📏 Form Guide

Chaves

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Chaves will be hoping for a better result after a 1-0 Primeira Liga losing effort in their last game against Benfica.

In that game, Chaves managed 34% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 0 on target. On the other side, Benfica had 22 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. João Neves (66') was the scorer for Benfica.

It has been seldom in recent games where Chaves have shown defensive steel. It will be a concern for them that Chaves have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 10 goals in the process. Such a pattern won’t necessarily be sustained into this next game, however.

A look at their previous results shows us that Chaves:

• remain undefeated by Portimonense when playing them at home in the last 3 league matches.
• are without a win at home for the past 2 matches in the league.

Portimonense

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Following on from suffering a loss in their previous game against Braga in Primeira Liga action, Portimonense will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, Portimonense managed 38% possession and 16 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. For Portimonense, the scorers were Pedrão (18'), Hildeberto Pereira (71') and Taichi Fukui (86'). SC Braga got 18 attempts on goal with 9 on target. Bruma (3', 69'), Roger Fernandes (30') and Simon Banza (49', 61') scored for Braga.

It is worth noting that Portimonense have suffered from a shortage of goals in their past 6 games, recording the poor return of just 4. In those matches, Portimonense have also seen the overall goal tally against them equal 14.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head-to-head meetings going back to 22/04/2018 tells us that Chaves have won 4 of these games & Portimonense 2, with the number of drawn matches being 0.

A total of 12 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 8 from Chaves and 4 coming from Portimonense. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.

The last league game featuring these sides was Primeira Liga match day 11 on 11/11/2023 and the score finished Portimonense 2-1 Chaves.

In that match, Portimonense had 45% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. The goals were scored by Hélio Varela (14') and Ronie Carrillo (39').

At the other end, Chaves had 20 shots on goal with 8 on target. Benny (87') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by David Silva.

ℹ️ Team News: Chaves

Bruno Rodrigues (unknown injury), Cafú Phete (unknown injury) and Sandro Cruz (unknown injury) will be missing for Chaves gaffer Moreno Teixeira.

It looks as if Chaves will possibly line up in a 3-5-2 system for this one featuring Rodrigo Moura, Ygor, Vasco Fernandes, Junior Pius, Carraca, Dario Essugo, Raphael Guzzo, Guima, Bernardo Sousa, Hector Hernandez and Leandro Sanca.

ℹ️ Team News: Portimonense

Owing to a completely injury-free group to pick from, the Portimonense manager Paulo Sérgio doesn’t have any fitness concerns whatsoever coming into this game.

From our viewpoint, Portimonense will likely begin the game with a 3-2-4-1 lineup, settling for Kosuke Nakamura, Filipe Relvas, Alemao, Pedro Henrique, Guga, Moustapha Seck, Taichi Fukui, Lucas Ventura, Dener Clemente, Helio Varela and Midana Cassama.

💭 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Portimonense will need things to go their way to put one past this Chaves side who we think might well be able to grind out a win.

We therefore see a very competitive encounter with a 1-0 winning score for Chaves at the end of this one.

There should be little in it.

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

Renata Leite, 14:01 07/04/2024