With their 4 point advantage in the league table, Santa Clara fans are hoping to see their team collect maximum points from this game against Famalicão.
- Santa Clara has the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Primeira Liga
- Famalicão has the most conceded goals (24) in Primeira Liga
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.
Santa Clara form and stats
Santa Clara's struggle is real here with only 5 points collected from 6 Primeira Liga games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-2-3.
It's back home for Santa Clara, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Moreirense away with the result 1-0. Before that, Santa played out a Primeira Liga draw 1-1 when visiting Boavista.
The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Santa have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 15 matches with the results: Won four, drawn five and lost six.
Santa aren't scoring a lot here in the league, with only 4 goals from 6 games. Santa Clara have conceded 8 in these home matches.
Famalicão form and stats
There's been little loot from Famalicão's travels as they have only collected 5 points from 6 away games in the Primeira Liga. Famalicão, who have the most conceded goals (24) in Primeira Liga, only have 1 win to counter their 3 defeats and 2 draws. Three has not been a lucky number for Famalicão as they have been defeated three times in a row since the Portimonense match.
Famalicão's previous game was their home loss versus Porto (1-4). A 0-1 defeat away at Tondela before that.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found ten similar matches played by Famalicão in our archives, and the results are: six wins for Famalicão, three draws and one defeat.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Famalicão as they have only managed to score 5 times from 6 away games in the league. As opposed to that, Famalicão have seen the ball go into their own net 8 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
As for the last eight games between these two teams, there's five Santa victories, zero draws and three Famalicão wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  T. Santos Santana 7 goals |   J. Alves da Silva 3 goals |  F. Rodrigues Cardoso 2 goals |
Santa Clara missing players
Famalicão missing players
| Santa Clara | Famalicão | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 6 | 13 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 12 | 4 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 5 | 14 |
| 16 | 8 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 8 | 24 |
| 92% | 83% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 83% | 92% |
| 69% | 67% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 50% | 69% |
| 38% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 54% |
| 15% | 17% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 17% | 38% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 17% | 23% |
| 46% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 33% | 62% |
| 23% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 17% | 8% |
| 38% | 50% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 67% | 38% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.9 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 4 | 3.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 10.8 | 9.7 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 9.7 | 10.2 |
| 3.5 | 3 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 3.5 | 3.7 |
| 26% | 22% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 24% | 29% |
- Famalicão has the most conceded goals (24) in Primeira Liga
- Famalicão has the most conceded goals in the first half (13) in Primeira Liga
- Famalicão is in the worst form (0-2-4)
- Santa Clara has the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Primeira Liga
| 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 | Pacos 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 | Famalicão | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 24 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -10 | 11 |