Gameday in Barcelos for the round 16 between Gil Vicente & Vitoria Guimaraes.
Gil Vicente will be without long term injury Lucas Barros. Andrew Venture continues to be out.
Guimaraes will be without Tomas Handel. Jose Carlos is doubtful.
Gil Vicente is ranked 16 with 3 wins, 3 draws & 9 losses for 12 goals scored & 22 goals conceded.
Guimaraes is ranked 6 with 7 wins, 3 draws & 5 losses for 14 goals scored & 16 goals conceded.
One more time I'm going on Gil Vicente who is not doing a season at their level, last year they made an amazing season where they could qualify for Europe while this season this is the fight against the relegation. One more time they made a bad result in Porto against Boavista. They would have deserved better. They got 56% possession, 18 shots to 15 shots, 1.93 xG to 1.65 xG. So loosing 1-0 wasn't the fair result.
Guimaraes has a good rank but at the end the Portugal league is pretty low out of SLB, Porto, Sporting & Braga. They don't have especially a good offense, they just played few days ago in cup against Braga, they were leading 0-2 at HT but still lost 3-2 so for the confidence it wasn't that good. The only positive point on this game is that they got Anderson Silva as scorer, they have a problem to get an efficient 9 in their team, I don't think they will directly count on the ex Beijing player but it's a possibility.
At home Gil Vicente really can't waste more points. I expect a positive result by them.
