National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Casa Pia or Sporting CP that keep their silverware dream alive.
These teams are so close in distance that this match is special, a derby with local pride the main prize.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Casa and Sporting CP.
Casa Pia form and stats
Last season, Casa's Taça De Portugal journey ended in the 3rd round.Casa Pia have been very solid at home in the Segunda Liga so far, with 18 points collected from 7 matches (6-0-1). This has contributed greatly to their 1st position in the table. 3W-0D-0L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the Taça De Portugal for Casa Pia.
Casa haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 244 minutes ago. Godwin scored that one.
The Casa fans got no joy from their last match, a Segunda Liga game also here at Estádio Pina Manique: A 0-1 defeat against Rio Ave.
Prior to that, an away loss at Estrela Amadora in the Segunda Liga.The home team are doomed in this game if you believe the odds offered on Sporting CP to win. Let's see if Casa are capable of creating a surprise here by looking at their earlier home games as massive outsiders: one game found revealing zero Casa Pia wins, zero draws and one defeat.
Goals decide football matches and Casa are scoring many of them at home; 14 on target from 7 league matches. Casa have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 3 goals.
Sporting CP form and stats
Last season their Taça De Portugal adventure ended in the 8th finals.The away performances of Sporting CP have been very solid so far with 6 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats in the Primeira Liga. The question is whether this happy travelling can continue.
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Sporting CP goalkeeper Joao Manuel Neves Virginia is eager to challenge this, with his 180 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
It's the second away game in a row for Sporting CP, but there's smiles all around after the 3-0 victory versus Gil Vicente in the Primeira Liga last time out. A heroic performance from Sporting CP in their game against Gil Vicente last time out. Things got complicated when Neto was sent off in the 21st minute with the match level. Despite the red card the team were able to pull off a 3-0 victory! Midfielder Santos was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.32. Santos scored one goal, hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 28 successful passes (of 32 total).
Prior to that result Sporting CP won their away game at Penafiel in the League Cup. The scoreline was 1-0.Again, the away team are huge favourites in this match and any other result would be an upset. We checked our Tipsway database for earlier, recent games with Sporting CP given similar win odds in an away game. This check revealed three matches with three wins as expected, zero draws and zero surprise home wins. The favourites won three of these games by at least two goals.
The Sporting CP manager Marques Amorim has got the team scoring on the road, with 14 away goals in 7 league matches. Sporting CP are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 4 times in 7 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  J. Ferreira Silva 8 goals | S. Godwin 4 goals |   P. Pereira Gonçalves 4 goals |
Casa Pia missing players
Sporting CP missing players
| Casa Pia | Sporting CP | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 15 | 10 | Won | W | 9 | 20 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | ||
| 39 | 22 | Scored | S | 25 | 50 | ||
| 21 | 6 | Conceded | C | 10 | 19 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 60% | 54% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 76% | ||
| 40% | 31% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 58% | 52% | ||
| 28% | 23% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 28% | ||
| 12% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 12% | ||
| 40% | 23% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 44% | ||
| 40% | 62% | Clean Sheets | C S | 42% | 52% | ||
| 28% | 23% | Failed to Score | F T | 8% | 4% | ||
| 5.3 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 6 | ||
| 3.8 | 4.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.1 | 3.7 | ||
| 2.7 | 3.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.4 | 2.9 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 3 | ||
| 11 | 10.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13 | 13.9 | ||
| 4.5 | 4.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.7 | 5.9 | ||
| 36% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 32% | ||
| 8.4 | 8.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.5 | 8.8 | ||
| 3.4 | 2.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 3.2 | ||
| 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 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 20 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 27 |
| 3 | Rio Ave | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 25 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 27 |
| 4 | Feirense | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 22 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 26 |
| 5 | Nacional | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 24 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 23 |
| 6 | Chaves | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 23 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 23 |
| 7 | Mafra | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 16 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 23 |
| 8 | Penafiel | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 23 |
| 9 | Estrela Amadora | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 24 | 26 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 12 | -2 | 22 |
| 10 | Porto II | 15 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 20 | 20 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 21 |
| 11 | Trofense | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 20 |
| 12 | Leixoes | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 19 | 21 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 9 | -2 | 18 |
| 13 | Academico Viseu | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 14 | 22 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 13 | -8 | 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 | 15 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 18 | 21 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 12 | -3 | 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 | Academica | 15 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 27 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 16 | -12 | 7 |
| 18 | Varzim | 14 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -13 | 7 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Porto | 15 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 38 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 5 | 30 | 41 |
| 2 | Sporting CP | 15 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 27 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 22 | 41 |
| 3 | Benfica | 15 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 46 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 4 | 34 | 37 |
| 4 | Sporting Braga | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 24 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 28 |
| 5 | Estoril | 15 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 21 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 25 |
| 6 | Portimonense | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 24 |
| 7 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 21 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 22 |
| 8 | Gil Vicente | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 20 |
| 9 | Boavista | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 17 | 25 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 17 | -8 | 15 |
| 10 | Maritimo | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 26 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 18 | -8 | 14 |
| 11 | Pacos de Ferreira | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 19 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -8 | 14 |
| 12 | Arouca | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 25 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 13 | -9 | 14 |
| 13 | Vizela | 14 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 15 | -11 | 13 |
| 14 | Santa Clara | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 30 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 16 | -17 | 13 |
| 15 | Tondela | 14 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 19 | 29 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 16 | -10 | 12 |
| 16 | Famalicao | 15 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 19 | 30 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 17 | -11 | 11 |
| 17 | Moreirense | 14 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 24 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 12 | -10 | 9 |
| 18 | Belenenses | 14 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 24 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 | -17 | 8 |