Primeira Liga · Matchday 11 
Our pick Home win Correct result
Sporting’s recent dominance sets the scene for Moreirense visit
Sporting CP have won four of the last five meetings with Moreirense, including both encounters in 2025. Moreirense arrive on a two-match winning run, but face a side six places and seven points above them.
📍 Estádio José Alvalade
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Match report
Final result: Sporting CP 1-0 Moreirense.
Match statistics (home team first). Shots: 19–9; Shots on target: 5–2; Corners: 8–4; Expected goals: 2.08–0.55.
Goals
- 61' Luis Suárez · Issa Doumbia · Sporting CP
Match stats
⭐ Top-rated player: L. Suárez (Sporting CP) 8.1
Ratings and statistics: API-Football.
Confirmed lineups
Sporting CP · 4-3-3
- 30KaiqueG
- 22Iván FresnedaD
- 72Eduardo QuaresmaD
- 25Gonçalo InácioD
- 20M. AraújoD
- 4S. AndersenM
- 5Sergi AltimiraM
- 77I. DoumbiaM
- 31Luis GuilhermeF
- 97L. SuárezF
- 19N. IrankundaF
Coach: Paulo Fonseca
Moreirense · 4-2-3-1
- 13André FerreiraG
- 76Dinis PintoD
- 66Gilberto BatistaD
- 4Kevyn MonteiroD
- 17Álvaro MartínezD
- 23N. JohnM
- 65Guilherme LiberatoM
- 11LandersonM
- 7Manuel Ascenção Bebiano MendonçaM
- 28Chipyoka SongaM
- 79L. VonićF
Coach: Vasco Costa
Match facts
Recent form
Last 5 league games, latest on the right
Goals per game
| · | Scored | Conceded |
|---|---|---|
| Sporting CP | 2.3 | 1.1 |
| Moreirense | 1.3 | 1.7 |
League position
| Pos | Team | P | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Sporting CP | 10 | +12 | 21 |
| 9 | Moreirense | 10 | -4 | 14 |
Last meetings
- 2026 Moreirense 0-3 Sporting CP
- 2025 Sporting CP 3-0 Moreirense
- 2025 Sporting CP 3-1 Moreirense
- 2024 Moreirense 2-1 Sporting CP
- 2024 Moreirense 0-2 Sporting CP
PreviaXI model
Model confidence: Strong
- Expected goals (model)
- 2.54 – 0.64
- Double chance
- 1X · 92%12 87% · X2 21%
- Over 2.5 goals
- 62%Over 1.5: 82% · Over 3.5: 39%
- Both teams score
- 43%
- Clean sheet
- 53% – 8%Sporting CP–Moreirense
- Half-time result
- 1 · 58%X 32% · 2 10%
- Half-time / full-time
- 1/1 · 55%X/1 21% · X/X 8%
- Expected corners
- 8.86.5 – 2.3 · Over 9.5: 38%
- Expected cards
- 4.82.0 – 2.8 · Over 3.5: 68%
Statistical model based on expected goals (xG), results and match statistics from the last two seasons. For information only. How our model works →
Moreirense arrive with momentum
Moreirense travel to Lisbon on Saturday with two consecutive wins behind them, but the challenge is steep: Sporting CP are third in the Primeira Liga, six places and seven points above their visitors after 10 matches. Sporting have 21 points and a goal difference of +12, while Moreirense sit ninth with 14 points and a goal difference of -4.
Both teams won their most recent league match. Moreirense’s recent progress gives them a platform, but Sporting’s record in this fixture is the central question ahead of the meeting at Estádio José Alvalade.
Recent form offers both sides encouragement
Sporting have taken two wins, two draws and one defeat from their last five league matches, scoring nine goals and conceding six. Their home league record stands at three wins, a draw and a defeat from five games, with 11 goals scored.
Moreirense have three wins, a draw and a defeat across their last five, also scoring nine goals, while conceding five. Away from home, they have two wins, a draw and two defeats in five matches. Their current two-win streak is a timely boost, though their season record includes 17 goals conceded in 10 league games.
Sporting have had the upper hand
The last five meetings have produced four Sporting wins and one Moreirense victory, with no draws. Just one of those games had two goals or fewer, and the most recent meeting ended 3-0 to Sporting at Moreirense in February 2026.
Sporting also won the two meetings in 2025, both at home: 3-0 in September and 3-1 in April. Moreirense’s win in this sequence came at home in December 2024, when they edged a 2-1 result. The recent pattern is clear, but Moreirense have shown they can disrupt it.
Sporting’s attacking edge
Sporting have scored 23 goals in 10 league matches, compared with Moreirense’s 13. The hosts have also been stronger at home, scoring 11 times in five league games there. Moreirense have found the net nine times across their last five matches, so they arrive with attacking confidence, even as the head-to-head record favours Sporting.
Our prediction
Sporting’s home scoring record and four wins in the last five meetings point towards another home victory. Moreirense’s recent run suggests they can make the contest competitive, but Sporting’s greater attacking output supports a controlled win.
Sporting CP 2-0 Moreirense
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