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Arouca vs Sporting Prediction & Betting tips
Sunday Arouca receives in-house Sporting Lisbon. Can Bas Dost is again shown its best side at the club?
Arouca :
Arouca began disastrous to the season. Prior to the start of the Portuguese league Heracles was still eliminated in the qualifying round of the Europa League, but when the season Arouca camped started long time in the danger zone. After a good run in November and December acute relegation worries were turned away for a long time, but because the last six games were lost, Arouca is still unsure of self-preservation.
Arouca get, especially for Portuguese terms, many goals against. In 26 games have already collected 42 goals against. Also scoring succeed manage to persuade the team of Manuel Machado hardly the trigger: in the last six games scored only three times. The question is who has to make the goals: both Cape Verdean Kuca as the Paraguayan Walter González this season already prolonged period gained the trust but did not go beyond four and five goals respectively.
The advantage over the laggards Tondela and Nacional is still a large ten points. However, the loss range of Arouca will be terminated once to permanently prevent descent into Seguna League.
Probable lineup Arouca
Bolat, Luis Anderson, Jubal, Velasquez, Nelsinho, Santos, Prata Coelho, Bernardes, Kuca, Gonzalez, Sami
Sporting :
Sporting this season there nothing at stake. Both the gap to the leaders Benfica and FC Porto as the gap to closest pursuer Braga seems to have become respectively nine and eight points unbridgeable. Since Os Leões already been eliminated from the Cup and Europe (the last place in the Champions League in a group with Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund and Legia Warsaw), the Golden Boot seems Bas Dost highest achievable ‘price’ for Sporting.
With is Arouca hit a good opponent. The team of Manuel Machado is one of the most gepasserde defenses of Portugal. Moreover, mutual encounters the last nine (!) Were all won by Sporting. Coach Jorge Jesus is expected to make several changes to his starting line-up. Bryan Ruiz (FC Twente and PSV Ex) returned late this week returned from Central America, where he was twice ninety minutes in the field on behalf of Costa Rica against Honduras and Mexico. He will probably be rested and replaced by Bruno César.
Probable lineup Sporting CP
Rui Patricio, Schelotto, Coates, Semedo, Zeegelaar, William Carvalho, Gelson Martins, Matheus, Bruno Cesar, Alan Ruiz, Dost
Arouca vs Sporting head to head
30.11.16 CUP Sporting Arouca 1 : 0
06.11.16 PL Sporting Arouca 3 : 0
19.03.16 PL Sporting Arouca 5 : 1
26.01.16 CUP Arouca Sporting 0 : 1
08.11.15 PL Arouca Sporting 0 : 1