Portuguese League - Liga Portugal 2023/24

[joker_josue]

Although 2 games have already been played, below is the list of all games in round 25:

MATCH DAY 25:
^{08.03. 20:45} Estrela Amadora vs Casa Pia
^{08.03. 18:45} Portimonense vs Porto
^{09.03. 15:30} Vizela vs Farense
^{09.03. 18:00} Boavista vs Moreirense
^{09.03. 18:00} Rio Ave vs Braga
^{09.03. 20:30} Vit. Guimarães vs Famalicão
^{10.03. 18:00} Arouca vs Sporting
^{10.03. 20:30} Benfica vs Estoril
^{11.03. 20:15} Gil Vicente vs Chaves
_{Info: day.month. time (Lisbon time)}

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[rdluffy]

Although 2 games have already been played, below is the list of all games in round 25:

Porto got a good win again, taking advantage of the good phase in recent days, they managed to win 3x0 and I think it's very important for the team to get these wins for the most difficult match so far, against Arsenal on the 12th
I'm rooting for Porto 

Benfica should have a relatively easy game and hold on to second place, so as not to let Porto get any closer.

Sporting may have a tougher game, but they should also beat Arouca and stay in first place
Let's see if Viktor Gyökeres will start playing or if the coach will save him for the next game against Atalanta

[joker_josue]

Sporting may have a tougher game, but they should also beat Arouca and stay in first place
Let's see if Viktor Gyökeres will start playing or if the coach will save him for the next game against Atalanta

Sporting's coach doesn't usually make savings (because winning the championship game is very important). Therefore, if the player is capable, he should play.

[rdluffy]

Sporting's coach doesn't usually make savings (because winning the championship game is very important). Therefore, if the player is capable, he should play.

What I found strange was that in the Sporting x Atalanta match, which was probably one of the most important matches of the year for the Portuguese team, coach Rúben Amorim left Viktor on the bench during the first half
The explanation was that he gave the striker a rest, implying that Sporting's focus is really on the Portuguese league
Source HERE

I thought they would go 100% against Atalanta to secure a place in the next round

While I'm writing this post, I'm watching the match of Sporting x Arouca, and Viktor Gyokeres already scored a goal hahaha 

[Hirose UK]

Sporting may have a tougher game, but they should also beat Arouca and stay in first place
Let's see if Viktor Gyökeres will start playing or if the coach will save him for the next game against Atalanta

Sporting's coach doesn't usually make savings (because winning the championship game is very important). Therefore, if the player is capable, he should play.

Ruben Amorim is quite great coach even though he is quite young, but he has managed to bring Sporting to the top of the standings even though he is currently only 1 point behind Benfica.
Moreover, he is also being targeted by several big European team who are in situation where they want to replace the old coach, Ruben Amorim performance in building the team and creating playing strategies for Sporting is also considered very good.
I sure he knows what he has to do in the future in facing several matches so that he can still win and be able to maintain position at the top of the standings until he wins the competition.

Viktor Gyokeres is one of Sporting core players and he is player who has scored quite lot of goals this season, from this it can be concluded that he will remain in the main squad for every match.
Today Sporting managed to beat Arouca with big win 3 - 0 and Viktor Gyokeres provided the first goal which was created in the 19th minute.
I think Sporting remains the team that really has big chance of becoming champion this season.

[Slow death]

The results of yesterday's games involving the big teams are expected results, Benfica, who played against Estoril, chose to rotate the team considering that the next game will be against Rangers in the European League game, when I saw the starting eleven of Benfica for this game against Estoril I immediately thought that Benfica's coach was taking a lot of risks because even with his best eleven, Benfica has had an average performance at times against weak opponents but I was calm when Benfica managed to score in the 15th minute of the game. the first goal, at least with that I started to see that with that eleven Benfica's performance was not too weakened, and after the first goal that Benfica scored, Benfica continued to put pressure on Estoril's defense, something very good to tire the team. their defense and also prevent Estoril from getting too close to Benfica's defense

