Rio Ave have managed 4 home wins up until now, Paços de Ferreira have won 0 away. Which team enhances their results after this one?
- Rio Ave haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Paços de Ferreira have the fewest scored goals (8) in Liga Portugal
This should be an entertaining game with lots of action and excitement as both sides are well recovered since they last saw competitive action. Let's get started!
Rio Ave form and stats
4-1-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Liga Portugal numbers at home for Rio Ave so far this season.
The Rio Ave manager Freire and his crew return home after a 0-0 draw away versus Vitoria Guimaraes (placed 6th). Defender Santos got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.8/10. Santos won 7 of 13 duels.
Before that, Rio drew at home versus Marítimo.The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Rio Ave have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 13 games) they have won 7 times, drawn 3 and lost 3.
Sports gamblers who enjoy gambling for low-scoring games might like knowing that this club have played 5 league rounds in a row with zero, one or two goals (under 2.5).
Rio are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 9 goals in 7 games. Rio Ave are not conceding a lot of goals here at Estádio do Rio Ave Futebol Clube in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 6 from 7 matches.
Paços de Ferreira form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Paços de Ferreira so far with only 1 point returning home. The records show 0-1-6 (win-draw-lose). The pressure to perform on the road is increasing on da Silva, the Ferreira manager, as the last three away games were defeats.
Paços de Ferreira delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against Chaves (placed 9th) in their previous game. Maracás, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.31. Maracás won 6 of 10 duels.
Prior to that match, the Paços de Ferreira manager da Silva faced defeat when travelling to Sporting CP and losing 0-3.Ferreira are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 1 win, 3 draws and 5 defeats. From a total of 9 matches.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Paços de Ferreira as they have only managed to score 4 times from 7 away games in the league. For Paços de Ferreira, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
Paços de Ferreira have won or drawn the last 6 fixtures (2-4-0) facing Rio.The games between these clubs have had a tendency to be a bit rough, having seen 5 sending-offs from the last ten encounters.
Top Goalscorers
  A. Yakubu 6 goals |  E. Boateng 4 goals |  G. Gonçalves Pereira Rodrigues 2 goals |
Rio Ave missing players
Paços de Ferreira missing players
| Rio Ave | Paços de Ferreira | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 7 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 7 | 15 |
| 5 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 6 | 12 |
| 17 | 9 | 2 | Scored | S | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| 19 | 6 | 1 | Conceded | C | 1 | 15 | 30 |
| 93% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 53% | 43% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 71% | 73% |
| 40% | 29% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 57% | 47% |
| 33% | 29% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 29% | 20% |
| 13% | 14% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 14% | 13% |
| 47% | 43% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 43% | 40% |
| 33% | 43% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 27% | 14% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 57% | 60% |
| 4.1 | 4 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 1 | 5 | 5.9 |
| 6 | 5.9 | 6.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 6 | 5.8 |
| 2.9 | 2.6 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 3.7 | 3.5 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 10.1 | 10.6 | 12 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8 | 8.3 | 11.3 |
| 3.1 | 3.4 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 2.3 | 3.3 |
| 36% | 38% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 25% | 16% |
| 15.7 | 14.6 | 7.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14 | 16.6 | 15.2 |
| 4.5 | 4.1 | 0.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 5 | 4.7 |
- Paços de Ferreira have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Paços de Ferreira have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Paços de Ferreira have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Paços de Ferreira have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Liga Portugal
- Paços de Ferreira have the fewest points (1) away in Liga Portugal
- Paços de Ferreira have the fewest scored goals (8) in Liga Portugal
- Paços de Ferreira have the fewest scored goals in the first half (3) in Liga Portugal
- Paços de Ferreira have the most conceded goals (30) in Liga Portugal
- Paços de Ferreira have the most conceded goals in the first half (15) in Liga Portugal
- Paços de Ferreira have the the worst goal difference (-22) in Liga Portugal
- Paços de Ferreira have yet to win a game.
- Paços de Ferreira haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Paços de Ferreira is in the worst form (0-1-5)
- Rio Ave have scored more than double the goals of Paços de Ferreira.
- Rio Ave haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| 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 | 15 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 38 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 28 | 40 |
| 2 | Sporting Braga | 15 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 36 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 7 | 24 | 34 |
| 3 | Porto | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 36 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 26 | 33 |
| 4 | Sporting CP | 15 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 29 | 16 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 28 |
| 5 | Casa Pia | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 27 |
| 6 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 11 | -2 | 24 |
| 7 | Arouca | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 24 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 12 | -7 | 22 |
| 8 | Rio Ave | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 13 | -2 | 20 |
| 9 | Chaves | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 12 | -5 | 20 |
| 10 | Boavista | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 23 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 11 | -8 | 20 |
| 11 | Portimonense | 15 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 13 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 8 | -4 | 19 |
| 12 | Vizela | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 18 |
| 13 | Famalicao | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 15 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 11 | -4 | 17 |
| 14 | Estoril | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 8 | -6 | 16 |
| 15 | Santa Clara | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 6 | -7 | 13 |
| 16 | Gil Vicente | 15 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 22 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 14 | -10 | 12 |
| 17 | Marítimo | 15 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 28 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 20 | -18 | 10 |
| 18 | Paços de Ferreira | 15 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 30 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 15 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 15 | -22 | 3 |
