Portuguese League - Liga Portugal 2023/24

[QueenVera]

In a game like this where Sporting was playing against a team that was not very weak, we are talking about Braga who have generally conceded 1 to 3 goals when playing against Porto, Benfica and Sporting, I highly doubt that anyone imagined that Braga were going to concede 5 goals in that game, from what I could see from the highlights, it seemed that the Braga players were thinking about their problems off the field rather than being focused on the game that was in front of them at that moment, for example Sporting's first goal, It was a serious error by the Braga player that allowed the Sporting player to recover the ball and manage to score a goal with some ease and this was seen a lot in this game

Braga players were not focused on this game, especially the defensive players, so Sporting has been a very strong team in attack in recent games, with such great weaknesses in Braga's defense, it makes perfect sense to have the goals that Sporting scored. , looking at the 3 big teams at the moment, I see Sporting as the team that deserves to win the league, but as in football a lot can happen until the last round, so only Sporting could start to feel comfortable if they ended up with a difference of more than 10 points in relation to Porto and Benfica, I still think that this is possible, since Benfica and Porto have had inconsistent moments at times, then they recovered, then they became inconsistent again.


Vitoria SC 2 - 2 benfica

Really thinking about a Benfica champion this season starts to be something that will depend on Sporting and Porto losing a lot, it's funny that in that game Vitória was playing with 10 players since the 64th minute, but even with this great help Benfica did poorly, they only managed draw when there were just a few minutes left in the game, Vitória deserved to leave this game with victory. Benfica at certain times seem like Porto, and it is strange that in some games when Benfica is losing the opponent receives a red card and Benfica manages to leave the game without defeat. I find it very strange, in this vitória game I didn't even understand why the hell the player did what led to his expulsion

The Portuguese league have teams with higher impacts in the league games and European contests too. Benfica, Sporting, Porto are most impactful in this regard. Porto are doing well in the league and also have good performance records in the UCL too even though they weren't able to keep up with their good performance in their last league game which wasn't so acceptable. Same scenerio applies for Benfica and Sporting who's got their own record in the European cups too. Benfica have been doing well at securing the three points in most of their games with good goal margins.

 It only shows how set they are for the task put before them. Although a lesser performance isn't expected from them.The league seems less competitive though as there are still weeks left and just these 3teams are trying to make good wave in the league. Over the years it's still these three that have been the most talked about because of the feats they've attained. One would be so sure to bet on these teams and their ability to keep progressing in points in their league games.

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[joker_josue]

Below are the results of another round full of surprises, with Porto's defeat and Benfica's draw:

MATCH DAY 21 - RESULTS:
Gil Vicente 0-1 Vizela
Arouca 3-2 Porto
Vit. Guimarães 2-2 Benfica
Sporting 5-0 Braga
Rio Ave 1-0 Casa Pia
Boavista 2-1 Estoril
Moreirense 1-0 Chaves
Farense 1-1 Famalicão
Estrela Amadora 3-0 Portimonense


FEATURED MATCH - STATISTICS:

	Arouca 3-2 Porto
41%	Ball possession	59%
10	Goal attempts	14
6	Goal kick	6
0	Kick out	4
13	Free kick	21
3	Corner kick	7
1	Offside	4
23	Touch line	32
4	Goalkeeper defenses	3
20	Fouls	9
0	Red cards	1
3	Yellow cards	4
48	Attacks	115
18	Dangerous Attacks	61

LEADERBOARD:

POS	Team	PLD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PTS
1	Benfica	21	16	4	1	46	14	32	52
2	Sporting	20	17	1	2	58	19	39	52
3	Porto	21	14	3	4	35	16	19	45
4	Braga	21	12	4	5	44	32	12	40
5	Vit. Guimarães	21	12	4	5	34	22	12	40
6	Moreirense	21	10	5	6	26	24	2	35
7	Arouca	21	8	4	9	35	29	6	28
8	Farense	21	7	5	9	29	29	0	26
9	Boavista	21	6	6	9	29	38	-9	24
10	Famalicão	20	5	8	7	19	24	-5	23
11	Gil Vicente	21	6	4	11	30	35	-5	22
12	Estrela Amadora	21	5	6	10	22	32	-10	21
13	Estoril	21	6	3	12	35	37	-2	21
14	Rio Ave	21	4	9	8	21	29	-8	21
15	Portimonense	21	6	3	12	23	44	-21	21
16	Casa Pia	21	5	5	11	19	35	-16	20
17	Vizela	21	3	7	11	19	38	-19	16
18	Chaves	21	3	5	13	20	47	-27	14

