Season ticket holders at Estádio de São Miguel haven’t celebrated many wins this season, with Santa Clara struggling in the 16th spot. The opposing Boavista will believe to protect their higher league spot in this fixture.
- Santa Clara have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Boavista have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
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.
Santa Clara form and stats
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Liga Portugal this season. Santa Clara have only managed 2 wins, 3 draws and 4 losses from their games here at Estádio de São Miguel. We have seen two home losses in a row now for Santa Clara, who are hoping that the phrase “third time lucky” applies to them.
Santa Clara are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 1-2 away versus Casa Pia. Batista had a busy but productive day in the Casa Pia match. Despite making six saves the loss could not be prevented. Midfielder Silva was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.12 (out of ten) in that game. Silva scored one goal, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 3 of 3 times.
Preceding that match was a defeat to Benfica (0-3).Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 15 goals have been conceded. It's worth mentioning that 8 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.
Boavista form and stats
Boavista have only collected 6 points from their away games in the Liga Portugal, after 2-0-5 (7 played). Bitter travels for Boavista as they have lost four games in a row away from home. The last time they avoided an away-from-home loss was the Arouca match.
Boavista won their last game, 4-2 versus Portimonense played at home. As you can tell from the result, the match against Portimonense was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today? Njie, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 8.42. Njie scored two goals and hit one key pass.
Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Chaves.The attacking power of Boavista when travelling is not overwhelming with 5 goals scored from 7 league matches away. Boavista struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 12 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
Boavista - Santa Clara 2-1 was the score in these participants' last head to head game, earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Santa Clara two wins, two draws and Boavista six victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  Y. Njie 7 goals |   K. Boateng 2 goals | R. de Amorim Filho 2 goals |
Santa Clara missing players
Boavista missing players
| Santa Clara | Boavista | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 18 | 9 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 7 | 17 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 10 | 4 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 5 | 7 |
| 12 | 9 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 5 | 20 |
| 23 | 15 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 12 | 27 |
| 83% | 89% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 56% | 89% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 57% | 71% |
| 44% | 67% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 43% | 53% |
| 11% | 22% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 29% | 29% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 14% | 18% |
| 44% | 67% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 29% | 53% |
| 22% | 11% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 14% | 18% |
| 50% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 57% | 29% |
| 4.8 | 4.6 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 1 | 3.6 | 5.4 |
| 5.6 | 5.8 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7 | 3.7 | 4.9 |
| 3.4 | 2.6 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 2.9 | 3 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 9.7 | 9 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 9.6 | 11.2 |
| 3 | 3.8 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 2.4 | 3.4 |
| 22% | 26% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 29% | 35% |
| 13.9 | 13.9 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 18 | 10.3 | 10.7 |
| 4.1 | 3.9 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 7 | 4.6 | 3.8 |
- Boavista have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Boavista have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Boavista haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Santa Clara have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than 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 | 18 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 45 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 4 | 33 | 47 |
| 2 | Sporting Braga | 17 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 39 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 8 | 26 | 40 |
| 3 | Porto | 17 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 41 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 28 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 30 | 39 |
| 4 | Sporting CP | 17 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 33 | 19 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 14 | 32 |
| 5 | Casa Pia | 18 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 18 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 30 |
| 6 | Arouca | 17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 22 | 25 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 13 | -3 | 26 |
| 7 | Vizela | 18 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 22 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 24 |
| 8 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 17 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 19 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 13 | -4 | 24 |
| 9 | Boavista | 17 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 20 | 27 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 12 | -7 | 24 |
| 10 | Chaves | 17 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 16 | 21 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 13 | -5 | 22 |
| 11 | Rio Ave | 18 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 18 | 23 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 16 | -5 | 21 |
| 12 | Famalicao | 18 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 17 | 23 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 15 | -6 | 21 |
| 13 | Portimonense | 18 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 15 | 25 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 16 | -10 | 20 |
| 14 | Estoril | 17 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 10 | -6 | 19 |
| 15 | Gil Vicente | 17 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 17 | 24 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 15 | -7 | 18 |
| 16 | Santa Clara | 18 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 23 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 8 | -11 | 14 |
| 17 | Maritimo | 17 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 31 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 23 | -20 | 13 |
| 18 | Pacos de Ferreira | 18 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 34 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 19 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 15 | -24 | 6 |
