Portuguese League - Liga Portugal 2022/23

[joker_josue]

Of course Benfica will win the match against Estoril. Benfica's performance was very good, they even got the opportunity to win the group at UCL. Of course the player class will be different from Estoril. But Benfica won with a narrow goal. My prediction is 2-1 or 3-1. The difference in points with Braga reaches 6 points, so this allows Benfica to play more relaxed. I think Benfica's focus is now on UCL.

At the moment they don't have to worry about the UCL, because it's already past and the next games will only be for February.
Now Benfica will try to score as many points as possible until the World Cup break. And I believe that they will hardly lose points until then.
Sometimes the danger is that they go into the game with less motivation, or with overconfidence. But Benfica's coach has managed this situation well.

[joker_josue]

FC Porto won 4-0 against FC Paços de Ferreira. The first goal was at 4 minutes by Evanilson and he managed to score twice before the break, and in the first half Taremi also scored. In the second half, Delgado (from Paços de Ferreira) scored an own goal.
You can see the summary here: http://videos.sapo.pt/0wm6d8ZHi0qzdoZ9C72A


Sporting CP won 3-0 against Vitória SC. After a series of bad results, Sporting won with goals from Porro (34'), Hide Morita (40') and Edwards (55').
You can see the summary here: https://desporto.sapo.pt/video/zbGtPG0LsQYmNTWZleoS

[LTU_btc]

Seems that all teams from Big 3 had easy round. Porto 4:0 Pacos De Ferreira. When you're worst team in league and concede at Dragao on 4th minute, there is not mutch hope left to achieve positive result.
Sporting 3:0 Vitoria Guimaraes. I watched game and red card that Vitoria got in the middle of 1st half was decisive moment. After that Sporting started to dominate completely. A bit relief for Ruben Amorim.
Benfica leading Estoril 3:0, and it's just halftime. Most interesting result this round is Casa Pia win against Braga away. I still don't beleive that they can perform so well all season long and sooner or later their shape will go down, but seemst that not yet.

[joker_josue]

Most interesting result this round is Casa Pia win against Braga away. I still don't beleive that they can perform so well all season long and sooner or later their shape will go down, but seemst that not yet.

Today we had another surprising result in the Portuguese League, Casa Pia beat Braga 0-1.
Casa Pia, is having an extraordinary season, continues in fourth place in the championship. A position that few expected, from a team that has just reached the first division.
You can see the match summary here:
https://desporto.sapo.pt/video/3owjiCHZGisWpvkpHtAH

The question now is, when will they stop surprising?

[joker_josue]

Benfica thrashed Estoril 5-1. Thus solidifying the first place in the championship. It was the 11th victory in 12 matches for Benfica in the Portuguese League.
Two of the goals were scored by 19-year-old central defender Antonio Silva. The doubts now that arise is whether he will go to the World Cup, since he has never played in the national team.

You can see the match summary here: https://desporto.sapo.pt/video/6DhD3jle8fSuzAuO5Dkf

[joker_josue]

During this week, the games for the Portuguese Cup have been taking place.
The main clubs have already played, with Porto beating Mafra 3-0, and Benfica beating Estoril 1-0.

Braga will still play with Moreirense today, but at the moment I don't even know if betting on Braga's victory is viable or not. They are playing very badly.

[Slow death]

During this week, the games for the Portuguese Cup have been taking place.
The main clubs have already played, with Porto beating Mafra 3-0, and Benfica beating Estoril 1-0.

as expected from porto and benfica, despite some setbacks porto won, while benfica this season is a winning machine, they are doing an excellent job

Braga will still play with Moreirense today, but at the moment I don't even know if betting on Braga's victory is viable or not. They are playing very badly.

honestly speaking, betting on braga in this game is high risk, they dropped a lot and I don't understand what happened to them, I had high hopes that they would compete with benfica for who would stay at the top, but they started to drop in performance and I didn't it will be surprising if they lose in this game, because the moreirense are not weak, I do not bet on this game

[Blawpaw]

Benfica is actually having a great season this year, so I actually believe thay will be the ones winning this year's Portuguese League. Even though Porto is only 3 points away, their team has already proven to be stronger. So, even though I'm not a Benfica supporter my bet for this year's season goes to Benfica.

[joker_josue]

Benfica is actually having a great season this year, so I actually believe thay will be the ones winning this year's Portuguese League. Even though Porto is only 3 points away, their team has already proven to be stronger. So, even though I'm not a Benfica supporter my bet for this year's season goes to Benfica.

Benfica is 8 points ahead of Porto.
Therefore, Benfica has to start losing points in 2 or 3 games to be caught by Porto. Which at the moment doesn't look like it will happen, as Benfica is playing very well this season.

[joker_josue]

This weekend we will have matchday 13, with the following games:

Arouca vs Rio Ave
Boavista vs FC Porto
Paços Ferreira vs Vizela
Vitória SC vs Marítimo
Benfica vs Gil Vicente
Casa Pia AC vs Chaves
Portimonense vs Braga
Famalicão vs Sporting CP
Santa Clara vs Estoril

What are your bets?

