FC Arouca vs CD Santa Clara, Primeira Liga 2025-26 REGULAR SEASON
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Overview
Match Preview
FC Arouca vs CD Santa Clara — Primeira Liga at Municipal de Arouca.
- FC Arouca 34 games · 42 pts (2025/26)
- CD Santa Clara 34 games · 36 pts (2025/26)
Match Details
- Referee Ricardo Baixinho
- Assistant 1 Andreia Sousa (Portugal)
- Assistant 2 Vasco Marques (Portugal)
6 games this season 🟨 2.0/game ⚽ 9.3 goals/game 🟥 3 totalStandings
# Team P Pts 1 FC Porto 34 88 2 Sporting Clube de Portugal 34 82 3 Sport Lisboa e Benfica 34 80 4 Sporting Clube de Braga 34 59 5 FC Famalicão 34 56 6 Gil Vicente FC 34 50 7 Moreirense FC 34 43 8 FC Arouca 34 42 9 Vitória SC 34 42 10 GD Estoril Praia 34 39 11 FC Alverca 34 39 12 Rio Ave FC 34 36 13 CD Santa Clara 34 36 14 CD Nacional 34 34 15 CF Estrela da Amadora 34 30 16 Casa Pia AC 34 30 17 CD Tondela 34 28 18 AVS 34 21 Head-to-Head
Recent Form
Date Opponent H/A Score Result 02 May CD Santa Clara H 2–2 D 24 Apr FC Alverca A 1–2 L 19 Apr CF Estrela da Amadora H 1–0 W 12 Apr Sporting Clube de Braga A 0–1 L 06 Apr GD Estoril Praia H 3–2 W 21 Mar Moreirense FC A 1–0 W Date Opponent H/A Score Result 02 May FC Arouca A 2–2 D 26 Apr Sporting Clube de Braga H 2–1 W 18 Apr Casa Pia AC A 0–0 D 11 Apr Rio Ave FC H 0–2 L 03 Apr Sporting Clube de Portugal A 2–4 L 21 Mar Gil Vicente FC H 1–0 W Season Stats
FC Arouca CD Santa Clara #8 Position #13 42 Points 36 34 Played 34 12 / 6 / 16 W / D / L 9 / 9 / 16 47 Scored 32 64 Conceded 41 -17 GD -9 1.24 PPG 1.06 35% Win % 26% Key Stats
50% Both Teams to Score
H2H (8 games)38% Over 2.5 Goals
H2H history21% Clean Sheets
FC Arouca this season29% Clean Sheets
CD Santa Clara this seasonFC Arouca are 8th (42 pts). CD Santa Clara are 13th (36 pts).
Goal Timing (This Season)
FC Arouca0-152/316-301/–31-451/146-603/–61-752/476+4/1■ Scored ■ ConcededCD Santa Clara0-152/116-30–/231-45–/246-60–/161-751/–76+4/2■ Scored ■ Conceded -
Events
Match Events
- 0' The match kicks off with home fans waiting with anticipation for FC Arouca to score. At the same time, CD Santa Clara does not seem to pull back! Let’s get it on!
- 5' A meaty challenge results in booking for Javi Sanchez on 5.
- 8' What a strike from Hyun-Ju Lee! The score is 1-0.
- 10' GOAL! Gabriel Silva scores on 10.
- 15' Not even hints on scoring a goal over the last 15 minutes.
- 20' CD Santa Clara started playing very sharply right from the kick off. However, it slowed down the tempo rapidly by 20.
- 25' It’s high time Petit made some changes to put the his team’s game back to action.
- 30' Serginho was booked on 30.
- 35' The teams are not in a rush to score plenty of goals. It might look strange considering CD Santa Clara that had 302 games and scored 219 goals.
- 40' Both teams are passing the ball around with high level of urgency. CD Santa Clara needs to do something about it to get closer to the goal.
- 44' The referee calls foul for Jose Tavares. He receives a card.
- 45' The referee shows FC Arouca player a card on 45.
- 50' Players seem to put ease on their energy level Spectators hardly appreciate such approach. Teams need to speed up the tempo.
- 55' Spectators are craving for more action. Both teams play very cautiously. They need to put some more energy.
- 60' While players are taking a pause, let’s have a look at their stats. The teams met 1 times this season with CD Santa Clara winning 0% of all matches.
- 65' Spectators do not have much to choose from both teams. The sides had several scoring chances but they still need a bit more than just a sight of a goal.
- 66' The referee shows FC Arouca player a card on 66.
- 71' We miss some good tackles and strikes. Is there anyone on the field to put the game back to action?
- 76' CD Santa Clara looks like a favorite considering 0 games won in last 1 matches with its main striker Gabriel Silva scoring 1 goals.
- 81' It looks surprising FC Arouca does not make any changes. Klismahn has some obvious troubles when approaching to the goal.
- 83' FC Arouca is taking the lead after the goal scored by Tiago Esgaio on 83.
- 88' The referee calls foul for Frederico Venancio. He receives a card.
- The final whistle. It looks like we are having a draw.
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Lineups
FC Arouca Lineups
4-2-3-1Starting XI
- 25
- 7
- 15
- 17
- 28
- 3
- 21
- 12
- 19
- 14
- 22
Bench
- 10
- 44
- 6
- 89
- 9
- 4
- 24
- 46
- 30
Coach Vasco SeabraCD Santa Clara Lineups
4-2-3-1Starting XI
- 1
- 39
- 35
- 21
- 10
- 2
- 77
- 11
- 5
- 23
- 65
Bench
- 37
- 70
- 42
- 49
- 7
- 64
- 78
- 50
- 4
Coach Petit -
H2H
H2H Top Scorers
Player Goals Crysan 2 Andre Silva 2 Ricardinho 2 Rildo 2 Rafa Mujica 1 Alan Ruiz 1 Oday Dabbagh 1 Jason 1 Head to Head
FC Arouca Form
CD Santa Clara Form
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Predictions
Prediction accuracy3 / 41.48 FC Arouca xGExpected GoalsDixon-Coles · Bivariate Poisson · Neg. Binomial · Elo1.23 CD Santa Clara xGI would bet for: FC Arouca or CD Santa Clara 73%Match Result
✗ WrongActual: DrawBoth Teams to Score
✓ CorrectAvg goals/match: 2.71Actual: Yes — both scoredOver / Under Goals
✓ O/U 2.5Line Over Under ± 0.5 91% 9% ± 1.5 75% 25% ± 2.5 50% 50% ± 3.5 29% 71% ± 4.5 14% 86% Double Chance
FC Arouca or Draw 71%Draw or CD Santa Clara 56%FC Arouca or CD Santa Clara 73%Half-Time Result
✓ CorrectActual: Draw at HTCorrect Score
✓ In top 121 – 1 13.1%1 – 0 8.9%0 – 0 8.7%2 – 1 8.6%0 – 1 7.2%1 – 2 7.2%2 – 0 7.1%2 – 2 Actual0 – 2 4.9%3 – 1 4.3%3 – 0 3.5%1 – 3 2.9%Asian Handicap — FC Arouca
Handicap FC Arouca covers Push CD Santa Clara covers -2.5 8% — 92% -2 8% 13% 79% -1.5 21% — 79% -1 21% 21% 59% -0.5 41% — 59% +0.5 70% — 30% +1 70% 17% 13% +1.5 87% — 13% +2 87% 9% 4% +2.5 96% — 4% Clean Sheet
FC Arouca keeps clean sheet 30% ✓CD Santa Clara keeps clean sheet 24% ✓Predictions are statistical estimates based on season form, H2H history, and a Poisson model. Not financial advice.