Académica do Lobito vs Santa Rita betting tip 2024/2025 - Picks and Predictions for the Girabola match on December 21st, 2024

Académica do Lobito and Santa Rita will play on Saturday, December 21st, 2024, at 13:30h (UTC), in a Girabola game to be held in Angola, check the Académica do Lobito vs Santa Rita betting tip 2024/2025 to win with your bets.

Stadium and City where Académica do Lobito vs Santa Rita will occur

The game takes place in the small Estádio do Buraco stadium, in the city of Lobito, with a capacity for 15000 spectators, who hope to help the team to surprise in this match.

Where to follow the live game

You can follow the match live on Betarena, with access to all information to help with your sports betting, including statistics, events and odds.

Introduction to the Académica do Lobito vs Santa Rita betting tip 2024/2025

Académica do Lobito last match

The last match ended in a draw for the Académica do Lobito team. On that occasion they met Kabuscorp for the Girabola, and the match ended 1-1.

The draw (odd 3.10) turned out to be a good result, taking into account that the favoritism was on the other team's side.

Santa Rita last match

Santa Rita appears in the same condition as the rival. The team also arrives from a draw for this match. In a Girabola game, the team faced Interclube, and the score ended with a 1-1 draw.

For this match the rival team had all the favoritism, so considering that factor, the draw (odd 3.60) ended up being a good result.

Académica do Lobito vs Santa Rita h2h

Their last 2023/2024 Girabola match which took place on 26-05-2024 was such a competitive game it ended in a 1-1 draw.

Last time a draw between these teams, what to expect now?

The performance of the Santa Rita team in their five recent games to date has been relatively good, unlike the Académica do Lobito team.

Académica do Lobito

Girabola leaderboard now

Académica do Lobito joins the match with 16 points. They rank in 8th place in the Girabola, the team also suffers from a negative balance having won only 4 games, losing 6, and scoring 4 draws.

Recreativo do Libolo ranks just above, occupying 7th place in the 15th round, with the same number of points.

With no great ambitions or relegation concerns, Académica do Lobito, mid-ranking of the league table in the Angola Girabola, will try to use the home factor to get a win.

Académica do Lobito analysis

After 14 rounds, Académica do Lobito has conceded more goals than has scored. They conceded a total of 21 goals so far and scored 13 times.

Académica do Lobito is going through a rough patch in their form, having lost their last 3 matches and drawing the other 2. They need to regroup and find a way to get back to winning ways if they want to stay competitive in the league.

Académica do Lobito is not among the teams that kick more often towards the target, with only 0.93 shots on goal per match on average. But it must be said that when it does attack, it does so accurately. Right now it averages 0.93 accomplishments per game, meaning that it has scored a goal on 40 percent of the occasions it has gotten to the shot.

The average ball possession of Académica do Lobito in this league is 43.5%, which means that the team has a rather wait-and-see attitude and does not often take over the ball of the game. Therefore, for the match against Santa Rita they should do something to reverse the trend and try to impose their game on their opponents if they want the win.

Winning once as the visiting team, the team’s record of 3 wins, 2 losses, and 2 draws proves they are naturally stronger at home.

While Santa Rita has only managed to convert 6 of their 394 attacks into goals, Académica do Lobito has been much more successful with 653 attacks and 13 goals.

Santa Rita

Girabola leaderboard now

With 11 points won, Santa Rita is in 15th place on the leaderboard, which leaves the team in the Relegation zone. The team's campaign so far is 2 wins against 7 losses, plus 5 draws.

In the 15th round, the team has the same number of points when compared to Luanda City team who occupies position 14.

Santa Rita analysis

Santa Rita shows a negative ratio between goals made and conceded, with 6 made and 14 conceded after 14 rounds of the league.

Recent performances have shown that Santa Rita is having trouble scoring goals, with a low number of goals scored and a high number of matches where they failed to score. This could indicate that they need to improve their attacking play by creating better chances and being more efficient in front of goal.

With a high average minutes of first goal scored this season, Santa Rita has shown that they are a patient team. This patience translates into game control and waiting for the right opportunities, leading to a low number of goals conceded. These qualities indicate the team's tactical discipline and organization. Maintaining this approach will serve Santa Rita well in future matches.

The outcome of the match promises to be less than positive for the team, which is awaiting a complicated away game and has some less than comforting attacking numbers: only 0.46 goals on average per game in this tournament.

Bet suggestions for this game:

Goals Top Betting Tips

75-90 minutes into the game is where most goals occur, a good time to bet if one is following the live game.

Bets on the under 2.5 goals market is an alternative because adding the goals scored at home by Académica do Lobito 1.29 and the average conceding goals of the visiting team Santa Rita 0.17 does not exceed the average of 3 goals, suggesting a good entry in this market.

At the bookmaker Bet365, the market of Total Goals Under 2.5 is with great odds.

Corners Top Betting Tips

A good thing to note for those wanting to get sports betting results is that there is an average of 1.12 corners per game.

Cards Top Betting Tips

Highly disciplined, the teams have an average of only 1.5 yellow cards per match, when added together. In other words, the 'Under 4.5 cards' option looks like a great alternative for bettors.

This is a match with several good betting entries to have some return on sports betting.

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