Mark in bold the teams that I think will win, and in bold the vs games that I think will draw.

[joker_josue]

Arouca vs Rio Ave
Boavista vs FC Porto

My first guesses failed.
Rio Ave beat Arouca by one goal. Initially I thought about the victory of Rio Ave, but then I ended up choosing the draw.
In the case of Porto, I thought that Boavista would cause more difficulties, but in the end the result was 1-4 with Porto winning.

If you want to see the summary of the game between Boavista vs Porto, here it is: https://desporto.sapo.pt/video/YoLqL5b1CjwJ7wkiSrjL

[Moeda]

Benfica again won the match against Gil Vicente with a score of 3-1. So that the points for Benfica continue to increase, as if there are no equal opponents in the Primeira Liga. We can see this based on the last 13 matches with 12 wins and 1 draw. While FC Porto continues to catch up, because the gap in points with Benfica is 8 points. It's a big number for this year, considering that Benfica's form has been very good, and they are hard to beat.

Benfica's rivalry with FC Porto is clear, because these two clubs are in the last 16 of the Champions League. Of course these two clubs will show their superiority.

The remaining two matches for this week, Famalicao vs Sporting CP and Santa Clara vs Estoril. Of course this is an important match for Sporting CP to place 4th position. And I believe Sporting CP will win the match. But Famalicao is also a formidable club despite currently being in 14th position in the standings. Although head to head, Sporting CP is superior to Famalicao, but Famalicao has also beaten Sporting CP in the Primeira Liga 19/20 with a fantastic score.

[swogerino]

Benfica again won the match against Gil Vicente with a score of 3-1. So that the points for Benfica continue to increase, as if there are no equal opponents in the Primeira Liga. We can see this based on the last 13 matches with 12 wins and 1 draw. While FC Porto continues to catch up, because the gap in points with Benfica is 8 points. It's a big number for this year, considering that Benfica's form has been very good, and they are hard to beat.

Benfica's rivalry with FC Porto is clear, because these two clubs are in the last 16 of the Champions League. Of course these two clubs will show their superiority.

The remaining two matches for this week, Famalicao vs Sporting CP and Santa Clara vs Estoril. Of course this is an important match for Sporting CP to place 4th position. And I believe Sporting CP will win the match. But Famalicao is also a formidable club despite currently being in 14th position in the standings. Although head to head, Sporting CP is superior to Famalicao, but Famalicao has also beaten Sporting CP in the Primeira Liga 19/20 with a fantastic score.

Benfica performance both here and in the Champions League is a clear indicator for me that most likely they will win the Liga Portugal and if I remember correctly they will be facing Club Brugge which is the "easiest" team compared to all other teams right now in the Champions League and most probably they can go far even in the Champions League during this season.

They in Liga Portugal are the most consistent team so it is only natural for them to end the season as winners but there is a lot of time until then.

[LTU_btc]

The remaining two matches for this week, Famalicao vs Sporting CP and Santa Clara vs Estoril. Of course this is an important match for Sporting CP to place 4th position. And I believe Sporting CP will win the match. But Famalicao is also a formidable club despite currently being in 14th position in the standings. Although head to head, Sporting CP is superior to Famalicao, but Famalicao has also beaten Sporting CP in the Primeira Liga 19/20 with a fantastic score.

Famalicao - Sporting is very boring game. Well, maybe it's not worth to expect top class football in such heavy rain and probably some Sporting players minds in World Cup already. Sporting solved everything in the end of 1st half by scoring 2 goals. And after that there was some tension when Sporting player made dirt foul against Famalicao player, IMO he had to get red card for it. Fortunately things haven't turned into mass fight.
After this win Sporting is getting closer to Porto and Braga, but gap to Benfica is huge. Benfica goes into Wolrd Cup break with comfortable lead.

[Slow death]

Famalicao 1 - 2 Sporting CP

Sporting won thanks to the penalty, with that they are in position 4 but are far below the first place (Benfica)

Casa Pia AC 1 - 2 Chaves

I am very surprised by this result, I thought that casa pia could win, Chaves was not a strong opponent

Benfica 3 - 1 Gil Vicente

as expected from benfica, with this victory benfica is already further away from porto

Portimonense 1 - 2 Braga

Braga this season is chasing second place because I doubt they will get first place, they have been doing well and other times they are a disaster

[joker_josue]

Famalicao - Sporting is very boring game. Well, maybe it's not worth to expect top class football in such heavy rain and probably some Sporting players minds in World Cup already.

It certainly wasn't that the players were thinking about the World Cup, because Sporting will only have 2 or 3 players in the World Cup.
The problem of the low quality of the game is the result of the low performance that Sporting is showing. This break for the World Cup should be very useful for Sporting to reorganize and do better in the second part of the season.

[joker_josue]

Despite the championship being on pause because of the World Cup, the ball continues to roll with the League Cup games.

