Leixoes made a lot of changes for this season. From the main XI of the last season they lost almost the whole team, they lost the experienced goalkeeper Beto, Lucas Lopes, Brendon Lucas, Pedro Pinto, Bruno Monteiro, the best player Joca, Nene and Avto. Are a lot of misses, and they bought Fabinho from Academica, Joao Meira and Joao Amorim from Leixoes, Diogo Leitao from Estrela da Amadora and Nildo Petrolina who worked already with the coach Jose Mota in Desportivo Aves. The coach Jose Mota is not prepared for this modern football and still plays like the football have stopped in 2005, very defensive and just trying to explore the counters as he has fast players. They made a good 1st game against Farense and won 3-1, but when the game was 1-1 they were completely dominated with Farense creating a lot of clear chances, but then Sapara made a "Puskas" goal to score the 2-1 and then Farense unmotivated a lot. In the last game against a Chaves, where Chaves had 8 Covid cases and 3 injured players that conceded a draw (1-1), and ended the game defending the result. For today I expect them trying to have the ball possession and the control of the game, but against an Academica very hurt with 0 wins so far. It will be very hard for them. In the defense they have 2 players who played for Cova da Piedade, who fighted until the end to avoid the relegation places.