Oliveirense – Leixoes Prediction & Preview and Betting Tips (21.12.2017)

UD Oliveirense and Leixões meet at the Estadio Municipal de Aveiro, in Aveiro, in a match for matchday 18 of the Portuguese second division. The history of direct confrontations between the two teams favors the Leixões: in the last 12 matches for this competition, the visiting team won 7 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses.

Oliveirense:

After a less positive start to the season, Oliveirense is going through its best phase and in the last game it managed to add the fourth game in a row without losing, to draw at zero against Santa Clara. At this time the home team occupies the 16th position of the championship, with 21 points won.

In the 9 matches played as visited, Oliveirense scored on average 1.22 goals and suffered 1.44 per game, thus demonstrating a certain irregularity in the two sectors. 56% of the matches in this stadium exceeded 2.5 goals in the final score.

In addition, the players of coach Pedro Miguel opened the scoring in 5 of the 9 games played at home, while in three of these games they were winning at the end of the 90 ‘. On the other hand, the period of greatest deconcentration of Oliveirense is between the 61 ‘and 90’, when he suffered 8 goals and scored only 4. Brayan Riascos is the best score of Oliveirense, with 3 goals scored.

Leixões:

The Leixões remains at the top of the leaderboard, more properly in the 7th position of the championship, with 27 points won. However, the moment of form of the team is very irregular, since it does not win four consecutive games. In the last match, they drew 2-2 against Nacional.

When observing the performance outside house it is possible to notice that the equipment marked in average 1 goal and suffered 1.78 goals by game, demonstrating of this form difficulties as much in the attack as in the defensive line. To note that 56% of these games ended with less than two goals on the scoreboard.

The worst period of João Henriques players is in the first 15 ‘of each half, when they suffered 8 goals and scored only one. It is important to underline that the visitors opened the scoring on 3 occasions, being that in 1 of these games they were able to hold the advantage in the scoreboard until the end of the 90 ‘. Breitner is the great highlight of the visitors, with 5 goals and 3 assists.