📊 Form Guide

Nacional

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Nacional will play in this game coming off the back of a 1-1 Primeira Liga drawn result against 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 go into this match after a 3-0 Primeira Liga win in the defeat of Rio Ave in their previous match.

In that game, Vitória Guimarães managed 59% possession and 25 attempts on goal with 6 on target. For Vitória Guimarães, goals were scored by João Mendes (31') and Telmo Arcanjo (44'). Rio Ave got 10 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. Theofanis Bakoulas (15' Own goal) scored 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

If we look at their past head to head duels dating back to 31/03/2017, it’s been all-even between these two clubs with Nacional winning 2 of those games, Vitória Guimarães 2 and 2 being drawn in normal time.

A sum of 17 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 8 of them from Os Alvinegros and 9 for Os Vimaranenses. That is an average goals per game value of 2.83.

The last league clash featuring these clubs was Primeira Liga match day 15 on 23/12/2024 which ended up with the score at Vitória Guimarães 2-2 Nacional.

On that occasion, Vitória Guimarães had 59% possession and 16 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Goals were scored by Tiago Silva (24') and Nuno Santos (49').

At the other end, Nacional got 8 shots on goal with 2 on target. Isaac (9') and João Aurélio (93') scored.

The match was refereed by João Pinheiro.

📰 Team News: Nacional

Regarding absentees, there’s just the sole fitness concern for the Nacional manager Tiago Margarido to contend with thanks to an otherwise robust set of players. Miguel Baeza (unknown injury) won’t play.

It looks as if Os Alvinegros will possibly line up in a 4-3-3 system featuring Lucas Franca, Gustavo Garcia, Ulisses Rocha, Ze Vitor, Jose Gomes, Daniel Penha, Djibril Soumare, Luis Esteves, Fuki Yamada, Joel Tagueu and Ruben Macedo.

📋 Team News: Vitória Guimarães

We are inclined to think that Os Vimaranenses will likely play in a 4-3-3 system by sending out Bruno Varela, Maga, Toni Borevkovic, Mikel Villanueva, Joao Mendes, Joao Mendes, Tiago Silva, Tomas Handel, Telmo Arcanjo, Jesus Ramirez and Gustavo Silva.

💡 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, 14:05 03/05/2025