📊 Form Guide

Nacional

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Nacional will want to continue from where they left off last time out with the 0-1 Primeira Liga success over Boavista.

In that game, Nacional had 49% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Nacional was Joel Tagueu (16'). At the other end, Boavista had 21 shots at goal with 8 of them on target.

It’s not been often in recent times where Nacional have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. It will be a concern for them that Nacional have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, letting in 7 goals on the way.

Ahead of this meeting, Nacional have not emerged victorious against Gil Vicente in their last 2 matches in the league.

Gil Vicente

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Following on from a loss in their previous game against Vitória Guimarães in Primeira Liga action, Gil Vicente will be aiming to make amends here.

Gustavo Silva (77') was the scorer for Vitória Guimarães.

The strike force from Gil Vicente have failed to get amongst the goals over their previous 6 clashes, recording the disappointing return of just 4. In those fixtures, Gilistas have also seen the overall goal tally against them equal 8. Nevertheless, we will just have to wait and see whether such a trend will be sustained in this game.

Taking a look at their past results, Gil Vicente:

• haven't beaten Nacional when they have played them away from home in the previous 4 league games. Not good at all.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 2 away league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head duels dating back to 12/04/2015, it’s been all-even between these two clubs with Nacional winning 2 of those games, Gil Vicente 2 and 2 being drawn in regulation time.

A sum of 15 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 7 of them for Os Alvinegros and 8 being from Gilistas. That’s an average goals per game of 2.5.

The previous league clash between the two was Primeira Liga match day 13 on 07/12/2024 and the score finished Gil Vicente 2-1 Nacional.

That time, Gil Vicente had 56% possession and 17 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. The goals were scored by Santi García (7') and Rúben Fernandes (97').

At the other end, Nacional got 19 shots at goal with 6 on target. Ulisses (50') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Pedro Ramalho.

📋 Team News: Nacional

Nearly everyone is up for selection, with just one fitness concern for the Nacional manager Tiago Margarido to be concerned about from of an almost fully healthy squad. Miguel Baeza (unknown injury) is sidelined.

In all likelihood, Os Alvinegros will possibly go for a 4-2-3-1 formation for the game with Lucas Franca, Gustavo Garcia, Ulisses Rocha, Ze Vitor, Jose Gomes, Daniel Penha, Djibril Soumare, Fuki Yamada, Luis Esteves, Paulinho Boia and Joel Tagueu.

📰 Team News: Gil Vicente

Thanks to a largely healthy group, there’s just the lone fitness worry for the Gil Vicente boss César Peixoto to contend with. Yaya Sithole (Tibia and fibula fracture) won’t be playing here.

There’s a good chance that Gilistas will likely make use of a 4-2-3-1 lineup, starting the game with Andrew, Ze Carlos, Ruben Fernandes, Jonathan Buatu, Jonathan Mutombo, Facundo Caseres, Mohamed Bamba, Tidjany Toure, Kanya Fujimoto, Felix Correia and Jorge Aguirre.

💭 Prediction

Our feeling is that Gil Vicente will need to put in a solid display to be putting a goal past this Nacional team who we think should score at least once to gain the upper hand.

Our tip is therefore for a good battle with a 1-0 advantage for Nacional at the end of the 90 minutes.

Peter Guest, 14:10 19/04/2025