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POS - League Position, PLD - Games Played, PTS - Points Earned
W - Games Won, L - Games Lost, D - Games Drawn
GD - Goal Difference, GF - Goal For, GA - Goal Against

[joker_josue]

After a round of the Europa League, where we had the victory of Sporting and Benfica, as well as the defeat of Braga, we have another round for the Portuguese League:

MATCH DAY 22:
^{16.02. 20:15} Famalicão vs Rio Ave
^{17.02. 15:30} Chaves vs Boavista
^{17.02. 18:00} Portimonense vs Vit. Guimarães
^{17.02. 20:30} Porto vs Estrela Amadora
^{18.02. 15:30} Casa Pia vs Arouca
^{18.02. 18:00} Benfica vs Vizela
^{18.02. 18:00} Estoril vs Gil Vicente
^{18.02. 20:30} Braga vs Farense
^{19.02. 20:15} Moreirense vs Sporting
_{Info: day.month. time (Lisbon time)}

What will the results be?

[rdluffy]

After a round of the Europa League, where we had the victory of Sporting and Benfica, as well as the defeat of Braga, we have another round for the Portuguese League:

Sporting are doing very well, I really enjoyed their game against Young Boys, and in their next game in Portugal they have everything they need to secure their place. Benfica also managed to win, but with a bit of difficulty.
Braga have lost a lot of momentum in both leagues, and in the domestic championship, if Braga can't react, they'll end up losing fourth place to Vitória, who seem to be playing better at the moment, with a good result against Benfica (a draw)

I think I can do a multiple bet in the top four again, but I've lost a few bets with some unforeseen results, like that Benfica draw
I'll try to find a good opportunity to bet on Sporting's goals, the team has scored a lot of goals this season and I believe there's a good opportunity

[QueenVera]

Sporting are doing very well, I really enjoyed their game against Young Boys, and in their next game in Portugal they have everything they need to secure their place. Benfica also managed to win, but with a bit of difficulty.
Braga have lost a lot of momentum in both leagues, and in the domestic championship, if Braga can't react, they'll end up losing fourth place to Vitória, who seem to be playing better at the moment, with a good result against Benfica (a draw)

I think I can do a multiple bet in the top four again, but I've lost a few bets with some unforeseen results, like that Benfica draw
I'll try to find a good opportunity to bet on Sporting's goals, the team has scored a lot of goals this season and I believe there's a good opportunity

 The Portuguese league have teams with higher impacts in the league games and European contests too. Benfica, Sporting, Porto are most impactful in this regard. Porto are doing well in the league and also have good performance records in the UCL too even though they weren't able to keep up with their good performance in their last league game which wasn't so acceptable. Same scenerio applies for Benfica and Sporting who's got their own record in the European cups too.

 Benfica have been doing well at securing the three points in most of their games with good goal margins. It only shows how set they are for the task put before them. Although a lesser performance isn't expected from them. Sporting are very much impactful in their games and Benfica too, the league seems less competitive as these teams unendingly saves the day for themselves and one would really wish there can be improvement as we'd love to see more clubs rising up to the contest before them and holding onto it fully.

[Slow death]

Benfica game against Vizela had a very shocking result, I already expected Benfica to come out of that game with victory because the difference between these two teams was very big, and despite Vizela having conceded 4 or 5 goals in past games against other teams teams, I expected them to be better in defense in this game, but once again they were a disaster in defense, especially in terms of the goalkeeper who didn't do well, the defensive players were a huge disaster, they looked like they were playing amateur football, it is certain that Vizela will be relegated this season, there are at least still many chances of them avoiding this, because in terms of points they are not very far from the other teams that are close to the relegation zone

but the problem is that Vizela squad is a very weak squad and it was not improved this January and as they will remain with this weak squad until the end of the season, so it is safe to say that they will unfortunately be relegated. Talking about Benfica, it was a good performance, this victory is very important because even with this victory the difference in points with Sporting is only 3 points and Sporting still has 2 games to play and they can get 3 points and with This will leave them at the top with a 3 point advantage over Benfica.

