Manuel Mota da Silva
Manuel Mota da Silva has not taken charge of a Primeira Liga match in 26/27. The figures below are a career record. Over the last 10 Primeira Liga games Manuel Mota da Silva has officiated, the average is 4.20 cards a match — 19% below the league average of 5.17. That splits 3.9 yellow and 0.3 red a game — a red in 3 of the 10. The home side sees more cards — 1.5 to 2.7 a game, a sharper split than the league's 0.2 gap. 5+ cards landed in 50% of those games (5 of 10), from a 17.9% foul-to-booking rate. These are raw match figures from those games, not odds.
Match cards last 10 games
Career profile
The two numbers that matter are vs league — the multiplier the model applies to a player's booking chance — and conversion, the share of fouls Manuel Mota da Silva turns into bookings. Conversion, not the raw foul count, is where a referee's real card tendency lives. Career figures across every Primeira Liga season on record.
| Measure | da Silva | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 4.61 | 5.17 |
| vs league | 0.89× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 20.1% | 19.0% |
| Fouls / match | 22.9 | 27.2 |
| Red cards shown | 8 | — |
| Matches on record | 18 (0 in 26/27) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Primeira Liga games Manuel Mota da Silva took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sporting Braga v Paços de Ferreira27 May | 3–0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 19 |
| Vitória SC v Gil Vicente21 May | 1–0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 27 |
| Gil Vicente v Chaves10 Apr | 0–0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 25 |
| Vizela v Casa Pia1 Apr | 3–1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 20 |
| Chaves v Portimonense11 Mar | 2–0 | 6 1 red | 5 | 1 | 22 |
| Santa Clara v Vitória SC5 Mar | 1–3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 25 |
| Sporting CP v Estoril Praia27 Feb | 2–0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| Boavista v Casa Pia13 Feb | 0–0 | 5 1 red | 4 | 1 | 23 |
● a red card in that match
Frequently asked
How many cards does Manuel Mota da Silva give per game?
Manuel Mota da Silva averages 4.61 cards a game across 18 Primeira Liga matches — 11% below the league average of 5.17. On a Manuel Mota da Silva appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 0.89.
Is Manuel Mota da Silva a strict referee?
Slightly, yes. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and Manuel Mota da Silva runs at 20.1% against a league average of 19.0%. Foul counts barely vary between officials; the rate at which a foul becomes a booking is where referees genuinely differ.
Does Manuel Mota da Silva's record change bet builder card prices?
It should. The referee is the single biggest factor in the to-be-carded market, and the appointment is public before kick-off — so a strict official on a combative player is the archetypal card edge. The player cards guide walks through exactly how the model turns a tendency like this into a price.
How reliable is Manuel Mota da Silva's card rate?
It rests on 18 career matches, a solid record. The model shrinks a referee's tendency toward the league average when the sample is thin and discounts its own confidence for officials with young records, so a number like this never gets trusted beyond what the evidence earns.
Rates shown are figures from public match data for context; the model adds shrinkage and an opponent factor, and discounts its confidence for thin referee records, before flagging any card as value. It compares against the bookmaker's price as offered — card markets are priced one side only, so that price still carries the bookmaker's margin. 18+ — please gamble responsibly.