Scrambling Santa Clara pray to pull off a surprise win when they welcome enterprising Porto in the next league game. It’s 16th vs 3rd and the home crowd will have low confidence.
- Santa Clara have the fewest scored goals in the first half (2) in Liga Portugal
- Porto have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
The visiting Porto played their last game only three days ago, a Champions League match. That game was also an away game, at Club Brugge. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.
Santa Clara form and stats
The complete Liga Portugal stats playing at home this season for Santa Clara are 1-2-2 (wins-draws-losses).
Happy days for Santa in their previous game, a fixture away at Vizela (placed 13th) that ended with a 1-0 victory. At last, a league win after four games without. Midfielder Almeida was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.45 (out of ten) in that game. Almeida scored one goal and hit one key pass.
Before that match, a defeat in the away fixture against Tondela in the Taça De Portugal. The home team are doomed in this game if you believe the odds offered on Porto to win. Let's see if Santa Clara are capable of creating a surprise here by looking at their earlier home games as massive outsiders: 4 games found revealing 1 Santa Clara win, 1 draw and 2 defeats.
On the other hand, Santa have conceded 6 goals.
Porto form and stats
3 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss. That’s the product of Porto playing as the away team in the Liga Portugal this season.
Two away matches in a row for Porto, whose manager Conceição could celebrate last time after the Champions League win against Club Brugge. That loss was their first after five consecutive league matches winning points. Attacker Taremi got a player rating of 9.32 in the game. "Man of the match" Taremi scored two goals, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
The game before that, in the Liga Portugal, was lost at home, a 0-1 defeat against Benfica.A quick return to home after this game, as Porto are hosting Atlético Madrid in the Champions League only three days away.
Porto have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 5 league away games 7 goals have been scored. It's not easy to score on Porto as they have only conceded 4 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Santa Clara one win, zero draws and Porto nine victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  M. Taremi 5 goals |  Evanilson 4 goals |  W. Rodrigues do Nascimento Galeno 3 goals |
Santa Clara missing players
Porto missing players
| Santa Clara | Porto | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 5 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | 5 | 1 | Scored | S | 3 | 7 | 22 |
| 11 | 6 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 90% | 80% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 80% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 80% | 80% |
| 40% | 60% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 20% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 20% | 30% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 50% | 80% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 40% | 40% |
| 20% | 20% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 60% | 50% |
| 40% | 20% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 4.6 | 4.2 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 7 | 7.4 | 6.3 |
| 5 | 4.8 | 5.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.5 | 2.8 | 3.4 |
| 3.8 | 2.8 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.8 | 2.1 |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9.5 | 9.6 | 9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 16.5 | 18 | 17.1 |
| 3 | 3.8 | 4.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 6 | 6.1 |
| 23% | 26% | 11% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 27% | 23% | 36% |
| 11.7 | 11.4 | 11 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 4.5 | 6.4 | 8 |
| 3.2 | 2.8 | 1.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 1 | 1.8 | 2.5 |
- Porto have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Porto have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Porto have scored more than double the goals of Santa Clara.
- Porto have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded away.
- Porto haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Santa Clara have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Santa Clara have the fewest scored goals in the first half (2) in Liga Portugal
| 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 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 19 | 28 |
| 2 | Sporting Braga | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 26 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 16 | 22 |
| 3 | Porto | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 22 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 15 | 22 |
| 4 | Sporting CP | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 21 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 19 |
| 5 | Casa Pia | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 17 |
| 6 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 17 |
| 7 | Boavista | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 10 | -5 | 16 |
| 8 | Estoril | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 15 |
| 9 | Chaves | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 15 |
| 10 | Portimonense | 10 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | -2 | 15 |
| 11 | Arouca | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | -6 | 13 |
| 12 | Rio Ave | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 12 | -3 | 12 |
| 13 | Vizela | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -3 | 11 |
| 14 | Famalicao | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | -5 | 10 |
| 15 | Gil Vicente | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -6 | 9 |
| 16 | Santa Clara | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | -4 | 8 |
| 17 | Pacos de Ferreira | 10 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | -12 | 2 |
| 18 | Maritimo | 10 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 26 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 18 | -19 | 2 |
