Rio Ave vs Gil Vicente Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Rio Ave

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Rio Ave will be looking to improve on their last outing here following a 2-0 Primeira Liga loss in their previous game against Braga.

In that match, Rio Ave managed 36% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 4 on target. SC Braga had 21 attempts at goal with 11 on target. Bruma (36') and Simon Banza (79') scored for Braga.

Rio Ave have struggled with their forward play in more recent games. Their goals record equals just 4 versus opposition teams over the course of their last 6 outings. In those meetings, Rio Ave have also seen the number of goals against them total 7.

Their prior results show that Rio Ave:

• haven't won against Gil Vicente in their previous 4 matches in the league.
• are unbeaten in their previous 2 league matches at home.

Gil Vicente

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Gil Vicente will come into the clash following on from a 2-0 Primeira Liga win to defeat Marítimo in their most recent fixture.

In that game, Gil Vicente managed 46% possession and 11 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. For Gil Vicente, the goals were scored by Pedro Tiba (23') and Tomás Araújo (82'). Marítimo got 19 shots at goal with 6 of them on target.

In their last six clashes, Gil Vicente have helped themselves to a total of 8 goals. Gil Vicente have additionally got on the scoresheet in every single one of those games. In that time, they’ve seen 5 goals go against them. We shall soon find out whether or not that trend will be sustained into this next match.

Ahead of this clash, Gil Vicente are unbeaten in their previous 2 league matches away from home.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A review of their past head to head meetings going back to 19/04/2015 shows us that Rio Ave have won 1 of these & Gil Vicente 3, with the tally of draws being 2.

A combined sum of 10 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 3 from Rio Grande and 7 created by Gilistas. The average goals per game has been 1.67.

The previous league encounter featuring these clubs was Primeira Liga match day 7 on 17/09/2022 and the score finished Gil Vicente 2-2 Rio Ave.

That day, Gil Vicente managed 63% possession and 18 shots at goal with 7 on target. The goalscorers were Fran Navarro (80') and Murilo Souza (95').

At the other end, Rio Ave got 8 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Guga (45') and Abdul-Aziz Yakubu (71') scored.

The referee was João António Gonçalves.

ℹ️ Team News: Rio Ave

Regarding absentees, there’s just the sole fitness concern for the Rio Ave boss Luís Freire to be concerned about from an otherwise fully-primed group. Joca (Knee Injury) misses out.

It looks as if Rio Grande could opt for a 3-4-2-1 system featuring Jhonatan, Patrick William, Aderllan Santos, Josue Sa, Costinha, Andreas Samaris, G. Rodrigues Guga, Fábio Ronaldo, Miguel Baeza, Emmanuel Boateng and André Pereira.

📰 Team News: Gil Vicente

Gil Vicente manager Daniel Sousa has multiple availability issues to deal with. Stanislav Kritsyuk (Unknown Injury) and Ali Alipour (Unknown Injury) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.

We are inclined to think that Gilistas seem likely to utilise a 4-2-3-1 formation, choosing Andrew, Carraça, Tomas Araújo, Rúben Fernandes, Adrian Marin, Pedro Tiba, Vitor Carvalho, M. de Souza, Kanya Fujimoto, Juan Manuel Boselli and Fran Navarro.

🔮 Prediction

In our view, Gil Vicente could well find it tough to see themselves scoring against this Rio Ave team who we think will end up scoring and possibly keep a clean sheet as well.

That’s why we have predicted a narrow 1-0 winning margin for Rio Ave when the referee blows for full-time.

Looking forward to this.

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Andre Moura, 02:49 08/03/2023