Portimonense are flying at 18th, while Arouca are bringing up the rear 10 points behind in the table. Can they reduce the gap?
- Portimonense have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Primeira Liga
- Arouca have the most conceded goals in the first half (17) in Primeira Liga
Portimonense and Arouca should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Portimonense form and stats
Portimonense's struggle is real here at Estádio Municipal de Portimão with only 7 points collected from 7 Primeira Liga games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-1-4.
It's back home for Portimonense, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Moreirense away with the result 1-0. Morte found the net in that victory. Defender Pedrão got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 8.04/10. Pedrão won 6 of 10 duels.
Ahead of that match, Portimonense lost 0-3 at home to Porto.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Portimonense handle that role? We have found eleven games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are five wins, four draws and two defeats.
The manager Bento Brito will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Famalicao in only three days.
Portimonense aren't scoring a lot here at Estádio Municipal de Portimão in the league, with only 4 goals from 7 games. Portimonense have conceded 8 in these home matches.
Arouca form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Arouca so far with only 3 points returning home. The records show 0-3-4 (win-draw-lose).
Arouca failed to get anything from their last game, a Primeira Liga home match vs Vizela (placed 10th) that ended with defeat 1-4. Pité got a match rating of 7.3 in that game, top player of the team. Pité hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.
A 1-2 defeat away at Santa Clara before that.Arouca are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is zero wins, three draws and five defeats. From a total of eight matches.
The visitors have scored 5 goals from 7 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Arouca's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 12 goals from these trips.
Head 2 Head
Portimonense-Arouca H2H statistics last five meetings regardless of arena: Portimonense two wins, Arouca two wins, one draw. three of these five matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  A. Boa Morte 3 goals |   A. Watshini Bukia 3 goals | O. Dabbagh 3 goals |
Portimonense missing players
Arouca missing players
| Portimonense | Arouca | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 7 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 7 | 14 |
| 7 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 5 | 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 14 | 4 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 5 | 15 |
| 12 | 8 | 1 | Conceded | C | 5 | 12 | 24 |
| 93% | 86% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 86% | 93% |
| 57% | 57% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 86% | 93% |
| 36% | 29% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 57% | 64% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 14% | 21% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 14% | 14% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 57% | 64% |
| 50% | 29% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 14% | 14% |
| 43% | 71% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 43% | 29% |
| 4.5 | 5.4 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.5 | 5.1 | 5.1 |
| 5.8 | 3.7 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 4.3 | 4.4 |
| 3.6 | 3.1 | 3.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 3.1 | 2.9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 11.2 | 15.6 | 15.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5 | 11.9 | 12.3 |
| 4.1 | 4.9 | 4.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0.5 | 3 | 4.1 |
| 24% | 12% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 24% | 26% |
| 14.6 | 12.6 | 11 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 17 | 11.7 | 11.7 |
| 3.4 | 3.1 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 3.7 | 4.2 |
- Arouca have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Arouca have the most conceded goals in the first half (17) in Primeira Liga
- Arouca have yet to win a game away.
- Portimonense have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Primeira Liga
- Portimonense have the fewest scored goals (4) at home in Primeira Liga
- Portimonense have won significantly more corners at home than 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 | Porto | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 34 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 26 | 38 |
| 2 | Sporting CP | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 19 | 38 |
| 3 | Benfica | 14 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 39 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 4 | 28 | 34 |
| 4 | Sporting Braga | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 23 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 25 |
| 5 | Estoril | 14 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 19 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 24 |
| 6 | Portimonense | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 23 |
| 7 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 22 |
| 8 | Gil Vicente | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 20 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 20 |
| 9 | Maritimo | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 11 | -2 | 14 |
| 10 | Vizela | 13 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 14 | 21 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 15 | -7 | 13 |
| 11 | Arouca | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 24 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 12 | -9 | 13 |
| 12 | Tondela | 13 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 19 | 28 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 16 | -9 | 12 |
| 13 | Boavista | 14 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 25 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 17 | -9 | 12 |
| 14 | Pacos de Ferreira | 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 19 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | -9 | 11 |
| 15 | Famalicao | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 17 | 28 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 15 | -11 | 10 |
| 16 | Santa Clara | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 30 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 16 | -18 | 10 |
| 17 | Moreirense | 13 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 23 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | -9 | 9 |
| 18 | Belenenses | 13 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 23 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | -16 | 8 |