The Porto & Rio Ave managers S. Marceneiro Conceição 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.
Porto and Rio Ave 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.
Porto form and stats
10-0-1 is the performance here at Estádio Do Dragão so far in the Primeira Liga, giving Porto a total of 30 from their 11 games here. Outstanding results! The team is doing great wherever they are playing as Porto has won six games in a row. The Sporting Braga match was the last time out without a victory. There’s a good atmosphere here at Estádio Do Dragão after three straight home wins.
Porto are confident in defense, having played 221 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.
A good away victory last time out for Porto, who won 2-0 against Santa Clara (placed 8th). Ahead of that match, Porto lost 1-3 at home to Bayer Leverkusen.
The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Porto home games with this odds we find six games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in six wins, zero draws and zero defeats. Looking at the victories, two matches were won by at least two goals.
Porto can score goals in their home matches. After 11 league matches they have found the net 25 times. Defensively Porto have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (5 in 11 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Rio Ave form and stats
6-2-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Rio Ave in their Primeira Liga matches away. A great winning streak in away games for Rio Ave as they have managed to win four matches in a row as the visitors. Not since the Portimonense have they travelled home without three points.
Rio Ave's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Belenenses that finished 0-0. Ahead of that match was the victory versus Tondela at their stadium, the result 2-1.
We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Rio Ave played away with similar odds. This revealed four games. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, one were draw and the home team won as expected three times.
Rio Ave have scored 15 goals on their travels this season, from 11 away games in the league. It's not easy to score on Rio Ave as they have only conceded 10 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
The most recent history between these sides is the Rio Ave - Porto 0-1 played earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's eight Porto victories, two draws and zero Rio Ave wins. Over/under statistics; eight of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  A. Telles 8 goals | F. das Chagas Soares dos Santos 7 goals |  J. Mendes Andrade 7 goals |
Porto missing players
Rio Ave missing players
| Porto | Rio Ave | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 23 | 11 | 3 | Played | P | 4 | 11 | 23 |
| 19 | 10 | 2 | Won | W | 1 | 6 | 10 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 49 | 25 | 7 | Scored | S | 3 | 15 | 31 |
| 15 | 5 | 4 | Conceded | C | 7 | 10 | 22 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 91% | 91% |
| 83% | 82% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 73% | 65% |
| 57% | 64% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 36% | 30% |
| 22% | 18% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 18% | 22% |
| 13% | 9% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 9% | 13% |
| 43% | 27% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 25% | 36% | 43% |
| 57% | 73% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 36% | 35% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 75% | 36% | 30% |
| 6.4 | 7.1 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.2 | 3 | 4.8 |
| 2.7 | 2.3 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.8 | 5.5 | 4.5 |
| 2.6 | 2.1 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.2 | 2 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 353 | 185 | 56 | Total Shots | T S | 30 | 98 | 240 |
| 120 | 65 | 18 | Shots on Target | S O | 6 | 26 | 71 |
| 41% | 38% | 39% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 58% | 44% |
- Porto has the fewest conceded goals (5) at home
- Porto has the most clean sheets (8) at home
- Porto has the most points (30) at home
- Porto has the most scored goals in the first half (27)
- Porto have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Porto have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Porto have scored in all their matches so far.
- Porto have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Porto haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Porto is in the best form (6-0-0)
- Rio Ave has the most matches under the total-line (16)
- Rio Ave have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Rio Ave have won significantly less corners away then at home.
| 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 | 23 | 19 | 2 | 2 | 49 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 5 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 10 | 34 | 59 |
| 2 | Benfica | 23 | 19 | 1 | 3 | 51 | 13 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 28 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 23 | 6 | 38 | 58 |
| 3 | Sporting Braga | 23 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 38 | 25 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 11 | 13 | 43 |
| 4 | Sporting CP | 23 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 35 | 26 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 17 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 14 | 9 | 39 |
| 5 | Rio Ave | 23 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 31 | 22 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 16 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 37 |
| 6 | Famalicão | 23 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 38 | 40 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 23 | 21 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 19 | -2 | 36 |
| 7 | Vitória SC | 23 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 38 | 24 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 18 | 14 | 14 | 34 |
| 8 | Santa Clara | 23 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 18 | 25 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 10 | -7 | 29 |
| 9 | Gil Vicente | 23 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 24 | 28 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 16 | -4 | 29 |
| 10 | Boavista | 23 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 18 | 22 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 9 | -4 | 28 |
| 11 | Moreirense | 23 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 32 | 32 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 17 | 0 | 27 |
| 12 | Vitória FC | 23 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 16 | 26 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 16 | -10 | 27 |
| 13 | Belenenses | 23 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 19 | 38 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 19 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 19 | -19 | 25 |
| 14 | Tondela | 23 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 19 | 29 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 15 | -10 | 24 |
| 15 | Marítimo | 23 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 22 | 30 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 16 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 14 | -8 | 24 |
| 16 | Paços de Ferreira | 23 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 32 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 20 | -15 | 22 |
| 17 | Portimonense | 23 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 15 | 31 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 19 | -16 | 16 |
| 18 | Desportivo Aves | 23 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 23 | 45 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 11 | 19 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 12 | 26 | -22 | 13 |