Very important fight in the "wrong" end of the Liga Portugal, with both Santa Clara and Portimonense suffering more distress than glee. This game is a classic "six-pointer" with the hosting team at 18th and the visitors in 13th place.
- Santa Clara have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Portimonense have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
Santa Clara are fighting like crazy to avoid relegation and desperately need points in this fixture. Portimonense is no longer fighting for a cause; they can neither go up or down this season.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Santa Clara form and stats
Santa Clara's results here at Estádio de São Miguel in the Liga Portugal have been very modest with 3 victories, 5 draws and 8 defeats. When Santa Clara hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Pacos de Ferreira, Santa Clara, Maritimo, Gil Vicente and Estoril), they have won 3 of 4 matches!
Santa Clara are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 3-5 away versus Sporting Braga. A goal frenzy last time out for Santa Clara, with a total of 8 goals in the match against Sporting Braga. Fun stuff to watch! The gifted forward Babi outperformed all the other players in that fixture and received a match rating of 8.15 out of 10. Babi scored two goals, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Ahead of that match, Santa won a home game hosting Gil Vicente (3-2).The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Santa Clara handle that role? We have found 12 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 5 wins, 6 draws and 1 defeat.
Santa Clara has scored 17 league goals at home this season, in 16 matches. Santa have conceded 29 from these games.
Portimonense form and stats
Portimonense have only collected 13 points from their away games in the Liga Portugal, after 4-1-11 (16 played). When Portimonense is visiting a side on the bottom half, they have won 4 of 4 matches. Pacos de Ferreira, Maritimo, Gil Vicente, Estoril and Portimonense is teams we like to compare Santa Clara with.
Home advantage was not enough for Portimonense in their previous game as they lost hosting Benfica, 1-5. Portimonense lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 1-5 beating and focus on this one. It is probably bad news for Portimonense that their goalie Nakamura made seven saves in the Benfica fixture, but still could not prevent a beating. Pedrão got a match rating of 7.11 in that game, top player of the team. Pedrão scored one goal, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 31 successful passes (of 37 total).
Before that, Portimonense travelled to Casa Pia and returned home with a draw after the game finished 1-1.We have checked recent matches where Portimonense have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 9 games were 1 victory, 2 draws and 6 defeats.
The visitors have scored 11 goals from 16 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Portimonense struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 26 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
This isn't the first time these parties get together this campaign, as the records show this recent match: Portimonense - Santa Clara 0-0. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three Santa victories, five draws and two Portimonense wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  W. Ferreira dos Santos 6 goals |   G. Silva Vieira 5 goals |  M. Barcelos da Silva 5 goals |
Santa Clara missing players
Portimonense missing players
| Santa Clara | Portimonense | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 32 | 16 | 4 | Played | P | 4 | 16 | 32 |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | Won | W | 4 | 4 | 10 |
| 7 | 5 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 21 | 8 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 11 | 18 |
| 25 | 17 | 9 | Scored | S | 7 | 11 | 25 |
| 55 | 29 | 5 | Conceded | C | 1 | 26 | 45 |
| 91% | 94% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 97% |
| 66% | 88% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 50% | 50% |
| 53% | 62% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 38% | 38% |
| 25% | 38% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 19% |
| 6% | 6% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | 9% |
| 50% | 69% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 25% | 25% | 34% |
| 12% | 6% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 75% | 19% | 25% |
| 47% | 31% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 56% | 44% |
| 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 4.7 | 5.1 |
| 5.8 | 5.9 | 5.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 5.9 | 5.9 |
| 3.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.8 | 2.6 | 2.9 |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 10.8 | 11.3 | 11.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14.2 | 10.9 | 11.9 |
| 3.6 | 4.2 | 6.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.2 | 3.2 | 3.4 |
| 22% | 25% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 22% | 23% |
| 13.8 | 13.2 | 14 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 16.5 | 17.2 | 16.2 |
| 4.8 | 4.5 | 3.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 6.6 | 5.9 |
- Portimonense have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Portimonense haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Santa Clara have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- 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 | 32 | 27 | 2 | 3 | 77 | 18 | 16 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 45 | 12 | 16 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 32 | 6 | 59 | 83 |
| 2 | Porto | 32 | 25 | 4 | 3 | 66 | 20 | 16 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 41 | 11 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 25 | 9 | 46 | 79 |
| 3 | Sporting Braga | 32 | 24 | 2 | 6 | 71 | 29 | 16 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 37 | 11 | 16 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 34 | 18 | 42 | 74 |
| 4 | Sporting CP | 32 | 22 | 4 | 6 | 67 | 29 | 16 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 40 | 10 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 27 | 19 | 38 | 70 |
| 5 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 32 | 15 | 5 | 12 | 33 | 36 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 12 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 16 | 24 | -3 | 50 |
| 6 | Arouca | 31 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 33 | 35 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 21 | 17 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 18 | -2 | 48 |
| 7 | Chaves | 32 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 34 | 35 | 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 19 | 17 | 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 18 | -1 | 46 |
| 8 | Famalicão | 32 | 13 | 4 | 15 | 35 | 41 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 19 | 15 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 16 | 26 | -6 | 43 |
| 9 | Vizela | 32 | 11 | 7 | 14 | 33 | 35 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 18 | -2 | 40 |
| 10 | Casa Pia | 32 | 11 | 7 | 14 | 29 | 37 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 15 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 22 | -8 | 40 |
| 11 | Boavista | 32 | 11 | 7 | 14 | 38 | 52 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 22 | 20 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 16 | 32 | -14 | 40 |
| 12 | Rio Ave | 32 | 10 | 9 | 13 | 33 | 38 | 16 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 12 | 16 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 17 | 26 | -5 | 39 |
| 13 | Portimonense | 32 | 10 | 4 | 18 | 25 | 45 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 19 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 11 | 26 | -20 | 34 |
| 14 | Gil Vicente | 32 | 9 | 7 | 16 | 31 | 40 | 16 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 17 | 26 | -9 | 34 |
| 15 | Estoril | 31 | 8 | 4 | 19 | 26 | 46 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 15 | 23 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 23 | -20 | 28 |
| 16 | Maritimo | 32 | 6 | 5 | 21 | 30 | 60 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 20 | 23 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 37 | -30 | 23 |
| 17 | Pacos de Ferreira | 32 | 5 | 5 | 22 | 23 | 58 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 32 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 26 | -35 | 20 |
| 18 | Santa Clara | 32 | 4 | 7 | 21 | 25 | 55 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 29 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 26 | -30 | 19 |
