FC Porto vs Vitoria Guimaraes Prediction & Betting Tips (17 April)

It's quite simple, Porto will not lift the league title and only have this Portuguese Cup to save their season. Coming back to the championship, the Dragons still occupy a very good 3rd place but are 11 points behind second place Benfica with 5 days remaining to play, i.e. 15 points to distribute. Finally, the best would even be to look in the retrospect for the men of Conceicao since Braga is back in the race for the podium, the same for Guimaraes or rather they were able to take advantage of the poor form of the locals in the evening who are surfing through three days of the championship without a victory including two defeats against Estoril 1-0 and against Guimaraes at home 1-2. Worse still, last weekend, the 2004 European champion failed to get the better of Famalicao 2-2.

It's even been three league matches that Porto has finished with 11 4 expulsions in total. Beaten in the first leg at home 0-1, Guimaraes immediately made up for his mistake by dominating Porto in his stadium in a 1-2 victory in the championship. Casually, without making much noise, Guimaraes is having a very good campaign and is even two short lengths behind his evening opponent in the championship, a credible candidate in the race for Europe at the end of the season. Note his great form at the moment with six matches without defeat in the league for a record of five victories. In search of a 6th place last weekend, Vitoria came up against promoted Farense 1-1.

The two players injured for x amount of time Zaidu and Marcano will be absent for this return match. For the rest, the group will be complete with in particular the prolific Brazilians Evanilson (11 goals, 3 assists in the league), Wendell (4 goals, 2 assists) without forgetting to mention Galeno (7 goals, 7 assists). Finally scoring last weekend in the league, Mehdi Taremi is having his worst season on a personal level at the club (only 4 goals, 22 last year, 20 two years ago, 16 for his second season and 18 during his arrived).

Among the visitors, the long-term injured Arcanjo will be out and the only one to be. Author of 11 goals in the league, Portuguese international Jota Silva will be traveling like his compatriots Joao Mendes (7 goals, 3 assists in the league) and Tiago Silva (5 goals, 5 assists).