📊 Form Guide

Famalicão

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Famalicão are hoping to win again following the 2-3 Primeira Liga victory over AVS.

In that match, Famalicão had 53% possession and 18 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. For Famalicão, goals were scored by Óscar Aranda (14') and Gil Dias (17', 77'). For their opponents, AVS got 13 shots on goal with 6 on target. Vasco Lopes (6') and Babatunde Akinsola (30') scored for AVS.

In their preceding 6 fixtures, Armando Evangelista's Famalicão have seen rewards for their attempts on goal a total of 5 times, an average number of goals per match equal to 0.83.

Coming into this meeting, Famalicão haven’t won at home in the past 3 matches in the league.

Arouca

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After tasting defeat last time out to Braga in Primeira Liga action, Arouca and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that match, Arouca managed 61% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. The only player to score for Arouca was Morlaye Sylla (90'). SC Braga got 16 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Bruma (16') and Amine El Ouazzani (54') scored for Braga.

The stats don’t lie, and Arouca have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 14 goals in total. At the back, Arouca have some weaknesses to address.

Going into this contest, Arouca haven’t won away from home in the past 2 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their past head-to-head meetings dating back to 20/08/2021 tells us that Famalicão have won 1 of these games and Arouca 4, with the number of drawn games being 1.

A combined total of 15 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 5 for Famalicenses and 10 created by Arouca. That is an average goals per game value of 2.5.

The last league encounter between these sides was Primeira Liga match day 23 on 23/02/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Arouca 3-2 Famalicão.

That day, Arouca had 53% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. The scorers were Morlaye Sylla (33'), Cristo González (45') and Rafa Mújica (64').

Famalicão had 15 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. Jhonder Cádiz (12') and Gustavo Sá (56') scored.

The referee was Luis Godinho.

ℹ️ Team News: Famalicão

There aren’t many selection issues, with just a single fitness concern for the Famalicão boss Armando Evangelista to be concerned about from a near full-strength squad. Sorriso (unknown injury) will miss out.

We are thinking that Famalicenses could use a 4-2-3-1 formation this time, handing starts to Ivan Zlobin, Calegari, Riccieli, Enea Mihaj, Rafa Soares, Zaydou Youssouf, Mirko Topic, Gil Dias, Gustavo Sa, Rochinha and Oscar Aranda.

📰 Team News: Arouca

Arouca boss Vasco Seabra has a number of players out of action. Quaresma (unknown injury), Nino Galović (unknown injury), Matías Rocha (Nose injury), Uri Busquets (unknown injury), Eboue Kouassi (Knock), Vitinho (unknown injury) and Pedro Moreira (unknown injury) can’t be considered.

We are inclined to think that Arouca might utilise a 4-2-3-1 system with a starting lineup of Nico Mantl, Tiago Esgaio, Boris Popovic, Jose Fontan, Amadou Dante, David Simao, Taichi Fukui, Alfonso Trezza, Jason, Morlaye Sylla and Guven Yalcin.

⚡ Prediction

In our opinion, Arouca are certainly able to find the net against this Famalicão lineup, but it probably won’t quite prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We reckon that it will be a very close game with a 2-1 win for Famalicão by the conclusion of the game. Expecting it to be very competitive.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 17:03 09/11/2024