Vitória Guimarães vs Rio Ave Live Stream, Predictions (Apr 27)

📊 Form Guide

Vitória Guimarães

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Vitória Guimarães will be looking to improve on their last outing here after the 0-3 Primeira Liga defeat last time out to Benfica.

In that game, Vitória Guimarães managed 58% possession and 16 attempts on goal with 6 on target. Benfica had 8 attempts at goal with 7 on target. Vangelis Pavlidis (21', 84') and Álvaro Carreras (77') scored for Benfica.

An interesting theme in more recent Vitória Guimarães games is seeing a zero in the scoreline.

From their previous sextet of clashes leading up to this one, in as many as 5 of them a bet on BTTS would have been a losing one. Nonetheless, we will just have to wait and see if the trend will be sustained in this next match.

Coming into this meeting, Vitória Guimarães haven't won against Rio Ave in their last 2 league matches.

Rio Ave

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In their previous fixture, Rio Ave drew 1-1 in the Primeira Liga match with Santa Clara.

In that game, Rio Ave managed 49% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. The scorer for Rio Ave was André Luiz (25'). For their opponents, Santa Clara got 17 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. Sidney Lima (84') scored for Santa Clara.

Looking at their form, and Rio Ave have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, letting opponents get 9 goals in total. At the back, Rio Ave have not been doing too well.

Ahead of this meeting, Rio Ave have not beaten Vitória Guimarães when they have played them away from home in the previous 2 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head duels going back to 13/02/2021, both clubs have shared the honours with Vitória Guimarães winning 2 of those games, Rio Ave 2 and 2 being drawn in regulation time.

An aggregate of 13 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 6 of them from Os Vimaranenses and 7 coming from Rio Grande . That is an average goals per game value of 2.17.

The last league encounter featuring these clubs was Primeira Liga match day 14 on 16/12/2024 when the final score was Rio Ave 2-2 Vitória Guimarães.

That time, Rio Ave had 37% possession and 5 shots on goal with 4 on target. The scorers were Clayton (6') and Fábio Ronaldo (39').

At the other end, Vitória Guimarães got 16 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Óscar Rivas (51') and Gustavo Silva (58') scored.

The referee was António Nobre.

🧠 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Vitória Guimarães look likely to get amongst the goals against Rio Ave, who may well find it hard to get a goal of their own.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a controlled 2-0 win for Vitória Guimarães after 90 minutes.

Andre Moura, 07:07 24/04/2025