Mafra vs Oliveirense Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Mafra

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Mafra are hoping to win again following the 1-0 LigaPro success against Trofense.

It’s been seldom in recent games that Mafra have kept a clean sheet. The reality is that Mafra have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 11 goals during that time.

Oliveirense

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Oliveirense will go into the clash following a 1-2 LigaPro win to defeat Leixões in their most recent outing.

In that match, Oliveirense had 55% possession and 11 shots on goal with 5 on target. Leixões had 14 shots on goal with 2 on target.

The stats tell the story, and Oliveirense have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, conceding 5 goals overall. At the back, Oliveirense have some weaknesses to address. It will be interesting to find out if that trend will end up being sustained here.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at their past head-to-head meetings going back to 01/09/2018 tells us that Mafra have won 1 of these games and Oliveirense 2, with the number of draws being 3.

A combined total of 19 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 9 of them from Mafra and 10 belonging to Unionistas. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.17.

The previous league meeting between these sides was LigaPro match day 1 on 06/08/2022 when the final score was Oliveirense 3-1 Mafra.

📋 Team News: Mafra

The Mafra manager has zero fitness concerns whatsoever coming into this game with a fully injury-free squad available for selection.

ℹ️ Team News: Oliveirense

Thanks to a fully injury-free group available for selection, the Oliveirense boss Pedro Miguel doesn’t have any fitness worries at all coming into this game.

🧠 Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Oliveirense will likely be able to break down this Mafra team, although that isn’t expected to be as many as they will have scored against them.

We reckon that it will be a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 advantage for Mafra at the end of this one. We’ll have to see what happens.

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

Lucas Pereira, 01:42 25/01/2023