Vizela vs Vitoria Guimaraes Predictions

• Vizela have scored in 60% of their home games this season.
• Vizela have kept only one clean sheet at home all season – against bottom club Belenenses.
• Both teams have scored in six of the last eight Vitoria Guimaraes away league contests.

Both teams can score at Estádio Do Vizela

Vizela and Vitoria Guimaraes look so closely matched on paper that Saturday’s meeting at Estádio Do Vizela could easily finish all square.

The hosts, who were promoted last season, fared very well in the first half of the season until a run of four defeats in five plunged them close to the relegation zone. But they leapfrogged Tondela with a 3-2 win over their relegation rivals last week and there is a renewed sense of optimism after a change of how coach Álvaro Pacheco deploys his two biggest goalscoring threats.

Brazilian striker Cassiano, who bagged twice last weekend, has been tried on the right of a 4-3-3 formation and it seems that he can dovetail quite effectively with top scorer Guilherme Schettine. They could hurt a Guimaraes defence that has been trending in the wrong direction.

Visitors are conceding many more of late

After conceding just ten goals in their first 11 league fixtures, Os Vimaranenses have now shipped 12 in their last eight games. They haven’t kept a clean sheet in their last eight road trips and we like their odds of not doing so again here.

A both teams to score bet looks a good one in the circumstances, though, because Vizela are still conceding too many for comfort. The two that Tondela tucked past them last weekend makes it 19 now in their last ten games.

The correct score bet that seems to suit this fixture is a 1-1 draw, although it must be said that Vizela could easily nick this by a goal if the visitors continue to fall asleep at the back.

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