but the time Estoril came to cause great danger in Benfica's defense, they managed to score the equalizer, at that time I said to myself that it was better for me to cashout my multibet bet which I had already profited more than 3x even doing so cashout of the bet, as Benfica didn't give me confidence and it was the last game of my multibet bet, so that made my decision easier and I also stopped watching the game as soon as I made the cashout. hours later I went to see how the game ended and I was surprised that Benfica had won, but even so I didn't regret having made a cashout, Benfica is a team that has a lot of difficulty beating strong teams, they will probably lose in the next game against the ranger

Sporting is unstoppable, yesterday they played against Arouca and won, in a game in which they managed to score 3 goals and didn't concede any, in the 18th minute Sporting scored a goal and already won the game, it was already quite obvious that Sporting would win the game with many goals, but until the 88th minute, when I stopped following the game, Sporting had only scored 1 goal and I was very surprised that they managed to score 2 goals after 90 minutes, it was an easy victory for Sporting. This is the performance that a champion team should have and knowing that Benfica is very unstable and easily loses in games against Porto and Sporting, so I see Sporting being champions

[swogerino]

I think it is clear now that the most favored team in this league is the Sporting team as they have 1 point of advantage and one game more to play compared to Benfica.Sure the only team going on in the European competitions so far is Sporting which they do have a real chance of passing compared to Porto which for me does not stand a single chance against Arsenal,Porto is far away from the Championship here too so they most likely should be happy with the 3rd place in Liga Portugal.

Of course Benfica has some slight chances of winning also but the majority of chances for me goes to Sporting and we are not that far away from the league end so it is going to be interesting to see these last stages of the Liga Portugal.

[joker_josue]

All results from matchday 25:

MATCH DAY 25 - RESULTS:
Gil Vicente 0-0 Chaves
Benfica 3-1 Estoril
Arouca 0-3 Sporting
Vit. Guimarães 1-0 Famalicão
Boavista 1-0 Moreirense
Rio Ave 0-0 Braga
Vizela 2-1 Farense
Estrela Amadora 3-1 Casa Pia
Portimonense 0-3 Porto


FEATURED MATCH - STATISTICS:

	Rio Ave 0-0 Braga
54%	Ball possession	46%
8	Goal attempts	10
5	Goal kick	4
1	Kick out	4
13	Free kick	15
6	Corner kick	5
1	Offside	3
17	Touch line	34
4	Goalkeeper defenses	5
13	Fouls	10
0	Red cards	0
1	Yellow cards	4
102	Attacks	106
48	Dangerous Attacks	46

[joker_josue]

After a European round, where only Benfica managed to guarantee passage to the next stage. With Porto and Sporting losing their games. We have yet another round for the Portuguese championship.

The main teams should have easy games. Perhaps Sporting will have the most difficult game against Boavista.


MATCH DAY 26:
^{15.03. 20:15} Estoril vs Portimonense
^{16.03. 15:30} Famalicão vs Estrela Amadora
^{16.03. 18:00} Braga vs Gil Vicente
^{16.03. 18:00} Farense vs Rio Ave
^{16.03. 20:30} Porto vs Vizela
^{17.03. 15:30} Chaves vs Vit. Guimarães
^{17.03. 15:30} Moreirense vs Arouca
^{17.03. 18:00} Casa Pia vs Benfica
^{17.03. 20:30} Sporting vs Boavista
_{Info: day.month. time (Lisbon time)}

[emrecemsan]

After a European round, where only Benfica managed to guarantee passage to the next stage. With Porto and Sporting losing their games. We have yet another round for the Portuguese championship.

The main teams should have easy games. Perhaps Sporting will have the most difficult game against Boavista.

Yes, only one goal was enough to carry Benfica to next stage in the Europa League.    Porto must have wished Sporting to move on just as Benfica to make their minds busy with the Europa League as well at the same time. But it didn't happen after a good comeback by Atalanta. Even if Benfica stumble on the road to the Liga Portugal title while dealing with the Europa League I assume Sporting wouldn't mess things up.

