Gil Vicente will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 7 points behind Sporting CP.
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Europa League game only three days ago.
Gil Vicente form and stats
Gil Vicente have played 6 Primeira Liga games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 2-4-0 (wins-draws-losses). The Gil Vicente fans aren't used to losing here at Estadio Cidade de Barcelos and will expect new points from this game. Gil Vicente has played ten games in a row here without a defeat.
The fans are hoping that Gil Vicente will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-1 away loss in the Taça De Portugal game against Sporting Braga (placed 9th). In the preceding match a 2-1 victory visiting Desportivo Aves.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Gil Vicente, as the League Cup home game vs Sporting CP is only three days away.
Gil Vicente are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 6 goals in 6 games. As for guarding their own goal, Gil Vicente have only let in 3 goals at home.
Sporting CP form and stats
3 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss. That’s the product of Sporting CP playing as the away team in the Primeira Liga this season.
Sporting CP won their last game, 4-0 versus PSV played at home. Before that, Sporting CP secured a home win against Belenenses with the score 2-0.
As mentioned above, Sporting CP was the only team on the pitch versus PSV in their previous game, winning 4-0. This could be a tougher task.
Sporting CP has another fixture away, a League Cup game, against Gil Vicente in just three days. A tough schedule for the visitors!
Sporting CP are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 8 away goals from 6 games (in the league). It's not easy to score on Sporting CP as they have only conceded 5 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 1 Gil Vicente victory, 1 draw and 8 Sporting CP wins. 5 of these games ended with three goals or more, 5 matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
 
Sandro Lima
5 goals
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Bruno Fernandes
5 goals
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Luiz Phellype
3 goals
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Gil Vicente missing players
Sporting CP missing players
| Gil Vicente | Sporting CP | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs
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Statistics | Stat | vs
|
Away | Total |
| 11 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 6 | 11 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 4 | 4 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | 6 | 2 | Scored | S | 1 | 8 | 18 |
| 12 | 3 | 1 | Conceded | C | 1 | 5 | 12 |
| 82% | 67% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 73% | 67% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 67% | 82% |
| 36% | 17% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 55% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 17% | 27% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 9% |
| 45% | 50% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 67% | 73% |
| 27% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 17% | 18% |
| 45% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 17% | 9% |
| 5.1 | 5.3 | 4 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 8 | 6.7 | 5.3 |
| 5.3 | 4 | 6 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 5 | 4 | 4.4 |
| 2.5 | 2.7 | 3 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 6 | 3.7 | 3.2 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 128 | 80 | 13 | Total Shots | T S | 13 | 82 | 148 |
| 44 | 29 | 7 | Shots on Target | S O | 4 | 21 | 45 |
| 20% | 21% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 38% | 40% |
- Gil Vicente have not yet lost a game at home.
- Sporting CP have won significantly more corners away than at home.
- 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 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 21 | 30 |
| 2 | Porto | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 17 | 28 |
| 3 | Famalicao | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 23 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 24 |
| 4 | Sporting CP | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 20 |
| 5 | Vitória SC | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 16 |
| 6 | Tondela | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 15 |
| 7 | Boavista | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 15 |
| 8 | Rio Ave | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 15 |
| 9 | Sporting Braga | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 15 |
| 10 | Santa Clara | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -3 | 13 |
| 11 | Gil Vicente | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 9 | -3 | 13 |
| 12 | Vitória FC | 11 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | -4 | 12 |
| 13 | Belenenses | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 | -10 | 11 |
| 14 | Maritimo | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -5 | 11 |
| 15 | Moreirense | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 11 | -2 | 11 |
| 16 | Portimonense | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -8 | 8 |
| 17 | Pacos de Ferreira | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 12 | -10 | 8 |
| 18 | Desportivo Aves | 11 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 12 | 26 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 18 | -14 | 3 |