Porto won, Braga also won. So the fight for better positions in the table is being well contested and today the leader of the table plays, Sporting who will play against Morteirense who in the last 5 games managed to obtain 3 wins and 2 draws, Morteirense in the last 7 games he played at home They only had one defeat, which means that Sporting needs to be careful with Moreirense defense when they play at home, in terms of attack they are not very strong at home, the problem will be in their defense as they have hardly conceded many goals in the last 6 games that they did at home. I'm thinking about which market I'll bet on this game. In the 1x2 market, Sporting has 1.32 odds, it's not worth it, in the market for both teams to score, it's also difficult for me because although Moreirense are weak in attack when they play at home, Sporting are a strong team in the last games, and that sporting will have the next game of the european league and could spare players if they manage to score many goals in that game, which would give space for the Moreirense to score a goal while I bet that both teams would not score a goal

[swogerino]

It looks like tonight Sporting has the best opportunity to get ahead and lead the league alone after so many weeks of sharing it with Benfica.This was a week with quite some surprise results as Benfica lost away to a weak team while Porto barely managed to get a draw and these results clearly are in favor of Sporting if they manage to win their game tonight.I think they would not miss such opportunity and easily win this game.

[JariKriting]

It looks like tonight Sporting has the best opportunity to get ahead and lead the league alone after so many weeks of sharing it with Benfica.This was a week with quite some surprise results as Benfica lost away to a weak team while Porto barely managed to get a draw and these results clearly are in favor of Sporting if they manage to win their game tonight.I think they would not miss such opportunity and easily win this game.

Although benfica is leading the standings, sporting lisbon has 2 more matches than benfica. in this case, the chances of spotting lisbon are slightly greater than the chances of benfica.

[joker_josue]

It looks like tonight Sporting has the best opportunity to get ahead and lead the league alone after so many weeks of sharing it with Benfica.This was a week with quite some surprise results as Benfica lost away to a weak team while Porto barely managed to get a draw and these results clearly are in favor of Sporting if they manage to win their game tonight.I think they would not miss such opportunity and easily win this game.

Now I don't understand what you meant. Both Benfica and Porto won their games this round. This comment is a week late. 

The difference is that Sporting has two games behind, by winning today they are tied with Benfica, but still have 1 game less.

[rdluffy]

The difference is that Sporting has two games behind, by winning today they are tied with Benfica, but still have 1 game less.

I was also confused haha, I even went to check the table again to see if I was confusing the results of the other round, after all I managed to win my bet, finally, after some bad results, the 4 won again

Benfica managed to score 6 goals, and took away a bit of the goal difference to Sporting and this could be VERY important at the end of the championship
Can you imagine if they draw on points and the championship is decided on goals?
Hehehe, difficult but possible

[joker_josue]

Benfica managed to score 6 goals, and took away a bit of the goal difference to Sporting and this could be VERY important at the end of the championship
Can you imagine if they draw on points and the championship is decided on goals?
Hehehe, difficult but possible

Yes, it could happen. But the first tiebreaker would be the direct confrontation. And at this moment Benfica has an advantage, because they won in the first round.



Here are the results of the last match day:

MATCH DAY 22 - RESULTS:
Moreirense 0-2 Sporting
Braga 2-1 Farense
Benfica 6-1 Vizela
Estoril 1-3 Gil Vicente
Casa Pia 1-0 Arouca
Porto 2-0 Estrela Amadora
Portimonense 1-1 Vit. Guimarães
Chaves 2-1 Boavista
Famalicão 2-1 Rio Ave


FEATURED MATCH - STATISTICS:

	Chaves 2-1 Boavista
41%	Ball possession	59%
7	Goal attempts	14
3	Goal kick	3
3	Kick out	7
19	Free kick	17
4	Corner kick	3
1	Offside	3
24	Touch line	17
2	Goalkeeper defenses	1
17	Fouls	16
1	Red cards	0
6	Yellow cards	1
78	Attacks	81
35	Dangerous Attacks	42

LEADERBOARD:

