Belenenses v Porto preview: Visitors can prove cut above

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Competition: Portugal Primeira Liga
Competition: Thu 04.February
Match begins: 19:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estádio Nacional (37593 seats)

Belenenses will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 23 points behind Porto.

Insights:
  • Belenenses has the fewest scored goals (8) in Primeira Liga
  • Porto has the most scored goals (39) in Primeira Liga

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Belenenses form and stats

2-3-3 (win-draw-lost) are the Primeira Liga numbers at home for Belenenses, who have the fewest scored goals (8) in Primeira Liga, so far this season.

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Benfica (0-3).

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Belenenses, as the Primeira Liga home game vs Vitoria Guimaraes is only four days away.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Belenenses here at Estádio Nacional in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (7 from 8 games). Belenenses have conceded 8 in these home matches. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Porto form and stats

The away team, who have the most scored goals (39) in Primeira Liga, have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 5 wins, 1 draw and only 1 loss in the Primeira Liga. In general it has been a productive period now for Porto as they haven't lost any of their last ten games. A great winning streak in away games for Porto as they have managed to win four matches in a row as the visitors. Not since the Pacos de Ferreira have they travelled home without three points.

253 minutes! That's how long the Porto goalkeeper Agustin Federico Marchesin and his defense have shut out their league opponents.

Ahead of that match was the victory versus Gil Vicente at their stadium, the result 2-0.

The schedule is very tough for Porto now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Primeira Liga game at Sporting Braga is waiting in only three days.

Porto create on average more than 2,5 goals per away game (in the league) all by themselves, having scored 18 goals in 7 travels. 8 goals have been conceded by Porto in these games.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's one Belenenses victory, two draws and seven Porto wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

PortoM. Taremi
M. Taremi
8 goals
PortoS. Relvas de Oliveira
S. Relvas de Oliveira
7 goals
PortoM. Marega
M. Marega
5 goals

Belenenses missing players

Porto missing players

Belenenses Porto
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
16 8 3 Played P 1 7 16
3 2 1 Won W 1 5 12
6 3 0 Drew D 0 1 2
7 3 2 Lost L 0 1 2
8 7 3 Scored S 1 18 39
14 8 5 Conceded C 0 8 17
69% 75% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
50% 75% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 71% 81%
19% 38% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 71% 62%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 71% 56%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 57% 38%
25% 50% 67% BTTS BTTS 0% 57% 56%
44% 38% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 43% 44%
62% 38% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.6 2.5 2.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.3 1.9
4 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 3
 
9.9 11.1 12 Shots (avg) S ( 4 12 14.7
3.2 4.4 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 5.3 5.9
16% 20% 17% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 49% 41%
Key stats in Primeira Liga this season:
  • Belenenses has the fewest scored goals (8) in Primeira Liga
  • Belenenses has the fewest scored goals in the second half (2) in Primeira Liga
  • Belenenses have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Porto has the fewest matches under the total-line (5) in Primeira Liga
  • Porto has the most matches over the total-line (10) in Primeira Liga
  • Porto has the most points from losing position (14) in Primeira Liga
  • Porto has the most scored goals (39) in Primeira Liga
  • Porto has the most scored goals in the first half (20) in Primeira Liga
  • Porto has the most scored goals in the second half (19) in Primeira Liga
  • Porto have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Porto have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Porto have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Porto have scored more than double the goals of Belenenses.
  • Porto 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 Sporting CP 16 13 3 0 34 9 8 6 2 0 16 5 8 7 1 0 18 4 25 42
2 Porto 16 12 2 2 39 17 9 7 1 1 21 9 7 5 1 1 18 8 22 38
3 Benfica 16 10 3 3 30 16 8 6 1 1 16 8 8 4 2 2 14 8 14 33
4 Sporting Braga 16 11 0 5 28 15 7 6 0 1 10 3 9 5 0 4 18 12 13 33
5 Vitoria Guimaraes 15 9 2 4 20 13 8 4 0 4 8 10 7 5 2 0 12 3 7 29
6 Pacos de Ferreira 15 8 4 3 22 12 7 5 1 1 12 6 8 3 3 2 10 6 10 28
7 Santa Clara 16 6 3 7 17 19 8 2 2 4 7 10 8 4 1 3 10 9 -2 21
8 Moreirense 16 4 6 6 13 21 9 3 4 2 11 12 7 1 2 4 2 9 -8 18
9 Tondela 16 5 3 8 15 25 9 5 2 2 10 8 7 0 1 6 5 17 -10 18
10 Maritimo 16 5 2 9 16 22 7 2 2 3 5 8 9 3 0 6 11 14 -6 17
11 Nacional 16 4 5 7 15 21 9 3 3 3 11 12 7 1 2 4 4 9 -6 17
12 Belenenses 16 3 6 7 8 14 8 2 3 3 7 8 8 1 3 4 1 6 -6 15
13 Portimonense 16 4 3 9 13 21 8 3 2 3 7 7 8 1 1 6 6 14 -8 15
14 Rio Ave 16 3 6 7 11 20 7 2 2 3 7 8 9 1 4 4 4 12 -9 15
15 Famalicão 16 3 5 8 17 28 8 1 3 4 9 17 8 2 2 4 8 11 -11 14
16 Boavista 16 2 8 6 16 27 7 1 2 4 5 13 9 1 6 2 11 14 -11 14
17 Gil Vicente 15 3 4 8 10 17 7 2 2 3 5 6 8 1 2 5 5 11 -7 13
18 Farense 15 3 3 9 15 22 8 3 2 3 12 10 7 0 1 6 3 12 -7 12

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.