📏 Form Guide

Portimonense

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Portimonense will be hoping to bounce back here following a 1-0 Primeira Liga losing effort in their last game against Estoril.

In that match, Portimonense had 59% possession and 18 attempts at goal with 3 on target. On the other side, Estoril had 9 attempts at goal with 4 on target. Cassiano (53') scored for Estoril.

Portimonense have struggled with their forward play in more recent games. Their sum of goals equals just 1 against opposing sides during the course of their previous six matches. In those games, Portimonense have also seen the tally of goals scored against them come to 12. Regardless, it remains to be seen if the trend shall be sustained here in this match.

Coming into this fixture, Portimonense haven’t won at home in the past 5 matches in the league. Fans are getting restless.

Braga

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Braga will go into the match after a 2-1 Primeira Liga win to defeat Gil Vicente in their previous game.

In that match, Braga managed 61% possession and 20 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. For Braga, goals were scored by Abel Ruiz (39') and Simon Banza (89'). For their opponents, Gil Vicente got 11 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. Ali Alipour (59') was the scorer for Gil Vicente.

In as many as 5 out of the previous 6 games involving Braga, three or more goals have been hit. The overall average number of goals per game in that time is 3, with the number of goals averaged by Braga equalling 2.33.

Coming into this clash, Braga are unbeaten in their last 2 league matches away from home.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at their past head to head meetings going back to 19/05/2021 shows that these encounters have been miserable for Portimonense. They’ve not managed to register any wins whatsoever whereas Braga have been dominant against them, running out winners in 83 per cent of those matches.

An aggregate of 21 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 4 from Portimonense and 17 being from Os Arcebispos. That is an average goals per game value of 3.5.

The last league meeting between these sides was Primeira Liga match day 10 on 04/11/2023 which ended up with the score at Braga 6-1 Portimonense.

That day, Braga managed 62% possession and 21 shots at goal with 10 of them on target. The scorers were Ricardo Horta (47'), Almoatasembellah Al Musrati (52'), Álvaro Djaló (59') and Simon Banza (83', 87', 90').

On the other side, Portimonense had 9 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Pedrão (10') scored.

The referee was Luis Godinho.

🗞️ Team News: Portimonense

The Portimonense boss Paulo Sérgio has a full complement, with no fitness concerns whatsoever before this clash with a fully injury-free group to choose from.

ℹ️ Team News: Braga

Braga manager Artur Jorge has to choose from a squad that has some fitness concerns. Serdar Saatçı (unknown injury) and Ricardo Horta (unknown injury) won’t be making appearances.

✨ Prediction

When taking all factors into account, Portimonense must be fancied to put one past this Braga lineup, although one goal possibly won’t quite be enough to avoid defeat.

We’re therefore tipping both teams to score in a 1-2 advantage for Braga at the end of this one. Hopefully this is a good one.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 19:02 01/04/2024