Estoril Praia vs Casa Pia - prediction, team news, lineups

Two sides languishing astatine the bottommost extremity of the Primeira Liga table look disconnected this play arsenic Estoril Praia invited Casa Pia to Estadio Antonio Coimbra da Mota successful Sunday's early-season relegation scrap.

The Canaries person collected lone 2 points from their opening six matches, but their visitors person made an adjacent slower start, propping up the standings with 1 constituent collected from a imaginable 18.

Match preview

Estoril person endured a hard commencement to beingness nether caput manager Vasco Matos, who has yet to witnesser a competitory triumph successful six league outings (D2, L4) since taking implicit from the departed Ian Cathro successful July.

Having followed an opening-weekend gully against Famalicao with 3 consecutive defeats to Nacional, Rio Ave and Benfica, the Praia nine failed to physique connected a spirited stalemate against Arouca connected matchday five, losing 1-0 astatine Braga past clip out.

Having followed an opening-weekend gully against Famalicao with 3 consecutive defeats to Nacional, Rio Ave and Benfica, the Praia nine failed to physique connected a spirited stalemate against Arouca connected matchday five, losing 1-0 astatine Braga past clip out.

That is simply a crisp opposition to past season, erstwhile the Praia outfit scored 54 goals successful the Primeira Liga and finished 10th, their highest league tally since 1950-51, but the caller manager volition beryllium looking for a solution to the struggles that had affected the squad adjacent earlier his arrival.

Not since a constrictive triumph astatine Nacional connected matchday 26 of the erstwhile play person Estoril recorded a league victory, losing 10 of their 14 top-flight matches since then, though this play presents a bully accidental to enactment an extremity to that lengthy drought.

It is small surprise, therefore, that location comforts connection small encouragement for the Canaries, who are looking to extremity an eight-match winless league tally astatine Antonio Coimbra da Mota, though the hosts tin instrumentality immoderate solace from the information that some of their points this play person travel astatine the ground.

Meanwhile, Casa Pia get successful an adjacent much precarious presumption aft collecting conscionable 1 constituent from their opening six matches, with Filipe Coelho's broadside scoring once, portion their 15 goals conceded is the astir successful the part astatine this stage.

The Gansos did astatine slightest amusement signs of greater antiaircraft absorption successful a goalless gully astatine Vitoria de Guimaraes connected September 6, but facing leaders and defending champions Porto proved excessively large a challenge, arsenic they suffered a 4-1 decision astatine Estadio Municipal de Rio Maior past clip out.

Casa Pia's distant grounds leaves small successful the mode of optimism, arsenic defeats by Maritimo and Gil Vicente preceded the goalless gully astatine Vitoria, meaning they person yet to triumph connected the roadworthy and person not scored successful immoderate of their 3 distant league matches this season.

Another decision this play could enactment Coelho's presumption astatine the nine nether superior scrutiny, with the manager, who has spent clip wrong the Benfica, Chelsea and Strasbourg systems, needing an urgent turnaround arsenic helium chases his archetypal triumph astatine the nine since taking implicit this summer.

On a affirmative note, Casa Pia person a caller intelligence vantage astatine this venue, having won 2-0 astatine the Coimbra da Mota successful December 2024 earlier pursuing that with a goalless gully determination past season, meaning Estoril person failed to people successful either of their past 2 location meetings with the Gansos.
 

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Team News

Estoril volition beryllium without Ferro aft the centre-back was sent disconnected for 2 yellowish cards successful the decision astatine Braga, opening the doorway for Samuel Amissah to gain his archetypal commencement aft making his debut from the seat past weekend.

Meanwhile, centre-back Xavi Sintes remains sidelined arsenic helium continues his betterment from genu country aft joining from Spanish broadside Cordoba, with the summertime signing yet to marque his debut for the club.

Yanis Begraoui, who led the broadside with 20 league goals past term, volition beryllium the 1 to ticker successful the Estoril onslaught aft scoring the team's lone 2 goals this season.

Casa Pia's main enactment contented concerns the goalkeeper, with Ivan Mandic and Patrick Sequeira competing for the presumption pursuing Andre Gomes's injury, portion Jeremy Livolant could instrumentality to the squad aft his disciplinary absence.

Henrique Araujo's opener from the spot against Porto not lone marked the Gansos' archetypal extremity of the run but besides the striker's archetypal extremity for the nine since joining from Benfica, and helium is expected to pb the enactment up of seasoned Cassiano, who has not started immoderate crippled this season.
 

Estoril Praia imaginable starting lineup:

Robles; Sanchez, Amissah, Sierra, Jurisic; Holsgrove, Robin; Peixinho, Carvalho, Omerovic; Begraoui

Casa Pia imaginable starting lineup:

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

We say: Estoril Praia 1-0 Casa Pia

Neither broadside has provided overmuch grounds of attacking fluency this season, but Estoril person conceded 8 goals compared with Casa Pia's 15 and should payment from playing astatine location against a squad yet to people successful immoderate of their 3 distant league matches...

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