Sporting Covilhã vs Mafra betting preview: Even match expected

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Competition: Portugal Segunda Liga
Competition: Mon 28.December
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estádio Municipal José dos Santos Pinto (2055 seats)

This could be an interesting match as Sporting Covilhã have their presumed home advantage while Mafra are ahead 8 points in the Segunda Liga table.

Insights:
  • Sporting Covilhã have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Mafra has the most scored goals in the second half (14) in Segunda Liga

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Sporting Covilhã form and stats

The story so far in the Segunda Liga for Sporting Covilhã at their home stadium (Estádio Municipal José dos Santos Pinto) is 2 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats. With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on Covilhã to get some points in this home game.

Covilhã lost their last game at Arouca (placed 5th) after a 0-1 scoreline. Ahead of that match, Covilhã lost 1-2 at home to Chaves.

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 Sporting Covilhã have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 15 matches with the results: Won seven, drawn four and lost four.

Goals decide football matches and Covilhã are scoring many of them at home; 10 on target from 5 league matches. Covilhã have conceded 8 from these games.

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Mafra form and stats

Playing away, Mafra have won 3 games, drawn 0 and suffered 3 defeats in the Segunda Liga this season.

There were no winners in Mafra's previous match, a Segunda Liga home game that ended 2-2 vs UD Oliveirense (placed 17th). It was a League Cup defeat before that one as the away game against Sporting CP wasn't a success with a 0-2 loss.

An inspired comeback made the scores level in Mafra's duel with UD Oliveirense. It looked bad at 0-2 but the team were not done and fought back to 2-2 after Stevy Okitokandjo found the equalizer.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Mafra playing away and similar expectations, we found twelve relevant matches. Results were five Mafra wins, three draws and four defeats.

Mafra are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 10 times in 6 away games so far. Mafra have conceded 9 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

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

Sporting Covilhã missing players

Mafra missing players

Sporting Covilhã Mafra
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
12 5 0 Played P 2 6 12
4 2 0 Won W 1 3 7
2 1 0 Drew D 0 0 1
6 2 0 Lost L 1 3 4
15 10 0 Scored S 4 10 20
15 8 0 Conceded C 2 9 14
92% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
67% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 83%
67% 100% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 67% 58%
25% 60% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 50% 42%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
58% 80% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 50% 50%
25% 20% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 33% 33%
25% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 17% 17%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.5 3.2 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.5 2.4
2 2 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
8.5 11.4 0 Shots (avg) S ( 13 11.5 11.8
2.8 4 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6.5 4.7 4.1
44% 50% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 31% 36% 41%
Key stats in Segunda Liga this season:
  • All of Mafra's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • All of Sporting Covilhã's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
  • Mafra has the most scored goals in the second half (14) in Segunda Liga
  • Mafra have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Mafra haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Sporting Covilhã have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Sporting Covilhã have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Sporting Covilhã haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  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 12 8 3 1 20 8 6 3 3 0 13 7 6 5 0 1 7 1 12 27
2 Academica 12 7 4 1 15 6 6 4 1 1 9 4 6 3 3 0 6 2 9 25
3 Feirense 12 7 3 2 18 10 6 3 1 2 7 7 6 4 2 0 11 3 8 24
4 Mafra 12 7 1 4 20 14 6 4 1 1 10 5 6 3 0 3 10 9 6 22
5 Arouca 12 6 4 2 14 9 6 3 2 1 7 5 6 3 2 1 7 4 5 22
6 Penafiel 12 6 3 3 19 15 6 4 1 1 9 5 6 2 2 2 10 10 4 21
7 Chaves 12 5 3 4 16 13 5 1 2 2 2 4 7 4 1 2 14 9 3 18
8 Casa Pia 12 4 5 3 17 20 6 2 2 2 8 12 6 2 3 1 9 8 -3 17
9 Vizela 12 4 4 4 15 19 6 4 1 1 9 7 6 0 3 3 6 12 -4 16
10 Sporting Covilhã 12 4 2 6 15 15 5 2 1 2 10 8 7 2 1 4 5 7 0 14
11 Cova Piedade 12 4 2 6 15 20 7 1 2 4 6 12 5 3 0 2 9 8 -5 14
12 Benfica II 12 4 1 7 20 19 6 2 1 3 8 9 6 2 0 4 12 10 1 13
13 Porto II 12 3 2 7 17 22 6 2 0 4 10 10 6 1 2 3 7 12 -5 11
14 Vilafranquense 11 2 5 4 10 15 5 0 3 2 2 7 6 2 2 2 8 8 -5 11
15 Academico Viseu 12 2 5 5 6 11 7 1 3 3 3 7 5 1 2 2 3 4 -5 11
16 Leixões 10 2 3 5 10 14 4 2 1 1 8 7 6 0 2 4 2 7 -4 9
17 UD Oliveirense 11 2 3 6 11 16 6 1 1 4 6 9 5 1 2 2 5 7 -5 9
18 Varzim 12 1 3 8 6 18 7 1 2 4 3 9 5 0 1 4 3 9 -12 6

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.