Casa Pia vs Sporting Lisbon - prediction, team news, lineups

Looking to bounce backmost from a daze decision successful their erstwhile Primeira Liga outing, Sporting Lisbon question to look Casa Pia astatine Estadio Municipal de Rio Maior connected Friday.

The Lions presently beryllium 3rd successful the Portuguese top-flight table, 9 points down leaders Porto and 4 adrift of second-placed Benfica, portion the Geese inhabit the relegation playoff spot, supra 17th-placed Rio Ave and beneath 15th-placed Nacional lone connected extremity difference.

Match preview

Sporting’s bid to reclaim the rubric aft finishing 2nd past play has suffered respective setbacks, but past weekend’s 2-1 decision to recently promoted Academico de Viseu astatine Estadio Jose Alvalade arguably represents their astir disappointing league effect of the campaign.

Having already suffered a setback against Champions League debutants LASK Linz, the Lions endured back-to-back location defeats for the archetypal clip since November 2024, arsenic Luis Suarez’s equaliser proved insufficient to forestall Joao Guilherme’s brace from handing the Lisbon giants their archetypal top-flight nonaccomplishment of the season.

However, Rui Borges’s broadside recovered immoderate respite successful the Taca da Liga during the week, beating Maritimo 2-1 courtesy of Pedro Lima’s brace to beforehand to the semi-finals, with the triumph besides easing immoderate of the unit connected the Portuguese manager.

Borges has a mixed distant grounds to contend with up of Friday’s Primeira Liga matchday 10 opener, having seen his broadside alternate betwixt wins and draws crossed their 4 league outings connected the road, though the astir caller travel yielded a 3-1 triumph implicit Braga.

The visitors tin besides gully assurance from their dominance successful this precise fixture, having won each of their erstwhile six distant meetings with Casa Pia crossed each competitions portion scoring astatine slightest doubly connected each occasion.

Casa Pia, meanwhile, volition anticipation their caller results supply a level for much-needed betterment astatine location aft moving connected to 7 points with a 2-0 triumph distant to Estrela Amadora past weekend, courtesy of goals from Joao Rego and Lawrence Ofori.

The triumph saw the Geese triumph consecutive matches for the archetypal clip since back-to-back league victories implicit Boavista and Benfica successful January 2025, having recorded a constrictive triumph implicit FC Alpendorada connected October 18, 2026, which secured their spot successful the 4th circular of the Taca de Portugal.

Casa Pia person shown signs of betterment successful caller weeks nether Filipe Coelho, collecting six points from their past 3 league outings (W2, D0, L1) aft managing conscionable 1 from their opening six fixtures, during which they mislaid their archetypal 4 matches without scoring.

However, results astatine their impermanent location successful Rio Maior permission overmuch to beryllium desired, arsenic the Geese person mislaid each 4 of their Primeira Liga matches astatine the crushed this season, making them the division’s worst location side, having besides scored conscionable erstwhile and conceded 13 goals successful those games.
 

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Team News

Casa Pia goalkeeper Andre Gomes remains sidelined with an adductor injury, portion Seba Perez is expected to beryllium disposable contempt picking up a sound during the triumph implicit Estrela Amadora.

Jeremy Livolant returned to enactment against Estrela, coming connected arsenic a second-half substitute, suggesting that helium is nary longer taxable to the club’s disciplinary authorisation and could beryllium successful enactment for much minutes here.

Veteran attacker Cassiano was besides handed his archetypal league commencement of the play past clip out, though it volition not beryllium a astonishment if Henrique Araujo is recalled to pb the enactment aft coming disconnected the seat successful that match.

Sporting stay without Zeno Debast, who is recovering from a limb musculus problem, portion Rodrigo Zalazar (thigh) and semipermanent absentee Nuno Santos (knee) are besides unavailable.

Borges is expected to reconstruct respective first-choice players aft making 11 changes for the Taca da Liga triumph implicit Maritimo, with Suarez apt to pb the enactment aft scoring successful each of his past 10 appearances for the Lions.
 

Casa Pia imaginable starting lineup:

Mandic; Geraldes, Kaly, Sousa, Rosas; Ofori, Clua; Salah, Rego, Pauwels; Araujo

Sporting Lisbon imaginable starting lineup:

Kaique Pereira; Fresneda, Quaresma, Inacio, Araujo; Doumbia, Altimira, Simoes; Catamo, Suarez, Irankunda

We say: Casa Pia 0-2 Sporting Lisbon

Although Casa Pia’s caller distant victories suggest that the hosts are opening to find their feet, a dismal location grounds and Sporting’s dominance successful this fixture marque an upset hard to envisage, leaving an distant triumph arsenic the likeliest outcome.

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