📊 Form Guide

Sporting Lisbon

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Sporting Lisbon, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 0-5 Primeira Liga victory versus Boavista.

In that game, Sporting Lisbon had 62% possession and 23 attempts at goal with 12 on target. For Sporting Lisbon, goals were scored by Viktor Gyökeres (6', 45', 50', 92') and Maximiliano Araújo (57'). On the other side, Boavista had 6 attempts at goal with 0 on target.

Sporting Lisbon haven’t had any problems with scoring, netting in one hundred percent of their last 6 matches.

They have hit an aggregate of 16 during that time while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 3.

A look at their previous results shows us that Sporting Lisbon:

• haven't lost in the league to Gil Vicente in their previous 10 matches. A decent run, indeed.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 9 home league matches. A run that they'll hope to extend here.

Gil Vicente

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Gil Vicente come into this clash after a 1-0 Primeira Liga win over Farense in their most recent game.

In that match, Gil Vicente had 54% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. The scorer for Gil Vicente was Mohamed Bamba (92'). Farense had 8 attempts at goal with 2 on target.

The trend of at least one team not managing to score in games involving Gil Vicente has become fairly consistent in recent matches. Checking on their last six games reveals that it’s happened 5 times. In those clashes, their opponents have hit a goal aggregate of 6 and Gil Vicente have scored 7. We shall soon see whether or not that trend can be sustained in this game.

Leading up to this clash, Gil Vicente:

• haven't won against Sporting Lisbon when they've played them away from home in the last 12 matches in the league. An awful away record.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 3 league matches away from home.

👥 Head to head

A study of their past head to head results stretching back to 01/05/2022 shows that these encounters have ended in disappointment for Gil Vicente. They have not been able to come away with any wins whatsoever while Sporting Lisbon have simply been better than them, getting wins in 67 per cent of those games played.

In all, 17 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 14 of them from Sportinguistas and 3 coming from Gilistas. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.83.

The last league game featuring these clubs was Primeira Liga match day 15 on 22/12/2024 when the final score was Gil Vicente 0-0 Sporting Lisbon.

In that match, Gil Vicente had 36% possession and 3 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target.

For their opponents, Sporting Lisbon had 14 attempts at goal with 7 on target.

The referee was André Narciso.

📋 Team News: Sporting Lisbon

João Simões (Metatarsal fracture), Daniel Bragança (Cruciate ligament tear) and Nuno Santos (Patellar tendon rupture) will be missing for Sporting Lisbon gaffer Rui Borges.

In all likelihood, Sportinguistas look set to make use of the 3-4-3 formation this time, utilising Rui Silva, Eduardo Quaresma, Jerry St. Juste, Goncalo Inacio, Geny Catamo, Zeno Debast, Hidemasa Morita, Maximiliano Araujo, Trincao, Viktor Gyoekeres and Pedro Goncalves.

📋 Team News: Gil Vicente

Out of a mainly healthy group of players, there’s only a single fitness issue for the Gil Vicente boss César Peixoto to be concerned about. Yaya Sithole (Tibia and fibula fracture) won’t be in action.

We reckon that Gilistas appear most likely to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 lineup, starting the game with Andrew, Ze Carlos, Marvin Gilbert, Jonathan Buatu, Sandro Cruz, Mohamed Bamba, Facundo Caseres, Felix Correia, Kanya Fujimoto, Joao Marques and Jorge Aguirre.

💡 Prediction

We envisage that Gil Vicente will likely create enough chances to get a goal against this Sporting Lisbon team, however it may not quite be enough to avoid a loss.

We’re tipping a narrow 2-1 victory for Sporting Lisbon by the time that the referee blows the final whistle. Let’s just see how this one goes.

Peter Guest, 19:03 04/05/2025