📏 Form Guide

Vitória Guimarães

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Vitória Guimarães are hoping to win again after their last result, the 1-2 Primeira Liga victory versus Chaves.

In that match, Vitória Guimarães managed 47% possession and 18 attempts at goal with 6 on target. For Vitória Guimarães, the goals were scored by Jota Silva (20') and Tiago Silva (62'). Chaves got 7 shots on goal with 3 on target. Héctor Hernández (23') was the scorer for Chaves.

It has been a rare occasion in recent times that Vitória Guimarães have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. In fact, Vitória Guimarães have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 7 goals along the way. Such a trend might not be carried forward into this match, though.

Moreirense

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Moreirense will go into the meeting following a 1-0 Primeira Liga win with the downing of Arouca in their previous fixture.

In that game, Moreirense managed 39% possession and 12 shots on goal with 3 on target. The scorer for Moreirense was Hernâni Infande (10'). On the other side, Arouca had 9 attempts on goal with 2 on target.

The attacking players from Moreirense have suffered from a shortage of goals in their past six games, recording the unsatisfactory return of just 3. In those fixtures, Os verdes e brancos have also seen the collective goal tally against them equal 3.

👥 Head to head

Checking on their prior head-to-head clashes stretching back to 19/06/2020 shows us that Vitória Guimarães have won 3 of them and Moreirense 1, with the number of draws being 2.

A combined total of 13 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 8 of them for Os Vimaranenses and 5 for Os verdes e brancos. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.17.

The previous league fixture featuring these sides was Primeira Liga match day 10 on 05/11/2023 which ended up with the score at Moreirense 1-0 Vitória Guimarães.

In that game, Moreirense managed 43% possession and 10 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player to score was André Luís (76').

Vitória Guimarães got 17 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target.

The referee was Gustavo Correia.

📰 Team News: Vitória Guimarães

Telmo Arcanjo (Cruciate ligament tear) and Mikel Villanueva (unknown injury) won’t be playing for Vitória Guimarães boss Álvaro Pacheco.

It looks as if Os Vimaranenses will possibly make use of the 3-4-3 formation in the match featuring Charles, Manu Silva, Toni Borevkovic, Tomas Ribeiro, Bruno Gaspar, Tiago Silva, Tomas Handel, Ricardo Mangas, Jota Silva, Nelson Oliveira and Joao Mendes.

📰 Team News: Moreirense

Moreirense manager Rui Borges has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Alhassane Sylla (unknown injury) and Fabiano (unknown injury) are not able to play.

From our viewpoint, Os verdes e brancos seem likely to play in a 4-2-3-1 system using Kewin, Fabiano Silva, Maracas, Carlos Ponck, Godfried Frimpong, Lawrence Ofori, Goncalo Franco, Joao Camacho, Alan, Kobamelo Kodisang and Vinicius Alessandro.

💭 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Moreirense must be fancied to score a goal against this Vitória Guimarães outfit, however that probably won’t be enough to avoid a loss.

We think that it’s going to be a narrow 2-1 victory for Vitória Guimarães by the time that the referee blows the final whistle. Should be a good one.

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

Peter Guest, 15:04 30/03/2024