Gil Vicente fights Paços de Ferreira in Primeira Liga battle

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Competition: Portugal Primeira Liga
Competition: Tue 02.February
Match begins: 20:15 (UTC)
Venue: Estádio Cidade de Barcelos (12032 seats)

Struggling Gil Vicente will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Paços de Ferreira in the upcoming league round. It’s 16th vs 5th and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

Insights:
  • Paços de Ferreira has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2) in Primeira Liga

The hosts Gil Vicente saw competitive action as recent as four days ago, playing in the Taça De Portugal. Thankfully the previous game, versus Porto, was also a home game here at Estádio Cidade de Barcelos. The away team is better rested.

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Gil Vicente form and stats

When playing at home in the Primeira Liga, Gil Vicente have managed 2 wins, 2 draws and suffered 3 defeats from 7 games. With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on Gil Vicente to get some points in this home game.

Vicente haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 241 minutes ago. Lourency scored that one.

The Vicente crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-2 to Porto here at Estádio Cidade de Barcelos in a Taça De Portugal match. Prior to that, an away loss at Sporting Braga in the Primeira Liga.

The manager J. Soares Ribeiro will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Boavista in only three days.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Vicente here at Estádio Cidade de Barcelos in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (5 from 7 games). Gil Vicente have only conceded 6 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Paços de Ferreira form and stats

3-3-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Paços de Ferreira in their Primeira Liga matches away. The visitors have performed well in their home games as well, building a total win streak of four games home and away. Paços de Ferreira hope to make it five in this match. It could be a hat trick of victories away for Paços de Ferreira, as they have won on their previous two travels.

376 minutes! That's how long the Ferreira goalkeeper Jordi Martins Almeida and his defense have shut out their league opponents.

Paços de Ferreira play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 3-0 victory visiting Marítimo (placed 9th). Before that, Ferreira secured a home win against Sporting Braga with the score 2-0.

After this away game Ferreira return home for a Primeira Liga game against Tondela. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Ferreira have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 8 league away games 10 goals have been scored. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (6 so far).

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Vicente victories, three draws and three Paços de Ferreira wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Paços de FerreiraD. da Silva Souza
D. da Silva Souza
5 goals
Paços de FerreiraB. Almeida Costa
B. Almeida Costa
4 goals
VicenteS. Dias Lino
S. Dias Lino
3 goals

Gil Vicente missing players

Paços de Ferreira missing players

Gil Vicente Paços de Ferreira
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
15 7 2 Played P 2 8 15
3 2 0 Won W 0 3 8
4 2 0 Drew D 2 3 4
8 3 2 Lost L 0 2 3
10 5 1 Scored S 2 10 22
17 6 4 Conceded C 2 6 12
87% 86% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
53% 57% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 75% 87%
27% 14% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 25% 27%
13% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 7%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 7%
40% 29% 50% BTTS BTTS 100% 50% 47%
33% 43% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 38% 40%
40% 43% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 12% 13%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.1 1.7 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.5 2.2 1.9
1 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
9.9 12.6 17.5 Shots (avg) S ( 15.5 13.9 12.6
3.1 3.7 4.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.5 5 4.3
22% 19% 11% Goal Efficiency G E 22% 25% 34%
Key stats in Primeira Liga this season:
  • Paços de Ferreira has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2) in Primeira Liga
  • Paços de Ferreira have scored more than double the goals of Gil Vicente.
  • Paços de Ferreira 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 15 12 3 0 33 9 7 5 2 0 15 5 8 7 1 0 18 4 24 39
2 Porto 15 11 2 2 37 17 8 6 1 1 19 9 7 5 1 1 18 8 20 35
3 Benfica 15 10 3 2 30 15 8 6 1 1 16 8 7 4 2 1 14 7 15 33
4 Sporting Braga 15 10 0 5 24 15 7 6 0 1 10 3 8 4 0 4 14 12 9 30
5 Paços de Ferreira 15 8 4 3 22 12 7 5 1 1 12 6 8 3 3 2 10 6 10 28
6 Vitória SC 14 8 2 4 19 13 7 3 0 4 7 10 7 5 2 0 12 3 6 26
7 Santa Clara 15 5 3 7 15 19 7 1 2 4 5 10 8 4 1 3 10 9 -4 18
8 Moreirense 15 4 6 5 13 17 8 3 4 1 11 8 7 1 2 4 2 9 -4 18
9 Marítimo 15 5 2 8 16 21 7 2 2 3 5 8 8 3 0 5 11 13 -5 17
10 Belenenses 15 3 6 6 8 12 8 2 3 3 7 8 7 1 3 3 1 4 -4 15
11 Portimonense 15 4 3 8 12 19 7 3 2 2 6 5 8 1 1 6 6 14 -7 15
12 Rio Ave 15 3 6 6 11 18 7 2 2 3 7 8 8 1 4 3 4 10 -7 15
13 Tondela 15 4 3 8 13 25 8 4 2 2 8 8 7 0 1 6 5 17 -12 15
14 Nacional 15 3 5 7 13 20 8 2 3 3 9 11 7 1 2 4 4 9 -7 14
15 Famalicao 15 3 5 7 16 26 8 1 3 4 9 17 7 2 2 3 7 9 -10 14
16 Gil Vicente 15 3 4 8 10 17 7 2 2 3 5 6 8 1 2 5 5 11 -7 13
17 Farense 14 3 3 8 15 20 8 3 2 3 12 10 6 0 1 5 3 10 -5 12
18 Boavista 15 1 8 6 14 26 7 1 2 4 5 13 8 0 6 2 9 13 -12 11

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.