📏 Form Guide

Sporting Lisbon

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Sporting Lisbon, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following a 1-4 Primeira Liga success against Rio Ave.

In that match, Sporting Lisbon had 64% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 5 on target. For Sporting Lisbon, the goals were scored by Luis Suárez (35'), Trincão (66') and Geovany Quenda (90'). Rio Ave got 12 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Bezerra (12') and Mancha (42' Own goal) scored for Rio Ave.

Fixtures involving Sporting Lisbon have tended to be entertaining encounters lately with plenty of scoring the rule rather than the exception. Over their past six games alone, the sum of 20 goals have been recorded for both sides combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 13 of these coming from Sporting Lisbon.

Their past results show that Sporting Lisbon:

• have not lost a league tie with Gil Vicente in their previous 12 games. A decent run, indeed.
• are unbeaten in their last 2 home league matches.

Gil Vicente

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After suffering a loss in their previous game against Arouca in Primeira Liga action, Gil Vicente will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that game, Gil Vicente managed 45% possession and 14 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. The only player to score for Gil Vicente was Esteves (63'). Arouca got 13 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. Bas Kuipers (61'), Barbero (67') and Taichi Fukui (82') scored for Arouca.

In the course of their 6 latest matches, César Peixoto's Gil Vicente have found the back of the net a total of 8 times, earning them the goals scored per game average of 1.33.

Analysis of their past results shows that Gil Vicente:

• have not emerged victorious against Sporting Lisbon when they have played them away from home in the previous 13 matches in the league. A truly shameful run of away results.
• are undefeated in their last 2 away league matches.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 5 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A glance at their past head-to-head clashes going back to 05/04/2023 shows us that Sporting Lisbon have won 3 of these games & Gil Vicente 0, with the tally of drawn games being 3.

An aggregate of 13 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 10 of them for Sportinguistas and 3 being from Gilistas. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.17.

The previous league match featuring the two was Primeira Liga match day 17 on 02/01/2026 when it finished Gil Vicente 1-1 Sporting Lisbon.

On that occasion, Gil Vicente had 36% possession and 19 attempts on goal with 9 of them on target. The scorer was Eduardo (87').

For their opponents, Sporting Lisbon got 14 shots at goal with 4 on target. Luis Suárez (45') was the scorer.

The referee was Gustavo Correia.

📋 Team News: Sporting Lisbon

Morten Hjulmand (Ankle injury), Fotis Ioannidis (Inner ligament injury), João Simões (Metatarsal fracture) and Iván Fresneda (Muscle injury) are unavailable for Sporting Lisbon boss Rui Borges. Ousmane Diomande cannot play in this game through suspension.

We think that Sportinguistas will probably use a 4-2-3-1 system for this game, utilising Rui Silva, Salvador Blopa, Eduardo Quaresma, Goncalo Inacio, Maximiliano Araujo, Hidemasa Morita, Daniel Braganca, Geny Catamo, Trincao, Pedro Goncalves and Luis Suarez.

📋 Team News: Gil Vicente

We are inclined to think that Gilistas could decide to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 lineup, starting the game with Daniel Figueira, Ze Carlos, Marvin Gilbert, Jonathan Buatu, Ghislain Konan, Ze Ferreira, Santi Garcia, Murilo, Luis Esteves, Agustin Moreira and Gustavo Varela.

⚡ Prediction

We believe that Sporting Lisbon will most probably convert a lot of goal-scoring opportunities.

At the other end, Gil Vicente may well struggle to make a breakthrough - but, we do see them scoring.

Therefore, we are anticipating a pretty comfortable 3-1 victory for Sporting Lisbon at full-time.

Renata Leite, 23:23 15/05/2026