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Santa Clara vs Rio Ave Live Stream, Predictions
Santa Clara will be hosting away side Rio Ave at Estádio de São Miguel in the Primeira Liga clash on Friday.
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📏 Form Guide
Santa Clara
DLLLLL 🔻
Santa Clara head into this game coming off the back of a 0-0 Primeira Liga drawn game against Rio Ave.
It has been seldom in recent times where Santa Clara haven’t conceded. The facts show that Santa Clara have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 13 goals along the way.
Going into this contest, Santa Clara haven’t won at home in the past 5 matches in the league. Their fans aren't happy.
Rio Ave
LWLWLW 🎢
In 5 of the past six games featuring Rio Ave, a comparatively low number of goals have been scored between them and opposing sides. The overall average goals scored per game within that spell is a meagre 1.67, with the number of goals averaged by Rio Grande equalling 0.83. That kind of trend isn’t assured to be sustained into this game, of course.
↔️ Head to head
A look at their most recent head-to-head clashes going back to 15/02/2019 shows that Santa Clara have won 3 of these & Rio Ave 2, with the number of draws standing at 1.
A combined sum of 13 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 7 of them for Os Açoreanos and 6 created by Rio Grande . That’s an average goals per game of 2.17.
The last league contest featuring the two was Primeira Liga match day 8 on 02/10/2022 and the score finished Rio Ave 1-0 Santa Clara.
In that game, Rio Ave had 56% possession and 6 shots on goal with 3 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Emmanuel Boateng (15').
Santa Clara had 6 shots on goal with 1 of them on target.
The match was refereed by Cláudio Pereira.
🗞️ Team News: Santa Clara
Tomás Domingos (Unknown Injury) and Marco Pereira (Knee Injury) won’t be able to feature for Santa Clara gaffer Danildo Accioly.
In our view, Os Açoreanos may well make use of the 4-3-3 formation for the game, beginning the first half with Gabriel Batista, Diogo Calila, Ygor, Italo, Matheus Nunes, Bruno Jordao, Adriano, Kento Misao, Rildo, Walter Gonzalez and Allano.
📰 Team News: Rio Ave
In an otherwise available group of players, there’s just a single fitness issue for the Rio Ave manager Luís Freire to be concerned with. Joca (Knee Injury) won’t be playing here.
There’s a good chance that Rio Grande seem most likely to elect for a 3-5-2 system by sending out Jhonatan, Patrick, Aderllan Santos, Renato Pantalon, Costinha, Joao Graca, Guga, Vitor Gomes, Fabio Ronaldo, Andre Pereira and Emmanuel Boateng.
✨ Prediction
We’re inclined to think that Rio Ave and Santa Clara could well end up finding themselves level here, with both teams capable of netting.
A close call, and we think a draw is quite likely. That’s why our selection here is for a very close game with a score draw when the referee blows the full-time whistle.
Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Peter Guest, 00:43 13/03/2023

⚽️ Team Focus:
Santa Clara
Formed: 1927
Stadium: Estádio de São Miguel (12,500)
Captain: Anderson Carvalho
Chairman: Ricardo Pacheco
Manager: Danildo Accioly
Competitions: Primeira Liga position 18
🔑 Key Man: Gabriel Silva
Mostly taking up the Striker position, Gabriel Silva was born in Brazil. After having made a senior debut playing for Palmeiras in the 2020 season, the dangerous Forward has scored 5 league goals in the Liga Portugal 2022 - 2023 season so far from a total of 24 appearances.
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24 | 21 | 2 | 1 | 48 | 65 | WWWWW |
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24 | 18 | 3 | 3 | 38 | 57 | WWLWW |
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24 | 18 | 1 | 5 | 32 | 55 | WWLWW |
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24 | 16 | 2 | 6 | 26 | 50 | LWWWW |
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24 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 40 | WDWWL |
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24 | 10 | 7 | 7 | -3 | 37 | WLWDW |
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24 | 10 | 5 | 9 | -4 | 35 | DDLWL |
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24 | 9 | 3 | 12 | -8 | 30 | LWWLW |
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24 | 8 | 6 | 10 | -5 | 30 | WLWLW |
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24 | 8 | 6 | 10 | -11 | 30 | DLWDL |
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24 | 8 | 5 | 11 | -1 | 29 | DDLWL |
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24 | 8 | 5 | 11 | -5 | 29 | WDWWL |
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24 | 7 | 8 | 9 | -7 | 29 | DLLLW |
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24 | 8 | 2 | 14 | -13 | 26 | LWLLL |
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24 | 6 | 4 | 14 | -16 | 22 | LLLLL |
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24 | 4 | 4 | 16 | -28 | 16 | LLWLL |
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24 | 4 | 3 | 17 | -24 | 15 | LWLLW |
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24 | 3 | 6 | 15 | -19 | 15 | LLLLL |
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Goals scored | 1.1 |
Goals conceded | 1.9 |
Time first goal scored | 56 |
Time first goal conceded | 28 |
Yellow cards | 2.5 |
Red cards | 0.2 |
Subs used | 4.8 |
Biggest victory | 3-1 |
Biggest defeat | 4-0 |
Goals scored | 0.8 |
Goals conceded | 1.6 |
Time first goal scored | 51 |
Time first goal conceded | 41 |
Yellow cards | 2.8 |
Red cards | 0.3 |
Subs used | 4.9 |
Biggest victory | 1-0 |
Biggest defeat | 3-0 |
Gabriel Silva | 5 |
Rildo | 3 |
Kennedy Boateng | 2 |
Matheus Babi | 2 |
Allano | 1 |
Abdul-Aziz Yakubu | 7 |
Emmanuel Boateng | 4 |
Fábio Ronaldo | 3 |
Costinha | 2 |
Guga | 2 |
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