Liga Portugal: High-profile vs below average, at least that's what the standings say. Sporting CP - Santa Clara. Home win or a surprise result?
- Sporting CP have the fewest matches under the total-line (7) in Liga Portugal
- Santa Clara have the fewest scored goals in the first half (5) in Liga Portugal
Sporting CP and Santa Clara should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Sporting CP form and stats
Home games in the Liga Portugal have been a walk in the park for Sporting CP so far, with 30 points won from 12 matches; 10 wins, 0 draws and 2 losses. The team is doing great wherever they are playing as Sporting CP has won four games in a row. The Porto match was the last time out without a victory.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Franco Israel Wibmer not having conceded a league goal in 270 minutes.
The Sporting CP manager Amorim and his players return home after a 1-1 draw away versus Arsenal in the Europa League.
Before that, Sporting CP had a Liga Portugal home game versus Boavista which ended with a victory 3-0.Sporting CP are traveling soon after this match as the Liga Portugal match at Gil Vicente awaits in four days.
Sporting CP are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Estádio José Alvalade in their league games, having scored an impressive 32 goals in 12 matches. From these home matches, Sporting CP have conceded only 7 goals.
Santa Clara form and stats
Santa Clara have only collected 5 points from their away games in the Liga Portugal, after 1-2-9 (12 played). It's all red in the travel logs of Santa, having lost four matches in a row as the visiting team.
The attacking players of Santa Clara have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 206 minutes.
Home advantage was not enough for Santa Clara in their previous game as they lost hosting Rio Ave, 0-2. It is not a good sign for Santa that their goalie Batista made six saves in the Rio Ave match, but still could not save them from a defeat. Goalkeeper Batista got the top player rating of the team with 8.63/10. Batista saved a penalty.
It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Paços de Ferreira wasn't a success with a 0-1 loss.Santa Clara are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed {4 goals} from 12 away games. 13 goals have been conceded by Santa in these games.
Head 2 Head
The last H2H meeting ended Santa Clara - Sporting CP 1-2, earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's nine Sporting CP victories, zero draws and one Santa Clara win. Over/under statistics; eight of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  P. Pereira Gonçalves 12 goals |  N. Gomes dos Santos 7 goals |  M. Edwards 6 goals |
Sporting CP missing players
Santa Clara missing players
| Sporting CP | Santa Clara | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 24 | 12 | 4 | Played | P | 2 | 12 | 25 |
| 16 | 10 | 4 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 9 | 16 |
| 49 | 32 | 12 | Scored | S | 0 | 4 | 17 |
| 23 | 7 | 1 | Conceded | C | 2 | 13 | 38 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 83% | 88% |
| 83% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 25% | 60% |
| 71% | 83% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 25% | 48% |
| 29% | 33% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 8% | 24% |
| 12% | 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 42% | 33% | 25% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 25% | 48% |
| 42% | 58% | 75% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 16% |
| 17% | 8% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 67% | 48% |
| 6.8 | 8.1 | 7.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4.4 | 4.5 |
| 3 | 2.5 | 3.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.5 | 5.8 | 5.9 |
| 2.9 | 2.2 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4.5 | 4.5 | 3.5 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 16.6 | 19.2 | 16.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.5 | 10 | 10.2 |
| 5.9 | 7.2 | 6.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 2.5 | 3.2 |
| 35% | 37% | 44% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 13% | 21% |
| 8.2 | 6.1 | 5.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.5 | 14.8 | 14.2 |
| 3.1 | 2 | 1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.6 |
- All of Sporting CP's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Santa Clara have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Santa Clara have the fewest scored goals (4) away in Liga Portugal
- Santa Clara have the fewest scored goals in the first half (5) in Liga Portugal
- Sporting CP have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Sporting CP have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Sporting CP have scored more than double the goals of Santa Clara.
- Sporting CP have the fewest matches under the total-line (7) in Liga Portugal
- Sporting CP have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Sporting CP haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 | 25 | 22 | 2 | 1 | 66 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 42 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 4 | 52 | 68 |
| 2 | Porto | 25 | 18 | 4 | 3 | 55 | 17 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 35 | 9 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 38 | 58 |
| 3 | Sporting Braga | 25 | 18 | 2 | 5 | 54 | 22 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 6 | 13 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 31 | 16 | 32 | 56 |
| 4 | Sporting CP | 24 | 16 | 2 | 6 | 49 | 23 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 32 | 7 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 16 | 26 | 50 |
| 5 | Vitória SC | 25 | 12 | 4 | 9 | 25 | 29 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 19 | -4 | 40 |
| 6 | Arouca | 25 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 29 | 32 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 19 | 16 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 16 | -3 | 38 |
| 7 | Casa Pia | 25 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 22 | 24 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 15 | -2 | 38 |
| 8 | Rio Ave | 25 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 25 | 28 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 9 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 19 | -3 | 33 |
| 9 | Famalicao | 25 | 10 | 3 | 12 | 25 | 32 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 9 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 23 | -7 | 33 |
| 10 | Vizela | 25 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 27 | 27 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 14 | 0 | 32 |
| 11 | Chaves | 25 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 26 | 31 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 15 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 16 | -5 | 32 |
| 12 | Boavista | 25 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 28 | 40 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 16 | 17 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 23 | -12 | 30 |
| 13 | Gil Vicente | 24 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 26 | 31 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 15 | 20 | -5 | 29 |
| 14 | Portimonense | 25 | 8 | 2 | 15 | 18 | 32 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 20 | -14 | 26 |
| 15 | Estoril | 25 | 6 | 4 | 15 | 21 | 39 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 22 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 17 | -18 | 22 |
| 16 | Maritimo | 25 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 17 | 47 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 16 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 31 | -30 | 16 |
| 17 | Paços de Ferreira | 25 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 19 | 43 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 23 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 20 | -24 | 16 |
| 18 | Santa Clara | 25 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 17 | 38 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 25 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 13 | -21 | 15 |
