Primeira Liga: What this match might not have in style it should compensate in tempo and attitude. Bring on Paços de Ferreira - Santa Clara!
- Paços de Ferreira have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Santa Clara have yet to win a game away.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Paços de Ferreira form and stats
Paços de Ferreira's struggle is real here at Estádio da Capital do Móvel with only 6 points collected from 8 Primeira Liga games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-3-4. Paços de Ferreira are slowly digging their own grave here at Estádio da Capital do Móvel with the depressing streak of not having won a home league game in seven attempts. The last victory here came in the Famalicao match.
A strong away win for Ferreira against Tondela the last match, as Denílson were on target. Paços de Ferreira goalkeeper Ferreira did an outstanding job against Tondela with nine saves, so vital to securing the victory. The goalie Ferreira was named most valuable player of the team in that game, scoring 8.8 out of ten. Ferreira stopped the opponent with nine saves and topped it up with a clean sheet.
Preceding that match was a defeat to Gil Vicente (0-1).This is expected to be a close game, with Paços de Ferreira perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Ferreira as a small favourite), we find five games. Paços de Ferreira has won one of these, drawn one and lost three.
Ferreira aren't scoring a lot here at Estádio da Capital do Móvel in the league, with only 6 goals from 8 games. On the other hand, Paços de Ferreira have conceded 10 goals. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.
Santa Clara form and stats
Santa Clara have only collected 2 points from their away games in the Primeira Liga, after 0-2-5 (7 played).
Santa had fun at their own home (Estádio da Capital do Móvel) last time out, beating Vitoria Guimaraes 1-0. Costa scored. Midfield player Lincoln was the top player of the team with a match rating of 8.44/10. Lincoln served one assist, hit five key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.
It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Maritimo wasn't a success with a 1-4 loss.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.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Santa as they have only managed to score 6 times from 7 away games in the league. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. The Santa manager Carvalho Campos has some worries about the defense as 16 goals have been conceded in these travels. It's worth mentioning that 8 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.
Head 2 Head
Last five meetings featuring these squads: Ferreira won two, Santa Clara were winners in three and we saw zero draws. three games with more than 2,5 goals, two matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  N. Valente Santos 3 goals |  D. Pereira Júnior 3 goals |   C. da Cruz Queiroz Barcelos 3 goals |
Paços de Ferreira missing players
Santa Clara missing players
| Paços de Ferreira | Santa Clara | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 8 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 7 | 15 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 5 | 8 |
| 11 | 6 | 4 | Scored | S | 1 | 6 | 13 |
| 19 | 10 | 2 | Conceded | C | 6 | 16 | 30 |
| 87% | 75% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 67% | 62% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 87% |
| 33% | 38% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 71% | 60% |
| 13% | 25% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 29% | 27% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 14% | 13% |
| 40% | 38% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 71% | 53% |
| 33% | 38% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 13% |
| 40% | 50% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 29% | 33% |
| 5.5 | 5.5 | 4.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.5 | 4 | 4.1 |
| 5.5 | 5.5 | 2.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.5 | 4.9 | 4.8 |
| 3.1 | 3 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.6 | 2.9 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 11.1 | 11.4 | 19.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 13 | 11.9 |
| 3.1 | 2.8 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.4 | 3.3 |
| 23% | 27% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 17% | 25% | 26% |
| 14.3 | 14.1 | 12 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.5 | 10.7 | 11.1 |
| 5.1 | 4.5 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.7 | 4.6 |
- All of Santa Clara's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Paços de Ferreira have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- 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 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 | 15 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 38 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 5 | 30 | 41 |
| 2 | Sporting CP | 15 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 27 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 22 | 41 |
| 3 | Benfica | 15 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 46 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 4 | 34 | 37 |
| 4 | Sporting Braga | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 24 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 28 |
| 5 | Estoril | 15 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 21 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 25 |
| 6 | Portimonense | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 24 |
| 7 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 21 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 22 |
| 8 | Gil Vicente | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 20 |
| 9 | Boavista | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 17 | 25 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 17 | -8 | 15 |
| 10 | Maritimo | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 26 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 18 | -8 | 14 |
| 11 | Paços de Ferreira | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 19 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -8 | 14 |
| 12 | Arouca | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 25 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 13 | -9 | 14 |
| 13 | Vizela | 14 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 15 | -11 | 13 |
| 14 | Santa Clara | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 30 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 16 | -17 | 13 |
| 15 | Tondela | 14 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 19 | 29 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 16 | -10 | 12 |
| 16 | Famalicao | 15 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 19 | 30 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 17 | -11 | 11 |
| 17 | Moreirense | 14 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 24 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 12 | -10 | 9 |
| 18 | Belenenses | 14 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 24 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 | -17 | 8 |
