Estoril vs Vizela Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Estoril

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Estoril will be hoping for a better result following the 5-3 Primeira Liga losing effort in their last game against Gil Vicente.

In that game, Estoril had 53% possession and 23 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. For Estoril, goals were scored by Cassiano (51', 84') and João Marques (61'). At the other end, Gil Vicente got 13 attempts on goal with 7 on target. Pedro Tiba (9'), Maxime Dominguez (39'), Murilo (45'), Felix Correia (54') and Depú (56') scored for Gil Vicente.

Fixtures involving Estoril have tended to be exciting ones of late with high scoring being a common characteristic. Over their past six games, the sum total of 27 goals have been recorded for both sides combined (at an average of 4.5 goals per game) with 13 of them belonging to Estoril. Such a pattern might not be continued into this next game, of course.

Vizela

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Following on from a losing effort in their last game against Benfica in Primeira Liga competition, Vizela and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that match, Vizela had 30% possession and 13 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. The only player to score for Vizela was Samu (70'). On the other side, Benfica got 18 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. Petar Musa (9') and Ángel Di María (39') scored for Benfica.

The stats tell the story, and Vizela have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 11 goals in total. In defence, Vizela can certainly do much better.

Going into this one, Vizela are without an away win for the past 5 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at their prior head to head clashes going back to 29/11/2020 shows us that Estoril have won 1 of these & Vizela 2, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 3.

A combined total of 15 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 6 of them for Canarinhos and 9 created by Vizela. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.5.

The previous league fixture between these clubs was Primeira Liga match day 23 on 04/03/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Estoril 0-3 Vizela.

That time, Estoril had 53% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Joãozinho (41' Own goal).

At the other end, Vizela got 6 shots on goal with 3 on target. Milutin Osmajić (15') and Tomas Silva (83') scored.

The match was refereed by Cláudio Pereira.

🗞️ Team News: Estoril

The Estoril boss Álvaro Pacheco will be grateful not to have any fitness concerns to speak of ahead of this clash with a completely injury-free group to pick from.

It seems likely that Canarinhos could employ a 3-4-3 system for this one, handing starts to Marcelo Carne, Erick Cabaco, Bernardo Vital, Pedro Alvaro, Mateus Fernandes, Joao Marques, Jordan Holsgrove, Tiago Araujo, Rafik Guitane, Cassiano and Rodrigo Gomes.

ℹ️ Team News: Vizela

With a completely injury-free squad to choose from, the Vizela manager Pablo Villar does not have any fitness worries to report ahead of this match.

We are inclined to think that Vizela will likely play in a 4-2-3-1 formation by sending out Fabijan Buntic, Tomas Silva, Bruno Wilson, Anderson, Matheus Pereira, Samu, Aleksandar Busnic, Alberto Soro, Nuno Moreira, Matias Lacava and Samuel Essende.

🔮 Prediction

Looking at these two, we feel that Vizela and Estoril could both end up scoring in what appears to be a good match-up, with little separating these two teams.

A draw is a real possibility, as we are expecting there to be little between them. We’re therefore expecting a tight encounter with a 1-1 score draw at full-time.

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Lucas Pereira, 01:02 19/09/2023