Evenly matched teams: Vizela vs Famalicão match preview

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Competition: Portugal Primeira Liga
Competition: Fri 18.March
Match begins: 20:15 (UTC)
Venue: Estádio Do Vizela (3500 seats)

Vizela are believing in their home fans to help them during this game versus Famalicão. Who is the winner at Estádio Do Vizela?

Insights:
  • Vizela is in the worst form (0-3-3)
  • Famalicão have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

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.

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Vizela form and stats

The story so far in the Primeira Liga for Vizela at their home stadium (Estádio Do Vizela) is 3 wins, 5 draws and 5 defeats.

Vizela shared the glory with Benfica in their last match, an away game that ended all square 1-1.

A defeat was the result before that one, 1-3 away at Santa Clara.

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 Vizela have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found ten matches with the results: Won three, drawn four and lost three.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Vizela here at Estádio Do Vizela in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (12 from 13 games). On the other hand, Vizela have conceded 17 goals.

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Famalicão form and stats

Famalicão have only collected 12 points from their away games in the Primeira Liga, after 3-3-7 (13 played).

There were no winners in Famalicão's previous match, the home game that ended 0-0 vs Santa Clara (placed 10th). Batubinsika was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.71. The defender Batubinsika won 6 of 6 duels.

Preceding that game, the 1-2 loss visiting Vitoria Guimaraes's place.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 13 similar matches played by Famalicão in our archives, and the results are: seven wins for Famalicão, three draws and three defeats.

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Famalicão have scored 19 goals in 13 league games away. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

The records show that this isn''t the first time these teams get together this campaign, as the fixture list show this recent match: Famalicão - Vizela 1-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Vizela three wins, four draws and Famalicão three victories. As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), nine games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

FamalicãoS. Banza
S. Banza
11 goals
VizelaC. Dias Moreira
C. Dias Moreira
6 goals
VizelaG. Schettine Guimarães
G. Schettine Guimarães
6 goals

Vizela missing players

Famalicão missing players

Vizela Famalicão
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
26 13 4 Played P 4 13 26
5 3 1 Won W 1 3 6
10 5 3 Drew D 1 3 9
11 5 0 Lost L 2 7 11
28 12 6 Scored S 10 19 32
44 17 5 Conceded C 9 26 40
96% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 85%
85% 77% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 92% 77%
46% 23% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 69% 58%
35% 15% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 75% 54% 35%
15% 8% 25% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 15% 15%
62% 54% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 62% 54%
8% 8% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 15% 31%
35% 38% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 23% 31%
 
5.7 6.8 7 Corners for (avg) C F 4.5 3.6 4.3
6.1 5.5 5 Corners against (avg) C A 5.8 5.3 4.7
3.1 2.8 3.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.8 3.4 3
5 2 0 Red cards R C 1 2 4
 
14 15.4 18 Shots (avg) S ( 13.5 11 11.7
3.7 3.6 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 7 5 4.6
29% 26% 38% Goal Efficiency G E 36% 29% 27%
 
14.3 11.8 11.8 Shots against (avg) S A 14.2 14.1 11.6
4.6 3.8 2.2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 5.4 4.5
Key stats in Primeira Liga this season:
  • Famalicão have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Famalicão have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Famalicão haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Vizela have the most conceded goals in the second half (31) in Primeira Liga
  • Vizela have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Vizela haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Vizela is in the worst form (0-3-3)

  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 25 21 4 0 63 19 12 10 2 0 30 9 13 11 2 0 33 10 44 67
2 Sporting CP 25 19 4 2 49 16 13 11 1 1 24 5 12 8 3 1 25 11 33 61
3 Benfica 26 18 4 4 66 24 13 8 2 3 31 13 13 10 2 1 35 11 42 58
4 Sporting Braga 25 13 7 5 41 24 13 7 4 2 22 10 12 6 3 3 19 14 17 46
5 Gil Vicente 25 11 9 5 36 25 13 5 4 4 19 15 12 6 5 1 17 10 11 42
6 Estoril 26 8 10 8 30 30 13 3 6 4 17 17 13 5 4 4 13 13 0 34
7 Vitoria Guimaraes 25 9 6 10 35 34 12 7 2 3 23 15 13 2 4 7 12 19 1 33
8 Maritimo 25 8 8 9 30 32 12 3 6 3 14 11 13 5 2 6 16 21 -2 32
9 Pacos de Ferreira 26 7 9 10 23 31 13 3 5 5 14 18 13 4 4 5 9 13 -8 30
10 Santa Clara 26 7 9 10 30 43 13 6 4 3 18 21 13 1 5 7 12 22 -13 30
11 Portimonense 26 7 8 11 25 30 13 2 4 7 10 17 13 5 4 4 15 13 -5 29
12 Famalicão 26 6 9 11 32 40 13 3 6 4 13 14 13 3 3 7 19 26 -8 27
13 Boavista 26 4 15 7 31 39 13 3 9 1 18 15 13 1 6 6 13 24 -8 27
14 Vizela 26 5 10 11 28 44 13 3 5 5 12 17 13 2 5 6 16 27 -16 25
15 Arouca 26 5 7 14 23 46 13 3 2 8 11 27 13 2 5 6 12 19 -23 22
16 Tondela 25 6 3 16 31 48 13 4 1 8 18 25 12 2 2 8 13 23 -17 21
17 Moreirense 25 4 8 13 23 40 12 3 3 6 15 17 13 1 5 7 8 23 -17 20
18 Belenenses 26 3 8 15 15 46 13 3 3 7 10 26 13 0 5 8 5 20 -31 17

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.