Soccer preview: Home fans have high expectations when Sporting CP host Portimonense

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Competition: Portugal Primeira Liga
Competition: Sat 10.September
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estádio José Alvalade (50044 seats)

Sporting CP challenge Portimonense for recognition and sporting success.

Insights:
  • All of Sporting CP's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Portimonense have won all their away games so far.

The hosts Sporting CP saw competitive action as recent as three days ago, playing in the Champions League. That game was an away game at Eintracht Frankfurt, so at least Sporting CP are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

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Sporting CP form and stats

OK but not perfect. That could be the conclusion for Sporting CP's two home games in the Primeira Liga so far this season, having collected 3 points here at Estádio José Alvalade.

Sporting CP are returning here after guesting Eintracht Frankfurt in a Champions League game and winning with a 3-0 scoreline. The attacking player Edwards was declared "man of the match" for Sporting CP with a rating of 8.43/10. Edwards scored one goal, served one assist, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.

In the game before, an away victory in the Primeira Liga match versus Estoril with a 2-0 scoreline.

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 Sporting CP home games with this odds we find 10 games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in 9 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats. Looking at the victories, 6 matches were won by at least two goals.

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Tottenham Hotspur are coming to town in three days.

Sporting CP has scored 3 goals so far and conceded 2 goals from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.

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Portimonense form and stats

Portimonense are yet to lose a point on their Primeira Liga travels this season with 2 wins from 2 away games. The visitors have performed well in their home games as well, building a total win streak of four games home and away. Portimonense hope to make it five in this match.

Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Portimonense goalkeeper Kosuke Nakamura is eager to challenge this, with his 224 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

Portimonense had fun at their own home (Estádio José Alvalade) last time out, beating Famalicao 1-0. Pedrão scored. Moufi was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.91. The defender Moufi hit four key passes and won 10 of 15 duels.

Preceding that game was the away victory against Maritimo with the score of 1-0.

Portimonense have the goal stats of 4-0 (for/against) from 2 business trips in the league at this early stage of the season.

Head 2 Head

Sporting CP have won all of the 8 latest duels against this opponent. Can they do it again?

Top Goalscorers

Sporting CPPote
Pote
3 goals
Sporting CPM. Edwards
M. Edwards
2 goals
PortimonenseWelinton Junior
Welinton Junior
2 goals

Sporting CP missing players

Portimonense missing players

Sporting CP Portimonense
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
5 2 1 Played P 0 2 5
2 1 0 Won W 0 2 4
1 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
2 1 1 Lost L 0 0 1
8 3 0 Scored S 0 4 7
8 2 2 Conceded C 0 0 2
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
100% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 50% 40%
60% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 40%
20% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
20% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
20% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 20%
40% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 100% 60%
40% 50% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 20%
 
6.8 10 13 Corners for (avg) C F 0 7 6.8
2.4 2 3 Corners against (avg) C A 0 5 5.4
3.8 3 5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 3 3.8
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
16.2 22.5 22 Shots (avg) S ( 0 11.5 12.8
6 8 8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 5 4.4
27% 19% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 40% 32%
 
9.4 5.5 8 Shots against (avg) S A 0 17 14.8
3.8 3 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 4 3.8
Key stats in Primeira Liga this season:
  • All of Sporting CP's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Portimonense have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Portimonense have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Portimonense have won all their away games so far.
  • Portimonense haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Sporting CP have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Sporting CP have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Sporting CP haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
Sporting CP Last season Portimonense
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
34 17   Played P   17 34
27 14   Won W   6 10
4 1   Drew D   4 8
3 2   Lost L   7 16
73 34   Scored S   16 31
23 8   Conceded C   23 45
100% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 97%
88% 82%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   65% 68%
50% 35%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   29% 35%
29% 18%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   12% 9%
15% 12%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   12% 9%
44% 24%   BTTS BTTS   29% 41%
53% 71%   Clean Sheets C S   35% 29%
3% 6%   Failed to Score F T   35% 32%
 
6.1 6.5   Corners for (avg) C F   3.9 4.5
2.9 2.5   Corners against (avg) C A   7 6
2.9 2.6   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   3.4 3.4
6 0   Red cards R C   3 6
 
16 17.5   Shots (avg) S (   9.5 12.2
6.4 6.8   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3.6 4.3
33% 30%   Goal Efficiency G E   26% 21%
 
8 6.2   Shots against (avg) S A   16.8 15.5
2.6 1.8   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   5.1 4.8

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Benfica 5 5 0 0 13 3 3 3 0 0 9 3 2 2 0 0 4 0 10 15
2 Sporting Braga 5 4 1 0 18 3 3 2 1 0 9 3 2 2 0 0 9 0 15 13
3 Porto 5 4 0 1 12 4 2 2 0 0 8 1 3 2 0 1 4 3 8 12
4 Portimonense 5 4 0 1 7 2 3 2 0 1 3 2 2 2 0 0 4 0 5 12
5 Boavista 5 3 0 2 4 6 3 2 0 1 3 4 2 1 0 1 1 2 -2 9
6 Chaves 5 2 2 1 6 4 3 0 2 1 2 3 2 2 0 0 4 1 2 8
7 Casa Pia 5 2 2 1 3 1 3 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 2 8
8 Estoril 5 2 1 2 7 5 3 1 1 1 4 4 2 1 0 1 3 1 2 7
9 Sporting CP 5 2 1 2 8 8 2 1 0 1 3 2 3 1 1 1 5 6 0 7
10 Arouca 5 2 1 2 3 11 2 1 0 1 1 6 3 1 1 1 2 5 -8 7
11 Vitoria Guimaraes 5 2 0 3 3 4 2 1 0 1 1 1 3 1 0 2 2 3 -1 6
12 Vizela 5 1 2 2 5 6 2 0 1 1 2 3 3 1 1 1 3 3 -1 5
13 Rio Ave 5 1 2 2 6 8 2 1 0 1 3 2 3 0 2 1 3 6 -2 5
14 Gil Vicente 5 1 2 2 3 5 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 0 1 1 2 3 -2 5
15 Santa Clara 5 1 1 3 4 6 3 1 1 1 3 3 2 0 0 2 1 3 -2 4
16 Famalicao 5 1 1 3 1 6 2 1 0 1 1 3 3 0 1 2 0 3 -5 4
17 Pacos de Ferreira 5 0 0 5 2 11 2 0 0 2 0 6 3 0 0 3 2 5 -9 0
18 Maritimo 5 0 0 5 3 15 2 0 0 2 1 3 3 0 0 3 2 12 -12 0

Read more about Primeira Liga

The Primeira Liga, also known as Liga NOS, is the top level of football in Portugal. It has 18 teams each playing 34 fixtures to decide the final league table. Portuguese football is dominated by “The Big Three”: Benfica, Porto and Sporting CP (Lisbon). These three clubs generally end up in the top three positions.