📏 Form Guide

Vitória Guimarães

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Vitória Guimarães, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 1-2 Primeira Liga victory against Porto.

In that game, Vitória Guimarães managed 29% possession and 4 shots on goal with 2 on target. The scorer for Vitória Guimarães was Jota Silva (33'). For their opponents, Porto got 15 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Galeno (12' Own goal, 44') scored for Porto.

Over their preceding six games, Álvaro Pacheco's Vitória Guimarães have seen rewards for their attempts on goal a total of 9 times resulting in an average number of goals scored per match equal to 1.5.

Farense

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Farense come into this encounter following a 2-0 Primeira Liga win with the downing of Boavista in their most recent outing.

In that game, Farense managed 44% possession and 16 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. For Farense, goals were scored by Cláudio Falcão (28') and Bruno Duarte (39'). Boavista got 17 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target.

Looking at their form, and Farense have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 9 goals in total. In defence, Farense have not been doing too well.

Coming into this meeting, Farense have not won away from home in their last 5 league games.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their past head to head results going back to 27/05/2001 reveals that these fixtures have ended in disappointment for Farense. They have not managed to get any wins at all whereas Vitória Guimarães have just been too good for them, winning in 67% of those match-ups.

A combined total of 17 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 11 of them from Os Vimaranenses and 6 for Farense. That’s an average goals per game of 2.83.

The last league clash between these sides was Primeira Liga match day 12 on 02/12/2023 which ended up with the score at Farense 1-2 Vitória Guimarães.

That time, Farense managed 55% possession and 5 attempts on goal with 4 on target. The scorer was Bruno Duarte (57').

On the other side, Vitória Guimarães had 16 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. Tomás Ribeiro (3') and Jota Silva (87') scored.

The referee was Manuel Oliveira.

📋 Team News: Vitória Guimarães

Mikel Villanueva (unknown injury) and Telmo Arcanjo (Cruciate ligament tear) are unavailable for Vitória Guimarães boss Álvaro Pacheco.

It’s our opinion that Os Vimaranenses should line up in a 3-5-2 formation for the game and select Bruno Varela, Tomas Ribeiro, Toni Borevkovic, Jorge Fernandes, Bruno Gaspar, Tomas Handel, Joao Mendes, Tiago Silva, Afonso Freitas, Jota Silva and Kaio.

ℹ️ Team News: Farense

With a completely healthy group ready to go, the Farense boss José Mota has no fitness worries to speak of ahead of this game.

We believe Farense could decide to make use of a 4-2-3-1 formation, starting the game with Ricardo Velho, Pastor, Goncalo Silva, Igor Rossi, Talys Oliveira, Facundo Caseres, Claudio Falcao, Mohamed Belloumi, Rafael Barbosa, Marco Matias and Bruno Duarte.

✨ Prediction

We’re thinking that Vitória Guimarães certainly have the ability to score more than once when they face Farense, who could well find it tough to break down their defence.

We reckon that it will be a pretty comfortable 2-0 victory for Vitória Guimarães at full-time.

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

Lucas Pereira, 14:08 13/04/2024