Famalicão vs Rio Ave Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Famalicão

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Famalicão will be hoping for a better result following the 4-1 Primeira Liga loss in their previous game against Porto.

In that match, Famalicão had 46% possession and 10 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. The scorer for Famalicão was Rui Fonte (52'). At the other end, Porto got 17 attempts on goal with 9 on target. Galeno (10', 21'), Otávio (42') and Mehdi Taremi (48') scored for Porto.

Over their past six games, João Pedro Sousa's Famalicão have seen rewards for their attempts on goal a total of 8 times which gives them an average number of goals scored per match of 1.33.

Rio Ave

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Following on from tasting defeat last time out to Paços de Ferreira in Primeira Liga competition, Rio Ave and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that match, Rio Ave had 69% possession and 16 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. On the other side, Paços de Ferreira had 5 shots at goal with 2 on target. Nigel Thomas (34') scored for Paços de Ferreira.

The attacking players from Rio Ave have struggled for goals in their past six clashes, contributing the unsatisfactory return of only 3. In those fixtures, Rio Grande have also seen the collective goal aggregate of opposing teams equal 3.

🤜🤛 Head to head

The previous league game between these sides was Primeira Liga match day 20 on 21/02/2021 and the score finished Rio Ave 0-1 Famalicão.

On that occasion, Rio Ave managed 51% possession and 5 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target.

For their opponents, Famalicão got 8 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. Manuel Ugarte (40') was the scorer.

The referee was Hugo Silva.

📋 Team News: Famalicão

There is just the lone fitness concern for the Famalicão boss João Pedro Sousa to be concerned about due to a largely intact group of players. Puma (Ruptured knee ligament) is out of contention.

📋 Team News: Rio Ave

Rio Ave boss Luís Freire has multiple availability issues to deal with. André Pereira (Unknown Injury) and Joca (Knee Injury) won’t be making appearances.

⚡ Prediction

Our thinking is that Rio Ave will need to push hard to find the net against this Famalicão outfit who will likely win and very possibly keep a clean sheet.

We’re therefore expecting a hard-fought 1-0 win for Famalicão at the end of this one.

A close call.

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

Lucas Pereira, 01:41 18/01/2023