CD Nacional vs Vitoria SC, Primeira Liga 2025-26 REGULAR SEASON
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Overview
Match Preview
CD Nacional vs Vitoria SC — Primeira Liga at Estadio da Madeira.
- CD Nacional 34 games · 34 pts (2025/26)
- Vitoria SC 34 games · 42 pts (2025/26)
Standings
# Team P Pts 1 FC Porto 34 88 2 Sporting Clube de Portugal 34 82 3 Sport Lisboa e Benfica 34 80 4 Sporting Clube de Braga 34 59 5 FC Famalicao 34 56 6 Gil Vicente FC 34 50 7 Moreirense FC 34 43 8 FC Arouca 34 42 9 Vitoria SC 34 42 10 GD Estoril Praia 34 39 11 FC Alverca 34 39 12 Rio Ave FC 34 36 13 CD Santa Clara 34 36 14 CD Nacional 34 34 15 CF Estrela da Amadora 34 30 16 Casa Pia AC 34 30 17 CD Tondela 34 28 18 AVS 34 21 Head-to-Head
Recent Form
Date Opponent H/A Score Result 16 May Vitoria SC H 2–0 W 11 May CD Santa Clara A 0–2 L 02 May AVS H 1–2 L 25 Apr CD Tondela A 2–0 W 18 Apr FC Alverca H 1–0 W 12 Apr Sport Lisboa e Benfica A 0–2 L Date Opponent H/A Score Result 16 May CD Nacional A 0–2 L 11 May Casa Pia AC H 0–1 L 04 May Sporting Clube de Portugal A 1–5 L 25 Apr Rio Ave FC H 2–0 W 18 Apr Gil Vicente FC A 1–0 W 11 Apr AVS A 1–1 D Season Stats
CD Nacional Vitoria SC #14 Position #9 34 Points 42 34 Played 34 9 / 7 / 18 W / D / L 12 / 6 / 16 37 Scored 39 45 Conceded 51 -8 GD -12 1.00 PPG 1.24 26% Win % 35% Key Stats
63% Both Teams to Score
H2H (8 games)63% Over 2.5 Goals
H2H history24% Clean Sheets
CD Nacional this season29% Clean Sheets
Vitoria SC this seasonCD Nacional are 14th (34 pts). Vitoria SC are 9th (42 pts).
Goal Timing (This Season)
CD Nacional0-152/216-301/131-45–/146-60–/–61-753/176+1/1■ Scored ■ ConcededVitoria SC0-151/116-302/231-45–/146-602/–61-753/376+1/2■ Scored ■ Conceded -
Events
Match Events
- 0' The match kicks off with home fans waiting with anticipation for CD Nacional to score. At the same time, Vitoria SC does not seem to pull back! Let’s get it on!
- 5' Miguel Magalhaes needs to be pretty careful with his discipline considering 0 Red cards this season.
- 10' The teams are not in a rush to score plenty of goals. It might look strange considering CD Nacional that had 266 games and scored 106 goals.
- 14' Ricardo Rocha is having his name booked by the referee on 14.
- 19' The travelling Vitoria SC supporters hardly appreciate their team being pressed down to the backline.
- 24' Although teams showed high tempo form the start, they seem to slow down a bit. Both sides really need to catch a fire. Otherwise, we have another goalless match.
- 25' The referee shows CD Nacional player a card on 25.
- 30' While players are taking a pause, let’s have a look at their stats. The teams met 2 times this season with Vitoria SC winning 50% of all matches.
- 32' It’s gonna be a card for Filipe Soares.
- 33' CD Nacional player sees a card in front of him.
- 38' It looks like no one’s ball. Vitoria SC is used to counterattacking playing. None of the sides are ready to take the lead.
- 43' Vitoria SC is showing some good football. However, Vitoria SC are ready to play back every minute. It might result in some problems for the home side. The game will hardly remain goalless.
- 48' Both teams are passing the ball around with high level of urgency. Vitoria SC needs to do something about it to get closer to the goal.
- 53' Vitoria SC is defending very well tonight not leaving a chance for their rivals to get through for a goal.
- 54' Matheus Dias is having his name booked by the referee on 54.
- 59' Vitoria SC looks like a favorite considering 1 games won in last 2 matches with its main striker scoring 0 goals.
- 64' Not even hints on scoring a goal over the last 64 minutes.
- 69' What a strike from Chuchu! The score is 1-0.
- 74' Spectators do not have much to choose from both teams. The sides had several scoring chances but they still need a bit more than just a sight of a goal.
- 79' It looks surprising CD Nacional does not make any changes. Telmo Arcanjo has some obvious troubles when approaching to the goal.
- 84' While there is no rush on the pitch, let’s have a look at some stats. Leo Santos made 367 appearances and scored 1 goals. He is very likely to score a goal today.
- 85' The referee shows Vitoria SC player a card on 85.
- 86' GOAL! Chuchu scores on 86.
- Time to leave. No sensation happened. Another win for CD Nacional players.
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Lineups
CD Nacional Lineups
4-3-3Starting XI
- 34
- 22
- 7
- 11
- 38
- 1
- 9
- 6
- 16
- 5
- 15
Bench
- 19
- 2
- 18
- 27
- 10
- 33
- 30
- 50
- 99
Coach Tiago MargaridoVitoria SC Lineups
4-2-3-1Starting XI
- 20
- 27
- 18
- 26
- 2
- 30
- 11
- 28
- 19
- 80
- 82
Bench
- 13
- 66
- 4
- 88
- 48
- 25
- 50
- 33
- 46
Coach Joao Costa -
H2H
H2H Top Scorers
Player Goals Chuchu 2 Tiago Silva 2 Isaac Aguiar 1 Alhassan Ibrahim 1 Diogo Coelho 1 Chuchu 1 Ricardo Quaresma 1 Fuki Yamada 1 Head to Head
CD Nacional Form
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Predictions
Prediction accuracy3 / 41.57 CD Nacional xGExpected GoalsDixon-Coles · Bivariate Poisson · Neg. Binomial · Elo0.99 Vitoria SC xGI would bet for: Markets are evenly balanced — no clear value pick.Match Result
✓ CorrectActual: CD Nacional winBoth Teams to Score
✗ WrongAvg goals/match: 2.56Actual: No — clean sheetOver / Under Goals
✓ O/U 2.5Line Over Under ± 0.5 90% 10% ± 1.5 72% 28% ± 2.5 47% 53% ± 3.5 26% 74% ± 4.5 12% 88% Double Chance
CD Nacional or Draw 77%Draw or Vitoria SC 50%CD Nacional or Vitoria SC 73%Half-Time Result
✓ CorrectActual: Draw at HTCorrect Score
✓ In top 121 – 1 12.9%1 – 0 11.2%0 – 0 9.8%2 – 0 Actual2 – 1 9.1%0 – 1 6.6%1 – 2 5.7%3 – 1 4.8%3 – 0 4.8%2 – 2 4.6%0 – 2 3.7%3 – 2 2.5%Asian Handicap — CD Nacional
Handicap CD Nacional covers Push Vitoria SC covers -2.5 11% — 89% -2 11% 15% 74% -1.5 26% — 74% -1 26% 23% 51% -0.5 49% — 51% +0.5 78% — 22% +1 78% 14% 8% +1.5 92% — 8% +2 92% 6% 2% +2.5 98% — 2% Clean Sheet
CD Nacional keeps clean sheet 38% ✗Vitoria SC keeps clean sheet 22% ✓Predictions are statistical estimates based on season form, H2H history, and a Poisson model. Not financial advice.