Porto's chance has already got much lower though after the extra point losses they made. They really need their luck to help them too even if they win most of their remaining league matches.    Is there anyone who believes in Porto to become champions?

[joker_josue]

Porto's chance has already got much lower though after the extra point losses they made. They really need their luck to help them too even if they win most of their remaining league matches.    Is there anyone who believes in Porto to become champions?

Unfortunately, sometimes strange things happen in the Portuguese championship, which end up favoring Porto. Therefore, although I think it will be difficult for them to be champions, there are still a lot of games until the end, and things that are out of the ordinary can happen that are in their favor.

[rdluffy]

Here's the updated table after round 26, while our friend joker isn't posting his table (much prettier and more formatted than mine haha  )

Porto's chance has already got much lower though after the extra point losses they made. They really need their luck to help them too even if they win most of their remaining league matches.    Is there anyone who believes in Porto to become champions?

I made a long-shot bet on Porto winning the title, but I don't believe it anymore, although it's not impossible, it's extremely difficult with the team only in 3rd place

Unfortunately, sometimes strange things happen in the Portuguese championship, which end up favoring Porto. Therefore, although I think it will be difficult for them to be champions, there are still a lot of games until the end, and things that are out of the ordinary can happen that are in their favor.

That season Porto would have to beat Sporting and Benfica
This time I think it's very difficult for something like last season to happen

[Slow death]

After a European round, where only Benfica managed to guarantee passage to the next stage. With Porto and Sporting losing their games. We have yet another round for the Portuguese championship.

The main teams should have easy games. Perhaps Sporting will have the most difficult game against Boavista.

Yes, only one goal was enough to carry Benfica to next stage in the Europa League.    Porto must have wished Sporting to move on just as Benfica to make their minds busy with the Europa League as well at the same time. But it didn't happen after a good comeback by Atalanta. Even if Benfica stumble on the road to the Liga Portugal title while dealing with the Europa League I assume Sporting wouldn't mess things up.

Porto's chance has already got much lower though after the extra point losses they made. They really need their luck to help them too even if they win most of their remaining league matches.    Is there anyone who believes in Porto to become champions?

Next month Porto will play against Benfica and Porto and there are only 7 games left for the league to end, knowing that Sporting has one game to spare and has a 7 point advantage over Porto. If Sporting wins in the missing game, then this difference will go to 10 points in relation to Porto and there are 7 games left for the league to finish, so Porto will need to pray that Sporting doesn't win in the missing game and doesn't win in the game against it benefits you. If Sporting wins the missing game, then Benfica beats, Gil Vicente wins, then Vitória wins and assuming that Porto also didn't lose in the next games, then when Porto plays against Sporting the difference in points would be 10 points and there would be 3 games left for the league to end

soon Porto would have to beat Sporting and then could not lose in the remaining 3 games, now if Porto loses in one or two games and Sporting wins in all the games, even in the game in which they play against Porto, then Sporting could already celebrate winning the league if they beat Porto. Porto's big advantage is that they only have Sporting as the only very strong team in the remaining games, they also have the game against Braga which will be the last league game for Porto, but Braga is a team that Porto can beat , because Braga has done poorly when playing against strong teams this season. Honestly, in my opinion it all depended on whether or not Sport could win all the games until they played against Porto.

[LTU_btc]

Sporting looks just unstoppable and now when they got kicked out from Europa league, they can focus on league only. Benfica still can fight with them, but Porto, I think they need little miracle for it.
Yesterday watched Sporting and it was another game where it looked they can score as many goals they want. BTW, in this game referee after VAR review explained his decision through speakers to stadium, something similar like they do in NBA or American football. I like this thing, strange that other leagues didn't implemented it before.

