Vitoria Guimaraes vs Gil Vicente prediction and betting tips on February 8, 2024
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Game Prediction
Thursday, as usual, will offer a rather modest football programme. The cups help out, because their next round is held in many countries of the Old World. Portugal is no exception – a pair of quarter-finals will be held only on Thursday. At this time, Vitoria Guimaraes will host Gil Vicente. The analysts of the website have made a prediction for the match on February 8, 2024.
Vitoria Guimaraes is doing well in Portuguese football
“The Conquerors” have never finished higher than 3rd place in the Primeira and have won only the Portuguese Cup and the Super Cup once each. Still, they are traditionally perceived as a “second-tier” team, and their stable start in the European competition, where they reached the group stage several times, confirms the higher mentioned fact. This time, the club is trying to fight for 4th place with Braga – the top 3 are traditionally unattainable. At the same time, the team has already overcome 3 opponents in the Taça de Portugal (although the strongest of them was Penafiel).
Gil Vicente has recently improved its performance
“The Roosters” are remembered for the “Mateus case”, because of which they were first expelled from the Primeira for non-sports reasons, and then, by a court decision, with the help of a unique compromise, the team was returned. The club did not get lost there and even made its debut in the Conference League in 2022 – however, it was eliminated by the second opponent, AZ, having overcome only Riga. Speaking about the previous season, there was only 13th place and there had been only 3 victories until mid-December. Still, then it managed to improve the performance noticeably, at least breaking away from the relegation zone. The same can be said about the Taça de Portugal, where the success in the confrontation with Belenenses was followed by the victories over little-known Serpa and Amarante.
Previous head-to-head matches
“The Conquerors” won twice in the previous season. Still, “the Roosters” achieved a 1-0 success at the home arena at the end of January.
Free prediction for the match Vitoria Guimaraes vs Gil Vicente on February 8:
The hosts have got all the trump cards in their hands in the following battle. Let’s believe that they will quickly take revenge for their recent defeat to this opponent in the championship and finish the cup confrontation with a victory in regular time (odd: 1.69).