Happy home supporters, the away team with a heroic away win or a point each? It's all possible when the mid-table teams Nacional and Leixões clash at Estádio da Madeira.
- Nacional have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Nacional have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Leixões have scored away.
Nacional and Leixões should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Nacional form and stats
The story so far in the Segunda Liga for Nacional at their home stadium (Estádio da Madeira) is 3 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat.
Nacional shared the glory with Farense in their last match, an away game that ended all square 2-2. There was plenty of action in the dying minutes of the game against Farense as Dudu's goal in the 89th minute completed a cancellation of 0-2 and secured a draw after 90 minutes. Dudu was able to secure the draw 2-2 in the game against Farense after coming on as a substitute and scoring the final goal. In the starting lineup today?
Ahead of that match, Nacional won a home game hosting Estrela Amadora (4-1).The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Nacional have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found ten games) they have won eight times, drawn two and lost zero.
Nacional can score goals in their home matches. After 6 league matches they have found the net 13 times. On the other hand, Nacional have conceded 6 goals.
Leixões form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Leixões so far with only 5 points returning home. The records show 1-2-3 (win-draw-lose).
The supporters enjoyed Leixões's previous game versus Sporting Covilha (placed 16th), a Segunda Liga 2-1 win played at home.
Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Porto II's place.Leixões are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is one win, two draws and six defeats. From a total of nine matches.
Leixões find the net regularly in their away games. 6 goals from 6 away fixtures in the league. Leixões have conceded 7 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head data (for the previous ten meetings): Nacional won seven games, three matches ended with a draw and Leixões got zero wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / fiveTop Goalscorers
  B. Rochez Mejia 7 goals |  A. Oluwafemi Sapara 5 goals |  J. Gomes Camacho 3 goals |
Nacional missing players
Leixões missing players
| Nacional | Leixões | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 6 | 14 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 22 | 13 | 5 | Scored | S | 1 | 6 | 19 |
| 18 | 6 | 2 | Conceded | C | 3 | 7 | 19 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 86% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 33% | 67% | 86% |
| 57% | 67% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 57% |
| 29% | 33% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 17% | 21% |
| 14% | 17% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 64% | 83% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 67% | 79% |
| 14% | 17% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 21% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 67% | 33% | 14% |
| 5.1 | 6.8 | 7.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 5.2 | 5.5 |
| 5.6 | 6 | 7.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.7 | 6.7 | 6.5 |
| 2.1 | 2.3 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.7 | 3.3 | 3.1 |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 9.5 | 10.8 | 7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.7 | 7.8 | 9.4 |
| 3.6 | 4.8 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 2.7 | 3.1 |
| 43% | 45% | 62% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 17% | 38% | 43% |
| 10.5 | 7.3 | 9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.3 | 11 | 10.9 |
| 4.4 | 3.5 | 4.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.7 | 5.2 | 4.6 |
- All of Nacional's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Leixões have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Leixões haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Nacional have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Nacional have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Nacional have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Leixões have scored away.
- Nacional have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Nacional have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Nacional haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 32 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 10 | 16 | 32 |
| 2 | Casa Pia | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 27 |
| 3 | Feirense | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 22 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 26 |
| 4 | Rio Ave | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 24 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 24 |
| 5 | Penafiel | 14 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 23 |
| 6 | Mafra | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 22 |
| 7 | Nacional | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 22 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 20 |
| 8 | Chaves | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 21 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 20 |
| 9 | Trofense | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 20 |
| 10 | Estrela Amadora | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 22 | 26 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 12 | -4 | 19 |
| 11 | Leixões | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 19 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 18 |
| 12 | Porto II | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 19 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 13 | -1 | 18 |
| 13 | Academico Viseu | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 14 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 12 | -7 | 17 |
| 14 | Vilafranquense | 14 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -5 | 15 |
| 15 | Farense | 14 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 17 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 10 | -2 | 14 |
| 16 | Sporting Covilha | 14 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 21 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 15 | -12 | 12 |
| 17 | Varzim | 14 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -13 | 7 |
| 18 | Académica | 14 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 14 | -12 | 6 |