Sporting Lisbon vs Besiktas Predictions

• Besiktas have been losing at both half time and full time in their last six Champions League matches.
• The hosts have been winning at halftime and at full-time in their last six matches.
• Besiktas have conceded at least two goals in their last six Champions League matches.

Sporting Lisbon running riot

The hosts come into this one in the midst of a real purple patch as they’ve won all of their last six games and have been leading at the interval in all of those too. Their last appearance in this competition also came against Besiktas and Rúben Amorim’s side ran out 4-1 winners in Turkey. They’ll fancy their chances of claiming another victory on home soil here given that Besiktas have a depleted squad.

Sergen Yalçın’s men really are having a torrid time and it doesn’t get any easier as they travel to the Portuguese capital. They’re still missing star midfielder Miralem Pjanic, as well as Georges-Kévin Nkoudou and Ajdin Hasic. Michy Batshuayi came off injured at the weekend and he’s a doubt here, giving an already bare Besiktas squad even fewer options.

The visitors just can’t seem to stop conceding goals as they’ve failed to shut out their opponents in any of their ten previous matches. There have also been at least three goals in eight of Besiktas’ last ten games and we think that will happen again here, but with Sporting Lisbon scoring the majority of those in another comfortable victory for the home side.