Match Report
Leixões, 7th with 50 points, sat 16 points above UD Oliveirense (18th, 34). UD Oliveirense ranked 8th in the league on five-round form, well above their 18th table position. Scoring rates set the scale: Leixões 1.35 scored and 1.62 conceded per game, UD Oliveirense 1 and 1.44, with the league averaging 1.22.
A win had eluded UD Oliveirense for 7 matches.
The head-to-head ledger counts 6 games: 2 Leixões wins, 3 for UD Oliveirense, 1 draw, at 2.33 goals per meeting. Only 17% of these meetings ended in a home win. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 33% of the meetings went over two goals.
The match was played at Estádio do Mar (capacity 9,821). The referee was H. Azevedo Malheiro, with 91 matches in our database and 1.8 yellows per game on average. Leixões led 1-0 at the break, and the second half added 1 goal for the 2-0 full-time score.
Goal scorers
Leixões: Serif Nhaga (13'), Luccas Paraizo (55')
Key stats
Possession: Leixões 45% · UD Oliveirense 55% · Total shots: 10-13 · On target: 3-3 · Corners: 7-5