In this week 12 match, on Monday Nov 7th, Santa Clara and Chaves will play a match in Chaves in a clash of these two closely matched Primeira Liga teams. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 15 degrees, which should make for a nice day for football. In their last match, 11th placed Chaves, recorded a 0-5 blowout loss against Benfica. David Neres struck first for Benfica in the 2nd minute on a feed from Fredrik Aursnes, then Álex Grimaldo added another in the 10th minute At the end of 90 a dissapointed Chaves couldn’t manage to score, and Benfica took the shutout win. Chaves is looking for direction having earned 15 points in their last 10 matches, while santa Clara is fresh off their 1-1 draw against Porto. Fabio Cardoso scored the first goal for Porto in the 3rd minute, then Kennedy Boateng tied it up for Santa Clara in the 83rd minute on a feed from Xavi Quintillà squeezing out at least the one point for Santa Clara. Santa Clara looks to improve on their recent performance, having lost 6 of their last 10.
This will be the first match for these two teams against eachother this season.
Santa Clara hasn’t been successful in netting any goals lately. Their top scorers in the last 5 matches are Gabriel Silva Vieira and Kyosuke Tagawa, and they each have 1 goal. Both Héctor Hernández and Mendes have been the hottest scorers for Chaves in the last five each having scored 2 goals.