Estoril vs Famalicao Match Preview

Estoril is going to host Famalicao in the first stage of the Portuguese League Cup.

The Portuguese League Cup is an interesting competition in which teams are playing in a mini-league format. Currently, Estoril is in 4th place out of 5 teams in this group. They have 0 wins, 2 draws, and 1 loss. They scored 4 goals and allowed 5 goals.

Famalicao is the only team that is worse than Estoril in this group although they are playing with teams from Second Division. Famalicao has the same record with 0 wins, 2 draws, and 1 loss but they scored only 1 goal in 3 matches. They have been a bit unlucky in some cases but overall they are playing really badly, mainly defensively oriented, as in their games there is an average of 1 goal per game.

Both teams are on 2 points and both are aware that if they lose in this one it will be really hard for them to qualify. I expect both of them to be really cautious and I do not expect many goals in this match, mainly because of Famalicao's style. It is very hard to score goals against them as they have allowed only 2 goals in the last 7 games if we don't count the last one.

This much will probably be a low-scoring affair, so under 2.5 goals is my pick.