Nacional vs Vitória Guimarães Live Stream, Predictions (May 03)

📏 Form Guide

Nacional

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Nacional will play in this fixture following on from a 1-1 Primeira Liga drawn game versus Moreirense.

In that game, Nacional managed 42% possession and 18 attempts at goal with 4 on target. The only player to score for Nacional was Zé Vitor (80'). On the other side, Moreirense got 8 shots on goal with 3 on target. Yan Maranhão (63') scored for Moreirense.

It’s been all too rare in recent games that Nacional have shown defensive steel. In fact, Nacional have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 games, letting in 7 goals on the way.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Nacional:

• haven't lost in the league to Vitória Guimarães in their previous 2 matches.
• are without a win at home for the past 2 league matches.

Vitória Guimarães

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Vitória Guimarães head into the clash following on from a 3-0 Primeira Liga win vs Rio Ave in their last game.

In that match, Vitória Guimarães had 59% possession and 25 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. For Vitória Guimarães, the scorers were João Mendes (31') and Telmo Arcanjo (44'). Rio Ave had 10 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Theofanis Bakoulas (15' Own goal) was the scorer for Rio Ave.

The trend of at least one team drawing a blank in games featuring Vitória Guimarães has been fairly consistent of late. Examining their last 6 games reveals that this has happened 5 times. In those clashes, opposing sides have managed a goal aggregate of 5 while Vitória Guimarães have scored 10. In any event, it remains to be seen if that trend shall be replicated in this match.

Looking at their past form shows that Vitória Guimarães:

• have not emerged victorious against Nacional when having played them away from home in the previous 2 matches in the league.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 5 away league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head duels going back to 31/03/2017, there has been little to separate the clubs with Nacional winning 2 of those games, Vitória Guimarães 2 and 2 being draws in regulation time.

An aggregate of 17 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 8 for Os Alvinegros and 9 being from Os Vimaranenses. That’s an average goals per game of 2.83.

The previous league contest between these clubs was Primeira Liga match day 15 on 23/12/2024 and the score finished Vitória Guimarães 2-2 Nacional.

In that match, Vitória Guimarães managed 59% possession and 16 attempts on goal with 3 on target. The goalscorers were Tiago Silva (24') and Nuno Santos (49').

On the other side, Nacional got 8 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. Isaac (9') and João Aurélio (93') scored.

The match was refereed by João Pinheiro.

📋 Team News: Nacional

There aren’t many personnel worries, with just the sole fitness concern for the Nacional boss Tiago Margarido to be concerned with due to a largely intact set of players. Miguel Baeza (unknown injury) will miss out.

We think that Os Alvinegros will probably line up in a 4-2-3-1 formation this time with Lucas França, Gustavo Garcia, Ulisses, Zé Vítor, Jose Gomes, Djibril Soumaré, Daniel Penha, Fuki Yamada, Luís Esteves, Paulinho Bóia and Joel Tagueu.

📋 Team News: Vitória Guimarães

It’s our belief that Os Vimaranenses appear most likely to make use of a 4-2-3-1 system with a starting lineup of Bruno Varela, Miguel Maga, Toni Borevkovic, Filipe Relvas, João Mendes, Tiago Silva, Tomás Händel, Telmo Arcanjo, João Mendes, Gustavo Silva and Jesús Ramírez.

💭 Prediction

We feel that over the course of the game, Nacional could find themselves struggling to get anything against this Vitória Guimarães side who we think might manage to get a goal of their own in a winning performance.

We therefore fancy a hard-fought contest, finishing with a 0-1 victory for Vitória Guimarães at the end of the match.

Looking forward to this.

Lucas Pereira, 14:03 29/04/2025