Rio Ave started well the season with some very good performances, but their most recent matches were terrible. The coach Luis Freire who has an amazing career with 37 years old he already got promoted more than 4 times and was champion more than 3 times, but this season he is changing a lot the way the team plays - he decided to put Josue instead of Miguel Nobrega who was playing really well, one of the fastest players of the league and one of the strongest of the league Paulo Vitor is not playing to play a more defensive player Pedro Amaral. In the last 4 games they lost 3 and one was against a team from the 3rd League that eliminated Rio Ave from the Portuguese Cup and only won 1 against Portimonense where Portimonense got reduced to 10 men since the minute 30 and even against 10 players Portimonense created better chances to score than Rio Ave and scored a goal that was after disallowed by VAR. This decrease in terms of performance can be easily explained by such changes by the coach and due to a very important absence, the offensive midfielder Joca had a serious injury and is likely to miss the rest of the season. The best goalscorer of the team Yakubu Aziz felt an injury in the last game against Casa Pia and probably will be replaced by Leonardo Ruiz. Due to this I cannot see them beating Boavista at home.

Probable line-up: Jhonatan; Costinha - Josue - Aderllan Santos - Patrick William - Pedro Amaral; Guga - Baeza - Samaris; Leonardo Ruiz and Boateng.

Boavista did a historic start of season aswell and now are living a terrible moment. They are in a run of 5 games without winning, where in the middle they were eliminated by Machico from the 4th League on Portuguese Cup, so this game becomes extremely important for them to win. In the last 2 games Boavista played really well and could have won both games, in the first against Vitoria Guimaraes in one of the most difficult stadiums in Portugal they got reduced to 10 men due to a red card to Ricardo Mangas on the minute 41 where they were already losing 1-0, they turned to 1-2 but then in the last minutes they lost 3-2. In the last game against Vizela they were playing really well and could have won the game in the last minutes but Yusupha Njie missed a penalty that could have give the 3 points to the Panthers. The must win is really big for them due to this and the coach Petit is under pressure and this game can change everything. Good news for them is the return of the left-back Ricardo Mangas.

Probable line-up: Bracalli; Pedro Malheiro - Reggie Cannon - Bruno Onyemaechi - Ricardo Mangas; Sebastian Perez - Makouta - Watai; Salvador Agra - Gorre and Yusupha Njie.

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Ave本赛季开局不错，有一些非常出色的表现，但他们最近的比赛很糟糕。教练路易斯·Freire曾与37岁的他已经有了一个了不起的职业提升4倍以上,超过3次冠军,但这个赛季他改变很多团队扮演的方式——他决定把约书亚,而不是米格尔Nobrega玩的很好,最快的球员之一的联盟和联盟最强的之一保罗康不是玩发挥更多的防守球员佩德罗·阿马拉尔。在过去4场比赛他们输了3个,一个是反对联盟的一个小组第三,消除里约热内卢大街从葡萄牙杯,只赢了1对Portimonense Portimonense了自30分钟减少到10人,甚至对10名球员比里约热内卢大街Portimonense创造更好的得分机会,进球后不允许的VAR。这减少的性能可以很容易地解释这些变化由教练和由于一个非常重要的缺失,进攻型中场约卡伤势严重，很可能缺席本赛季剩下的比赛。球队最佳射手雅库布·阿齐兹在上一场对阵卡萨皮亚的比赛中受伤，可能会被莱昂纳多·鲁伊兹取代。因此，我不认为他们会在主场击败博阿维斯塔。

可能的阵容:Jhonatan;科斯蒂尼亚-乔苏-阿德兰·桑托斯-帕特里克·威廉-佩德罗·阿马拉尔;Guga - Baeza - Samaris;莱昂纳多·鲁伊兹和博阿滕。

博阿维斯塔在赛季的开始也取得了历史性的成绩，现在他们生活在一个糟糕的时刻。他们已经连续5场比赛没有赢球了，在葡萄牙杯的比赛中，他们被第4联赛的马其科淘汰，所以这场比赛对他们来说是非常重要的。在过去的两场比赛中，博阿维斯塔踢得非常好，本可以赢下两场比赛，第一场在葡萄牙最艰难的球场之一对阵维多利亚吉马良斯的比赛中，由于里卡多·曼加斯在第41分钟被出示红牌，他们被减少到10人，当时他们已经0 - 1落后，他们1-2落后，但在最后几分钟他们以3-2落后。在上一场对阵Vizela的比赛中，他们踢得非常好，本可以在最后几分钟赢得比赛，但Yusupha Njie罚丢了一个点球，本来可以让黑豹获得3分。必须赢球对他们来说非常重要，因为教练佩蒂压力很大，这场比赛可以改变一切。好消息是左后卫里卡多·曼加斯的回归。

可能的阵容:Bracalli;佩德罗-马尔赫罗-雷吉-坎农-布鲁诺-奥尼梅奇-里卡多-曼加斯;塞巴斯蒂安·佩雷斯-马库塔-瓦泰;萨尔瓦多阿格拉-戈尔和Yusupha Njie。