Home advantage could prove decisive in Mafra - Vilafranquense battle

Days
Hours
Minutes
Seconds
Competition: Portugal Segunda Liga
Competition: Mon 30.August
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estádio Municipal de Mafra (1200 seats)

This promises to be quite the action-packed skirmish at Estádio Municipal de Mafra in the Segunda Liga. Mafra is in 5th place and host Vilafranquense in 18th spot. Read about the match here!

Insights:
  • Mafra have the fewest points (0) at home in Segunda Liga
  • Vilafranquense have the fewest scored goals (1) in Segunda Liga

Both participants have had a decent time to rest since their last work day in an official game. Let's hope for an enthusiastic match!

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Vilafranquense have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 8-13-21 (win-draw-loss) from 42 matches.

W L W L W

Mafra form and stats

Mafra's first Segunda Liga home game here at Estádio Municipal de Mafra ended in defeat. Last season their home statistics were 6 wins, 6 draws and 5 defeats from 17 matches.

A good away victory last time out for Mafra, who won 3-1 against Academico Viseu (placed 11th).

Preceding that match was the home game against Feirense that was lost 0-1.

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Mafra matches with similar probabilities have ended with zero wins, two draws and two defeats (from four games).

Early season league goal statistics from Mafra's 1 home game: 0 goals, 1 conceded.

D L L L L

Vilafranquense form and stats

The visitors' first away game in the Segunda Liga ended in defeat. Last season Vilafranquense had these away match statistics: Played 17; won 3, drew 6 and lost 8.

Vilafranquense played 1-1 against Sporting Covilhã in their previous match.

It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Nacional wasn't a success with a 0-4 loss.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Vilafranquense when being an outsider away as they are today, we find seven matches with the visitors losing three times, drawing two and winning two games.

As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Vilafranquense has managed 0 goals and let in 4 from 1 match.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: six - two - two (Mafra wins - draws - Vilafranquense wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

MafraS. Okitokandjo
S. Okitokandjo
2 goals
MafraP. Barcelos Silva
P. Barcelos Silva
1 goals
MafraA. Pinto Lopes
A. Pinto Lopes
1 goals

Mafra missing players

Vilafranquense missing players

Mafra Vilafranquense
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
3 1 0 Played P 0 1 3
2 0 0 Won W 0 0 0
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 1
1 1 0 Lost L 0 1 2
5 0 0 Scored S 0 0 1
2 1 0 Conceded C 0 4 6
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
67% 0% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 67%
33% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 100% 33%
33% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 100% 33%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
33% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 33%
33% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
33% 100% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 100% 67%
 
8 10 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 2 3.3
4 2 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 10 6
2.7 4 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1 2
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
12.3 12 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 2 5.7
5.7 4 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 1 1.3
29% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 25%
Key stats in Segunda Liga this season:
  • Mafra have the fewest points (0) at home in Segunda Liga
  • Vilafranquense have the fewest scored goals (1) in Segunda Liga
Mafra Last season Vilafranquense
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
34 17   Played P   17 34
9 6   Won W   3 5
10 6   Drew D   6 16
15 5   Lost L   8 13
35 21   Scored S   20 34
48 24   Conceded C   33 54
94% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   94% 85%
76% 76%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   88% 76%
44% 53%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   71% 53%
29% 35%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   35% 32%
0% 0%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   12% 6%
47% 59%   BTTS BTTS   71% 59%
21% 18%   Clean Sheets C S   12% 21%
38% 24%   Failed to Score F T   24% 35%
 
5.5 5.9   Corners for (avg) C F   3.8 4.2
4.3 3.9   Corners against (avg) C A   5.6 5.4
2.3 2.6   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   3.6 3.4
3 2   Red cards R C   5 6
 
10.4 10.5   Shots (avg) S (   8.2 8.6
3.6 3.6   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3 2.9
28% 34%   Goal Efficiency G E   39% 34%

