📏 Form Guide

Penafiel

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Penafiel will play in this match following a 1-1 LigaPro stalemate vs Benfica B.

João Rêgo (51') scored for Benfica B.

It has not been often in recent games that Penafiel have kept a clean sheet. The reality is that Penafiel have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 12 goals along the way. Let’s see if that trend will be sustained in this game.

Chaves

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Following on from a losing effort in their last game against União Leiria in LigaPro competition, Chaves and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

Juan Muñoz (12') was the scorer for União Leiria.

The stats tell the story, and Chaves have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing their opponents hit 9 goals in all. Defensively, Chaves have been far from perfect.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 17/02/2020 shows that Penafiel have won 3 of them & Chaves 2, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 1.

A combined total of 12 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 6 of them from Rubro-Negros and 6 being from Chaves. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.

The last league fixture between these sides was LigaPro match day 17 on 04/01/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Chaves 0-1 Penafiel.

💡 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Penafiel will need things to go their way to register a score against this Chaves team who we think should score at least once to put them ahead.

We’re going for a 0-1 advantage for Chaves at the end of this one.

Let’s see.

Andre Moura, 17:02 15/05/2025