Football betting preview: Famalicão vs Santa Clara

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Competition: Portugal Primeira Liga
Competition: Fri 07.May
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estádio Municipal 22 de Junho (10000 seats)

Season ticket holders at Estádio Municipal 22 de Junho haven’t seen too many victories this season, with Famalicão languishing in the 14th position so far. The guesting Santa Clara will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.

Insights:
  • Famalicão have the fewest points (13) at home in Primeira Liga
  • Santa Clara have the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) 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!

Famalicão are fighting like crazy to avoid relegation and desperately need points in this fixture. Santa Clara are still fighting for top positions and their benefits.

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Famalicão form and stats

Famalicão's results here at Estádio Municipal 22 de Junho in the Primeira Liga have been very modest with 2 victories, 7 draws and 6 defeats.

Famalicão faced defeat in their previous match, away at Porto (2-3). Before that, Famalicão drew at home versus Tondela.

Famalicão has scored 15 league goals at home this season, in 15 matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Famalicão defense is not exactly impregnable. 24 goals conceded from 15 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Santa Clara form and stats

As the visiting team in Primeira Liga matches, Santa Clara have produced an overall stat of 5-2-8 so far. It's all red in the travel logs of Santa Clara, having lost five matches in a row as the visiting team.

Santa played 3-3 against Boavista in their previous match. It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Benfica wasn't a success with a 1-2 loss.

An inspired comeback made the scores level in Santa Clara's duel with Boavista. It looked bad at 2-4 but the team were not done and fought back to 3-3 after Carlos Junior found the equalizer. A crazy, crazy match with lots of goals last time out for Santa, as mentioned above. 6 goals in that one, will this match be as much fun?

A quick return to home after this game, as Santa are hosting Rio Ave in the Primeira Liga only four days away.

The visiting Santa have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 16 goals from 15 games. As opposed to that, Santa Clara have seen the ball go into their own net 19 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Santa Clara - Famalicão 1-2 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. Last nine meetings between the teams: Famalicão won four, Santa Clara won five and zero draws. four games with over 2,5 goals, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Santa ClaraC. Carvalho da Silva Junior
C. Carvalho da Silva Junior
11 goals
FamalicãoA. Oliveira Silva
A. Oliveira Silva
7 goals
FamalicãoJ. Alves da Silva
J. Alves da Silva
4 goals

Famalicão missing players

Santa Clara missing players

Famalicão Santa Clara
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
30 15 5 Played P 5 15 30
7 2 1 Won W 2 5 10
10 7 2 Drew D 2 2 7
13 6 2 Lost L 1 8 13
34 15 4 Scored S 7 16 37
44 24 6 Conceded C 5 19 35
90% 87% 80% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 93%
70% 67% 60% Over 1.5 O 1.5 80% 73% 73%
50% 47% 40% Over 2.5 O 2.5 40% 53% 47%
30% 40% 20% Over 3.5 O 3.5 20% 7% 13%
13% 13% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 7%
47% 53% 40% BTTS BTTS 80% 67% 53%
23% 20% 20% Clean Sheets C S 0% 7% 23%
40% 40% 60% Failed to Score F T 20% 27% 30%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.8 2.6 2.4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.6 2.8 2.8
4 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
11 12.3 14 Shots (avg) S ( 10.6 10.7 11
4 4.1 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.6 3.6 3.6
29% 25% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 39% 30% 34%
Key stats in Primeira Liga this season:
  • Famalicão have the fewest points (13) at home in Primeira Liga
  • Santa Clara have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Santa Clara have the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) in Primeira Liga
  • Santa Clara have the fewest matches under the total-line (12) in Primeira Liga
  • Santa Clara haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  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 30 23 7 0 54 15 15 11 4 0 28 9 15 12 3 0 26 6 39 76
2 Porto 30 21 7 2 61 27 15 11 3 1 31 14 15 10 4 1 30 13 34 70
3 Benfica 30 20 6 4 58 21 15 11 2 2 26 11 15 9 4 2 32 10 37 66
4 Sporting Braga 30 18 4 8 49 30 15 10 2 3 24 13 15 8 2 5 25 17 19 58
5 Pacos de Ferreira 30 14 6 10 35 35 15 10 2 3 22 16 15 4 4 7 13 19 0 48
6 Vitória SC 30 12 5 13 33 37 15 7 1 7 19 22 15 5 4 6 14 15 -4 41
7 Santa Clara 30 10 7 13 37 35 15 5 5 5 21 16 15 5 2 8 16 19 2 37
8 Moreirense 30 8 12 10 29 38 15 3 9 3 19 21 15 5 3 7 10 17 -9 36
9 Tondela 30 10 5 15 32 49 15 8 2 5 15 15 15 2 3 10 17 34 -17 35
10 Portimonense 30 9 7 14 33 37 15 6 4 5 19 15 15 3 3 9 14 22 -4 34
11 Belenenses 30 7 13 10 21 28 15 5 5 5 14 16 15 2 8 5 7 12 -7 34
12 Marítimo 30 10 3 17 25 40 15 5 2 8 10 20 15 5 1 9 15 20 -15 33
13 Gil Vicente 30 9 5 16 28 39 15 4 3 8 11 17 15 5 2 8 17 22 -11 32
14 Famalicão 30 7 10 13 34 44 15 2 7 6 15 24 15 5 3 7 19 20 -10 31
15 Rio Ave 30 6 13 11 23 33 15 4 6 5 12 13 15 2 7 6 11 20 -10 31
16 Boavista 30 6 11 13 35 46 15 4 3 8 15 21 15 2 8 5 20 25 -11 29
17 Farense 30 6 9 15 27 37 15 3 5 7 16 18 15 3 4 8 11 19 -10 27
18 Nacional 30 6 6 18 26 49 15 4 3 8 17 25 15 2 3 10 9 24 -23 24

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.