Sporting are having a weird season so far, they already had amazing moments of quality this season and had terrible moments too against some weak teams and so it is a being hard to know what to expect from this team. Sporting is very pressured due to the rivals being already far from them and it increases the must win and the responsability to win this game and mainly because the next match will be at home against FC Porto and they cannot fail to win this game against Rio Ave that are not in the best moment of the season. Sporting are very confident after the last result against Braga where they smashed them by 5-0 and created so many chances to score and I am sure they will keep this good moment of wins and to be in a good condition before the Classico against Porto. The coach Ruben Amorim already said he won’t make any kind of rotation as for example Nuno Santos is in risk to miss the game against Porto in case he receives a yellow card, but he will start the game. Sporting much better team and individually there are players in the best moment of career like Marcus Edwards, Morita and Ugarte. Recently they have lost Pedro Porto but bough in the last day an international for Spain with many games for Arsenal aswell - Hector Bellerin.

Probable line-up: Adan; Ricardo Esgaio - St Juste - Coates - Goncalo Inácio - Nuno Santos; Ugarte - Morita; Edwards - Pedro Gonçalves and Chermiti.

Rio Ave started well the season under the promising young coach Luis Freire, but now are not living their best moment. They are in a bad run of 5 games without any win for the league with 3 draws and 2 defeats. The most surprising defeat was against Pacos de Ferreira at home by 1-0 against a team that at that moment had 0 victories in the league and Rio Ave lost at home without creating a clear goal chance to score. They suffered a lot as the best goalscorer Yakubu Aziz was about to leave to Al Ahly with a great deal for Rio Ave for 2.5M Euros, but Al Ahly aborted that intention and the deal was not done and the president of Rio Ave and the player were very sad as that amount would be very helpful for a club like them. Since that the player was not a main starter like he was before and when he played he was playing really bad. The best centre-back is suspended after an horrendous tackle in the last game against Osmajic from Vizela and received straight red card - he is the leader of the team and they will feel this absence.

Probable line-up: Jhonatan; Costinha - Josué - Miguel Nobrega - Renato Pantalon - Paulo Vitor; Guga - Samaris - Baeza; André Pereira and Boateng.

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到目前为止，里斯本竞技这个赛季的表现很奇怪，他们本赛季已经有了令人惊叹的高质量时刻，在对阵一些弱队时也有糟糕的时刻，所以很难知道对这支球队有什么期待。竞技压力很大，因为对手已经离他们很远了，这增加了赢球的必要性和赢球的责任，主要是因为下一场比赛将在主场对阵波尔图，他们不可能不赢下这场比赛，对阵里约热内卢Ave，他们不是赛季最好的时刻。在上一场对布拉加的比赛中，他们5-0大胜对手，并创造了很多进球机会，我相信他们会保持这种胜利的好状态，并在与波尔图的经典比会前保持良好的状态。主教练鲁本·阿莫里姆已经表示他不会进行任何形式的轮换，例如努诺·桑托斯有可能错过对阵波尔图的比赛，如果他吃到黄牌，但他会首发比赛。无论是团队还是个人，都有很多球员处于职业生涯的最佳时刻，比如马库斯-爱德华兹、森田和乌加特。最近他们失去了佩德罗·波尔图，但在最后一天又引进了一名西班牙国脚——赫克托·贝莱林，他也将为阿森纳出战很多场比赛。

可能阵容:阿丹;里卡多·埃斯盖奥-圣贾斯特-科茨-冈卡洛Inácio -努诺·桑托斯;乌加特-森田;爱德华兹-佩德罗Gonçalves和切尔米蒂。

在前途无量的年轻教练路易斯·弗莱雷的带领下，球队本赛季开局不错，但现在他们并没有处于最佳状态。他们在联赛中连续5场比赛3平2负，没有取得任何胜利。最令人惊讶的失败是在主场对阵帕科斯-德-费雷拉的比赛中以1-0的比分输给了一支当时在联赛中0胜的球队，里约热内卢Ave在主场输球，没有创造出明确的进球机会。他们遭受了很多损失，因为最好的射手雅库布·阿齐兹准备以250万欧元的价格转会阿赫利，但阿赫利放弃了这一打算，交易没有完成，里约热内卢Ave的总统和球员都很伤心，因为这个金额对他们这样的俱乐部很有帮助。因为这名球员不像以前那样是一个主要的首发球员，当他上场时，他踢得非常糟糕。这位最好的中后卫在上一场对阵奥斯马季奇的比赛中被维泽拉铲倒，并直接吃到红牌，因此被禁赛。他是球队的领袖，他们会感受到他的缺席。

可能阵容:Jhonatan;科斯蒂尼亚- Josué -米格尔·诺布雷加-雷纳托·潘塔隆-保罗·维托;古加-萨马里斯-巴伊扎;André佩雷拉和博阿滕。