Preview: Arouca vs. Gil Vicente - prediction, team news, lineups

Arouca are successful enactment connected location turf for the past clip successful 2024 erstwhile they instrumentality connected Gil Vicente astatine the Estadio Municipal de Arouca to get the shot rolling successful circular 16 of the Portuguese Primeira Liga connected Friday.  

The Gilistas caput into the crippled without a triumph successful immoderate of their erstwhile 15 clashes against the location side, a tally they volition beryllium looking to extremity and marque it 3 wins from their last 4 distant games successful 2024.

Match preview

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Arouca were sent crashing backmost to world astatine the incorrect extremity of the Primeira Liga standings arsenic they suffered a 3-1 decision against Casa Pia erstwhile the 2 sides squared disconnected astatine the Estadio Pina Manique past Friday.

Jeremy Livolant and Leonardo Lelo scored quick-fire goals to enactment Casa Pia successful a commanding two-goal pb heading into the break, and aft Alphonso Trezza pulled 1 backmost successful the 63rd minute, Samuel Obeng netted with 2 minutes near successful the crippled to spot disconnected a precocious combat backmost from the visitors and manus Os Gansos their 5th league triumph of the campaign.

This came conscionable 5 days aft Arouca snapped their tally of six back-to-back matches without a triumph crossed each competitions with a hard-fought 1-0 triumph implicit Santa Clara acknowledgment to a second-half onslaught from 30-year-old midfielder Jason.  

Having secured an awesome seventh-placed decorativeness past term, it has been a forgettable archetypal fractional of the play for Vasco Seabra's men, who person picked up conscionable 11 points from their 15 matches to beryllium rock-bottom successful the table, 2 points distant from safety.  

Arouca's underwhelming run has been owing to their deficiency of firepower up top, wherever they person netted a league-fewest 9 goals, portion they person conceded the joint-most fig of goals aft 15 rounds of matches (26).

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Elsewhere, Gil Vicente ensured a cheerful Christmas play for their supporters past Sunday erstwhile they held their ain to play retired a goalless gully against league leaders Sporting Lisbon astatine the Estadio Cidade de Barcelos.

Despite seeing little than 40% of the shot possession and being connected the backmost ft for astir of the game, Gil Vicente turned successful a antiaircraft amusement of people to repel Sporting Lisbon and permission with a immense point.

The Gilistas person present gone 3 back-to-back games without decision successful the league, claiming wins implicit Nacional and Farense earlier past weekend's stalemate, having mislaid each of the 4 league matches preceding this run.

Gil Vicente person picked up 4 wins and 5 draws from their 15 Primeira Liga games to cod 17 points and beryllium 10th successful the standings, but could determination level connected 20 points with seventh-placed Casa Pia with a triumph connected Friday.

Next up for Bruno Pinheiro's men is the daunting situation of taking connected an opposing broadside whom they person failed to get the amended of successful immoderate of their past 15 encounters, losing 9 and claiming six draws since October 2010.

While Gil Vicente volition beryllium hopeless to extremity this hoodoo, results connected their travels connection small optimism arsenic they person managed conscionable 1 triumph from their past 10 distant games successful the league portion losing six and picking up 3 draws since the commencement of May.

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Team News

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Arouca volition person to header without the services of 34-year-old midfielder David Simao, who is presently suspended aft crossing the yellowish paper threshold with his booking against Casa Pia past clip out.

On the wounded front, the Arouquenses stay without the midfield trio of Pedro Moreira, Oriol Busquets and 24-year-old Vitinho, who proceed their spells connected the sidelines.

Kouassi Eboue is yet to diagnostic this play aft sustaining a terrible musculus occupation backmost successful May portion Nino Galovic has been ruled retired since picking up a genu wounded against Moreirense connected August 18.

As for Gil Vicente, South African planetary Sphephelo Sithole picked up a ligament wounded portion connected planetary work against South Sudan successful September and the 25-year-old is acceptable to beryllium retired Friday's clash.

Off the backmost of a standout antiaircraft show against Sporting Lisbon, we expect Pinheiro to sanction an unchanged backmost 4 of Ze Carlos, Josue Sa, Ruben Fernandes and Brazilian full-back Kazu, with 23-year-old Andrew starting betwixt the sticks erstwhile again.

Arouca imaginable starting lineup:
Mantl; Esgaio, Lamba, Fontan, Weverson; Loum, Santos; Jason, Sylla, Trezza; Yalcin

Gil Vicente imaginable starting lineup:
Andrew; Ze Carlos, Sa, Fernandes, Kazu; Garcia, Gbane, Caseres; Mboula, Aguirre, Correia

We say: Arouca 1-1 Gil Vicente

After weeks of mediocre results, Gil Vicente person turned a country of precocious and volition beryllium looking to marque it 10 points from a imaginable 12 heading into their last outing of the year.

While Arouca person struggled to grind retired results this season, they person enjoyed the amended of this fixture and we foretell they volition bash conscionable capable to permission with a point.

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