On Fri Apr 15th, Arouca hosts Santa Clara at Estádio Municipal De Arouca in a clash of these two mismatched Primeira Liga teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy but warm day with daytime temperatures of 21 degrees, a perfect day for football. Arouca sits at 15th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 0-1 loss against Boavista. Kenji Gorre struck first for Boavista in the 12th minute on a feed from Petar Musa, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else At the end of 90 a dissapointed Arouca couldn’t manage to score, and Boavista took the shutout win. Arouca looks to improve on their recent performance, having lost 5 of their last 10, while in their last match, 9th placed Santa Clara, recorded a 2-0 shutout win against Estoril. Ricardo Antonio struck first for Santa Clara in the 44th minute on a feed from Allano, then Kyosuke Tagawa added another in the 53rd minute At the end of 90 a dissapointed Estoril couldn’t manage to score, and Santa Clara took the shutout win. Santa Clara is looking for direction having earned 14 points in their last 10 matches.
On the 5th of December, Santa Clara hosted Arouca in their last match together. Santa Clara was victorious by a score of 2 to 1 in front of almost one thousand jubilant fans. Crysan struck first for Santa Clara in the 21st minute on a feed from Lincoln, then in the 1st minute of the first half’s stoppage time, Leandro Silva sent in a beautiful pass which was converted by Martins Lafuerte Nunes.
Santa Clara hasn’t been successful in netting any goals lately. Their top scorers in the last 5 matches are Rui Costa and Crysan, and they each have 1 goal.