Sporting Lisbon vs Vitória Guimarães Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Sporting Lisbon

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Sporting Lisbon are hoping to win again after their last result, a 0-1 Primeira Liga success versus Famalicão.

In that match, Sporting Lisbon had 59% possession and 11 shots on goal with 2 on target. The scorer for Sporting Lisbon was Pedro Gonçalves (20'). For their opponents, Famalicão got 7 shots at goal with 0 on target.

Three or more goals per game have been seen in 5 of the past 6 meetings where Sporting Lisbon have taken part. Opposition teams scored 5 times in these games whereas Sporting Lisbon managed a tally of 16. In any event, we’ll just have to find out if such a trend will be replicated in this upcoming game.

Ahead of this clash, Sporting Lisbon haven't been defeated in their previous 21 league matches at home. An amazing run.

Vitória Guimarães

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In their last fixture, Vitória Guimarães drew 1-1 in the Primeira Liga match with Farense.

In that game, Vitória Guimarães had 68% possession and 22 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Vitória Guimarães was Jorge Fernandes (96'). At the other end, Farense got 10 shots at goal with 6 on target. Bruno Duarte (9') scored for Farense.

A series of resolute performances from the Vitória Guimarães defensive players has resulted in the number of goals they’ve conceded standing at 4 from their past 6 outings overall. Over that same time, the number of goals that they have scored themselves is 10.

Their prior results show that Vitória Guimarães:

• have not won against Sporting Lisbon in games played away from home for the previous 12 league matches. A very poor run of away results.
• are undefeated in their previous 5 league matches away from home.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at their past head-to-head meetings dating back to 20/03/2021 tells us that Sporting Lisbon have won 5 of these and Vitória Guimarães 1, with the tally of draws standing at 0.

A total of 16 goals were produced between them in these games, with 12 of them for Sportinguistas and 4 created by Os Vimaranenses. That’s an average goals per game of 2.67.

The previous league clash featuring the two was Primeira Liga match day 13 on 09/12/2023 when the final score was Vitória Guimarães 3-2 Sporting Lisbon.

On that day, Vitória Guimarães had 30% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 6 on target. The goalscorers were Tiago Silva (45'), André Silva (73') and Dani Silva (81').

At the other end, Sporting Lisbon had 12 shots on goal with 4 on target. Gonçalo Inácio (41') and Nuno Santos (77') scored.

The match was refereed by João Pinheiro.

📋 Team News: Sporting Lisbon

Antonio Adán (Muscle injury) and Matheus Reis (minor knock) will be missing for Sporting Lisbon manager Rúben Amorim.

It looks as if Sportinguistas will probably use the 3-4-3 system, handing starts to Franco Israel, Eduardo Quaresma, Sebastian Coates, Goncalo Inacio, Geny Catamo, Morten Hjulmand, Hidemasa Morita, Nuno Santos, Trincao, Viktor Gyoekeres and Pedro Goncalves.

📋 Team News: Vitória Guimarães

Vitória Guimarães manager Álvaro Pacheco has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Telmo Arcanjo (Cruciate ligament tear), Mikel Villanueva (unknown injury) and João Mendes (Broken ankle) miss out here. The suspended players who are serving a ban for this game are Jorge Fernandes and Bruno Gaspar.

It’s our belief that Os Vimaranenses might play in a 3-5-2 lineup, starting the game with Bruno Varela, Tomas Ribeiro, Toni Borevkovic, Manu Silva, Maga, Tiago Silva, Tomas Handel, Nuno Santos, Afonso Freitas, Jota Silva and Kaio.

💭 Prediction

When taking all factors into account, Sporting Lisbon will most probably dominate on the ball and be rewarded with decent chances.

Conversely, Vitória Guimarães may well find it hard to get shooting opportunities although we do think it’s probable that they will be converting at least once as well.

We reckon that it will be a pretty comfortable 3-1 winning score for Sporting Lisbon when the full-time whistle blows.

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

Peter Guest, 04:07 20/04/2024