Porto vs Sporting Lisbon prediction and betting tips on May 26, 2024
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Game Prediction
The final of the Portuguese Cup, which will take place on May 26, 2024, will bring a match between Porto and Sporting Lisbon. This is a chance to save the season for the nominal hosts, but the representative of the capital has a chance of a “golden double”.
Key statistics and trends:
- Porto, if we take into account 6 previous matches, did not win only against Sporting.
- Sporting drew only in the struggle with Porto, beating the rest of 7 previous opponents.
The most popular score between the giants is a 0-0 draw (10 times). - Sporting’s previous away win in Porto was in 2016.
- Porto wins the first half in 38% of matches, Sporting does the same in 65% of cases.
Porto – the shape of the team and its analysis: the club had a mediocre season
“The Dragons” left other tournaments early. For instance, they exchanged 1-0 victories in the struggle with Arsenal in the 1/8 finals of the Champions League, but lost in a penalty shoot-out. Speaking about the Primeira, the team was noticeably behind both Sporting and even Benfica, finishing in 3rd place. On the other hand, Conceição’s wards approached the final in good shape, winning 3 times in a row and 5 times in 6 previous rounds.
Sporting Lisbon – the shape of the team and its analysis: all-time record set
“The Lions” were only fourth a year ago (even behind Braga). Still, then the project management retained confidence in Ruben Amorim and the specialist thanked the club for this with a sharp breakthrough. It didn’t work out so well everywhere; the representative of Portugal was confidently eliminated by Atalanta already in the 1/8 finals of the Europa League. At the same time, the race for the Primeira title was not only won against neighbouring Benfica – the team set its maximum result, gaining 90 points. Moreover, the points were lost only in 2 games in 21 previous rounds.
Porto: team news
Marcano has not recovered yet. On the contrary, Sanusi and Gonçalo Ribeiro were added to him in the infirmary.
Sporting Lisbon: team news
The performance of Israel and Adan are 1uestionable.
Porto vs Sporting Lisbon: possible starting line-ups
Porto (possible line-up): Diogo Costa – Wendell, Otavio, Ze Pedro, Martim – Nico Gonzalez, Varela, Galeno, Pepe Aquino, Francisco Conceição – Evanilson.
Sporting Lisbon (possible line-up): Israel – Diomande, Coates, St. Juste – Inacio, Daniel Braganca, Hjulmand, Catamo - Pedro Goncalves, Paulinho, Trincau.
Previous head-to-head matches
“The Dragons” had a streak of 8 games without defeat in head-to-head matches, including 5 wins in a row. Still, this season, “the Lions” took 4 out of 6 possible points with them.
Free prediction for the match Porto vs Sporting Lisbon on May 26:
The nominal guests are rightfully considered a slight favourite of the following battle – they had spent a strong year, including in head-to-head matches. We bet on “the White and Greens” with “a 0 goal handicap” (odd: 1.8).