  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 II 3 3 0 0 8 1 2 2 0 0 7 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 7 9
2 Rio Ave 3 2 1 0 9 2 1 1 0 0 5 1 2 1 1 0 4 1 7 7
3 Leixões 3 2 1 0 6 3 2 2 0 0 5 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 3 7
4 Sporting Covilhã 3 2 1 0 5 3 1 1 0 0 2 1 2 1 1 0 3 2 2 7
5 Mafra 3 2 0 1 5 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 2 0 0 5 1 3 6
6 Feirense 3 2 0 1 5 3 2 1 0 1 4 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 6
7 Penafiel 3 2 0 1 2 1 2 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 6
8 Estrela Amadora 3 1 1 1 3 3 2 1 0 1 3 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 4
9 Nacional 3 1 1 1 5 6 1 1 0 0 4 0 2 0 1 1 1 6 -1 4
10 Casa Pia 3 1 0 2 3 3 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 2 1 3 0 3
11 Academico Viseu 3 1 0 2 4 6 2 1 0 1 3 4 1 0 0 1 1 2 -2 3
12 Trofense 3 0 2 1 3 4 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 3 4 -1 2
13 Chaves 3 0 2 1 4 6 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 3 5 -2 2
14 Porto II 3 0 2 1 3 5 2 0 2 0 3 3 1 0 0 1 0 2 -2 2
15 Varzim 3 0 2 1 3 6 2 0 1 1 2 5 1 0 1 0 1 1 -3 2
16 Farense 3 0 1 2 3 7 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 0 0 2 2 6 -4 1
17 Académica 3 0 1 2 3 8 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 0 0 2 2 7 -5 1
18 Vilafranquense 3 0 1 2 1 6 2 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 4 -5 1
Last season Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Estoril 34 20 10 4 55 26 17 10 6 1 33 15 17 10 4 3 22 11 29 70
2 Vizela 34 18 12 4 59 35 17 11 5 1 29 15 17 7 7 3 30 20 24 66
3 Arouca 34 19 8 7 45 25 17 10 4 3 22 11 17 9 4 4 23 14 20 65
4 Académica 34 17 11 6 46 30 17 9 4 4 23 17 17 8 7 2 23 13 16 62
5 Feirense 34 17 7 10 48 33 17 9 3 5 23 16 17 8 4 5 25 17 15 58
6 Chaves 34 16 9 9 46 36 17 7 6 4 19 16 17 9 3 5 27 20 10 57
7 Penafiel 34 12 10 12 42 42 17 6 6 5 21 18 17 6 4 7 21 24 0 46
8 Benfica II 34 12 8 14 52 43 17 9 4 4 30 18 17 3 4 10 22 25 9 44
9 Casa Pia 34 10 13 11 41 46 17 6 5 6 21 23 17 4 8 5 20 23 -5 43
10 Leixões 34 10 10 14 35 43 17 7 4 6 21 22 17 3 6 8 14 21 -8 40
11 Sporting Covilhã 34 8 13 13 36 42 17 5 7 5 21 21 17 3 6 8 15 21 -6 37
12 Cova Piedade 34 8 13 13 39 48 17 4 7 6 19 22 17 4 6 7 20 26 -9 37
13 Mafra 34 9 10 15 35 48 17 6 6 5 21 24 17 3 4 10 14 24 -13 37
14 Academico Viseu 34 9 9 16 32 45 17 5 4 8 15 23 17 4 5 8 17 22 -13 36
15 Varzim 34 9 6 19 26 44 17 4 3 10 12 23 17 5 3 9 14 21 -18 33
16 Porto II 34 7 11 16 45 52 17 5 3 9 29 29 17 2 8 7 16 23 -7 32
17 Vilafranquense 34 5 16 13 34 54 17 2 10 5 14 21 17 3 6 8 20 33 -20 31
18 UD Oliveirense 34 7 10 17 25 49 17 4 6 7 14 20 17 3 4 10 11 29 -24 31

Read more about Segunda Liga

The Segunda Liga, or LigaPro, is the second level of Portuguese football. It has 18 teams each playing 34 fixtures to decide the final league table. The top two teams are promoted to the top level in Portugal (Primeira Liga) while the bottom two are relegated.