Portimonense vs Moreirense Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Portimonense

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Portimonense enter this fixture after a 2-2 Primeira Liga drawn match vs Famalicão.

In that match, Portimonense managed 51% possession and 16 attempts on goal with 6 on target. For Portimonense, the scorers were Alemão (7') and Carlinhos (77'). For their opponents, Famalicão got 18 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Jhonder Cádiz (60', 63') was the scorer for Famalicão.

It has not been often in recent games that Portimonense haven’t conceded. The facts show that Portimonense have been scored against in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 15 goals on the way.

Ahead of this clash, Portimonense haven’t won at home in the past 7 league matches. Their supporters are understandably frustrated.

Moreirense

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After being defeated in their last game at the hands of Gil Vicente in Primeira Liga competition, Moreirense will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that game, Moreirense managed 70% possession and 16 attempts on goal with 4 on target. For their opponents, Gil Vicente got 4 attempts on goal with 2 on target. Mory Gbane (38') was the scorer for Gil Vicente.

The trend of at least one team drawing a blank in games involving Moreirense has become apparent in recent matches. A glance at their last six meetings reveals that this has happened 5 times. During these clashes, opposing sides have hit a goal tally of 8 and Moreirense have scored 3. That kind of pattern might not be sustained into this game, though.

Coming into this contest, Moreirense are without a win away from home in their last 3 league games.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head meetings dating back to 15/02/2020, it’s been all-even between these two clubs with Portimonense winning 2 of those games, Moreirense 2 and 2 being drawn in normal time.

A combined sum of 18 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 8 of them for Portimonense and 10 for Os verdes e brancos. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.

The previous league fixture featuring these sides was Primeira Liga match day 14 on 17/12/2023 which ended up with the score at Moreirense 5-2 Portimonense.

In that match, Moreirense had 50% possession and 16 shots on goal with 5 on target. The goalscorers were Maracás (23'), Madson (25'), André Luís (84'), Kobamelo Kodisang (89') and Matheus Aiás (92').

Portimonense got 10 shots on goal with 3 on target. Sylvester Jasper (40') and Filipe Relvas (74') scored.

The match was refereed by André Narciso.

🗞️ Team News: Portimonense

The Portimonense boss Paulo Sérgio doesn’t have any fitness worries to speak of ahead of this game owing to a fully injury-free squad ready to go.

We are thinking that Portimonense may well opt for a 4-3-3 system for the game, beginning the first half with Kosuke Nakamura, G. Moura de, Pedrão, Alemao, Filipe Relvas, Taichi Fukui, Carlinhos, Lucas Ventura, Midana Cassama, T. Ulisses Folgado and Hélio Varela.

📰 Team News: Moreirense

We reckon that Os verdes e brancos could decide to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 system, going with Kewin, Fabiano, Carlos Ponck, Maracás, Godfried Frimpong, Lawrence Ofori, Gonçalo Franco, Joao Camacho, Alanzinho, Kobamelo Kodisang and Vinicius Mingotti.

🧠 Prediction

We feel that Moreirense and Portimonense could both end up scoring in a what should be a good tussle with little between the two teams.

Let’s see what happens, but it could well be that we end up with scores level. We therefore think that it’s going to be a very close game with a 1-1 score draw at the end of the match.

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Peter Guest, 10:02 25/04/2024