Primeira Liga: What this game might lack in style it should compensate in pace and attitude. Get ready for Marítimo - Santa Clara!
- Santa Clara have the most conceded goals (26) in Primeira Liga
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
Marítimo form and stats
With 1 Primeira Liga win, 3 draws and 2 defeats from their home games, Marítimo are certainly not brimming with confidence.
Marítimo travelled for their previous game, a trip to Boavista that ended 1-1. The hometeam coach V. Freire De Seabra made a successful contribution in the game against Boavista, bringing on Henrique who scored the equalizer in the 1-1 draw. The attacking player Henrique was declared "man of the match" for Marítimo with a rating of 7.44/10. Henrique scored one goal and hit one key pass.
Before that, Marítimo had a home game versus Paços de Ferreira which ended with a victory 2-0.This is expected to be a close game, with Marítimo perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Marítimo as a small favourite), we find 16 games. Marítimo has won eight of these, drawn four and lost four.
Marítimo are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 6 goals in 6 games. 7 goals have been conceded.
Santa Clara form and stats
There's been little loot from Santa Clara's travels as they have only collected 2 points from 6 away games in the Primeira Liga. Santa Clara only have 0 wins to counter their 4 defeats and 2 draws.
Santa won their last game, 2-1 versus Arouca played at home. Midfielder Lincoln was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.42. Lincoln signed up for two assists, hit three key passes and had 28 successful passes (of 31 total).
A 2-2 draw at Estoril's stadium before that.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 19 similar matches played by Santa Clara in our archives, and the results are: seven wins for Santa Clara, seven draws and five defeats.
The attacking power of Santa when travelling is not overwhelming with 5 goals scored from 6 league matches away. Santa have conceded 12 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
Marítimo-Santa Clara H2H statistics last six meetings regardless of arena: Marítimo three wins, Santa Clara two wins, one draw. two of these six matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  A. Alipour 3 goals |   C. da Cruz Queiroz Barcelos 3 goals |  C. Winck Neto 2 goals |
Marítimo missing players
Santa Clara missing players
| Marítimo | Santa Clara | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 13 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 13 | 6 | 2 | Scored | S | 0 | 5 | 11 |
| 18 | 7 | 0 | Conceded | C | 5 | 12 | 26 |
| 85% | 83% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 77% | 83% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 46% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 67% | 62% |
| 15% | 17% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 17% | 23% |
| 8% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 62% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 67% | 54% |
| 23% | 33% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 31% | 33% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 33% | 38% |
| 3.5 | 3.3 | 2.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 4.3 | 3.9 |
| 5.5 | 5.3 | 7.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 5 | 5.1 |
| 4.3 | 3.5 | 3.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.5 | 3 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 9.8 | 10.2 | 8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 17.5 | 13.5 | 11.7 |
| 3.3 | 2.8 | 2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 3.3 | 3.2 |
| 30% | 35% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 25% | 26% |
| 14.5 | 14.8 | 16.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9 | 11 | 11.5 |
| 4.7 | 4.3 | 5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 4.8 | 5 |
- All of Santa Clara's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Santa Clara have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Santa Clara have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Santa Clara have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Santa Clara have the most conceded goals (26) in Primeira Liga
- Santa Clara have yet to win a game away.
- Santa Clara 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 | Porto | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 33 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 25 | 35 |
| 2 | Sporting CP | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 17 | 35 |
| 3 | Benfica | 13 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 35 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 3 | 25 | 31 |
| 4 | Sporting Braga | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 23 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 25 |
| 5 | Estoril | 13 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 18 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 21 |
| 6 | Portimonense | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 20 |
| 7 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 19 |
| 8 | Gil Vicente | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 17 |
| 9 | Arouca | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 20 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 12 | -6 | 13 |
| 10 | Tondela | 12 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 17 | 23 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 11 | -6 | 12 |
| 11 | Boavista | 13 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 16 | 23 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 15 | -7 | 12 |
| 12 | Marítimo | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 11 | -5 | 11 |
| 13 | Paços de Ferreira | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | -8 | 11 |
| 14 | Famalicao | 13 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 16 | 24 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 15 | -8 | 10 |
| 15 | Vizela | 12 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 14 | -10 | 10 |
| 16 | Santa Clara | 13 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 26 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 12 | -15 | 10 |
| 17 | Moreirense | 12 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | -8 | 9 |
| 18 | Belenenses | 12 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | -15 | 8 |