In the 22nd round of the Portuguese Championship, a match in which Arouca will play against Maritimo at their home arena will take place.
Stadium: Estádio Municipal de Arouca (Arouca).
Referee: Miguel Nogueira.
Arouca: Velázquez, Ruiz, Fernando Augusto (all – injury).
Maritimo: Söderström (questionable).
There are teams showing different results in the current season of the Portuguese league. The hosts currently occupy the 16th position in the ranking, and the guests are much more successful. They are in the ninth position of the championship.
Overall, throughout the course of the current campaign, Arouca has set success rates of four wins, six draws and 11 losses. Separately, it is worth highlighting the weak attack of the team, which scored 19 goals, and the defense allowed twice as many goals to be missed (38).
Maritimo has accumulated six wins, seven world matches and eight losses. But the guests are more productive in attack (25 goals) and more reliable in defending their goals (30 goals missed).
At the same time, Arouca managed to score four goals in the last three rounds. In this series, the team defeated Estoril (2:1), a draw with Famalican (0:0) and quite logically lost at their home to Porto (0:2).
Maritimo did not win in the last three games of the championship. The team was a defeated by Porto (1:2), as well as two draws – Belenenses (1:1) and Estoril (0:0).
In 10 home arena matches of the championship of Portugal, Arouca had six defeats (3 wins and one draw). Maritimo had in away games of the league, three wins, two draws and six defeats.
At the same time, in the last two face-to-face games of the teams, the guests of the upcoming match were more successful. A victory (3:1) and a draw (2:2). Therefore, in betting on the main outcomes, it is worth taking a closer look at the X2.
Arouca has four defeats in a row at their home arena in the Portuguese Championship. In addition, in these matches, the hosts managed to score only one goal, missing 14 times from rivals.
At the same time, Maritimo won two of the last three away from home matches, losing only to the championship leader in this series. Therefore, in the odds, one should pay attention to two options: H2(0), and H2(+1).
If we consider six past official games of the rivals, then in five of them an exchange of goals was recorded. Bets with such a condition for the upcoming match in the lines of bookmakers go with a good coefficient.
The list of totals for the match are to be considered for less than 2.5 goals. At the same time, Arouca has had at least two goals scored in nine past home-arena matches, and Maritimo in seven of the last eight away from home matches.
Simply put, in the upcoming match, we will use the bet with the exchange of goals.