Sporting Lisbon vs Boavista Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Sporting Lisbon

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Sporting Lisbon head into this fixture following on from a 2-2 Europa League stalemate vs Arsenal.

In that match, Sporting Lisbon had 32% possession and 10 attempts on goal with 6 on target. For Sporting Lisbon, the scorers were Gonçalo Inácio (34'), Paulinho (55') and Hidemasa Morita (62' Own goal). On the other side, Arsenal had 14 shots at goal with 7 on target. William Saliba (22') was the scorer for Arsenal.

Sporting Lisbon have been on a persistent run of goalscoring form, netting in one hundred percent of their last 6 games.

They’ve hit an aggregate of 13 during that period while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 5. It will be interesting to see if that trend can be sustained here.

Boavista

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In the game prior to this, Boavista drew 0-0 in the Primeira Liga match with Arouca.

In that game, Boavista managed 48% possession and 10 shots on goal with 2 on target. For their opponents, Arouca got 8 shots at goal with 1 of them on target.

During their six most recent matches, Armando Petit's Boavista have slotted home 7 times thus earning them a goals scored per game average of 1.17.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their prior head-to-head meetings stretching back to 23/02/2020 tells us that Sporting Lisbon have won 5 of these games & Boavista 1, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 0.

A combined sum of 13 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 11 of them for Sportinguistas and 2 being from As Panteras. That’s an average goals per game of 2.17.

The last league match between these clubs was Primeira Liga match day 7 on 17/09/2022 which finished with the scoreline of Boavista 2-1 Sporting Lisbon.

On that day, Boavista managed 27% possession and 7 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Bruno Lourenço (45', 83').

On the other side, Sporting Lisbon got 11 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Marcus Edwards (55') scored.

The referee was João Pinheiro.

📋 Team News: Sporting Lisbon

Héctor Bellerín (Unknown Injury), Daniel Bragança (Cruciate Ligament Rupture) and Antonio Adán (Unknown Injury) will be missing for Sporting Lisbon boss Rúben Amorim.

In our view, Sportinguistas will possibly line up in a 3-4-2-1 formation for the game, utilising Antonio Adan, Gonçalo Inácio, Sebastian Coates, Ousmane Diomande, Ricardo Esgaio, Manuel Ugarte, Hidemasa Morita, Nuno Santos, Marcus Edwards, P. Gonçalves Pote and Youssef Chermiti.

📰 Team News: Boavista

Thanks to a completely healthy group to pick from, the Boavista manager Armando Petit doesn’t have any fitness concerns to report ahead of this game.

We’re of the thinking that As Panteras seem most likely to elect for a 3-5-2 formation by sending out Rafael Bracali, Vincent Sasso, Rodrigo Abascal, Bruno Onyemaechi, Salvador Agra, Sebastián Pérez, Ibrahima Camara, Gaius Makouta, Ricardo Mangas, Kenji Gorre and Yusupha Njie.

💡 Prediction

We believe that Sporting Lisbon will most probably dominate possession and create several successful chances.

At the other end, Boavista may well struggle to score but we do think it’s quite likely that they will be being dangerous at times.

We’re predicting a fairly comfortable 3-1 margin for Sporting Lisbon at the end of the match.

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

Renata Leite, 02:49 08/03/2023