📏 Form Guide

Vitória Guimarães

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Vitória Guimarães head into this match coming off the back of a 2-2 Primeira Liga tied result versus Moreirense.

In that match, Vitória Guimarães managed 60% possession and 11 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. The only player to score for Vitória Guimarães was Telmo Arcanjo (37', 51'). Moreirense got 11 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Schettine (31') and Benny (77') scored for Moreirense.

Over their last six fixtures, Luís Freire's Vitória Guimarães have seen rewards for their attempts on goal a total of 9 times giving them an average number of goals scored per match of 1.5.

Going into this contest, Vitória Guimarães are undefeated in their previous 10 league matches at home. A very good run at home.

Santa Clara

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Santa Clara will go into this clash after a 1-0 Primeira Liga win vs Nacional in their last fixture.

In that match, Santa Clara had 37% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. The scorer for Santa Clara was João Costa (3'). Nacional had 9 shots at goal with 4 on target.

Clashes with Santa Clara have, in the main, been somewhat laboured ones latterly with a void of goals being a real hallmark. During their past 6 games, the measly gross goal total of 6 has been yielded between them as well as opposing sides at an average goals per match of 1. We will have to see if that trend will be sustained into this next match.

👥 Head to head

A review of their prior head to head clashes dating back to 17/04/2021 shows that Vitória Guimarães have won 3 of them and Santa Clara 2, with the tally of drawn games being 1.

An aggregate of 10 goals were produced between them in these games, with 6 for Os Vimaranenses and 4 created by Os Açoreanos. That is an average goals per game value of 1.67.

The previous league game featuring these sides was Primeira Liga match day 11 on 10/11/2024 when it finished Santa Clara 1-0 Vitória Guimarães.

On that day, Santa Clara had 37% possession and 21 attempts at goal with 7 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Ricardinho (80').

For their opponents, Vitória Guimarães got 5 shots on goal with 2 on target.

The referee was Gustavo Correia.

ℹ️ Team News: Vitória Guimarães

Regarding absentees, there’s just one fitness concern for the Vitória Guimarães boss Luís Freire to be concerned about from an otherwise fully-primed group. Gustavo Silva (Muscle injury) misses out.

It looks as if Os Vimaranenses could use the 4-2-3-1 formation for the game, beginning the first half with Bruno Varela, Hevertton Santos, Mikel Villanueva, Toni Borevkovic, Maga, Tomas Handel, Tiago Silva, Telmo Arcanjo, Joao Mendes, Nuno Santos and Nelson Oliveira.

🗞️ Team News: Santa Clara

Santa Clara boss Vasco Matos has a number of players out of action. Wendel Silva (Injury to the ankle) and Pedro Pacheco (Knee injury) will not be playing here.

There’s a good chance that Os Açoreanos seem likely to elect for a 3-4-3 lineup, giving starts to Gabriel Batista, Frederico Venancio, Luis Rocha, Matheus Nunes, Lucas Soares, Adriano, Pedro Ferreira, Matheus Pereira, Ricardinho, Joao Costa and Gabriel Silva.

🔮 Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Santa Clara will surely be able to get a goal against this Vitória Guimarães lineup, but it isn’t expected to be as many as they’ll concede.

We’re going for a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 winning margin for Vitória Guimarães at the end of this one. Should be an interesting one.

Lucas Pereira, 19:04 05/04/2025