POS	Team	PLD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PTS
1	Benfica	22	17	4	1	52	15	37	55
2	Sporting	21	18	1	2	60	19	41	55
3	Porto	22	15	3	4	37	16	21	48
4	Braga	22	13	4	5	46	33	13	43
5	Vit. Guimarães	22	12	5	5	35	23	12	41
6	Moreirense	22	10	5	7	26	26	0	35
7	Arouca	22	8	4	10	35	30	5	28
8	Famalicão	21	6	8	7	21	25	-4	26
9	Farense	22	7	5	10	30	31	-1	26
10	Gil Vicente	22	7	4	11	33	36	-3	25
11	Boavista	22	6	6	10	30	40	-10	24
12	Casa Pia	22	6	5	11	20	35	-15	23
13	Portimonense	22	6	4	12	24	45	-21	22
14	Estoril	22	6	3	13	36	40	-4	21
15	Estrela Amadora	22	5	6	11	22	34	-12	21
16	Rio Ave	22	4	9	9	22	31	-9	21
17	Chaves	22	4	5	13	22	48	-26	17
18	Vizela	22	3	7	12	20	44	-24	16

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POS - League Position, PLD - Games Played, PTS - Points Earned
W - Games Won, L - Games Lost, D - Games Drawn
GD - Goal Difference, GF - Goal For, GA - Goal Against

[swogerino]

Interesting table of standings with Sporting being the most favored team so far to have the highest chances to win the Liga Portugal.Of course this is difficult to predict since now as there are another 14 games to be played until the end of the league so most likely what will decide the winner of this league is the fact as which team from Benfica or Sporting will handle better the huge amount of psychological pressure for the title fight

[Essential10]

Rio Ave will host points table top side Sporting Clube de Portugal at their home ground in the Portugal Primeria League today. Rio Ave played well in their last match against Famalicao but ended up losing 2-1. Rio Ave have won just one of their last five matches. Meanwhile, Spotting Portugal are in great form, unbeaten in their last five matches. Sporting Portugal won their last match in the domestic league 2-0 at home to Morirens. Sporting Portugal are competing with Benfica for the top of the points table. Both teams have the same 55 points, although Sporting Portugal have played one match less. Today they have a chance to extend the points gap with Benafica in the points table. Considering the overall form, I don't think Rio Ave will do much against Sporting Portugal today. My prediction for today's match is Sporting Portugal to beat Rio Ave 3-1.

[joker_josue]

Just to inform you that during the next few weeks, I will not be able to share the statistical data, as usual, for technical reasons.

But, be sure to comment on the events in the championship Portuguese.

[rdluffy]

Just to inform you that during the next few weeks, I will not be able to share the statistical data, as usual, for technical reasons.

But, be sure to comment on the events in the championship Portuguese.

No problem joker, I can post the table, but not as good and well formatted as yours hehehe
It's a good thing I didn't place any bets for this round, I focused more on the Europa League as there were three Portuguese competing for a place in the round of 16

Porto drew the match and I couldn't imagine that result. Porto lost important points in that game, while Benfica did very well and scored 4 more goals in the match to get the 3 points
Sporting are playing now, 2x2  Rio Ave, but I believe Sporting will win this match

[Slow death]

the results of today's games involving the big teams were results that some of them surprised me, benfica played against portimoense. the game ended with a goalless draw in the 1 half and left me very worried because I bet on Benfica to win the game, but when in the 2 half Benfica scored the first goal it left me calm, and the most unbelievable thing is that it only took 2 minutes for Benfica to score another goal again and another 2 minutes Benfica scored the third goal and I was soon convinced that Benfica's victory was already guaranteed and my bet was safe and Benfica scored the fourth goal and won the game, There is no doubt that Benfica did well in this game

Another game that happened today was Porto's game against Gil Vicente, I didn't place a bet on that game because Porto is a team that, in my opinion, doesn't give me confidence even when they play against accessible opponents and in the case of this game when Porto scored a goal I really thought they could win and when the 88th minute arrived I stopped following the game because I thought Porto's victory was guaranteed. After a few minutes I went back to see the final result of the game and I was shocked by what I saw, Porto conceded a goal and the game ended in a draw. With this result it is difficult for Porto to reach the top, but at least Porto is in luck because Sporting drew in its game against Rio Ave in a game in which Rio Ave won 2 penalties.

