📏 Form Guide

Penafiel

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Penafiel, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 0-2 LigaPro victory versus União Leiria.

The only player to score from Penafiel was Gabriel Barbosa (24', 61').

Over their preceding 6 games, Miguel Leal's Penafiel have netted 8 times giving them an average number of goals per match equal to 1.33.

Taking a look at their past results, Penafiel:

• have left without a victory over Marítimo in their last 3 matches in the league.
• have not been beaten in their last 2 league matches at home.

Marítimo

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Marítimo will go into the clash after a 3-2 LigaPro win against Feirense in their last match.

For Marítimo, the goalscorers were Preslav Borukov (68'), Rodrigo Borges (71') and Bernardo Gomes (90'). Henrique Jocú (37') and Olamide Shodipo (57') scored for Feirense.

A tendency of at least one team drawing a blank in games involving Marítimo has become fairly consistent of late. A glance at their last 6 games reveals that it’s occurred 5 times. In these clashes, their opponents have hit a goal aggregate of 2 while Marítimo have scored 7. That aside, we must now wait to see if such a trend will be sustained in this match.

Ahead of this clash, Marítimo haven't been defeated in their previous 5 away league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A look at their most recent head to head clashes going back to 30/01/2005 shows that Penafiel have won 1 of them and Marítimo 3, with the tally of drawn matches being 2.

A combined total of 19 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 8 for Rubro-Negros and 11 being from Os Verde-Rubros. The average goals per game has been 3.17.

The previous league meeting between these clubs was LigaPro match day 15 on 23/12/2023 when the final score was Marítimo 0-0 Penafiel.

In that game, Marítimo had 63% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target.

For their opponents, Penafiel got 3 attempts on goal with 1 on target.

📰 Team News: Penafiel

The Penafiel manager Miguel Leal will be thankful to have no fitness concerns to speak of ahead of this game thanks to a completely injury-free squad to choose from.

📰 Team News: Marítimo

Thanks to a largely available group of players, there’s only a single fitness worry for the Marítimo gaffer to contend with. Igor Julião (Hamstring injury) misses out for this game.

💡 Prediction

When taking everything into account, Penafiel will need to push hard to find the net against this Marítimo outfit who we reckon should manage to get a goal of their own in a winning performance.

Our tip is therefore for a very competitive game with a 0-1 victory for Marítimo at the end of the match.

Should be a close one.

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

Victor Martins, 09:06 05/05/2024