Today Benfica will play with Estrela da Amadora, a historic club in Portuguese football, which spent many years in the first division, until having suffered financial problems that kept it away from football for many years. But, two or three seasons ago, he came back and started in the lower leagues of Portugal, and always climbing the division every season, he is already in the second division.

What will be the result? What are your bets?
Estrela Amadora vs SL Benfica


I would say Benfica, despite not having some of the main players, because they are in the World Cup.

[Slow death]

Benfica again won the match against Gil Vicente with a score of 3-1. So that the points for Benfica continue to increase, as if there are no equal opponents in the Primeira Liga. We can see this based on the last 13 matches with 12 wins and 1 draw. While FC Porto continues to catch up, because the gap in points with Benfica is 8 points. It's a big number for this year, considering that Benfica's form has been very good, and they are hard to beat.

Benfica's rivalry with FC Porto is clear, because these two clubs are in the last 16 of the Champions League. Of course these two clubs will show their superiority.

The remaining two matches for this week, Famalicao vs Sporting CP and Santa Clara vs Estoril. Of course this is an important match for Sporting CP to place 4th position. And I believe Sporting CP will win the match. But Famalicao is also a formidable club despite currently being in 14th position in the standings. Although head to head, Sporting CP is superior to Famalicao, but Famalicao has also beaten Sporting CP in the Primeira Liga 19/20 with a fantastic score.

Benfica performance both here and in the Champions League is a clear indicator for me that most likely they will win the Liga Portugal and if I remember correctly they will be facing Club Brugge which is the "easiest" team compared to all other teams right now in the Champions League and most probably they can go far even in the Champions League during this season.

They in Liga Portugal are the most consistent team so it is only natural for them to end the season as winners but there is a lot of time until then.

this season benfica is doing very well, they have overcome all obstacles and have all the conditions to become champions, but they are also very lucky because porto had some games in which they lost points, and that undoubtedly benefited benfica a lot, with the inconsistency that porto has had this season, and sporting and also brada are two other teams that are inconsistent and may lose points in the next games so benfica has good chances to become champions, they just need to stay consistent, they they just need not to lose points, if they achieve this then they will be champions. in the champions league they were also very lucky because they will play against a team that is not very strong in relation to the rest of the other teams

Despite the championship being on pause because of the World Cup, the ball continues to roll with the League Cup games.

Today Benfica will play with Estrela da Amadora, a historic club in Portuguese football, which spent many years in the first division, until having suffered financial problems that kept it away from football for many years. But, two or three seasons ago, he came back and started in the lower leagues of Portugal, and always climbing the division every season, he is already in the second division.

What will be the result? What are your bets?
Estrela Amadora vs SL Benfica


I would say Benfica, despite not having some of the main players, because they are in the World Cup.

this will be a game in which benfica will have difficulties to win the game, benfica will not be playing with all their strength so it is natural that the coach of benfica also chooses to give rest to the rest of the main team players and play with team B, since team B is probably not strong so I would say that the game will end in a draw or with few goals, betting on the winner is very risky, in the last 5 games Estrela Amadora scored in all games and I don't know how the B team of benfica plays, but my guess would be BTTS

[joker_josue]

this will be a game in which benfica will have difficulties to win the game, benfica will not be playing with all their strength so it is natural that the coach of benfica also chooses to give rest to the rest of the main team players and play with team B, since team B is probably not strong so I would say that the game will end in a draw or with few goals, betting on the winner is very risky, in the last 5 games Estrela Amadora scored in all games and I don't know how the B team of benfica plays, but my guess would be BTTS

But this game will also be a good opportunity for the second line players, to try to show themselves and play a good game, with the aim of having the opportunity to be a first line choice for the Benfica coach.

Estrela da Amadora, on the other hand, will want to do everything to have a good result, as this will allow them to be better positioned to move on to the next stage of the competition, taking into account that only the first place in the group passes.

[swogerino]

this will be a game in which benfica will have difficulties to win the game, benfica will not be playing with all their strength so it is natural that the coach of benfica also chooses to give rest to the rest of the main team players and play with team B, since team B is probably not strong so I would say that the game will end in a draw or with few goals, betting on the winner is very risky, in the last 5 games Estrela Amadora scored in all games and I don't know how the B team of benfica plays, but my guess would be BTTS

But this game will also be a good opportunity for the second line players, to try to show themselves and play a good game, with the aim of having the opportunity to be a first line choice for the Benfica coach.

Estrela da Amadora, on the other hand, will want to do everything to have a good result, as this will allow them to be better positioned to move on to the next stage of the competition, taking into account that only the first place in the group passes.

I think Benfica will win this game with a tennis result even if they play with the players from the bench which is the most likely occurrence for this game.While I agree that a team from a lower league will try to play at their 110% against the best team of the Portugal Primeira Liga this will surely not be enough to hold back Benfica.There will not be any surprise for this game,Benfica is going to win easily,I also think the odd of Benfica should be in the range of 1.30 to 1.50 because of Estrela being in the top three teams in the Liga 2 in Portugal but most probably as I said Benfica is going to win,there is quite some difference between the first and second leagues in any country and this is the case also in Portugal.