Sporting Lisbon vs Rosenborg Predictions

Sporting beat LASK 2-1 at home in their last Europa League game, while their guests on Thursday, Rosenborg, were beaten 4-1 in their own backyard by PSV.

All of the stats suggest that we are likely to see over 2.5 goals scored in Thursday’s match and we’ve backed Sporting to claim a narrow 2-1 win.

These two clubs might not have locked horns before but their performances heading into Thursday’s debut clash suggests that there will be goals in this game. Over 2.5 goals have been scored in four of Sporting’s last six and four of Rosenborg’s last five matches, and the hosts have only kept one clean sheet in their last six attempts and their guests only failed to score in two of their last six matches.

Rosenborg are without a win in their last four matches and have lost three of their last six matches, so the form of the visitors suggests that Sporting are the favourites to take all three points on Thursday. The visitors have lost their opening two group games in the Europa League this season against LASK and PSV, scoring once and conceding five goals, while Sporting have one win and one defeat to their name and have scored and conceded four times.

Sporting might be the form favourites heading into this match but Thursday’s hosts have lost four of their last six matches and are by no means playing to their very best standard at this moment in time, which is why we have backed a narrow 2-1 win for the Portuguese side.

We’re confident that over 2.5 goals will be scored in Thursday’s match and we have predicted a final scoreline of 2-1 in favour of the hosts. Sporting have won two of their last three matches, but only narrowly, and we expect the hosts to pick up another three points courtesy of a 2-1 victory over Rosenborg. The visitors have struggled in Europe this season and haven’t won any of their last four matches but have been scoring plenty of goals and will be a threat to the Sporting goal this week.