Vitoria Guimaraes vs Fiorentina Preview: Team News & Prediction

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Portuguese sides often underperform in UEFA competition outside of ‘Os Tres Grandes’ but Vitoria Guimaraes will be playing UEFA Europa Conference League knockout football in 2025 as they prepare to welcome one of the other members of the top three, Fiorentina, to the north of Portugal.

Kick-off date/time: Thursday 19th December, 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 – discovery+ / US – Paramount+

Key Stats

Vitória SC have won ten and drawn one of their previous 11 UEFA club competition matches this season. This is their longest unbeaten run in UEFA club competition history.
Vitória SC have won their previous five UEFA club competition matches at home this season.
Vitória SC have lost only two of their last 17 UEFA club competition matches at home (W11 D4).
Vitória SC have won ten of their last 12 matches at home in all competitions (D1 L1).
Vitória SC have kept seven clean sheets in their last 12 matches at home in all competitions.
Fiorentina are unbeaten in their last eight UEFA club competition matches against Portuguese teams (W5 D3). The have won each of the last four.
Fiorentina have lost only two of their last 21 UEFA club competition matches (W11 D8).
Fiorentina have lost only one of their last 15 UEFA Conference League group/league matches (W11 D3).
Fiorentina have won four of their previous five matches in the league phase of the 2024/25 UEFA Conference League.

Vitoria Guimaraes vs Fiorentina Prediction

Vitoria Guimaraes have been improving across the last 12 months, despite the sale of a couple of key players, and, for are guaranteed knockout football since the introduction of group/league stages.

Os Conquistadores have collected 13 points from their five matches in this season’s UEFA Europa Conference League league phase. They do come into this one on the back of a 2-2 draw against Rio Ave to keep them tucked inside the top six of the Portuguese Primeira Liga, too.

They now face a Fiorentina side that, coached by Raffaele Palladino, are enjoying a magnificent campaign in which they are involved in the Serie A title race, despite their 1-0 loss to Bologna at the weekend. They have four wins and a defeat in their five matches on the continent.

These are two of the strongest sides in the UEFA Europa Conference League jostling to join Chelsea as one of the top seeds and we could have a fun game with both teams scoring a good bet.

Vitoria Guimaraes vs Fiorentina Tip: Both teams to score