📏 Form Guide

Vitória Guimarães

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Vitória Guimarães will be hoping for a better result following a 0-3 Primeira Liga loss in their previous game against Benfica.

In that match, Vitória Guimarães managed 58% possession and 16 shots on goal with 6 on target. Benfica had 8 attempts at goal with 7 of them 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 last game, Rio Ave drew 1-1 in the Primeira Liga match with Santa Clara.

In that match, Rio Ave managed 49% possession and 8 shots on goal with 3 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Rio Ave was André Luiz (25'). Santa Clara had 17 attempts 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

Checking out their prior head to head duels dating back to 13/02/2021, there is nothing to separate the two clubs with Vitória Guimarães winning 2 of those games, Rio Ave 2 and 2 being draws in regulation time.

A sum of 13 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 6 for Os Vimaranenses and 7 for Rio Grande . The average number of goals per game works out to 2.17.

The last league contest featuring the two 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 goalscorers were Clayton (6') and Fábio Ronaldo (39').

For their opponents, Vitória Guimarães had 16 shots on goal with 5 on target. Óscar Rivas (51') and Gustavo Silva (58') scored.

The referee was António Nobre.

🗞️ Team News: Vitória Guimarães

We are thinking that Os Vimaranenses may well use a 4-2-3-1 formation for the game, handing starts to Bruno Varela, Maga, Mikel Villanueva, Filipe Relvas, Joao Mendes, Tiago Silva, Tomas Handel, Telmo Arcanjo, Joao Mendes, Gustavo Silva and Jesus Ramirez.

ℹ️ Team News: Rio Ave

From our viewpoint, Rio Grande seem most likely to utilise a 4-1-4-1 formation by sending out Cezary Miszta, Joao Tome, K. Kostoulas, A. Ntoi, Nelson Abbey, Demir Tiknaz, Andre Luiz, Joao Novais, Brandon Aguilera, Joao Graca and Clayton.

🔮 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, 16:03 27/04/2025