Struggling Cova Piedade will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Nacional in the upcoming league round. It’s 18th vs 1st and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
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.
Nacional play their home games on grass, while this game is played on artificial turf. Recent stats for Nacional when playing on artificial turf are 1 win, 1 draw and 0 defeats from two matches. They have scored 3 goals and conceded 2 times in these games.
Cova Piedade form and stats
Cova Piedade's struggle is real here at Municipal Jose Martins Vieira with only 7 points collected from 7 Segunda Liga games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-1-4. All in all it has been a very rough period for Cova Piedade who hasn’t won a game in their last twelve attempts. Their previous win was against Benfica II, 140 days ago.
Cova Piedade haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 310 minutes ago. G. Moura scored that one.
In their previous game, the manager L. Valado led his Cova Piedade to a defeat in the Segunda Liga match away at Academica. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Municipal Jose Martins Vieira. Before that game, the home loss against Chaves with the scoreline 0-2.
Cova Piedade have scored 4 league goals here from 7 matches, not a lot. On the other hand, Cova Piedade have conceded 8 goals.
Nacional form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team, who have the the best goal difference (+12) in Segunda Liga, on their Segunda Liga travels is 4 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat.
Nacional have been frustrated by their lack of goals lately, as they haven't scored in the league since they found the net 182 minutes ago. B. Rochez was the goal scorer. 202 minutes! That's how long the Nacional goalkeeper Daniel Martins Guimaraes and his defense have shut out their league opponents.
There were no winners in Nacional's previous match, a Segunda Liga home game that ended 0-0 vs UD Oliveirense (placed 14th). Before that, Nacional travelled to Academico Viseu and returned home with a draw after the game finished 0-0.
Nacional have scored 9 goals on their travels this season, from 8 away games in the league. Nacional are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 6 times in 8 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
As for the last five games between these two teams, there's 1 Cova Piedade victory, 1 draw and 3 Nacional wins. 4 of these games ended with three goals or more, 1 match with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  B. Rochez 7 goals |  J. Riascos 7 goals |  J. Gomes 3 goals |
Cova Piedade missing players
Nacional missing players
| Cova Piedade | Nacional | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 16 | 7 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 8 | 16 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 12 | 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | 4 | 0 | Scored | S | 3 | 9 | 21 |
| 30 | 8 | 4 | Conceded | C | 2 | 6 | 9 |
| 88% | 86% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 88% | 81% |
| 75% | 71% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 33% | 62% | 56% |
| 44% | 14% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 38% | 38% |
| 19% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 6% |
| 19% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 6% |
| 31% | 14% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 62% | 50% |
| 19% | 29% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 25% | 44% |
| 62% | 71% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 25% | 25% |
| 3.9 | 3.3 | 4 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 7.3 | 4.9 | 4.9 |
| 5.6 | 5.1 | 5 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 6.7 | 6.8 | 5.7 |
| 2.6 | 2.7 | 4 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 3.6 | 3.5 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 117 | 60 | 14 | Total Shots | T S | 45 | 90 | 191 |
| 38 | 21 | 5 | Shots on Target | S O | 13 | 27 | 57 |
| 24% | 19% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 23% | 33% | 37% |
- Cova Piedade has the fewest scored goals (4) at home
- Cova Piedade has the fewest scored goals (9)
- Cova Piedade has the fewest scored goals in the first half (3)
- Cova Piedade has the fewest scored goals in the second half (6)
- Cova Piedade has the most conceded goals in the second half (19)
- Cova Piedade has the the worst goal difference (-21)
- Cova Piedade have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Nacional has the fewest conceded goals (6) away
- Nacional has the fewest conceded goals (9)
- Nacional has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (5)
- Nacional has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (4)
- Nacional has the the best goal difference (+12)
- Nacional have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Nacional have scored more than double the goals of Cova Piedade.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Nacional | 16 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 21 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 12 | 33 |
| 2 | Farense | 16 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 22 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 33 |
| 3 | Sporting Covilhã | 16 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 25 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 27 |
| 4 | Mafra | 16 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 26 | 19 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 27 |
| 5 | Varzim | 16 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 22 | 19 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 26 |
| 6 | Chaves | 16 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 21 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 26 |
| 7 | Academica | 16 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 26 | 21 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 24 |
| 8 | Leixoes | 16 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 19 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 24 |
| 9 | Penafiel | 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 23 |
| 10 | Academico Viseu | 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 9 | -1 | 23 |
| 11 | Estoril | 16 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 23 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 22 |
| 12 | Feirense | 16 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 17 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 22 |
| 13 | Benfica II | 16 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 22 | 22 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 21 |
| 14 | UD Oliveirense | 16 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 20 | 23 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 16 | -3 | 18 |
| 15 | Vilafranquense | 16 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 20 | 27 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 13 | -7 | 16 |
| 16 | Porto II | 16 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 19 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 15 | -6 | 15 |
| 17 | Casa Pia | 16 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 31 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 14 | -19 | 8 |
| 18 | Cova Piedade | 16 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 30 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 22 | -21 | 8 |