 3.5 | 3.9 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.4 | 5.3 | 6.1 |
| 22% | 17% | 13% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 23% | 29% | 33% |
| 14.2 | 13 | 12.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.2 | 9.9 | 8.2 |
| 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 3.9 | 3 |
- Paços de Ferreira have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Paços de Ferreira have the fewest clean sheets (3) in Liga Portugal
- Paços de Ferreira have the fewest points (8) at home in Liga Portugal
- Paços de Ferreira have the fewest points from losing position (3) in Liga Portugal
- Paços de Ferreira have the fewest scored goals (10) at home in Liga Portugal
- Paços de Ferreira have the most conceded goals (28) at home in Liga Portugal
- Paços de Ferreira have the the worst goal difference (-18) at home in Liga Portugal
- Paços de Ferreira haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Sporting CP have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Sporting CP have scored more than double the goals of Paços de Ferreira.
- Sporting CP have the fewest matches under the total-line (10) in Liga Portugal
- Sporting CP have the most matches over the total-line (20) in Liga Portugal
- Sporting CP have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
| 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 | 30 | 25 | 2 | 3 | 71 | 17 | 15 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 44 | 12 | 15 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 27 | 5 | 54 | 77 |
| 2 | Porto | 30 | 23 | 4 | 3 | 63 | 19 | 15 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 39 | 10 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 24 | 9 | 44 | 73 |
| 3 | Sporting Braga | 30 | 23 | 2 | 5 | 66 | 25 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 32 | 8 | 15 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 34 | 17 | 41 | 71 |
| 4 | Sporting CP | 30 | 20 | 4 | 6 | 61 | 28 | 15 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 38 | 9 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 23 | 19 | 33 | 64 |
| 5 | Arouca | 30 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 33 | 34 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 16 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 18 | -1 | 48 |
| 6 | Vitória SC | 30 | 13 | 5 | 12 | 29 | 36 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 15 | 24 | -7 | 44 |
| 7 | Famalicao | 30 | 13 | 3 | 14 | 34 | 39 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 18 | 13 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 16 | 26 | -5 | 42 |
| 8 | Chaves | 30 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | 34 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 17 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 17 | -4 | 40 |
| 9 | Vizela | 30 | 11 | 6 | 13 | 33 | 32 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 17 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 15 | 1 | 39 |
| 10 | Casa Pia | 30 | 11 | 6 | 13 | 27 | 34 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 14 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 20 | -7 | 39 |
| 11 | Rio Ave | 30 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 31 | 35 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 24 | -4 | 38 |
| 12 | Boavista | 30 | 10 | 7 | 13 | 36 | 49 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 21 | 20 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 15 | 29 | -13 | 37 |
| 13 | Portimonense | 30 | 10 | 3 | 17 | 23 | 39 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 10 | 25 | -16 | 33 |
| 14 | Gil Vicente | 30 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 26 | 36 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 15 | 23 | -10 | 31 |
| 15 | Estoril | 30 | 8 | 4 | 18 | 26 | 45 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 15 | 23 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 22 | -19 | 28 |
| 16 | Marítimo | 30 | 6 | 4 | 20 | 27 | 56 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 18 | 21 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 35 | -29 | 22 |
| 17 | Paços de Ferreira | 30 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 23 | 52 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 28 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 24 | -29 | 20 |
| 18 | Santa Clara | 30 | 3 | 7 | 20 | 19 | 48 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 27 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 5 | 21 | -29 | 16 |
