📏 Form Guide

Santa Clara

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Santa Clara will be hoping to return to winning ways here following the 2-0 Primeira Liga losing effort in their last game against Nacional.

In that game, Santa Clara managed 66% possession and 22 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. On the other side, Nacional got 8 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. Isaac (9') and Rúben Macedo (13') scored for Nacional.

Vasco Matos's Santa Clara have netted 5 times over their past six outings. At the other end, the number of goals that have been scored against them in that time amounts to 8.

A look at their previous results shows us that Santa Clara:

• haven't beaten Vitória Guimarães in their last 3 league matches.
• are undefeated in their last 4 league matches at home.

Vitória Guimarães

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Vitória Guimarães will go into the match following on from a 2-1 Conference League win as they beat Mladá Boleslav in their previous match.

Over the course of their last half-dozen clashes, Vitória Guimarães have amassed a total of 12 goals. Vitória Guimarães have also managed to score in every single one of those games. Over that period, they have seen 7 goals scored by their opponents. Such a pattern isn’t assured to be sustained into this next game, though.

Taking a look at their past results, Vitória Guimarães:

• haven't been defeated in their previous 3 away league matches.
• are without an away win for the past 2 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their prior head to head clashes going back to 21/12/2020 shows us that Santa Clara have won 1 of these & Vitória Guimarães 4, with the tally of drawn games being 1.

13 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 3 of them from Os Açoreanos and 10 being from Os Vimaranenses. That is an average goals per game value of 2.17.

The last league clash between the two was Primeira Liga match day 23 on 05/03/2023 which ended up with the score at Santa Clara 1-3 Vitória Guimarães.

That day, Santa Clara had 58% possession and 16 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. The scorer was Rildo (64').

Vitória Guimarães had 11 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. Alisson Safira (22', 30') and André Silva (44') scored.

The referee was Manuel Mota.

📋 Team News: Santa Clara

It’s our opinion that Os Açoreanos will probably opt for a 3-4-3 system for this game and select Gabriel Batista, Sidney Lima, Luis Rocha, Guilherme Ramos, Diogo Calila, Adriano, Pedro Ferreira, Matheus Nunes, Vinicius, Alisson Safira and Gabriel Silva.

ℹ️ Team News: Vitória Guimarães

Thanks to a largely healthy group of players, there’s just a single fitness issue for the Vitória Guimarães manager Rui Borges to be concerned with. Jorge Fernandes (contortion) won’t be playing here.

It’s our belief that Os Vimaranenses might play in a 4-3-3 lineup, starting the game with Bruno Varela, Bruno Gaspar, Mikel Villanueva, Tomas Ribeiro, Joao Mendes, Tiago Silva, Tomas Handel, Samu, Kaio, Nelson Oliveira and Nuno Santos.

🔮 Prediction

We are of the inclination to think that Vitória Guimarães and Santa Clara could well both score and end up finding themselves in a fairly even game here.

We’ll see, but this looks like it could end up all-square. Therefore, we predict a close game with a 1-1 score draw when the referee blows the full-time whistle.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 16:02 10/11/2024