Rio Ave - Sporting: Portuguese Cup match betting tip

Portugal

Rio Ave

Portugal

18.04.25

Rio Ave1 : 1Santa Clara

13.04.25

Moreirense0 : 2Rio Ave

07.04.25

Rio Ave0 : 2Boavista

03.04.25

Sporting CP2 : 0Rio Ave

29.03.25

Casa Pia2 : 1Rio Ave

16.03.25

Rio Ave2 : 3Benfica

Taca de Portugal

22 April 12:45 UTC

Sporting CP

Portugal

18.04.25

Sporting CP3 : 1Moreirense

12.04.25

Santa Clara0 : 1Sporting CP

07.04.25

Sporting CP1 : 1Braga

03.04.25

Sporting CP2 : 0Rio Ave

29.03.25

Estrela da Amadora0 : 3Sporting CP

15.03.25

Sporting CP3 : 1Famalicao

Rio Ave will host Sporting on April 22 in the second leg of the Portuguese Cup semi-final. Will the hosts be able to take revenge for the defeat in the first match and take a swing at the finals, or will the lions be stronger in the second leg and be able to develop an advantage? In the betting tip, we analyzed in detail the form in which the teams approach the face-to-face meeting and chose reliable bids. What will be the outcome?

Rio Ave vs Sporting CP Prediction and Betting Tips (22.04.2025)

Command Analysis

Rio Ave

Portugal

Current form

Rio Ave was approaching the start of the Portuguese championship season as a contender for a place in the middle of the table and was not a candidate for relegation, having a fully qualified squad in order to solve the problem of maintaining a residence permit in the Mayor's Office. In general, Petit's team is conducting the season quite well and, according to the results of 30 rounds, occupies 11th place in the table with 33 points, breaking away by nine points from the zone of transitional matches, it will be difficult to lose such a handicap. Having lost 0:2 to Sporting in the first match of the Cup semi-final, Rio Ave left itself frankly little chance of the final.

Disqualifications and injuries

The hosts have no problems with the composition.

Interesting betting trends

Rio Ave has suffered five defeats in its last seven matches.
Rio Ave has scored in six of the last seven home games.

Approximate composition: Mishta Tome, Ntoi, Kostoulas, Abbaye – Tyknaz, Novais, Luis, Graca, Zamora – Clayton.

Sporting CP

Portugal

Current form

Sporting definitely expected to retain the championship title and managed to gain a serious lead from the start of the season, but abruptly slowed down after saying goodbye to Ruben Amorim. However, the season has not turned into a disaster yet, and the lions have managed to get in shape and return to the first place in the table, but Benfica are currently pulling away from the second only due to additional indicators. In the Cup, Ruy Borges' team easily reached the semifinals, where they beat Rio Ave 2-0 at home in the first match, but this result still has to be defended today.

Disqualifications and injuries

Santos, Braganza, Simones and Morita are injured.

Interesting betting trends

Sporting has not lost in the last 12 matches, with eight wins and four draws.
In the last three matches, Sporting beat Rio Ave.

Approximate line–up: Silva – Quaresma, Diomande, Inacio Cenda, Debas, Hulmann, Araujo – Trincan, Diekeres, Katamo.

Trends

The bet is an accurate score of 1:3

Sporting have scored two of their last five wins with this score

10.75

Sporting'sbetwill score in the second half

In the last two matches of Sporting, this bet was successful.

1.29

The bet Total of the first half is more than 1.5 goals

This scenario has been implemented in the last five matches between the clubs.

2.25

Tip and bets

1.9Both will score

Rio Ave lost 0:2 in the first match and the hosts have no other choice but to take risks and go forward with great strength. It is obvious that Rio Ave is quite capable of effective actions on its own field, although Sporting has gained form recently, it is far from perfect and has weaknesses. At the same time, the lions have found themselves in attack, they score a lot and regularly, they will certainly try to develop an advantage today, an exchange of goals is almost inevitable.

We believe that there will be goals in the match. The betting tip is that both will score. This bet is offered with a coefficient of 1.90

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1.95handicap (-1.5) for Sporting

Betting on the outcome

Rio Ave has seriously complicated its task after the 0-2 defeat in Lisbon - motivation will certainly be present, but if it is not possible to win back at least one goal in the first half, the hosts may well give up. Sporting has got in shape and is confident, a point rotation will certainly take place, but in general the squad will be quite combative, and the guests will clearly strive to win – the favorite is quite capable of achieving his goal, today Rio Ave is objectively weaker.

The bet is the Asian handicap (-1.5) on Sporting. This bet is offered for 1.95

Betting on corners

Sporting is the favorite and will obviously attack for most of the match, but Rio Ave is capable of snapping his attacks at home, there should be a lot of corners.

The bet is a total of more than 9.5 corners. This bet is offered for 1.81

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