Portimonense vs Vitória Guimarães Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Portimonense

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Portimonense will be looking for an improved result here following a 1-2 Primeira Liga loss in their previous game against Marítimo.

In that match, Portimonense had 63% possession and 18 shots at goal with 4 on target. The scorer for Portimonense was Fabrício Messias (68'). Marítimo had 17 attempts on goal with 8 on target. Rafik Guitane (45') and Joel Tagueu (91') scored for Marítimo.

Over their prior six fixtures, Paulo Sérgio's Portimonense have found the net 8 times giving them an average number of goals per match of 1.33.

Their past results show that Portimonense:

• have not been beaten in the league by Vitória Guimarães in their last 2 matches.
• haven’t won at home in the past 3 league games.

Vitória Guimarães

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

In that game, Vitória Guimarães had 49% possession and 6 attempts on goal with 3 on target. For Vitória Guimarães, goals were scored by Nélson Luz (78') and Marcus Edwards (86'). At the other end, Gil Vicente had 14 shots on goal with 9 on target. Fran Navarro (20', 53') and Antoine Léautey (74') scored for Gil Vicente.

The stats don’t lie, and Vitória Guimarães have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 10 goals in all. Defensively, Vitória Guimarães have some weaknesses to address.

Heading into this contest, Vitória Guimarães haven’t won away from home in the past 2 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A glance at their past head-to-head meetings dating back to 16/02/2019 shows us that Portimonense have won 2 of these games and Vitória Guimarães 4, with the tally of drawn results standing at 0.

In all, 10 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 4 of them for Portimonense and 6 belonging to Os Vimaranenses. That’s an average goals per game of 1.67.

The last league fixture featuring the two was Primeira Liga match day 1 on 08/08/2021 and the score finished Vitória Guimarães 0-1 Portimonense.

That day, Vitória Guimarães managed 55% possession and 18 attempts at goal with 3 on target.

Portimonense got 7 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target. Beto (86') was the scorer.

The referee was Fábio Melo.

🗞️ Team News: Portimonense

Almost everyone can be considered, as there’s just the sole fitness concern for the Portimonense boss Paulo Sérgio to be concerned with from a near full-strength group of players. Achraf Lazaar (Fibula Fracture) will miss out.

🗞️ Team News: Vitória Guimarães

Vitória Guimarães manager Pepa Marques da Costa has to choose from a squad that has some fitness concerns. Alfa Semedo (Corona virus), Óscar Estupiñán (Corona virus) and Herculano Nabian (Sprain) won’t be making appearances.

💭 Prediction

Our assessment is that Vitória Guimarães and Portimonense could find scoring goals difficult here.

It’s looking like it could well end up as a draw. We’re therefore tipping a close game with a 0-0 score at full-time.

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Victor Martins, 01:03 13/01/2022