Rio Ave vs Estrela Amadora - prediction, team news, lineups

Rio Ave big Estrela Amadora astatine Estadio bash Rio Ave connected Monday evening successful a Primeira Liga fixture betwixt 2 sides heading successful sharply other directions aft the opening weeks of the season.

Sotiris Silaidopoulos's broadside get connected the backmost of consecutive 4-0 defeats, portion Pepa's recently rebuilt Estrela question to Vila bash Conde unbeaten done their archetypal 5 league matches for the archetypal clip successful the club's history.

Match preview

Rio Ave were beaten 4-0 astatine location by Sporting CP, with Luis Javier Suarez scoring doubly either broadside of goals from Flavio Goncalves and Geny Catamo successful a archetypal fractional successful which the visitors punished each mistake, and Silaidopoulos's broadside offered small effect aft the interval.

That decision was followed by an adjacent much chastening effect past week erstwhile the Vilacondenses mislaid 4-0 distant astatine Santa Clara astatine the Estadio de Sao Miguel successful the Azores, meaning the nine person present shipped 8 goals without scoring successful their past 2 matches.

Silaidopoulos, present successful his 2nd play successful charge, volition beryllium looking for a effect from a radical that has scored conscionable doubly crossed its archetypal 5 league outings this play portion conceding 11 times, with lone Moreirense allowing much (12).

Rio Ave's location signifier does not connection overmuch caller comfortableness either heading into this clash, with the nonaccomplishment to Sporting CP being their 2nd nonaccomplishment astatine Estadio bash Rio Ave this play aft losing 2-0 to Porto successful their maiden location game.

With assurance debased aft back-to-back dense defeats, the Vilacondenses look a daunting task connected Monday against a Estrela broadside that has been 1 of the astonishment packages of the opening weeks of the campaign.

However, they volition beryllium counting connected their caller grounds successful this fixture, having won the past 3 meetings betwixt some sides, with 2 of those arsenic hosts.

Estrela Amadora, by contrast, person made past successful the opening rounds of the season, with the existent squad becoming the archetypal broadside successful the club's top-flight past to decorativeness the archetypal 5 matchdays of a league run unbeaten.

That tally continued with a 2-1 triumph astatine location to Braga past clip out, which followed a 2-2 gully with Famalicao and a 3-2 distant triumph astatine Nacional earlier successful the campaign.

Leandro Antonetti has been cardinal to that transformation, scoring successful each of the club's archetypal 4 league matches of the season, a feat that made him the archetypal Estrela subordinate to people successful 3 consecutive top-flight games successful 17 years.

Pepa, appointed successful June connected a two-year deal, has overseen a near-total rebuild of the squad, with lone 9 players retained from past season's relegation conflict and caller concern bringing successful signings specified arsenic Lovro Zvonarek and Stefan Lekovic.

That investment, linked to figures including Thomas Muller and Yann Sommer arsenic portion of a caller ownership approach, has intelligibly reinvigorated a nine that finished 15th and had to combat disconnected relegation past season, and Estrela volition get successful Vila bash Conde with genuine content they tin widen their unbeaten commencement against a Rio Ave broadside debased connected confidence.

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Team News

Rio Ave volition again beryllium without goalkeeper Cezary Miszta, who continues his betterment from surgery, leaving Silaidopoulos with Ennio van der Gouw betwixt the posts.

Ryan Guilherme (ankle) and Brandon Aguilera (ACL) are besides acceptable to stay sidelined, portion Diogo Nascimento and Nelson Abbey's availability remains uncertain.

The manager volition apt support a halfway of the players that person started the past fewer games contempt the result, with Tamble Monteiro acceptable to pb the enactment arsenic helium looks to his 1 league goal.

Estrela Amadora person nary caller wounded concerns of enactment aft the triumph implicit Braga, with Pepa expected to prime the aforesaid radical that has kept the nine unbeaten done 5 matches.

Antonetti volition look to proceed his scoring signifier arsenic helium leads the enactment erstwhile again, with Ianis Stoica, who scored a brace past clip out, playing from the near wing.

Rio Ave imaginable starting lineup:

Van der Gouw; Liavas, Petrasso, Mancha, Vrousai; Ntoi, Nikitscher; Spikic, Blesa, Bezerra; Monteiro

Estrela Amadora imaginable starting lineup:

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

We say: Rio Ave 1-2 Estrela Amadora

Estrela Amadora's historical unbeaten start, Pepa's intelligibly effectual rebuild, and Antonetti's outstanding scoring signifier marque them the much unsafe broadside connected paper, adjacent distant from home.

We expect the location side's antiaircraft struggles, having conceded 8 goals without reply successful their past 2 matches, to beryllium exposed again, with the visitors’ momentum proving capable to widen their unbeaten tally to six matches.
 

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