AVS vs Portimonense Prediction & Betting Tips (2 June)

With a wonderful score in the first leg, a 1-2 away victory, this AVS Futebol SAD team now has all the cards in hand to finish the job in their stadium. It would be wonderful for the locals to advance to D1 after moving up to D2 last year. 3rd in the regular season, the promoted team had still won only one of its last five matches in the regular season for a record of two defeats against Porto B 0-2 and against Tondela at home in the final day 0-1.

Portimonense finds itself in great danger by being behind on the scoreboard in the double-header defeat 1-2 in the first leg at home and seems forced to achieve the feat of reversing the situation to maintain its spot within the elite of Portuguese football. Note that for their last away match, the evening visitors swept Farense 1-3 but from a more global point of view, they have only won 2 of their last 16 league matches.

Excluded from the first leg, midfielder Pacheco (1 goal this season) will be suspended quite logically for this 2nd round. The starting midfielder Luis Silva will be there (return from suspension) as well as the top scorer of D2 Nene (40 years old, 23 goals) who was expected on the first leg but it was ultimately Bernardo Martins (5 goals this season) and the Frenchman Anthony Correia (2 pawns this season) who made the difference. Opposite, the starting left side Relvas will return from suspension this evening while the young Brazilian Zinho (21 years old) is still on the side (injured).

Top scorer of this team in the championship, Carlinhos (10 goals, 6 assists) will probably be on the trip in order to reverse the trend in the same way as the Cape Verdean international Varela (6 goals, 3 assists) and the striker Carrillo Morales (4 pawns).