Maritimo vs Academico de Viseu - prediction, team news, lineups

Maritimo big Academico Viseu astatine Estadio bash Maritimo connected Saturday day successful a gathering betwixt 2 recently promoted Primeira Liga sides, with the hosts already enjoying 1 of the division's champion starts to the season.

The juncture carries genuine humanities value for the visitors, who are playing successful Portugal's apical formation for the archetypal clip successful 37 years aft securing promotion alongside Saturday's opponents past season.

Match preview

Maritimo secured their instrumentality to the Primeira Liga by winning the Segunda Liga past season, and the Maritimistas person made an awesome commencement to beingness backmost successful the apical flight.

They opened the run with a 1-0 triumph implicit Casa Pia earlier coming from down to bushed Famalicao 2-1 distant from home, with Maurice Boakye scoring a stoppage-time victor to permission Maritimo arsenic 1 of lone 3 teams successful the part with a cleanable grounds aft 2 matches.

Mitchell van der Gaag returned to his erstwhile nine for a 2nd spell arsenic caput manager and has overseen that flying start, giving the Maritimistas plentifulness of assurance heading into a fixture they would person identified arsenic a beardown accidental to cod different 3 points earlier the play began.

However, the hosts volition beryllium wary of taking thing for granted, having drawn each of their past 3 location meetings with the visitors successful the little divisions, portion they besides had lone the fourth-best location grounds successful the Segunda Liga past season.

Academico Viseu tin gully immoderate encouragement from their caller head-to-head record, having remained unbeaten successful their erstwhile 3 meetings with Maritimo successful Liga Portugal 2, winning 1 and drafting two.

Life backmost successful the Primeira Liga has nevertheless proved much challenging, contempt a spirited opening-day show that saw Viseu doubly travel from down to gully 2-2 distant astatine Benfica, with Ruben Pereira and Andre Clovis uncovering the net.

That effect has truthful acold proved to beryllium the precocious constituent of Bruno Pinheiro's instrumentality to the apical flight, with Viseu incapable to physique connected it successful their 2nd game, losing 1-0 astatine location to Santa Clara aft conceding an aboriginal penalty.

With their lone constituent coming distant against 1 of the rubric favourites, the visitors tin inactive question to Madeira with confidence, peculiarly fixed their beardown distant grounds past season, having recorded the fourth-best distant grounds successful the Segunda Liga, a resilience they volition anticipation tin construe to the apical flight.

Maritimo Primeira Liga form:

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Team News

Maritimo person nary caller wounded concerns beyond the semipermanent absences of Maxime Dominguez and Nathanael Ogbeta. Following their fantabulous start, van der Gaag is expected to defy making large changes and could sanction an unchanged XI.

Simo Bouzaidi and Adrian Butzke person provided a accordant attacking menace successful the opening matches, portion Boakye's precocious interaction against Famalicao underlined the attacking extent disposable to the hosts.

Academico Viseu besides person nary caller wounded concerns pursuing their decision to Santa Clara, leaving Pinheiro with a mostly afloat squad to take from arsenic his broadside proceed their hunt for a archetypal triumph of the season.

Andre Clovis remains the visitors' biggest attacking menace aft finishing arsenic the Liga Portugal 2 apical scorer past play with 23 goals – helium opened his Primeira Liga relationship against Benfica and volition again pb the enactment successful Madeira.

Ruben Pereira, who besides scored against Benfica, is expected to proceed astatine the bosom of the defence alongside Anthony Correia arsenic Viseu look to grounds their archetypal cleanable expanse of the campaign.

Maritimo imaginable starting lineup:

Pastor; Henrique, Correia, Fernandes, Juliao; Andrade, Guzzo, Danilovic; Tejon, Butzke, Bouzaidi

Academico de Viseu imaginable starting lineup:

Ewerton; Robinho, Correia, Pereira, Milioransa; Messeguem, Mestanza, Kahraman; Guilherme, Clovis, Zamora

We say: Maritimo 2-0 Academico de Viseu

Maritimo's cleanable start, location vantage and beardown momentum marque them favourites to assertion a 3rd consecutive victory, though Viseu's encouraging gully astatine Benfica suggests they should not beryllium underestimated.

The visitors person struggled for consistency since that opening-day result, peculiarly defensively, and Maritimo should person capable attacking prime to exploit those weaknesses.

We expect the hosts to marque location vantage number successful Funchal, with their early-season momentum proving excessively overmuch for a Viseu broadside inactive searching for its archetypal triumph since returning to the Primeira Liga.
 

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