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September 30 2024, 14:28 · Alex Lawes

PSV vs Sporting Lisbon Preview & Prediction | 2024-25 UEFA Champions League | League Phase

PSV vs Sporting Lisbon Preview & Prediction | 2024-25 UEFA Champions League | League Phase
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These are two sides that have both majorly improved in the last couple of seasons and this has the potential to be a really entertaining encounter between Dutch champions PSV and Portuguese champions Sporting.

KICK-OFF DATE/TIME: Tuesday 1st October, 2024 - UK – 8:00pm / US ET – 3:00pm / US PT – 12:00pm

HOW TO WATCH ON TV: UK – TNT Sports / US – Not televised

HOW TO WATCH ONLINE: UK – TNT Sports / US – Paramount+

PSV PREVIEW: PETER’S PSV

The entertaining and always attacking Peter Bosz has often been criticised for being overly attacking and being a bit naïve but his PSV Eindhoven side actually come into this weekend on the back of an extremely impressive start to the season in which they have won all seven of their Eredivisie games so far this season, scoring 25 goals in the process.

They did begin their UEFA Champions League campaign with a 3-1 defeat to Juventus in Turin but will believe playing at Philips Stadion should give them even more of an edge to go with their high quality. They come into this one on the back of a 2-0 defeat of Willem II in their most recent outing with goals coming from Ricardo Pepi.

SPORTING LISBON PREVIEW: SILKY SPORTING

Coached by Ruben Amorim, Sporting CP had gone 20 years without a Portuguese title but have now managed two in the last four seasons since his appointment. The exciting young coach has produced an exciting young squad capable of scoring goals for fun and now keen on making a mark in Europe’s elite club competition.

Sporting come into this one having started the Portuguese Primeira Liga season with seven wins out of seven, also, quite remarkably, scoring 25 goals in the process. Unlike PSV, though, they actually won their opening game of this competition as they cruised past Lille by two goals to nil at the Jose Alvalade a couple of weeks ago.

PSV TEAM NEWS: RIGHT-SIDE DOUBTS

Peter Bosz has put together a deep and impressive PSV squad but they do have some injury doubts for this one as Sergino Dest and Hirving Lozano both likely to remain unavailable.

Despite defeat to Juventus a couple of weeks ago, Bosz will be able to name an unchanged eleven for this one as they seek to rediscover their fluency on the European stage.

PREDICTED XI (4-3-3): Benitez; Junior, Flamingo, Boscagli, Dams; Veerman, Til, Schouten; Perisic, Pepi, Tillman

UNAVAILABLE:

QUESTIONABLE: Dest (Injured), Oppegard (Injured), Lozano (Injured)

SPORTING LISBON TEAM NEWS: NO NEED TO CHANGE

There are still a couple of doubts for this week’s clash with PSV as Diogo Pinto is joined by Jeremiah St. Juste in terms of rehabilitating from injury.

The Lisbon-based club do not have any reason to make any changes to the side that eased past Lille, though, with an importance on the attacking partnership of Pedro Goncalves and Viktor Gyokeres.

PREDICTED XI (3-4-2-1): Israel; Debast, Diomande, Inacio; Quenda, Hjulmand, Morita, Catamo; Trincao, Goncalves; Gyokeres

UNAVAILABLE:

QUESTIONABLE: Pinto (Injured), St. Juste (Injured)

KEY STATS

  • The only previous UEFA competition matches between these two teams were in the 2019/20 UEFA Europa League group stage. PSV won their home fixture 3-2 on Matchday 1 and Sporting CP recorded an emphatic 4-0 victory in Lisbon on Matchday 5.
  • PSV have won only two of their last 13 UEFA competition matches against Portuguese teams (D5 L6).
  • PSV have lost only one of their previous eight UEFA competition matches at home against Portuguese teams (W3 D4).
  • PSV have not lost a competitive match at home since a 1-0 defeat against AZ on 12 November 2022 in the Dutch league.
  • PSV are unbeaten in their last ten UEFA competition matches at home (W6 D4).
  • PSV have won only two of their last 23 matches in the UEFA Champions League competition proper (D10 L11).
  • PSV have only failed to score in one of their last 14 matches in the UEFA Champions League proper.
  • Sporting CP have won only two of their last nine UEFA competition matches against Dutch teams (D3 L4). Prior to that, they had won ten of their first 11 UEFA encounters against Dutch teams.
  • Sporting CP have only failed to score in one of their previous 20 UEFA competition matches against Dutch teams.
  • There has been a total of 75 goals scored in Sporting CP’s previous 20 UEFA competition matches against Dutch teams – an average of 3.75 goals per match.
  • Sporting CP have lost only one of their last nine UEFA competition matches (W4 D4).
  • Sporting CP started their last campaign in the UEFA Champions League proper in 2022/23 with two successive wins. They are aiming to repeat that feat.
  • Sporting CP have won only three of their last 17 away matches in the UEFA Champions League proper (D3 L11).

PSV VS SPORTING LISBON PREDICTION

As mentioned, the two teams have scored 50 goals between them domestically already this season and they both play a similar style of football. Rising above rivals that are perhaps ‘bigger’ than them in the Netherlands and Portugal respectively, this has the potential to be a really fun game for the neutral to watch with two proactive sides not taking a backwards step and both teams scoring does seem likely.

PSV VS SPORTING LISBON TIP: BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE