Perhaps a welcome break from league football as these teams face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Taça De Portugal. All the pre-match information is available here!
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 Porto and Santa Clara.
Porto form and stats
Porto was eliminated in the final last season in the Taça De Portugal.Porto have been outstanding at home so far in the Primeira Liga with 7 wins, 0 draws and only 0 losses. The Porto fans aren't used to losing here at Estadio do Dragao and will expect new points from this game. Porto has played twelve games in a row here without a defeat. Porto haven’t lost a game in 13 attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Gil Vicente, 131 days ago.
Porto's previous game was a Primeira Liga match also played at home, ending 3-0 versus Tondela. The home side are looking to build on that result. Previous to that game, a Europa League home match hosting Feyenoord in a game that was won 3-2.
Porto are traveling soon after this match as the League Cup match at Chaves awaits in three days.
Porto are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Estadio do Dragao in their league games, having scored an impressive 18 goals in 7 matches. Porto have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 0 goals.
Santa Clara form and stats
Santa Clara's mission in Taça De Portugal last season failed in the 4th round.Santa Clara have only collected 6 points from their away games in the Primeira Liga, after 1-3-2 (6 played). Two points from the last two away games for Santa Clara, which the math geniuses among you will translate to two draws.
The manager João Henriques was unhappy after their last game, a Primeira Liga match played at their home ground Estádio de São Miguel. Santa Clara suffered a 0-4 loss to Sporting CP. A 2-2 draw at Maritimo's stadium before that.
Santa Clara lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-4 beating and focus on this one.
As mentioned above, the bookmakers do not believe the away team will get anything from this match. Checking Santa Clara's match history for similar games we find two matches. The home team won 2 of these as expected, 0 of them by at least two goals. Santa Clara managed 0 draws and 0 surprise wins.
After this away game Santa Clara return home for a League Cup game against Casa Pia. That game is only three sleeps after this.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Santa Clara as they have only managed to score 4 times from 6 away games in the league. 7 goals have been conceded by Santa Clara in these games.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last five meetings: 5 - 0 - 0 (Porto wins - draws - Santa Clara wins). As for goals, 2 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 3 had two or less.Top Goalscorers
 
Zé Luís
7 goals
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M. Marega
4 goals
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Alex Telles
4 goals
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Porto missing players
Santa Clara missing players
| Porto | Santa Clara | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 15 | 25 | ||
| 18 | 11 | Won | W | 5 | 7 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 4 | 8 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 6 | 10 | ||
| 51 | 31 | Scored | S | 17 | 27 | ||
| 18 | 7 | Conceded | C | 17 | 32 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 88% | ||
| 84% | 85% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 60% | 64% | ||
| 52% | 62% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 36% | ||
| 24% | 31% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 27% | 24% | ||
| 16% | 15% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 13% | 12% | ||
| 36% | 31% | BTTS | BTTS | 40% | 40% | ||
| 56% | 69% | Clean Sheets | C S | 27% | 32% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 40% | 40% | ||
| 6.6 | 7.2 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 4.7 | 5.4 | ||
| 2.5 | 2.1 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 6.5 | 5.8 | ||
| 2.1 | 1.8 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2.2 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 395 | 207 | Total Shots | T S | 136 | 284 | ||
| 146 | 90 | Shots on Target | S O | 43 | 82 | ||
| 35% | 34% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 33% | ||
| 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 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 37 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 32 | 39 |
| 2 | Porto | 14 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 28 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 22 | 35 |
| 3 | Sporting CP | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 24 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 26 |
| 4 | Famalicao | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 26 | 25 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 15 | 1 | 24 |
| 5 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 24 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 21 |
| 6 | Rio Ave | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 19 |
| 7 | Vitoria Setubal | 14 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | -2 | 19 |
| 8 | Tondela | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 10 | -3 | 18 |
| 9 | Sporting Braga | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 7 | -1 | 18 |
| 10 | Boavista | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | -1 | 18 |
| 11 | Moreirense | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 12 | -1 | 17 |
| 12 | Gil Vicente | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 10 | -2 | 17 |
| 13 | Belenenses | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 21 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 13 | -10 | 15 |
| 14 | Maritimo | 14 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 23 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 | -8 | 15 |
| 15 | Santa Clara | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -8 | 14 |
| 16 | Portimonense | 14 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 20 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | -9 | 12 |
| 17 | Pacos de Ferreira | 14 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 14 | -12 | 11 |
| 18 | Desportivo Aves | 14 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 15 | 30 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 22 | -15 | 6 |