Penafiel vs Leixões Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Penafiel

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Penafiel, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following the 1-2 LigaPro triumph versus Académico Viseu.

In that game, Penafiel managed 46% possession and 9 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. The only player to score for Penafiel was Edi Semedo (72'). Académico Viseu got 6 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target.

Their latest results reveal that much solidity has been shown by the Penafiel backline. Penafiel have been miserly, resulting in the number of goals that have gone past their goalkeeper over the course of their past six outings standing at 4.

Leixões

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Following on from being beaten in their last game against Casa Pia in LigaPro action, Leixões and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

Zach Muscat (10') and João Vieira (12') scored for Casa Pia.

In the course of their six latest matches, Manuel Cajuda's Leixões have turned their attacks into goals a total of 6 times, giving them the goals per game average of 1.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of their prior head-to-head clashes dating back to 19/05/2019 shows us that Penafiel have won 3 of these & Leixões 2, with the number of draws being 1.

A combined sum of 8 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 4 of them from Rubro-Negros and 4 belonging to Leixoes. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 1.33.

The previous league game featuring these clubs was LigaPro match day 28 on 01/04/2022 which finished with the scoreline of Leixões 0-1 Penafiel.

📰 Team News: Penafiel

The Penafiel manager Miguel Leal will be grateful to have no fitness concerns to speak of coming into this match thanks to a fully injury-free squad available for selection.

🗞️ Team News: Leixões

Due to a completely healthy squad to choose from, the Leixões manager Manuel Cajuda does not have any fitness concerns at all before this game.

💭 Prediction

Our assessment here is that Leixões will have a tough ask to break down this Penafiel outfit who we reckon should manage to score & go ahead.

We’re therefore tipping a very even match with a 1-0 winning margin for Penafiel at full-time.

There should be little in it.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 16:51 05/08/2022