| Team | Games | Run | Unbeaten | Winless | Scored in | Conceded in | Last-5 pts | Last-5 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rio Ave | 15 | W2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 8/15 | 6-5 |
| Penafiel | 15 | D1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5/15 | 2-6 |
Computed over each team's finished games before kickoff — see the Games column for the sample behind each row.
Aggregated from 2 finished meetings (2014-10-27 – 2015-03-15) in the GioScore fixtures corpus.
| Date | Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-03-15 | Penafiel | 0-2 | Rio Ave |
| 2014-10-27 | Rio Ave | 3-2 | Penafiel |
| Team | Pos | Pld | Pts | GD | Form | Form rank | Form vs pos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rio Ave | 1 | 34 | 70 | 21 | WDWWW | 1 | 0 |
| Penafiel | 6 | 34 | 51 | 0 | DWWLW | 3 | +3 |
Form rank = league-wide rank by points from the last 5 league games; "Form vs pos" > 0 means over-performing the table.
Figures computed from the GioScore results database · data cutoff: kickoff 2022-03-12
The table gap was wide: 19 points between Rio Ave (1st, 70 pts) and Penafiel (6th, 51 pts). Scoring rates set the scale: Rio Ave 1.53 scored and 0.91 conceded per game, Penafiel 1.12 and 1.12, with the league averaging 1.24.
Estádio do Rio Ave Futebol Clube in Vila do Conde staged the fixture, a ground that holds 12,815. Half-time and full-time told different stories: Rio Ave led 1-0 at the break, before 1 more goal closed it at 2-0.
