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  Santa Clara - Belenenses  Prediction, Picks and Tips  


 

Santa Clara and Belenenses meet at Estádio de São Miguel, in a match for the 16th round of the Primeira Liga. In this stadium, the history of direct confrontations indicates a total balance between these two teams, since there was 1 draw and 1 victory for each team in the last 3 games. In fact, the last time these two teams played a match at this stadium was on 25‑08‑2019, for the Primeira Liga, which ended in a draw (0‑0). Despite being a match between 8th and 11th in the table, it is actually a clash between the 17th ranked in home games and the 11th away.
 

 

 
 
    
The home team is currently in 8th position, with 18 points won, after 5 wins, 3 draws and 7 losses. In the penultimate match, they lost at home to Famalicão by (1‑2). In the last match, they won away against Rio Ave by (1‑2). Curiously, this is a team that has achieved more positive results abroad than in their stadium, since they won 13 points as a visitor and only 5 in their stadium. In the last match they played, for Taça de Portugal, they lost to Sporting Braga by (2‑1). In their last 7 home games for the championship, Santa Clara won 1, tied 2 and lost 4, for which they won 5 points out of 21 possible.

For this competition, they did not win any of the last 6 matches at their stadium. In their home league matches the most frequent final result at half ‑ time was 0‑0 (3 out of 7 matches). Their defense has not been very solid, since they have conceded at least one goal in each of the last 10 matches for this competition. In 15 games in this tournament, he suffered the first goal 9 times and never got the comeback.

Santa Clara has managed to carry out a balanced campaign in its fight for maintenance and reaches this day 16 of the Liga NOS to occupy an exciting eighth place in the general classification, with the same 18 points of Moreirense, which give it an advantage of five points for the possible relegation zone. On the last day of the championship, Daniel Ramos' team achieved a great victory, in Rio Ave (1-2, goals by Carlos Júnior, 23 ', and Morita, 89'), returning to the League after five consecutive victories without a victory . Last Friday, the 'reds' of Ponta Delgada were eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Portuguese Cup, after a defeat (2-1) against Braga, away from home, where the goal scored on the final whistle did not work rather than mitigating the differences on the scoreboard.
 
 
 
 
 
 

After 3 wins, 6 draws and 6 losses, the visiting team is currently in 11th position, with 15 points won. In their last match, they beat Tondela at home by (2‑0), after having lost away in the previous match, in a match against Portimonense, by (1‑0). This is a team that tends to be more competitive at home, as they won 6 points away and 9 at home, with 1 goal scored and 4 suffered as away, against 7 goals scored and 8 suffered at home. In the last match they played, for the Taça de Portugal, they lost to Benfica away by (3‑0). In their last 7 away matches for the championship, Belenenses has registered 1 victory, 3 draws and 3 losses, for which they have won 6 points out of 21 possible.

For this competition, they have not won any of the last 6 away matches. In their home matches there are some frequent results: at half-time 0‑0 (5 out of 7 matches) and at the end of the match 0‑0 (3 out of 7 matches). In 15 games in this tournament, he suffered the first goal 6 times and never got the comeback.

The Belenenses team has managed to keep most of the time of this edition of Liga NOS out of the relegation places, fulfilling relatively well the expectations in the fight for maintenance, even because the quality that exists in the cast under the orders of Petit does not abound. In eleventh place in the standings, the "blues" have the same 15 points as Rio Ave, Tondela and Portimonense, all with a two-point advantage for the relegation zone. On the last day, Belenenses returned to the victories in the championship, defeating Tondela (2-0), at home. The last time he played, however, was last Thursday, the day he lost at Benfica's home field (3-0) in the Portuguese Cup quarter-finals.
 


 


Our recommendation tip for Santa Clara - Belenenses :   BTS / NO @ 1.63