Santa Clara vs Portimonense Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Santa Clara

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Santa Clara will be wanting a better result here following the 5-3 Primeira Liga loss in their previous game against Braga.

In that match, Santa Clara had 34% possession and 15 shots at goal with 9 on target. For Santa Clara, the goalscorers were Matheus Babi (17', 70') and Kennedy Boateng (85'). SC Braga had 17 shots at goal with 10 on target. Ricardo Horta (10'), Sikou Niakaté (35'), Abel Ruiz (45'), Bruma (88') and Pizzi (94') scored for Braga.

Fixtures involving Santa Clara have often been absorbing affairs of late with high scoring being a common characteristic. Over their past 6 clashes, the sum of 22 goals have flown in for both sides combined (at an average of 3.67 goals per game) with 8 of these coming from Santa Clara. Such a trend won’t necessarily be carried forward into this game, though.

Their prior results show that Santa Clara:

• haven't been beaten by Portimonense in home games against them for the last 4 league matches.
• have not been beaten in the league by Portimonense in their last 2 matches.
• have not been beaten in their last 2 home league matches.

Portimonense

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After tasting defeat last time out to Benfica in Primeira Liga competition, Portimonense will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, Portimonense managed 42% possession and 6 attempts at goal with 1 on target. For Portimonense, the goalscorers were Filipe Relvas (28' Own goal) and Pedrão (38'). For their opponents, Benfica had 26 shots at goal with 11 of them on target. Álex Grimaldo (4'), Gonçalo Ramos (45') and Petar Musa (87', 89') scored for Benfica.

In their previous half-dozen outings, Portimonense have helped themselves to a total of 7 goals. Portimonense have also managed to score on each one of those occasions. In that time, they have had 12 goals go into their own net.

👥 Head to head

Looking over their most recent head to head meetings dating back to 16/06/2020 shows us that Santa Clara have won 2 of them and Portimonense 1, with the number of drawn results standing at 3.

An aggregate of 12 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 7 for Os Açoreanos and 5 belonging to Portimonense. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.

The previous league fixture featuring the two was Primeira Liga match day 16 on 13/01/2023 when it finished Portimonense 0-0 Santa Clara.

On that occasion, Portimonense had 75% possession and 24 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target.

At the other end, Santa Clara got 10 shots at goal with 2 on target.

The referee was Rui Costa.

🗞️ Team News: Santa Clara

Tomás Domingos (Unknown Injury) and Marco Pereira (Knee Injury) will not be taking part for Santa Clara gaffer Danildo Accioly.

We are thinking that Os Açoreanos will probably use the 4-2-3-1 formation for the game featuring Gabriel Batista, Pierre Sagna, Ygor, Italo, Matheus Nunes, Bruno Jordao, Adriano, Andrezinho, Bruno Almeida, Gabriel Silva and Matheus.

ℹ️ Team News: Portimonense

With a completely injury-free group ready to go, the Portimonense boss Paulo Sérgio has zero fitness concerns to speak of ahead of this game.

We are inclined to think that Portimonense seem likely to elect for a 4-4-2 formation, settling for Kosuke Nakamura, Sergio Conceicao, Alemao, Ji-Soo Park, Filipe Relvas, Ricardo Matos, Carlinhos, Mauricio, Klismahn, Yony Gonzalez and Welinton Junior.

🧠 Prediction

When taking everything into account, Portimonense could well find it tough to get anything against this Santa Clara side who we reckon will get a goal themselves and run out victorious.

We’re going for a hard-fought contest, finishing with a 1-0 win for Santa Clara after 90 minutes.

Hoping for a good game.

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Peter Guest, 00:44 16/05/2023