📏 Form Guide

Nacional

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Nacional will be hoping to return to winning ways here after a 3-0 Primeira Liga defeat in their last game at the hands of Benfica.

In that match, Nacional had 44% possession and 12 shots at goal with 3 on target. For their opponents, Benfica got 18 shots at goal with 12 of them on target. Zeki Amdouni (5'), Orkun Kökçü (23') and Vangelis Pavlidis (92') scored for Benfica.

It’s not been often in recent games where Nacional haven’t conceded. It will be a concern for them that Nacional have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 9 goals during that time. Despite that, time will tell if the trend will be sustained in this next match or not.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Nacional:

• have left without a victory over Casa Pia in their last 3 matches in the league.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 2 home league matches.

Casa Pia

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After tasting defeat last time out to Sporting Lisbon in Primeira Liga action, Casa Pia and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that game, Casa Pia managed 52% possession and 10 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. For their opponents, Sporting CP got 17 shots at goal with 6 on target. Gonçalo Inácio (12'), Viktor Gyökeres (34', 77') and Ricardo Esgaio (45' Own goal) scored for Sporting Lisbon.

In the course of their six most recent matches, João Pereira's Casa Pia have found the net 6 times, yielding them a goals per game average of 1.

Ahead of this meeting, Casa Pia haven’t won away from home in the past 3 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

The previous league fixture between these clubs was Primeira Liga match day 9 on 25/10/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Casa Pia 1-0 Nacional.

In that game, Casa Pia had 43% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. Their only player to score was Ruben Kluivert (39').

At the other end, Nacional had 19 shots at goal with 6 on target.

The match was refereed by David Silva.

🗞️ Team News: Nacional

There aren’t many selection issues, with just the lone fitness concern for the Nacional manager Tiago Margarido to be concerned about from a near full-strength set of players. Miguel Baeza (unknown injury) misses out.

In our view, Os Alvinegros should opt for a 4-1-4-1 system in the match and select Lucas Franca, Gustavo Garcia, Ulisses Rocha, Leonardo Santos, Arvin Appiah, Djibril Soumare, Matheus Dias, Luis Esteves, Chiheb Labidi, Joel Tagueu and Dudu Teodora.

ℹ️ Team News: Casa Pia

Casa Pia boss João Pereira has a number of players out of action. Kiki (unknown injury) and Clau Mendes (sprain) are not ready for selection.

We’re of the thinking that Os Gansos (The Geese) seem most likely to make use of a 3-4-3 formation, settling for Patrick Sequeira, Joao Goulart, Jose Fonte, Duplexe Tchamba, Gaizka Larrazabal, Pablo, Rafael Brito, Leonardo Lelo, Jeremy Livolant, Caue Vinicius and Miguel Sousa.

⚡ Prediction

We’re of the view that Casa Pia have enough to score a goal against this Nacional lineup, however that probably shouldn’t be as many as they will have scored against them.

We’re expecting a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 advantage for Nacional after 90 minutes. Let’s see what happens here.

Renata Leite, 15:02 16/03/2025