[rdluffy]

Sporting looks just unstoppable and now when they got kicked out from Europa league, they can focus on league only. Benfica still can fight with them, but Porto, I think they need little miracle for it.
Yesterday watched Sporting and it was another game where it looked they can score as many goals they want. BTW, in this game referee after VAR review explained his decision through speakers to stadium, something similar like they do in NBA or American football. I like this thing, strange that other leagues didn't implemented it before.

Sporting are doing very well indeed, what impresses me is the number of goals, 75 so far in the league, with 25 games, an average of 3 per game
Viktor Gyökeres is scoring a lot of goals, 22 already, plus 10 assists
I was just upset that he couldn't help the team in the Europa League, I wanted to see Sporting go further, at least to a semi-final would have been great

I also think it's nice when the VAR explains to the fans what happened, it's a much more transparent way to get the game going and for the fans to know what happened

[joker_josue]

And here are the results from the last round (still working on the league table, it should be ready next week)

MATCH DAY 26 - RESULTS:
Sporting 6-1 Boavista
Casa Pia 0-1 Benfica
Chaves 1-2 Vit. Guimarães
Moreirense 1-0 Arouca
Porto 4-1 Vizela
Braga 2-1 Gil Vicente
Farense 1-1 Rio Ave
Famalicão 0-0 Estrela Amadora
Estoril 1-0 Portimonense

FEATURED MATCH - STATISTICS:

	Porto 4-1 Vizela
71%	Ball possession	29%
36	Goal attempts	3
9	Goal kick	0
17	Kick out	1
13	Free kick	23
12	Corner kick	3
4	Offside	1
22	Touch line	10
0	Goalkeeper defenses	5
20	Fouls	12
0	Red cards	1
0	Yellow cards	3
145	Attacks	46
123	Dangerous Attacks	12

[joker_josue]

After a break for the National Teams games, we return to the national championship.
How do the teams return from this short break?

MATCH DAY 27:
^{29.03. 15:30} Gil Vicente vs Famalicão
^{29.03. 18:00} Benfica vs Chaves
^{29.03. 20:30} Estrela Amadora vs Sporting
^{30.03. 15:30} Arouca vs Farense
^{30.03. 15:30} Vit. Guimarães vs Moreirense
^{30.03. 18:00} Boavista vs Rio Ave
^{30.03. 20:30} Estoril vs Porto
^{31.03. 18:00} Vizela vs Casa Pia
^{01.04. 20:15} Portimonense vs Braga
_{Info: day.month. time (Lisbon time)}

[Jossque]

The rivalry between Benfica and Sporting Lisbon is likely to continue until the last week.Today both teams have a match and Benfica host Chaves at home.Chaves need to get points from this kind of matches if they don't want to get relegated from the league.They still have a chance to stay in the league and they want to keep it until the last week.
Sporting's opponent this week is Estrela.Estrela are currently in a better position than their opponents in terms of points, but as they are at home they have a chance to at least get a draw against Sporting.It will be a tough match for both teams, but I don't expect Sporting to make any mistakes.

[rdluffy]

After a break for the National Teams games, we return to the national championship.
How do the teams return from this short break?

Oh, I almost forgot to put my bet haha
A few days watching national teams was cool

I got a 3.22 odd to bet on simple wins of Sporting, Benfica, Porto and Braga
Like you said, let's see how they will return from the break

Benfica is the only one alive in continental championship, I'm curious to see if they will maintain the good pace with Sporting

[Jossque]

Benfica and Sporting Lisbon did not lose any points in the matches they played and both of them defeated their opponents and managed to close this week without a loss.Benfica finished the match in a dominant way against Chaves and although the score ended 1-0, it is worth mentioning that Benfica missed 2 penalties in the match, the first in the first half and the second in the second half.We can say that the opponent's high number of yellow cards also worked in their favor. By the 65th minute, the number of yellow cards in Chaves had risen to 7.Sporting managed to turn the game around despite conceding the first goal.They didn't lose control of the match and were in control from the beginning to the end.