Santa Clara and Vitória Guimarães meet at Estádio de São Miguel, in a match for the 10th round of the Primeira Liga. The history of recent head-to-head matches is favorable to the visiting team, which has 3 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses in the last 6 matches. The last direct confrontation between these two teams, on 13-12-2020, ended with the victory of Santa Clara by (0-1). Despite being a match between 7th and 5th in the table, it is actually a confrontation between the 15th ranked in home games and the 2nd away.
Santa Clara:
After 4 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses, the home team is currently in 7th position, with 13 points won. In their last match, they beat Nacional away by (1‑3), after losing in the previous match (0‑1) at home, in a match against Porto. This is a team that tends to achieve more positive results away from home than at home, as they won 9 points away and 4 in their stadium, with 7 goals scored and 6 suffered as away, against 3 goals scored and 3 suffered at home. In their last match, for Taça de Portugal, they beat Vitória Guimarães away by (0‑1). In their last 4 home games for the championship, Santa Clara won 1, tied 1 and lost 2, for which they won 4 points out of 12 possible. In 9 games in this competition, he never got the comeback in the 4 games in which he suffered the first goal.
The Santa Clara team celebrates the third consecutive year among the “greats” of Portuguese football and maintains, for now, the goal of maintenance as a priority. Despite this, the formation led by coach Daniel Ramos has been doing a good campaign until this tenth day, adding 13 points, one less than Paços Ferreira, and occupying the seventh place in the league standings, with two more points. than Famalicão, Rio Ave and Belenenses. After winning on the trip to Nacional da Madeira (1-3), on the last day of the championship, the Azoreans went back to playing away and winning, last weekend. In a match for the 4th round of the Portuguese Cup, Santa Clara surprised and beat Vitória de Guimarães, in Minho (0-1), with a goal from Júlio Romão.
Guimarães :
After 5 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses, the visiting team is currently in 5th position, with 16 points won. In their last match, they beat Portimonense at home by (1‑0), after having won away in the previous match, in a match against Tondela, by (0‑2). This is a team that tends to achieve more positive results away from home than at home, as they won 10 points away and 6 in their stadium, with 5 goals scored and 1 suffered as away, against 2 goals scored and 6 suffered at home. The team comes to this match after a away loss against Benfica by (4‑1), in the penalty shoot-out. For the championship, Vitória Guimarães conquered 10 points out of 12 possible, after 3 victories and 1 draw in the last 4 games they played as a visitor.
For this competition, they have not lost any of the last 4 away matches.
The Vitória de Guimarães team aims to qualify for UEFA-organized events in this edition of the Liga NOS, meeting, for now, expectations in terms of results, despite the difficulty in consistently making convincing demonstrations. In fifth place in the general classification, the team led by João Henriques has 16 points, two more than Paços de Ferreira and two less than its rival Braga. On the last match day of the League, Vitória beat Portimonense in the reception (1-0), but was recently eliminated in the Portuguese Cup (loss, 1-0, with Santa Clara, at home, the previous weekend ) and also in the quarterfinals of the League Cup (loss on penalties, after drawing 1-1 in regulation time with Benfica, last Wednesday).
