Football betting preview: Belenenses vs Paços de Ferreira

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Competition: Portugal Primeira Liga
Competition: Fri 25.February
Match begins: 20:15 (UTC)
Venue: Estádio Nacional (37593 seats)

Belenenses hope to get a lot of fans in for this match even though the season has been back-breaking up to now with 15 points and a 18th spot in the Primeira Liga table. Guests Paços de Ferreira are in 10th place with 24 pts.

Insights:
  • Belenenses have the fewest scored goals (14) in Primeira Liga
  • Paços de Ferreira have the most dropped points from leading position (20) in Primeira Liga

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Belenenses form and stats

Belenenses's struggle is real here at Estádio Nacional with only 11 points collected from 11 Primeira Liga games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 3-2-6.

No payout for Belenenses in their previous match, an away game at Gil Vicente that ended in defeat 0-2. Sithole (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.04/10. Sithole hit one key pass and had 41 successful passes (of 42 total).

Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Vitoria Guimaraes.

Belenenses aren't scoring a lot here at Estádio Nacional in the league, with only 10 goals from 11 games. Belenenses have conceded 24 goals in these home games, a significant number.

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Paços de Ferreira form and stats

There's been little loot from Paços de Ferreira's travels as they have only collected 10 points from 11 away games in the Primeira Liga. Paços de Ferreira only have 2 wins to counter their 5 defeats and 4 draws.

Impressive finishing from Djaló and Santos secured the home win 2-1 against Vizela in their previous game. Djaló got a match rating of 7.65 in that game, top player of the team. Djaló scored one goal, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 19 successful passes (of 21 total).

Prior to that match, the Ferreira manager Peixoto faced defeat when travelling to Sporting Braga and losing 1-2.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Paços de Ferreira as they have only managed to score 6 times from 11 away games in the league. As opposed to that, Paços de Ferreira have seen the ball go into their own net 13 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Paços de Ferreira - Belenenses 2-2 was the end result in these teams' previous H2H fixture, played this season. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: one - three - six (Belenenses wins - draws - Paços de Ferreira wins). As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Paços de FerreiraD. Pereira Júnior
D. Pereira Júnior
5 goals
BelenensesA. Camará
A. Camará
4 goals
BelenensesA. Pelegrini Safira
A. Pelegrini Safira
4 goals

Belenenses missing players

Paços de Ferreira missing players

Belenenses Paços de Ferreira
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
23 11 3 Played P 4 11 23
3 3 1 Won W 1 2 5
6 2 0 Drew D 2 4 9
14 6 2 Lost L 1 5 9
14 10 3 Scored S 2 6 18
43 24 4 Conceded C 4 13 27
91% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 82% 83%
74% 82% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 64% 70%
35% 55% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 27% 35%
22% 27% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 9%
17% 27% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
43% 64% 67% BTTS BTTS 25% 36% 48%
13% 9% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 36% 30%
52% 27% 33% Failed to Score F T 50% 45% 39%
 
3.3 3.1 3.7 Corners for (avg) C F 7.2 5.2 5.6
5.9 6.2 8.3 Corners against (avg) C A 3.8 5 5
3.5 4 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.9 3.3
7 4 0 Red cards R C 0 2 3
 
9 7.7 7 Shots (avg) S ( 11.8 10.4 11.3
2.8 2.6 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.8 3.3 3.2
22% 34% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 11% 17% 24%
 
16.4 16.2 16.3 Shots against (avg) S A 9.2 14.8 14.3
5.2 5.5 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.5 5.7 5.2
Key stats in Primeira Liga this season:
  • Belenenses have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Belenenses have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Belenenses have the fewest matches over the total-line (3) in Primeira Liga
  • Belenenses have the fewest scored goals (14) in Primeira Liga
  • Belenenses have the fewest scored goals in the second half (7) in Primeira Liga
  • Belenenses have the most conceded goals in the first half (27) in Primeira Liga
  • Belenenses have the the worst goal difference (-29) in Primeira Liga
  • Belenenses haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Paços de Ferreira have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Paços de Ferreira have the most dropped points from leading position (20) in Primeira Liga

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Porto 22 19 3 0 57 16 11 10 1 0 29 8 11 9 2 0 28 8 41 60
2 Sporting CP 22 17 3 2 43 15 11 9 1 1 19 5 11 8 2 1 24 10 28 54
3 Benfica 23 16 3 4 60 22 11 7 1 3 27 12 12 9 2 1 33 10 38 51
4 Sporting Braga 22 12 5 5 39 23 12 7 3 2 22 10 10 5 2 3 17 13 16 41
5 Gil Vicente 23 11 7 5 35 24 12 5 3 4 19 15 11 6 4 1 16 9 11 40
6 Vitoria Guimaraes 23 8 6 9 33 30 11 6 2 3 21 14 12 2 4 6 12 16 3 30
7 Estoril 22 7 9 6 26 24 11 2 6 3 13 14 11 5 3 3 13 10 2 30
8 Maritimo 22 7 7 8 28 30 10 3 5 2 13 9 12 4 2 6 15 21 -2 28
9 Portimonense 22 7 6 9 22 24 12 2 4 6 9 15 10 5 2 3 13 9 -2 27
10 Paços de Ferreira 23 5 9 9 18 27 12 3 5 4 12 14 11 2 4 5 6 13 -9 24
11 Santa Clara 22 6 6 10 26 41 11 5 3 3 14 19 11 1 3 7 12 22 -15 24
12 Vizela 23 5 8 10 25 39 12 3 4 5 11 16 11 2 4 5 14 23 -14 23
13 Boavista 23 3 13 7 27 36 12 3 8 1 17 14 11 0 5 6 10 22 -9 22
14 Arouca 23 5 6 12 22 42 11 3 1 7 10 25 12 2 5 5 12 17 -20 21
15 Famalicao 22 4 8 10 28 37 11 2 5 4 11 13 11 2 3 6 17 24 -9 20
16 Tondela 22 6 2 14 29 44 11 4 0 7 17 23 11 2 2 7 12 21 -15 20
17 Moreirense 22 4 7 11 22 37 10 3 3 4 15 15 12 1 4 7 7 22 -15 19
18 Belenenses 23 3 6 14 14 43 11 3 2 6 10 24 12 0 4 8 4 19 -29 15

Read more about Primeira Liga

The Primeira Liga, also known as Liga NOS, is the top level of football in Portugal. It has 18 teams each playing 34 fixtures to decide the final league table. Portuguese football is dominated by “The Big Three”: Benfica, Porto and Sporting CP (Lisbon). These three clubs generally end up in the top three positions.