Porto vs Sporting Lisbon Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Porto

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Porto will be looking for another win after a 1-2 Primeira Liga success over Casa Pia.

In that game, Porto had 54% possession and 17 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. For Porto, goals were scored by Galeno (31') and Nico González (56'). Casa Pia got 13 shots at goal with 3 on target. Nuno Moreira (37') scored for Casa Pia.

It’s been all too rare in recent times where Porto haven’t conceded. The reality is that Porto have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 8 goals during that time.

Coming into this clash, Porto are without a home win in the past 2 league matches.

Sporting Lisbon

WWWWWW 🎯

Sporting Lisbon come into this clash following a 3-0 Primeira Liga win against Vitória Guimarães in their most recent game.

In that match, Sporting Lisbon had 64% possession and 9 shots on goal with 4 on target. For Sporting Lisbon, the goals were scored by Pedro Gonçalves (30') and Viktor Gyökeres (45', 49'). On the other side, Vitória Guimarães got 6 shots at goal with 1 of them on target.

The attacking players from Sporting Lisbon have helped themselves to an avalanche of goals over their last six encounters (18 in all). That has earned them an enviable average of 3 goals scored per match during this period. We will see if that trend will end up being sustained into this next match.

Analysis of their past results shows that Sporting Lisbon:

• are winless against Porto when they've played them away from home in the last 7 matches in the league. They really have not been travelling well at all.
• are undefeated in their previous 9 league matches away from home. They really have been good on their travels.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their most recent head-to-head meetings dating back to 27/02/2021 tells us that Porto have won 2 of these and Sporting Lisbon 1, with the tally of draws being 3.

A combined total of 14 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 8 of them for Dragões and 6 belonging to Sportinguistas. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.33.

The last league encounter featuring the two was Primeira Liga match day 14 on 18/12/2023 when it ended Sporting Lisbon 2-0 Porto.

On that occasion, Sporting Lisbon had 43% possession and 10 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. Goals were scored by Viktor Gyökeres (11') and Pedro Gonçalves (60').

On the other side, Porto got 6 shots at goal with 2 of them on target.

The referee was Nuno Almeida.

📰 Team News: Porto

Fábio Cardoso (Muscle injury), Diogo Costa (unknown injury), Iván Marcano (Cruciate ligament tear) and Zaidu (Cruciate ligament tear) will not be able to play for Porto manager Sérgio Conceição.

It seems likely that Dragões will probably employ a 4-2-3-1 formation, handing starts to Claudio Ramos, João Mário, Otavio, Pepe, Wendell, Nico González, Alan Varela, Chico Conceição, Pepê, Wenderson Galeno and Mehdi Taremi.

🗞️ Team News: Sporting Lisbon

Thanks to a largely healthy group, there is just a single fitness problem for the Sporting Lisbon gaffer Rúben Amorim to contend with. Antonio Adán (Muscle injury) won’t be in action.

We’re of the thinking that Sportinguistas seem likely to utilise a 3-4-3 formation, going with Franco Israel, Jerry St. Juste, Gonçalo Inácio, Sebastian Coates, Geny Catamo, Morten Hjulmand, Daniel Bragança, Nuno Santos, Francisco Trincão, Viktor Gyokeres and P. Gonçalves Pote.

⚡ Prediction

Sporting Lisbon and Porto are probably both going to find scoring goals difficult here.

There should be little in it, and a draw looks quite a realistic result. With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a very competitive game with a 0-0 draw at the end of this game.

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Victor Martins, 13:11 26/04/2024