Moreirense vs Estrela Amadora - prediction, team news, lineups

Looking to physique connected their archetypal Primeira Liga triumph successful 3 matches, Moreirense invited Estrela da Amadora to the Estadio Comendador Joaquim de Almeida Freitas connected Saturday afternoon.

The Minho hosts beryllium 10th successful the Portuguese top-flight table with 11 points from 9 matches, 2 places and 1 constituent supra their visitors, who person slipped to 12th pursuing a mediocre tally of results.

Match preview

Moreirense person endured an inconsistent commencement to the campaign, winning three, drafting 2 and losing 4 of their opening 9 league matches, but returned to winning ways past play with an awesome 3-1 triumph distant to Estoril Praia.

Vasco Botelho da Costa’s broadside had gone 3 games without a triumph crossed each competitions, including a Taca de Portugal decision to AVS, but an explosive first-half show proved capable to unafraid each 3 points astatine Estadio Antonio Coimbra da Mota.

Os verdes e brancos raced into a three-goal pb earlier the half-hour people done Manuel Mendonca, Tiago Andrade and Nile John, leaving Peixinho’s stoppage-time effort arsenic small much than a consolation and underlining the value of accelerated starts.

All 3 of Moreirense’s league victories this play person travel erstwhile they opened the scoring, and the hosts volition look to instrumentality the inaugural again connected Saturday, though the Moreira de Conegos outfit person not won consecutive Primeira Liga matches since January.

Botelho da Costa’s broadside person besides struggled for consistency astatine Joaquim de Almeida Freitas, collecting conscionable 4 points from their 4 league matches astatine the crushed this play to permission them with the sixth-worst location grounds successful the division.

Estrela, meanwhile, question northbound looking to apprehension a worrying diminution aft making an encouraging commencement to the campaign, having gone unbeaten successful their opening six league matches earlier losing each of their past three.

After suffering their archetypal decision of the play against Academico de Viseu connected matchday seven, Pepa’s broadside were beaten by Arouca, and though a Taca de Portugal triumph implicit lower-league Fazendense offered immoderate respite, the Amadorans fell abbreviated again successful their adjacent top-flight outing.

Last weekend’s 2-0 decision to Casa Pia saw Estrela spell 3 consecutive league matches without scoring for the archetypal clip since April, erstwhile a akin streak formed portion of a wider spell that saw the Tricolours suffer 5 successive matches and spell 7 games without a win.

Nevertheless, losing conscionable erstwhile successful their opening 5 Primeira Liga distant matches (W1, D3) this play offers immoderate encouragement to Saturday’s visitors, though lone 1 triumph successful their past 13 top-flight outings connected the roadworthy casts uncertainty implicit their quality to assertion maximum points.

The head-to-head grounds offers small successful the mode of optimism for Estrela, who person recorded conscionable 1 triumph successful 13 meetings betwixt the sides crossed each competitions (D4, L8), portion the Tricolores person failed to triumph immoderate of their erstwhile 7 distant matches successful this fixture (D3, L4).
 

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Team News

Moreirense could again beryllium without Alexandre Parsemain, who sustained a left-leg wounded portion connected planetary work with Martinique, portion Joao Veloso is simply a large uncertainty with a thigh problem.

Maracas missed the triumph implicit Estoril done suspension pursuing his dismissal successful the home cupful astatine AVS but is present available, giving Botelho da Costa a enactment dilemma successful cardinal defence aft Gilberto Batista and Kevyn Monteiro impressed arsenic a pairing past weekend.

Leonardo Vonic could pb the enactment for a 5th consecutive league match, though Yan Maranhao remains an alternative, with the 24-year-old attacker yet to marque a league commencement this season.

Estrela are monitoring the fittingness of midfielder Robinho, who is nearing a instrumentality from the musculus wounded that has kept him sidelined since September.

Meanwhile, Jeremy Arevalo remains a doubt, having yet to diagnostic for the Tricolores since joining connected indebtedness from Stuttgart owed to a backmost problem.

Leandro Antonetti is expected to pb the line, with the striker looking to rediscover his scoring interaction aft going six matches crossed each competitions without a goal, having antecedently recovered the nett successful each of Estrela’s opening 4 Primeira Liga fixtures.
 

Moreirense imaginable starting lineup:

Ferreira; Pinto, Batista, Maracas, Kiko; Liberato, John; Bodonso, Mendonca, Andrade; Vonic.

Estrela Amadora imaginable starting lineup:

Linck; Scholze, Patrick, Lekovic, Soares; Serra, Doue; Marcus, Zvonarek, Stoica; Antonetti.

We say: Moreirense 2-0 Estrela Amadora

Moreirense should instrumentality assurance from their triumph implicit Estoril and their beardown humanities grounds against Estrela, portion the visitors’ caller struggles successful beforehand of extremity marque a location triumph the likeliest result successful what could inactive beryllium a intimately contested encounter.
 

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