📊 Form Guide

Casa Pia

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Casa Pia will be hoping to bounce back here after the 3-1 Primeira Liga defeat last time out to Nacional.

In that match, Casa Pia managed 55% possession and 10 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Casa Pia was Larrazabal (49'). Nacional got 14 attempts at goal with 6 on target. Daniel Penha (45'), Paulinho Bóia (60') and Joel Tagueu (75') scored for Nacional.

In their past six games, João Pereira's Casa Pia have scored a total of 6 times - an average number of goals scored per match equal to 1.

Going into this one, Casa Pia haven't beaten Rio Ave in their previous 4 league games.

Rio Ave

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Following on from being beaten in their last game against Benfica in Primeira Liga action, Rio Ave will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, Rio Ave managed 40% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 2 on target. For Rio Ave, the goals were scored by Brandon Aguilera (64') and Clayton (75'). Benfica got 20 attempts on goal with 8 on target. Orkun Kökçü (30'), Vangelis Pavlidis (53') and Kerem Aktürkoğlu (80') scored for Benfica.

Rio Ave have been good when going forward in the lead-up to this encounter, having scored 7 times in their last 6 matches. This doesn’t mask the fact that Rio Ave have been somewhat leaky at the back, having also been scored against in 6 of those same clashes.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Rio Ave:

• are winless against Casa Pia in away games against them for the last 2 matches in the league.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 3 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their most recent head to head meetings dating back to 01/05/2022 tells us that Casa Pia have won 1 of them & Rio Ave 2, with the tally of drawn matches being 3.

11 goals were scored between them in these games, with 5 of them for Os Gansos (The Geese) and 6 being from Rio Grande . That’s an average goals per game of 1.83.

The previous league fixture between these sides was Primeira Liga match day 10 on 02/11/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Rio Ave 2-2 Casa Pia.

That day, Rio Ave had 48% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. The goals were scored by Clayton (16') and Martim Neto (39').

For their opponents, Casa Pia had 10 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. Nuno Moreira (3') and Cassiano (28') scored.

The referee was António Nobre.

📰 Team News: Casa Pia

Clau Mendes (sprain) and Kiki (unknown injury) will be missing for Casa Pia gaffer João Pereira.

In all likelihood, Os Gansos (The Geese) will probably employ a 3-4-3 system this time and select Patrick Sequeira, Joao Goulart, Ruben Kluivert, Duplexe Tchamba, Gaizka Larrazabal, Pablo, Rafael Brito, Leonardo Lelo, Korede Osundina, Caue Vinicius and Miguel Sousa.

📰 Team News: Rio Ave

We’re of the thinking that Rio Grande might utilise a 4-2-3-1 lineup, going with Cezary Miszta, Marios Vrousai, A. Ntoi, Jonathan Panzo, Omar Richards, Theofanis Bakoulas, Brandon Aguilera, Andre Luiz, Ole Pohlmann, Kiko Bondoso and Karem Zoabi.

🧠 Prediction

In our view, Rio Ave will likely be able to put one past this Casa Pia outfit, however that probably won’t quite be as many as the goals that they could concede.

We reckon that it will be a close game with a 2-1 win for Casa Pia by the time that the referee blows the final whistle. It will be interesting to see how this one goes.

Peter Guest, 15:02 29/03/2025