📏 Form Guide

Santa Clara

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Santa Clara head into this match coming off the back of a 3-3 Primeira Liga stalemate against Nacional.

In that game, Santa Clara managed 54% possession and 21 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. For Santa Clara, goals were scored by Lopes (4'), Victor (15') and Manoel (95'). At the other end, Nacional had 13 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Jesús Ramírez (21', 38', 50') was the scorer for Nacional.

Under three goals per game were scored during 5 of the past 6 fixtures where Santa Clara have been participants. In terms of the goal attribution in that period, their opponents scored an aggregate of 6 and Santa Clara managed a tally of 5.

Heading into this fixture, Santa Clara haven’t won at home in the past 2 matches in the league.

Famalicão

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Since suffering a loss in their previous game against Alverca in Primeira Liga competition, Famalicão will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, Famalicão had 56% possession and 14 shots on goal with 2 on target. Alverca got 10 shots on goal with 4 on target. Chiquinho (95') scored for Alverca.

Looking at their form, and Famalicão have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing opposing sides hit 9 goals overall. At the back, Famalicão have clearly had some problems. That sort of pattern might not be carried forward here, however.

Coming into this clash, Famalicão are without a win away from home in their last 3 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their most recent head-to-head meetings going back to 12/03/2022 shows us that Santa Clara have won 2 of these games and Famalicão 3, with the tally of drawn results standing at 1.

A combined total of 14 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 5 from Os Açoreanos and 9 belonging to Famalicenses. That’s an average goals per game of 2.33.

The last league meeting between the two was Primeira Liga match day 1 on 10/08/2025 when the final score was Famalicão 3-0 Santa Clara.

That time, Famalicão managed 47% possession and 6 shots at goal with 3 on target. The goalscorers were Pinheiro (5'), Sá (19') and Dias (53').

Santa Clara had 7 attempts on goal with 2 on target.

The match was refereed by Luis Godinho.

📋 Team News: Santa Clara

It looks as if Os Açoreanos look set to use the 3-5-2 formation for the game and select Gabriel Batista, Frederico Venancio, Luis Rocha, Henrique Silva, Lucas Soares, Adriano, Sergio Araujo, Klismahn, Paulo Victor, Vinicius and Gabriel Silva.

📋 Team News: Famalicão

It’s our belief that Famalicenses could decide to utilise a 4-2-3-1 lineup using Lazar Carevic, Rodrigo Pinheiro, Ibrahima Ba, Justin De Haas, Rafa Soares, Mathias De Amorim, Tommie van de Looi, Gil Dias, Gustavo Sa, Sorriso and Simon Elisor.

🧠 Prediction

We’re of the view that Famalicão and Santa Clara are both capable of scoring here.

We’ll see, but this looks like it could end up all-square. That is why we are leaning toward a tight encounter with a 1-1 draw when the referee blows the full-time whistle.

Andre Moura, 15:18 18/01/2026