Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Alverca & Vila Real face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Taça De Portugal. All the pre-match information is available here!
Both contenders have had time to rest since their last game. Let's hope for an enthusiastic match!
Alverca form and stats
Alverca have reached this Taça De Portugal stage through battling and winning against Electrico. Alverca participated in Taça De Portugal the last season, where they reached the 3rd round.Home games in the 2. Division: Group F have been a walk in the park for Alverca so far, with 25 points won from 10 matches; 8 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss.
The Alverca supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Electrico in Taça De Portugal and win 6-0. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Alverca played a great game against Electrico and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.
Before that, Alverca drew at home versus Torreense.A decent goal production from Alverca in their home games so far, with 19 goals from 10 league matches. Alverca have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 2 goals.
Vila Real form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Tirsense in order to reach 2nd round of Taça De Portugal. Last season their Taça De Portugal adventure ended in the 2nd round.This game can not go any worse than the last one, a 2. Division: Group B home defeat versus Berco with 1-3 on the scoreboard.
Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Tirsense (after extra-time, 5-4 on penalties) in the Taça De Portugal.Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  G. da Silva 2 goals |  J. de Oliveira Bastos 1 goals | R. Nogueira Rodrigues 1 goals |
Alverca missing players
Vila Real missing players
| Alverca | Vila Real | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 19 | 11 | Won | W | 2 | 7 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 3 | 6 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 6 | 12 | ||
| 55 | 30 | Scored | S | 8 | 27 | ||
| 13 | 3 | Conceded | C | 16 | 37 | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 91% | 96% | ||
| 68% | 62% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 55% | 68% | ||
| 52% | 54% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 36% | 44% | ||
| 24% | 15% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 18% | 28% | ||
| 20% | 15% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 9% | 12% | ||
| 28% | 15% | BTTS | BTTS | 36% | 52% | ||
| 60% | 77% | Clean Sheets | C S | 27% | 24% | ||
| 16% | 15% | Failed to Score | F T | 45% | 28% | ||
| 6.8 | 7.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.2 | 4.3 | ||
| 2.4 | 2.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.1 | 3.5 | ||
| 1.5 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 2.2 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | ||
| 12.2 | 16.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5.3 | 6.8 | ||
| 5.1 | 6.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 2.9 | ||
| 33% | 30% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 28% | 36% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Torreense | 21 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 41 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 6 | 31 | 51 |
| 2 | Alverca | 21 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 44 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 25 | 8 | 34 | 50 |
| 3 | Uniao Santarem | 20 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 32 | 24 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 8 | 33 |
| 4 | Caldas | 21 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 28 | 25 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 3 | 33 |
| 5 | Loures | 21 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 22 | 20 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 32 |
| 6 | Sintrense | 20 | 9 | 0 | 11 | 28 | 32 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 20 | -4 | 27 |
| 7 | Sacavenense | 21 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 21 | 24 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 13 | -3 | 24 |
| 8 | Pero Pinheiro | 19 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 10 | -6 | 21 |
| 9 | 1 Dezembro | 20 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 26 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 21 | -9 | 21 |
| 10 | Uniao Almeirim | 21 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 18 | 30 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 15 | -12 | 18 |
| 11 | Lourinhanense | 20 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 19 | 43 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 18 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 25 | -24 | 12 |
| 12 | Pero Pinheiro | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 13 | Fatima | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | -19 | -2 |