📊 Form Guide

Porto

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Porto, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 1-2 Primeira Liga success over Casa Pia.

In that match, Porto managed 54% possession and 17 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. For Porto, the scorers were Galeno (31') and Nico González (56'). For their opponents, Casa Pia had 13 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Nuno Moreira (37') scored for Casa Pia.

It’s been all too rare in recent times where Porto haven’t conceded. The reality is that Porto have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 8 goals during that time.

Coming into this clash, Porto are without a home win in the past 2 league matches.

Sporting Lisbon

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Sporting Lisbon head into the encounter following a 3-0 Primeira Liga win vs Vitória Guimarães in their most recent match.

In that match, Sporting Lisbon had 64% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 4 on target. For Sporting Lisbon, goals were scored by Pedro Gonçalves (30') and Viktor Gyökeres (45', 49'). For their opponents, Vitória Guimarães got 6 shots at goal with 1 on target.

The attacking players from Sporting Lisbon have helped themselves to an avalanche of goals over their last six encounters (18 in all). That has earned them an enviable average of 3 goals scored per match during this period. We will see if that trend will end up being sustained into this next match.

Analysis of their past results shows that Sporting Lisbon:

• are winless against Porto when they've played them away from home in the last 7 matches in the league. They really have not been travelling well at all.
• are undefeated in their previous 9 league matches away from home. They really have been good on their travels.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at their past head to head meetings stretching back to 27/02/2021 shows us that Porto have won 2 of them and Sporting Lisbon 1, with the tally of drawn games standing at 3.

In all, 14 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 8 of them for Dragões and 6 created by Sportinguistas. That’s an average goals per game of 2.33.

The previous league encounter featuring the two was Primeira Liga match day 14 on 18/12/2023 and the score finished Sporting Lisbon 2-0 Porto.

That time, Sporting Lisbon had 43% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Goals were scored by Viktor Gyökeres (11') and Pedro Gonçalves (60').

On the other side, Porto got 6 attempts at goal with 2 on target.

The referee was Nuno Almeida.

ℹ️ Team News: Porto

Fábio Cardoso (Muscle injury), Iván Marcano (Cruciate ligament tear) and Zaidu (Cruciate ligament tear) won’t be available for Porto gaffer Sérgio Conceição.

We are thinking that Dragões could line up in a 4-2-3-1 formation this time, beginning the first half with Diogo Costa, Martim Fernandes, Ze Pedro, Otavio, Wendell, Alan Varela, Nico Gonzalez, Chico Conceicao, Pepe, Wenderson Galeno and Evanilson.

🗞️ Team News: Sporting Lisbon

In an otherwise healthy group, there is only the lone fitness problem for the Sporting Lisbon gaffer Rúben Amorim to contend with. Antonio Adán (Muscle injury) won’t be playing here.

We reckon that Sportinguistas appear most likely to make use of a 3-4-3 lineup using Franco Israel, Jerry St. Juste, Sebastian Coates, Ousmane Diomande, Geny Catamo, Morten Hjulmand, Daniel Braganca, Goncalo Inacio, Trincao, Paulinho and Pedro Goncalves.

💡 Prediction

Sporting Lisbon and Porto are probably both going to find scoring goals difficult here.

There should be little in it, and a draw looks quite a realistic result. With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a very competitive game with a 0-0 draw at the end of this game.

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Victor Martins, 19:01 28/04/2024