Portimonense SC vs CD Santa Clara Preview 13/01/2023

Portimonense SC vs CD Santa Clara – 13/01/2023

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Two sides within the backside half of the Primeira Liga will meet each other in Portugal’s high flight this Friday night time as Portimonense play hosts to C.D. Santa Clara on the Estádio Municipal de Portimão with six factors preserving them aside.

Though Santa Clara are out of the automated relegation zone by three factors over Maritimo and 10 factors above Pacos Ferreira, they’re nonetheless only one level above Gil Vicente within the relegation play-offs spot.

Worse but, Estoril Praia straight above them have a sport in hand and a three-point hole on them too, which means it should be a battle for the membership to rocket additional up the league.

This run comes off the again of a horrible run of type because the World Cup started. In reality, Santa Clara are but to placed on report an precise win because the finals began in Qatar, with the membership beating Estoril Praia 3-1 on November 14.

They’ve misplaced three Taca da Liga video games to Arouca, Feirense and Leixoes and drew with UD Oliveirense as effectively of their solely level collected in that competitors.

Again within the Primeira Liga, Jorge Simão has seen his facet lose to Gil Vicente 1-0 on the finish of December in what’s their worst results of the season that noticed them get dragged nearer than ever to the underside three.

Braga then smash them 4-0 on the Estádio de São Miguel and it means they’ve gained solely three video games this season and misplaced eight occasions with 18 targets conceded and simply 11 scored of their very own – no facet outdoors of the underside two has scored fewer targets.

As for Portimonense, they misplaced to Casa Pia of their returning league sport after the World Cup, whereas additionally dropping to Benfica 1-0 as effectively simply final week.

It retains the facet within the backside half of the desk and down in eleventh with a niche of 1 level to make up on Boavista in tenth, who even have a sport in hand to play.

Portimonense have additionally placed on report a horrible run of type within the Taca da Liga, beating solely SC Covilha 2-0. The membership misplaced to Nacional and Gil Vicente with out scoring a objective and letting in 5 targets too.

Given the type of either side, it must be a detailed sport. Forebet predicts a draw right here and for the sport to see below 2.5 targets.