In a mid week match in week 9, on Monday Oct 10th, Famalicão and Arouca will play a match in Arouca in a clash of these two evenly matched Primeira Liga teams. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 15 degrees, which will be a great treat for players. Arouca sits at 13th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 1-1 draw against Paços de Ferreira. Nicolás Gaitán struck first for Paços de Ferreira in the 61st minute, then Oday Dabagh tied it up for Arouca in the 84th minute on a feed from Jerome Opoku squeezing out at least the one point for Arouca. Arouca is looking for direction having earned 11 points in their last 10 matches, while famalicão is fresh off their 4-0 shutout win against Boavista. Ivo Rodrigues scored the first goal for Famalicão in the 25th minute, then José Rodríguez added another in the 44th minute In the end, Boavista couldn’t muster any offence and Famalicão ran away with the shutout win. Famalicão looks to improve on their recent performance, having lost 5 of their last 10.
These two teams have not yet played each other this season, so it will be interesting how the match turns out. Last season Arouca won the head to head battle with 1 win and 1 draw.
Zaydou Youssouf has been the most prolific scorer on Famalicão in his last 5 matches with two goals. Rafa Mujica and Quaresma Correia are the top scorers for Arouca in the last 5 matches, but unfortunately they only have one goal.