The visiting Sporting CP side should be favourites in this visit to Gil Vicente, as the away team holds a 29 point advantage from their 17 league games this season.
- Gil Vicente has the fewest points from losing position (0) in Primeira Liga
- Sporting CP has the fewest conceded goals (9) in Primeira Liga
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Gil Vicente form and stats
Gil Vicente's struggle is real here at Estádio Cidade de Barcelos with only 8 points collected from 8 Primeira Liga games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-2-4. Vicente are very eager to stop a potential losing streak at Estádio Cidade de Barcelos, having lost their two previous games here.
A strong away win for Vicente against Boavista the last match, as Samuel Lino and Yves Baraye were on target. Preceding that match was the home game against Paços de Ferreira that was lost 1-2.
Vicente goalkeeper Denis did an outstanding job against Boavista with six saves, so vital to securing the victory. Manager J. Soares Ribeiro felt very clever after Yves Baraye scored the winning goal against Boavista, having brought on that player as a substitute in the 75th minute.
Vicente have scored 6 league goals here from 8 matches, not a lot. 8 goals have been conceded.
Sporting CP form and stats
The strength of Sporting CP, who have the fewest conceded goals (9) in Primeira Liga, on their travels this season is incredible with 25 points collected from 9 Primeira Liga away games. Sporting CP has 8-1-0 on the road, with 20 goals scored and 4 conceded. Sporting CP has been amazing away for a time now, winning four in a row on their travels. The last time they went home with a point loss was against Famalicão.
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Sporting CP goalkeeper Antonio Adan Garrido is eager to challenge this, with his 299 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
Sporting CP play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-0 victory visiting Marítimo (placed 11th). That result followed a home victory 1-0 versus Benfica.
With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Sporting CP are regular goalscorers on their travels. Sporting CP's manager R. Marques Amorim has created a great defensive setup working very nicely in away games with only 4 conceded goals. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.
Head 2 Head
This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Sporting CP - Gil Vicente 3-1. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: one - zero - nine (Vicente wins - draws - Sporting CP wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  P. Pereira Gonçalves 14 goals |  N. Gomes dos Santos 5 goals |   S. Dias Lino 4 goals |
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| Gil Vicente | Sporting CP | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 17 | 8 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 9 | 17 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 8 | 14 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | 4 | 3 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | 6 | 2 | Scored | S | 6 | 20 | 36 |
| 20 | 8 | 6 | Conceded | C | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 88% | 88% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 59% | 62% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 88% |
| 35% | 25% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 44% | 47% |
| 12% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 22% | 29% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 47% | 38% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 33% | 41% |
| 29% | 38% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 67% | 59% |
| 35% | 38% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.2 | 1.9 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 2.3 | 2.8 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 9.8 | 11.8 | 13.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14.7 | 15.4 | 14.8 |
| 3.2 | 3.6 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.3 | 4.8 | 5.1 |
| 24% | 21% | 17% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 47% | 42% |
- All of Sporting CP's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Gil Vicente has the fewest points from losing position (0) in Primeira Liga
- Sporting CP has the fewest conceded goals (9) in Primeira Liga
- Sporting CP has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (3) in Primeira Liga
- Sporting CP has the most clean sheets (10) in Primeira Liga
- Sporting CP has the most points (25) away in Primeira Liga
- Sporting CP has the most scored goals (20) away in Primeira Liga
- Sporting CP has the the best goal difference (+16) away in Primeira Liga
- Sporting CP has the the best goal difference (+27) in Primeira Liga
- Sporting CP have not yet lost a game.
- Sporting CP have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Sporting CP have scored in all their matches so far.
- Sporting CP have scored more than double the goals of Gil Vicente.
- 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 | Sporting CP | 17 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 36 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 4 | 27 | 45 |
| 2 | Porto | 17 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 39 | 17 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 8 | 22 | 39 |
| 3 | Sporting Braga | 17 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 30 | 16 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 18 | 12 | 14 | 36 |
| 4 | Benfica | 17 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 30 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 14 | 34 |
| 5 | Paços de Ferreira | 17 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 26 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 12 | 34 |
| 6 | Vitória SC | 16 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 20 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 30 |
| 7 | Santa Clara | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 18 | 20 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 10 | -2 | 22 |
| 8 | Moreirense | 17 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | -6 | 21 |
| 9 | Nacional | 17 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 9 | -6 | 18 |
| 10 | Tondela | 17 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 16 | 27 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 19 | -11 | 18 |
| 11 | Marítimo | 17 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 16 | 24 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 14 | -8 | 17 |
| 12 | Belenenses | 17 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 6 | -6 | 16 |
| 13 | Gil Vicente | 17 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 20 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 12 | -7 | 16 |
| 14 | Rio Ave | 17 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 20 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | -9 | 16 |
| 15 | Portimonense | 17 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 23 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 16 | -9 | 15 |
| 16 | Boavista | 17 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 17 | 29 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 14 | -12 | 14 |
| 17 | Famalicão | 17 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 17 | 30 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 19 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 11 | -13 | 14 |
| 18 | Farense | 16 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 23 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 12 | -7 | 13 |