Delightful dogfight as daring Famalicão duel with determined Arouca

It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Primeira Liga. That game was also an away game, at Estoril. 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.

Famalicão form and stats

Famalicão's results here at Estádio Municipal 22 de Junho in the Primeira Liga have been very modest with 1 victory, 4 draws and 4 defeats. When Famalicão hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Vizela, Belenenses, Tondela, Famalicão and Moreirense), they have won 1 of 2 matches!

In their previous game, the manager Costa led his Famalicão to a defeat away at Porto. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Estádio Municipal 22 de Junho. Riccieli, defender, was given a rating of 7.84/10 in that game, top of the team. Riccieli scored one goal, hit one key pass and won 5 of 8 duels.

Preceding that game was the home draw versus Paços de Ferreira that ended 0-0.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Famalicão handle that role? We have found eight games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are three wins, two draws and three defeats.

Famalicão aren't scoring a lot here at Estádio Municipal 22 de Junho in the league, with only 6 goals from 9 games. Famalicão have conceded 13 in these home matches. Famalicão has at home met teams with this table position (low), two times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 2 of 2 times.

Arouca form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Arouca so far with only 7 points returning home. The records show 1-4-5 (win-draw-lose).

Two travels in a row for Arouca, whose manager Freitas could celebrate last time after the win against Estoril. The attacker Silva got a match rating of 8.01 in that game. Silva scored one goal, hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 25 successful passes (of 30 total).

Preceding that, the 0-2 home loss versus Benfica.

We have checked recent matches where Arouca have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those ten games were one victory, four draws and five defeats.

Arouca are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed 9 goals from 10 away games. Many goals are not expected from the visiting Arouca as they have only managed to score 9 times from 10 away games in the league. Arouca struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 16 goals conceded from these games. When Arouca is visiting a side on the bottom half, 2 of 2 matches have ended with three or more goals. These are matches against Vizela, Belenenses, Tondela, Arouca and Moreirense.

Head 2 Head

The fixture history shows this score when the participants faced each other earlier this campaign; Arouca - Famalicão 2-1. Last seven meetings between these contenders: Famalicão won two, Arouca were winners in four and we saw one draw. two games with more than 2,5 goals, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

S. Banza 8 goals

A. Oliveira Silva 4 goals

O. Dabbagh 4 goals

Famalicão missing players

Arouca missing players