📏 Form Guide

Famalicão

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Famalicão prepare for this game following a 2-2 Primeira Liga tied result against Porto.

In that game, Famalicão managed 31% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 3 on target. For Famalicão, goals were scored by Jhonder Cádiz (9', 45') and Zaydou Youssouf (17' Own goal). For their opponents, Porto had 23 shots at goal with 10 of them on target. Mehdi Taremi (82') scored for Porto.

It has been all too rare in recent times where Famalicão have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. It will be a concern for them that Famalicão have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 games, shipping 6 goals in the process. We shall soon find out whether or not that trend can be continued on into this next match.

Leading up to this clash, Famalicão:

• have not registered a win against Sporting Lisbon in home games against them for the last 3 league matches.
• have not won against Sporting Lisbon in their last 7 league matches.
• have not won at home in their last 4 league matches. Their supporters are understandably frustrated.

Sporting Lisbon

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Sporting Lisbon will go into the clash following on from a 0-4 Primeira Liga win in the defeat of Gil Vicente in their most recent outing.

In that game, Sporting Lisbon managed 57% possession and 18 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. For Sporting Lisbon, the goalscorers were Trincão (7', 31') and Ousmane Diomande (11'). For their opponents, Gil Vicente got 7 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target. Andrew (38' Own goal) was the scorer for Gil Vicente.

With their forward play coming to the fore of late, Sporting Lisbon have enjoyed getting themselves an avalanche of goals over their last six clashes (18 to be exact). That has earned them the outstanding average of 3 goals scored per match over this time.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A study of their past head to head meetings stretching back to 11/04/2021 shows that these encounters have not been good ones for Famalicão. They’ve not been able to come away with any wins whatsoever while Sporting Lisbon have been too good for them, running out winners in 67% of those matches played.

In all, 13 goals were produced between them in these games, with 4 of them for Famalicenses and 9 for Sportinguistas. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.17.

The last league clash featuring the two was Primeira Liga match day 3 on 27/08/2023 and the score finished Sporting Lisbon 1-0 Famalicão.

In that match, Sporting Lisbon had 63% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 6 on target. The scorer was Paulinho (52').

On the other side, Famalicão had 7 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target.

The match was refereed by André Narciso.

📋 Team News: Famalicão

It doesn’t get much better regarding selection, with just the sole fitness concern for the Famalicão boss João Pedro Sousa to contend with from of an almost fully healthy group. Henrique Araújo (Ankle injury) will miss out.

In all likelihood, Famalicenses should employ a 4-2-3-1 system for this one, handing starts to Luiz Junior, Nathan Santos, Enea Mihaj, Justin De Haas, Ian Custodio, Zaydou Youssouf, Mirko Topic, Jose Luis Rodriguez, Gustavo Sa, Sorriso and Jhonder Cadiz.

📰 Team News: Sporting Lisbon

Sporting Lisbon boss Rúben Amorim has some current player fitness concerns. Antonio Adán (Muscle injury) and Matheus Reis (minor knock) are those who can’t be considered.

We believe Sportinguistas seem most likely to begin the game with a 3-4-3 system using Franco Israel, Eduardo Quaresma, Ousmane Diomande, Goncalo Inacio, Ricardo Esgaio, Hidemasa Morita, Daniel Braganca, Geny Catamo, Trincao, Viktor Gyoekeres and Pedro Goncalves.

✨ Prediction

In this game, Sporting Lisbon will, in all probability, create a decent amount of chances and shots on target.

At the same time, Famalicão will be up against it to score, although we do think that it’s probable they’ll be seeing enough of the ball to score, too.

We’re therefore expecting to see a pretty comfortable 1-3 winning score for Sporting Lisbon come full-time.

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

Renata Leite, 19:08 16/04/2024