📊 Form Guide

Sporting Lisbon

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Sporting Lisbon will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 2-4 Primeira Liga triumph over Braga.

In that match, Sporting Lisbon had 71% possession and 13 shots on goal with 6 on target. For Sporting Lisbon, goals were scored by Hidemasa Morita (58'), Morten Hjulmand (81') and Conrad Harder (89', 94'). On the other side, SC Braga got 3 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Ricardo Horta (20', 45') scored for Braga.

Matches with Sporting Lisbon have often been absorbing encounters of late with a lot of goalmouth action the rule rather than the exception. Over their past 6 clashes alone, the sum total of 24 goals have been recorded for both sides combined (at an average of 4 goals per game) with 20 of these belonging to Sporting Lisbon. We will just have to see whether or not that trend can be continued on in this game.

Arsenal

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Arsenal go into this encounter following a 3-0 Premier League win vs Nottingham Forest in their most recent match.

In that match, Arsenal had 67% possession and 19 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. For Arsenal, the goalscorers were Bukayo Saka (15'), Thomas Partey (52') and Ethan Nwaneri (86'). Nottingham Forest got 7 attempts on goal with 0 on target.

Mikel Arteta's Arsenal have seen their goal attempts be successful 7 times throughout their previous six matches. The total of goals that they have conceded during those same clashes equals 5.

📰 Team News: Sporting Lisbon

Pedro Gonçalves (Muscle injury) and Nuno Santos (Patellar tendon rupture) will be missing for Sporting Lisbon manager João Pereira.

In all likelihood, Sportinguistas may well employ a 3-4-3 formation this time, utilising Franco Israel, Matheus, Goncalo Inacio, Ousmane Diomande, Geovany Quenda, Morten Hjulmand, Hidemasa Morita, Maximiliano Araujo, Trincao, Viktor Gyoekeres and Marcus Edwards.

ℹ️ Team News: Arsenal

We’re of the thinking that The Gunners appear most likely to elect for a 4-3-3 formation, starting David Raya, Jurrien Timber, William Saliba, Gabriel, Riccardo Calafiori, Martin Oedegaard, Thomas Partey, Declan Rice, Bukayo Saka, Kai Havertz and Gabriel Martinelli.

💡 Prediction

We feel that Arsenal and Sporting Lisbon may both struggle to make a breakthrough here.

A scoreless draw looks like a real possibility, but we’ll see what happens. We’re therefore predicting a very even match with a 0-0 draw at the end of the match.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 19:02 26/11/2024