Rio Ave - Santa Clara: Liga Portugal dungeon teams desperate for points and triumph. Check out all the interesting statistics and tables before the game!
- Rio Ave have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Santa Clara have lost all their away matches so far.
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
Rio Ave form and stats
Three Liga Portugal home games done for Rio Ave, who are not happy collecting 3 points from these matches.
The Rio Ave manager Freire and his team return home after a 2-2 draw away versus Gil Vicente (placed 10th). Opportunity lost for Rio Ave in the Gil Vicente match as a lead 2-0 was lost and what looked like a victory ended in a draw. Costinha (midfield) was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.71/10. Costinha hit one key pass.
Preceding that match was the home game against Sporting Braga that was lost 2-3.The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Rio have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 7 matches with the results: Won 1, drawn 2 and lost 4.
Goals from both teams! That has happened in 5 league fixtures in a row for this club. Will it happen again?
Rio Ave have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Estádio do Rio Ave Futebol Clube with 5 goals in 3 league matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Rio Ave defense is not exactly impregnable. 5 goals conceded from 3 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Santa Clara form and stats
It's not happening yet for Santa Clara on their Liga Portugal travels, with zero points from their first 3 away games. Maybe today will be different? Three might be a magic number, but there's been little wizardry in Santa Clara's last three away games as they have all been lost.
Santa's last game was the home draw against Paços de Ferreira (1-1). Midfielder Silva was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.11. Silva scored one goal, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 4 of 6 times.
It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Vitoria Guimaraes wasn't a success with a 0-1 loss.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 18 similar matches played by Santa Clara in our archives, and the results are: 5 wins for Santa Clara, 7 draws and 6 defeats.
Santa Clara are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed 1 goal from 3 away games. 4 goals have been conceded by Santa in these games.
Head 2 Head
Santa Clara have put together a sequence of 4 consecutive games without losing (2-2-0) when playing Rio Ave.Top Goalscorers
  A. Yakubu 5 goals |  Costinha 1 goals |
Rio Ave missing players
Santa Clara missing players
| Rio Ave | Santa Clara | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 10 | 5 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 13 | 5 | 1 | Conceded | C | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 86% |
| 86% | 67% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 33% | 57% |
| 71% | 67% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 43% |
| 57% | 67% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 14% | 33% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 71% | 67% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 33% | 57% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 29% | 33% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 67% | 43% |
| 5.1 | 5 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 5 | 4.7 |
| 6.4 | 7.3 | 7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 6.7 | 5.6 |
| 3.3 | 3 | 7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 5 | 3.6 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 10 | 9.7 | 7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13 | 9 | 9.1 |
| 3.4 | 3 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 2.7 | 2.9 |
| 42% | 56% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 12% | 25% |
| 19.1 | 21 | 13 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12 | 12.3 | 11.9 |
| 6.4 | 8 | 6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.3 | 3.6 |
- Rio Ave have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Rio Ave haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Santa Clara have lost all their away matches so far.
| 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 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 16 | 21 |
| 2 | Sporting Braga | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 18 | 19 |
| 3 | Porto | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 16 |
| 4 | Portimonense | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 15 |
| 5 | Boavista | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 15 |
| 6 | Casa Pia | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 14 |
| 7 | Estoril | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 |
| 8 | Sporting CP | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 10 |
| 9 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 10 |
| 10 | Gil Vicente | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | -1 | 9 |
| 11 | Chaves | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -2 | 8 |
| 12 | Arouca | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | -9 | 8 |
| 13 | Rio Ave | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | -3 | 6 |
| 14 | Santa Clara | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | -3 | 5 |
| 15 | Vizela | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -4 | 5 |
| 16 | Famalicão | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | -7 | 4 |
| 17 | Paços de Ferreira | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -10 | 1 |
| 18 | Maritimo | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 17 | -18 | 0 |
