The Paços de Ferreira & Sporting Braga managers P. Marques da Costa Filipe and C. Soares da Costa Faria Carvalhal are both dreading and looking forward to this decisive game in the upper regions of the Primeira Liga league table.
- Paços de Ferreira has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2) in Primeira Liga
- Sporting Braga have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
Sporting Braga could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Taça De Portugal game only three sleeps ago.
Paços de Ferreira form and stats
The home supporters can't complain about results here at Estádio da Capital do Móvel as Paços de Ferreira have scored 10 goals to get 13 points from 6 games. The overall stats in the Primeira Liga are 4-1-1 (wins-draws-losses).
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Jordi Martins Almeida not having conceded a league goal in 196 minutes.
Ferreira enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Belenenses's place. The match ended 2-0 with Bruno Costa and Mohamed Diaby scoring. Before that game, the 2-0 home victory against Rio Ave.
Ferreira goalkeeper Jordi did an outstanding job against Belenenses with six saves, so vital to securing the victory.
A decent goal production from Paços de Ferreira in their home games so far, with 10 goals from 6 league matches. On the other hand, Ferreira have conceded 6 goals.
Sporting Braga form and stats
Playing away, Sporting Braga have won 4 games, drawn 0 and suffered 3 defeats in the Primeira Liga this season.
Braga won their last game, 5-0 versus Torreense played at home. A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs Maritimo.
As mentioned above, Braga was the only team on the pitch versus Torreense in their previous game, winning 5-0. This could be a tougher task.
After this away game Braga return home for a League Cup game against Benfica. That game is only four sleeps after this.
With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Sporting Braga are regular goalscorers on their travels. Sporting Braga have conceded 10 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Ferreira won three games, two matches ended with a draw and Sporting Braga has five wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: seven / threeTop Goalscorers
  D. da Silva Souza 5 goals |   R. Horta 5 goals |  I. Picanço Medeiros 4 goals |
Paços de Ferreira missing players
Sporting Braga missing players
| Paços de Ferreira | Sporting Braga | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 4 | 7 | 13 |
| 6 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 17 | 10 | 3 | Scored | S | 5 | 14 | 23 |
| 12 | 6 | 4 | Conceded | C | 7 | 10 | 13 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 85% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 86% | 69% |
| 23% | 33% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 71% | 62% |
| 8% | 17% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 57% | 31% |
| 8% | 17% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 29% | 15% |
| 54% | 50% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 57% | 46% |
| 31% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 29% | 38% |
| 15% | 17% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 14% | 15% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.9 | 1.7 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.2 | 2.1 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| 13.1 | 11.7 | 12.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.5 | 12.4 | 14.9 |
| 4.3 | 3.5 | 3.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 5.4 | 5.6 |
| 30% | 48% | 43% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 37% | 32% |
- All of Paços de Ferreira's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Paços de Ferreira has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2) in Primeira Liga
- Paços de Ferreira have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Paços de Ferreira haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Sporting Braga have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Sporting Braga 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 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 30 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 4 | 22 | 35 |
| 2 | Porto | 13 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 35 | 16 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 8 | 19 | 31 |
| 3 | Benfica | 13 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 28 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 15 | 31 |
| 4 | Sporting Braga | 13 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 23 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 27 |
| 5 | Paços de Ferreira | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 22 |
| 6 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 20 |
| 7 | Santa Clara | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | -4 | 15 |
| 8 | Maritimo | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 13 | -3 | 14 |
| 9 | Moreirense | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 | -5 | 14 |
| 10 | Rio Ave | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | -6 | 14 |
| 11 | Nacional | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | -4 | 13 |
| 12 | Gil Vicente | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | -5 | 13 |
| 13 | Farense | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 10 | -4 | 12 |
| 14 | Belenenses | 13 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -5 | 12 |
| 15 | Tondela | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 22 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 15 | -12 | 12 |
| 16 | Boavista | 13 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 13 | 21 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 10 | -8 | 11 |
| 17 | Portimonense | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 12 | -8 | 11 |
| 18 | Famalicao | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 24 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -10 | 11 |