📏 Form Guide

Arouca

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Arouca won’t want a repeat of their last result here following a 2-0 Primeira Liga defeat in their last game at the hands of Santa Clara.

In that game, Arouca had 61% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. Santa Clara got 8 shots on goal with 4 on target. Ricardinho (4', 37') scored for Santa Clara.

It’s been all too rare in recent games that Arouca have shown defensive steel. It will be a concern for them that Arouca have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 9 goals in the process.

Heading into this contest, Arouca haven't beaten Casa Pia in their last 3 matches in the league.

Casa Pia

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Following on from suffering a loss in their previous game against Estoril in Primeira Liga action, Casa Pia will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, Casa Pia had 41% possession and 8 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. The scorer for Casa Pia was Cassiano (43'). Estoril got 11 shots on goal with 4 on target. Yanis Begraoui (21'), Alejandro Marqués (82') and João Carvalho (87') scored for Estoril.

The strike force from Casa Pia have made hard work of scoring goals over their previous 6 encounters, contributing the disappointing return of just 4. In those matches, Os Gansos (The Geese) have also seen the collective goal tally against them equal 7. Such a trend might not be continued into this match, however.

Their prior results show that Casa Pia:

• are unbeaten in their last 2 league matches away from home.
• have not won away from home in their last 6 league games.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of their past head-to-head meetings going back to 09/05/2021 tells us that Arouca have won 2 of them and Casa Pia 3, with the number of draws being 1.

A sum of 11 goals were produced between them in this period, with 5 of them from Arouca and 6 belonging to Os Gansos (The Geese). That is an average goals per game value of 1.83.

The previous league game between these clubs was Primeira Liga match day 15 on 20/12/2024 when it finished Casa Pia 3-1 Arouca.

In that game, Casa Pia managed 42% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 6 on target. The scorers were Jérémy Livolant (19'), Leonardo Lelo (20') and Samuel Obeng (88').

For their opponents, Arouca had 8 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Alfonso Trezza (63') scored.

The referee was Anzhony Rodrigues.

📋 Team News: Arouca

Nearly everyone is up for selection, with just the sole fitness concern for the Arouca boss Vasco Seabra to be concerned with due to a largely intact set of players. Nino Galović (unknown injury) is sidelined.

In all likelihood, Arouca should opt for a 4-2-3-1 system for this one featuring Nico Mantl, Alex Pinto, Chico Lamba, Jose Fontan, Weverson, Taichi Fukui, Pedro Moreira, Brian Mansilla, Morlaye Sylla, Alfonso Trezza and Dylan Nandin.

📰 Team News: Casa Pia

Casa Pia manager João Pereira has multiple availability issues to deal with. Clau Mendes (sprain), Kiki (unknown injury) and Tchamba (Shoulder injury) can’t be considered.

There’s a good chance that Os Gansos (The Geese) appear most likely to make use of a 3-4-3 formation with a starting lineup of Patrick Sequeira, Joao Goulart, Jose Fonte, Fahem Benaissa-Yahia, Gaizka Larrazabal, Iyad Mohamed, Pablo, Leonardo Lelo, Korede Osundina, Cassiano and Henrique Pereira.

💡 Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Casa Pia will manage to score against this Arouca outfit, although it may not be enough to avoid a loss.

We’re predicting a very close game with a 2-1 win for Arouca when all is said and done. Let’s wait and see how it plays out.

Andre Moura, 16:02 04/05/2025