Maritimo – Sporting (Pick, Prediction, Preview)

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Maritimo vs Sporting Prediction & Tips

Marítimo and Sporting face at Estádio dos Barreiros, in a match for the 17 th round of the Primeira Liga. At this stadium, the head ‑ to ‑ head history favors the home team, since they have a record of 2 wins and 3 draws in the last 5 matches. Sure enough, the last time these teams met at this stadium, on 11‑01‑2021, in a match for the Portuguese Cup, Marítimo won by (2‑0). The goals of the match were scored by R. Pinho (69 ‘) and Léo Andrade (79’) for Marítimo.

Maritimo
The home team is currently in 10th place, with 17 points won, after 5 wins, 2 draws and 9 losses. In the penultimate match, they lost at home to Paços de Ferreira by (0‑3). In the last match, they lost away to Vitória SC by (1‑0). In the last 7 home matches for the championship, Marítimo has recorded 2 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses, having won 8 points out of 21 possible. In their home league matches, the most frequent scorer at halftime was 0‑0 (4 out of 7 games). Defensive solidity has not been their strong point, as they have conceded goals in 7 of the last 10 games, but their attack has scored regularly, as they have scored goals in 7 of the last 10 games in this competition. In 16 matches in this competition, he suffered the first goal 7 times and only managed 1 turn on the scoreboard.

Marítimo has been a team of many ups and downs during this season so far, but overall it has even managed to keep up relatively well in the fight for maintenance. At the start of this 17th round of the Liga NOS, the team led by the Brazilian Milton Mendes appears in the 10th place of the classification table, with the same 17 points from the Nacional, but only three to the highest over the relegation zone. Last weekend, Marítimo lost in Guimarães, with Vitória Sport Clube (1-0), in a game where they managed to keep the doubt until the end, with no practical benefit. In this way, the Madeiran team reached the third consecutive defeat, adding to the bad moment after the unexpected elimination in the Portuguese Cup.

Sporting
After 13 wins and 3 draws, the visiting team is in 1st position, having won 39 points. In the last match, they have won at home by Benfica by (1‑0), after in the previous match they have won an away match, against Boavista, by (0‑2).

For this competition, do not lose as a visitor makes 8 games. In their games as a visitor there are some frequent results: at the interval 0‑1 (3 in 8 games) and at the end of the game 0‑2 (4 in 8 games). Their offense has scored regularly, as they have scored at least one goal in each of the last 10 matches for this competition. There is a tendency for goals in their away matches, as 8 of the last 8 for this competition have ended with Over 1,5 goals. This is a team that scores many times first: it opened the scoring in 14 of its last 16 games for the Premier League, of those 14 it reached the interval in advantage in 9 and managed to maintain the advantage until the end of the 90 ‘in 11.

Sporting has been making a first round of the championship “to the champion” and reaches this 17th round at the top of the league table, with a record of 42 points, in 16 games where the “lions” have not yet known the taste of defeat. Currently, Rúben Amorim’s team has an advantage of four points for FC Porto (2nd) and nine points for the duo composed of Benfica and Braga. This is because, on the last Monday, Sporting reached the fourth consecutive victory in a high-risk game, against rival Benfica (1-0), having managed to slightly overcome and reach the winning goal already over the final whistle , at 90 + 2 ‘, through young midfielder Matheus Nunes, completing an unsuccessful cut of the red defense.

Maritimo – Sporting FREE TIPS

Sporting – Win @ 1.35

Both teams to score / YES @ 1.80

Over 2.5 Goals @ 1.90