📏 Form Guide

Gil Vicente

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Gil Vicente will be hoping to bounce back here after a 3-0 Primeira Liga losing effort in their last game against Rio Ave.

In that match, Gil Vicente managed 48% possession and 5 attempts at goal with 3 on target. On the other side, Rio Ave had 15 attempts on goal with 8 on target. João Teixeira (30'), Abdul-Aziz Yakubu (43') and Joca (63') scored for Rio Ave.

Gil Vicente have found it difficult to unlock defences in recent times. Their goals record stands at just 3 versus opposing sides over their previous six fixtures. In those games, Gil Vicente have also seen the number of goals that have gone against them come to 8. Previous results aside, we must now wait to see whether that trend will be sustained in this upcoming game or not.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Gil Vicente:

• are winless against Sporting Lisbon in their last 8 league matches.
• are without a home win in the past 4 matches in the league. That's never good.

Sporting Lisbon

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Sporting Lisbon head into the game following a 2-1 Primeira Liga win as they beat Benfica in their most recent fixture.

In that game, Sporting Lisbon had 49% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. The scorer for Sporting Lisbon was Geny Catamo (1', 91'). At the other end, Benfica had 14 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. Alexander Bah (45') was the scorer for Benfica.

In their previous 6 outings, Sporting Lisbon have bagged a tally of 15 goals. Sporting Lisbon have also not failed to score on each one of those occasions. In that time, their defenders have had 6 goals scored by their opponents.

Their past results show that Sporting Lisbon:

• remain unbeaten by Gil Vicente in away games against them for the last 3 league games.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 7 away league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over their past head to head results stretching back to 09/02/2021 reveals that these fixtures have not been happy ones for Gil Vicente. They have not been able to come away with any wins at all while Sporting Lisbon have dominated them, running out winners in 83% of those ties.

19 goals were produced between them in this period, with 4 for Gilistas and 15 belonging to Sportinguistas. That is an average goals per game value of 3.17.

The previous league game between the two was Primeira Liga match day 12 on 04/12/2023 when the final score was Sporting Lisbon 3-1 Gil Vicente.

In that game, Sporting Lisbon managed 60% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Their only player to score was Viktor Gyökeres (52', 56').

For their opponents, Gil Vicente got 5 shots at goal with 1 of them on target. Rúben Fernandes (34') and Pedro Tiba (42' Own goal) scored.

The match was refereed by Cláudio Pereira.

ℹ️ Team News: Gil Vicente

Zé Carlos (unknown injury), Kiko (unknown injury) and Stanislav Kritsyuk (unknown injury) won’t be playing for Gil Vicente boss Vítor Campelos.

It’s our opinion that Gilistas look set to employ a 4-2-3-1 system for this one featuring Andrew, Ze Carlos, Gabriel Pereira, Ruben Fernandes, Kiko Vilas Boas, Mory Gbane, Pedro Tiba, Murilo, Martim Neto, Maxime Dominguez and Depu.

📰 Team News: Sporting Lisbon

Thanks to a largely healthy group, there’s just a single fitness problem for the Sporting Lisbon manager Rúben Amorim to be concerned about. Antonio Adán (Muscle injury) won’t be in action. Morten Hjulmand will not be able to play in this game through being suspended.

We believe Sportinguistas could decide to play in a 3-4-3 formation, choosing Franco Israel, Eduardo Quaresma, Goncalo Inacio, Ousmane Diomande, Geny Catamo, Hidemasa Morita, Daniel Braganca, Ricardo Esgaio, Trincao, Viktor Gyoekeres and Pedro Goncalves.

🔮 Prediction

We feel that Gil Vicente must be fancied to find the back of the net against this Sporting Lisbon outfit, however a single goal possibly won’t quite be good enough.

Therefore, we think that it’s going to be a 1-2 winning score for Sporting Lisbon at full-time. Looking forward to this.

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

Andre Moura, 19:03 12/04/2024