Estoril Praia vs Famalicao - prediction, team news, lineups

Estoril Praia volition beryllium looking to extremity a hard tally of results erstwhile they big Famalicao astatine the Antonio Coimbra da Mota stadium connected Sunday day successful a Primeira Liga brushwood with plentifulness riding connected the result for some sides.

The hosts get astatine the fixture having mislaid 4 consecutive league games and successful hopeless request of a response, portion the visitors question to Estoril inactive harbouring hopes of a top-four decorativeness with 4 matchdays remaining.

Match preview

It has been a torrid tally of results for Estoril Praia, who person suffered 4 consecutive defeats heading into Sunday’s fixture and volition beryllium anxious to apprehension that descent connected location ungraded earlier the play slips distant from them entirely.

Ian Cathro’s broadside beryllium ninth successful the Primeira Liga array with 37 points from 10 wins, 7 draws and 13 defeats, and the concerning quality of their caller signifier is compounded by a goals-conceded grounds that volition springiness the caput manager plentifulness to deliberation astir up of Sunday.

Their astir caller outing ended successful a 1-0 decision to Moreirense, with the hosts conceding arsenic aboriginal arsenic the 12th infinitesimal and failing to find a effect crossed the remainder of the contest.

With 4 matchdays remaining, the model to crook things astir is narrowing rapidly, and Cathro’s men volition beryllium acutely alert that different decision connected Sunday could permission their ninth-place decorativeness nether superior menace heading into the last weeks of the campaign.

The head-to-head grounds betwixt these 2 sides offers small encouragement for the hosts, with Estoril having mislaid the past 3 encounters consecutive and winning 2 successful the past 5 meetings.

Famalicao get successful considerably amended shape, unbeaten successful 8 consecutive Primeira Liga matches - their longest specified tally successful the apical formation having picked up 4 wins and 4 draws during that series to firmly found themselves arsenic 1 of the division’s astir accordant sides successful caller months.

Hugo Oliveira’s broadside beryllium 5th successful the array with 48 points from 13 wins, 9 draws and 8 defeats, though they stay 8 points adrift of fourth-placed Braga, making the imaginable of European qualification an progressively hard 1 to execute with truthful fewer games remaining.

Their past 3 outings person produced draws alternatively than wins - a 2-2 against Porto, a 1-1 against Moreirense and a 2-2 against Sporting Braga, suggesting that portion Famalicao stay hard to beat, they whitethorn beryllium dropping points astatine the worst imaginable clip successful their propulsion for a top-four place.

The visitors person ne'er secured a European qualification successful their history, giving this last agelong of the play a peculiar consciousness of significance, and Oliveira volition beryllium determined to guarantee the momentum built during their unbeaten tally is not allowed to slice with the finishing enactment successful sight.

Famalicao’s distant grounds of 5 wins, six draws and 4 defeats demonstrates a broadside much than susceptible of performing connected the road, and Estoril’s existent deficiency of assurance and signifier makes this fixture a peculiarly inviting 1 for the visitors.

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Team News

Kevin Boma remains a uncertainty for Estoril heading into Sunday’s fixture with a musculus injury, and a precocious appraisal is apt to find his availability up of kickoff.

Martin Turk made his archetypal quality of the play successful extremity past clip retired and is expected to clasp his place, with Antef Tsoungui, Felix Bacher and Ferro apt to enactment up successful beforehand of him astatine the back.

Jandro Orellana and Xeka are expected to anchor the midfield, portion Joao Carvalho could beryllium handed a starting berth aft coming disconnected the seat to regenerate Peixinho astatine fractional clip successful the decision to Moreirense.

Yanis Begraoui is expected to pb the enactment erstwhile more, the guardant having contributed an awesome 19 goals successful 30 Primeira Liga appearances this season.

Famalicao travel into the fixture with a cleanable measure of wellness and nary suspension concerns, giving Oliveira the luxury of a afloat squad to take from up of the travel to Estoril.

Ibrahima Ba and Justin de Haas are expected to signifier the cardinal antiaircraft partnership, with Lazar Carevic continuing successful extremity down them.

Simon Elisor is acceptable to pb the onslaught for the visitors, supported by Sorriso, Pedro Santos and Gil Dias.

Estoril Praia imaginable starting lineup:

Turk; Ferreira, Bacher, Tsoungui; P. Carvalho, Xeka, Orellana, Amaral; Pizzi, Begraoui, J. Carvalho

Famalicao imaginable starting lineup:

Carevic; Pinheiro, Ba, De Haas, Rafa; Van de Looi, De Amorim; Dias, Santos, Sorriso; Elisor

We say: Estoril Praia 1-2 Famalicao

Famalicao’s eight-game unbeaten tally and superior prime crossed the transportation should beryllium capable to spot them done here, adjacent against a hopeless Estoril broadside scrapping for points.

Begraoui could origin problems, but we backmost the visitors to borderline a choky contention and cod each 3 points connected the road.

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