And talking about Sporting, I'm following Sporting's game against Rio Ave, the game has now ended and it was a game in which there were 2 penalties in favor of Rio Ave, something very strange, with this result Sporting loses first place to Benfica and I believe Benfica are very grateful because they can be champions, Sporting didn't know how to take advantage of the opportunity, so I hope Benfica makes good use of this good opportunity and wins the remaining games until they become champions, in Benfica's next 5 games, They will play against Porto and Sporting if Benfica manages to win in these two games against big teams, so I see Benfica being champions

[odunybiz]

And talking about Sporting, I'm following Sporting's game against Rio Ave, the game has now ended and it was a game in which there were 2 penalties in favor of Rio Ave, something very strange, with this result Sporting loses first place to Benfica and I believe Benfica are very grateful because they can be champions, Sporting didn't know how to take advantage of the opportunity, so I hope Benfica makes good use of this good opportunity and wins the remaining games until they become champions, in Benfica's next 5 games, They will play against Porto and Sporting if Benfica manages to win in these two games against big teams, so I see Benfica being champions

Sporting game surprised me the most today in the Portuguese League. Rio Ave is a weaker team but played with sporting as if they were playing with a team of the same level. Imagine getting 3 goals against Sporting. They even planned to get the whole 3 point in that game from Sporting FC. Although the 2 penalties awarded to them had really helped them in the match. This match had made me lose my bet today but we move.

[joker_josue]

And talking about Sporting, I'm following Sporting's game against Rio Ave, the game has now ended and it was a game in which there were 2 penalties in favor of Rio Ave, something very strange, with this result Sporting loses first place to Benfica and I believe Benfica are very grateful because they can be champions, Sporting didn't know how to take advantage of the opportunity, so I hope Benfica makes good use of this good opportunity and wins the remaining games until they become champions, in Benfica's next 5 games, They will play against Porto and Sporting if Benfica manages to win in these two games against big teams, so I see Benfica being champions

Sporting game surprised me the most today in the Portuguese League. Rio Ave is a weaker team but played with sporting as if they were playing with a team of the same level. Imagine getting 3 goals against Sporting. They even planned to get the whole 3 point in that game from Sporting FC. Although the 2 penalties awarded to them had really helped them in the match. This match had made me lose my bet today but we move.

The Rio Ave, It is a team that, despite being small, always creates a lot of difficulties for the big teams. All the big three have had tough games with them. At the moment Benfica has a bigger advantage, but Sporting still has a game in hand. And the next round will be difficult, we will have a Benfica vs Porto. A decisive game for Porto.

[rdluffy]

Sporting game surprised me the most today in the Portuguese League. Rio Ave is a weaker team but played with sporting as if they were playing with a team of the same level. Imagine getting 3 goals against Sporting. They even planned to get the whole 3 point in that game from Sporting FC. Although the 2 penalties awarded to them had really helped them in the match. This match had made me lose my bet today but we move.

Sometimes I notice that when a team plays in the continental championship, such as the Champions League or Europa League, the team can't play as well in the next game in the national championship
It can be a number of factors, travel to another country, physical and mental fatigue, the difficulty of the previous game, etc
And look, Porto and Sporting didn't get good results in the last round, while they got excelent results in Europa League and UCL 

Maybe I'll avoid betting on those rounds

[Hirose UK]

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Sporting game surprised me the most today in the Portuguese League. Rio Ave is a weaker team but played with sporting as if they were playing with a team of the same level. Imagine getting 3 goals against Sporting. They even planned to get the whole 3 point in that game from Sporting FC. Although the 2 penalties awarded to them had really helped them in the match. This match had made me lose my bet today but we move.

The Rio Ave, It is a team that, despite being small, always creates a lot of difficulties for the big teams. All the big three have had tough games with them. At the moment Benfica has a bigger advantage, but Sporting still has a game in hand. And the next round will be difficult, we will have a Benfica vs Porto. A decisive game for Porto.

Rio Ave is indeed one of the lower team but it is really surprising what they do because several times they have made the matches really interesting, one of which was today in the match against Sporting.
Even though the second and third were goals from penalties but it gave them draw against strong team like Sporting, I sure many gamblers who initially made Sporting as favorites were really disappointed in this match.
But Rio Ave received red card from their right-back Renato Pantalon, this will mean Renato Pantalon will have to be absent from several future matches.

Benfica vs Porto will be very interesting match and of course this is very important match for both team because they are two of the top 3 team.
If Benfica loses this match, it could provide an opportunity for Sporting to take over the top position in the standings because their difference is only 2 points.
But if Benfica manages to win then they can get really safe conditions because the gap is getting bigger even though Sporting has one game left.