A story of boom and bust for these two teams so far this season, occupying positions near the median of the Liga Portugal table. Here's the Sporting CP - Gil Vicente latest:
- All of Sporting CP's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Sporting CP form and stats
Sporting CP have secured 6 points from their first three home games in the Liga Portugal. A decent catch, still with room for improvement.
Sporting CP faced defeat in their previous match, away at Boavista (1-2). Ugarte (midfield) was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.02/10. Ugarte dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 82 successful passes (of 87 total).
Before that match, a home win against Tottenham Hotspur in the Champions League. The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Sporting CP home games with this odds we find 16 games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in 15 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats. Looking at the victories, 11 matches were won by at least two goals.
The manager Amorim will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Olympique Marseille in only four days.
Sporting CP can score goals in their home matches. After 3 league matches they have found the net 7 times. Sporting CP are not conceding a lot of goals here at Estádio José Alvalade in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 2 from 3 matches.
Gil Vicente form and stats
Gil Vicente are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Liga Portugal, having played 3 games and collected 4 points (1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss).
Gil Vicente's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Rio Ave that finished 2-2. The match against Rio Ave looked like a defeat for Gil Vicente, but they did not accept the outcome and clawed their way back to 2-2. de Souza equalized in the 90th minute. As mentioned above, Vicente drew the match against Rio Ave. Manager Vieira brought on de Souza to rescue the draw from a losing position and it worked. Attacker Villodres got a player rating of 7.44 in the game. "Man of the match" Villodres hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Maritimo at their stadium, the result 2-1.Gil Vicente have scored 4 goals on their travels this season, from 3 away games in the league. 4 goals have been conceded by Gil Vicente in these games.
Head 2 Head
Sporting CP have been victorious in all of the 6 latest duels versus this team. Can they do it again?Top Goalscorers
  Pote 4 goals |   F. Navarro 4 goals |  M. Edwards 3 goals |
Sporting CP missing players
Gil Vicente missing players
| Sporting CP | Gil Vicente | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 13 | 7 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 10 | 2 | 2 | Conceded | C | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 86% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 67% | 57% |
| 71% | 67% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 67% | 43% |
| 29% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 29% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 29% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 67% | 43% |
| 43% | 67% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 29% |
| 29% | 33% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 33% | 43% |
| 7.3 | 9.3 | 13 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 7.3 | 7.3 |
| 2.7 | 2.3 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 6.3 | 5.3 |
| 3.3 | 3 | 5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.3 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 16.1 | 20.7 | 22 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 15 | 14.4 |
| 5.6 | 7.3 | 8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 3.7 | 3.9 |
| 33% | 32% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 36% | 26% |
| 8.3 | 5.3 | 8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 6 | 14.3 | 13.4 |
| 3.3 | 2.3 | 5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 5.7 | 5.1 |
- All of Sporting CP's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Sporting CP have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Sporting CP have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Sporting CP haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Benfica | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 16 | 21 |
| 2 | Sporting Braga | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 18 | 19 |
| 3 | Porto | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 16 |
| 4 | Portimonense | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 15 |
| 5 | Boavista | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 15 |
| 6 | Casa Pia | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 14 |
| 7 | Estoril | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 |
| 8 | Sporting CP | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 10 |
| 9 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 10 |
| 10 | Gil Vicente | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | -1 | 9 |
| 11 | Chaves | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -2 | 8 |
| 12 | Arouca | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | -9 | 8 |
| 13 | Rio Ave | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | -3 | 6 |
| 14 | Santa Clara | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | -3 | 5 |
| 15 | Vizela | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -4 | 5 |
| 16 | Famalicao | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | -7 | 4 |
| 17 | Pacos de Ferreira | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -10 | 1 |
| 18 | Maritimo | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 17 | -18 | 0 |
