Topic: Portuguese League - Liga Portugal 2022/23 - page 3. (Read 4609 times)

Thanks for explanation. Obviously I had Porto in my head, no idea why I wrote Sporting, probably late night was the reason. So, for Porto it looks almost like mission impossible.

I doubt that Benfica will lose points in the match with Santa Clara, the match against the last team in the championship, for which everything is already decided, will not matter. While it will be an important match for Benfica to become champions in front of their fans at the Estadio da Luz, so I think it's all clear, Santa Clara simply doesn't have any chance. Porto will most likely win their match too, but points are more important for Guimarães as Arouca will most likely win their match too.

I didn't expect that Sporting would be successful in holding Benfica to a draw, even the most surprising thing was that Sporting had won 2 goals in the first half. Fortunately, Benfica managed to equalize through goals by Aursnes in the 71st minute and Neves in the 94th minute. If Benfica loses, then Porto's chances of disrupting Benfica's position are quite large.

Only Benfica and Porto can finish with the same number of points. If that happens, the first tiebreaker is the H2H, which is tied because they both beat each other.

At this moment, the tiebreaker will be the overall goal difference (goals scored-goals conceded). That in this case it is Benfica who has the advantage, unless Porto scores 10 goals in the last game.

Someone please remind me what will happen if both Benfica and Sporting will end with same number of points? If I'm not mistaken then they look at H2H results, then H2H goal difference and then H2H away goals? So, in such case Porto would take title. But still, they need Benfica draw with Santa Clara - worst team in league which already fight for nothing. Difficult to see such scenario.
Benfica scoring late goal and taking draw should be painful for Sporting. Now they can't reach Braga and will play in Europa league, while Braga goes to Champions league qualifiers.

It's unbelievable that Porto continues to win games thanks to the penalties and the referees, I even thought they were going to hide it, but on the contrary, they are not ashamed of doing this type of thing, in a game having so many meaningless penalties, when Porto you can't win the game, then the referee comes with his penalties, honestly it's very shameful to watch Porto games this season, I don't know why the regulators and so many people in Portuguese football don't see that what is happening in Porto games is not something normal, today benfica drew with sporting and with that it opens a clear space for porto to still manage to be champion, the way benfica has been playing in the last few games is very strange

The Portuguese league has been with me this season, Porto has been winning thanks to the referees, and Benfica, who throughout the season were playing very well, suddenly became a team that already plays in a different way, it doesn't have that consistency that they had before, they had a period of losing points to the point of porto which was far away from benfica, of braga being in second place and now being close to being champion, this seems like something from the movies, it looks like I'm watching a movie, we'll see on last game who will be champion, but benfica looks a lot like arsenal, always starts well and always ends badly most of the time

Shame!
Since they can see that it will be difficult for them to win the championship, they have to at least get their striker to be the best scorer of the championship.

They didn't just failed to secure 3rd place, but also they don't have chances to reach 2nd place. It wasn't most exciting game and 1:1 is fair result. Any, most likely Braga will remain on 3rd place.
Porto managed to win 2:4 against Famalicao, despite that score was 2:2 at halftime. 4 penalties in total were awarded in this game.

Porto conceding two goals, i dont expect that.

Braga dont secure the 3 spot , but they have an easy last match agains the last of the tournament.

Braga ended up drawing the game, and failed to secure the 3rd place in this journey.
Porto has been playing badly, but it will be difficult to lose the game, because something will happen for them to end up winning.

Today there are two important games:
Boavista vs Braga
Famalicao vs Porto

The good thing about these two matches is that the favorite teams play away and the odds are better.
You can make a double on the wins of Braga (1.58) and Porto (1.41), which together give 2.22 of odds, I think a good bet for two matches.

And the game of Benfica vs Sporting tomorrow I think I will not bet for being a match extremely difficult to predict. I believe in a Benfica's victory, but I'm not so confident to lose money hehehe
Important thing: Benfica could be champion tomorrow if it wins the match

Do you also think that the two matches I mentioned today are easy for Porto and Braga?

Porto won game and they deserved it. They were creating moments, but luck wasn't on their side, Casa Pia goalkeeper also made some big saves, but after all Porto achieved goal on additional time and idn't let Benfica to clebrate title already. Meanwhile Casa Pia continue longest winless streak in league.
I don't believe in Porto chances, but it would be nice if Sporting will win against Benfica this week. It would make last round interesting, unlike in almost all top leagues winners is known few rounds before end of season.

I can even see Benfica losing to Sporting, despite Sporting also having difficulties in their games and having lost their main goalkeeper to red.
But, Benfica's last game is at home against Santa Clara, which is in last place. It is very unlikely that they will lose this game.

it would be impossible for porto to lose, they might even do some staging to make it look like the game was being difficult and in the end they were victorious, and it's always like that in porto games against other opponents, I was even surprised that in this game there wasn't a penalty but I believe that there was no penalty because it is already raising suspicions so they need to create other strategies that benefit the port, if it did not depend on the referees the port would be in the 3rd or 4th position of the table this season, they do not play well this season, this is very visible , but unfortunately they are very lucky with the help of the whistle men

now benfica will have a very difficult game against sporting, it is very difficult for benfica to beat sporting, in case of a victory in sporting's game then benfica will be champion, but as i do not believe much in the portuguese league this season i still think that benfica could lose in the game against sportingo and then lose in the game against benfica only for porto to once again become champions, i will not be surprised if that happens, i will just believe that benfica is not part of the scenario that Porto benefits if benfica beats sporting and becomes champion or if benfica beats santa clara and becomes champion

It is the 79th minute and Porto is not doing much more than Casa Pia honestly as the stats shows somewhat of an equal game.I would love though for Porto to win as they would keep mathematically open for another game at least the Liga Portugal although I doubt that anyone else except Benfica deserves to win it more than anyone else and simply for because what they have given to the fans so far,better plays than any other team in Liga Portugal and their performance in European competitions was much better than any other team here.

I only hope for Porto to win their game for the people who have bet on them.

Wow I'm watching the match here
It's 1 x 1 right now, 30 minutes remaining to the end, I believe Porto can manage to make the second goal, but the match is hard
Braga, Sporting and Benfica already won their matches without problems, just the match of Porto is tough

Will I lose the bet just because of Porto?
Let's see

I wonder if there will be any help for Porto's team to win?
I am following closely here

At half-time, Porto lost at home to Casa Pia by one goal.
Will Benfica still be crowned champion today?

Of course it will be difficult, Porto will give everything in the second half, so everything is very excited.

I think so too. There is one moment of tension now that will be in the next game when Benfica plays against Sporting in an away game, but only if Porto wins both games and Benfica loses against Sporting. Could it happen? Yes, but even if it happens, the last game Benfica plays against Santa Clara at home. That is where I think the chance that Benfica drops points when they have to win in front of their crowd is not existent. That would probably be the most dramatic ending the Primeira Liga has ever seen if the leading team in the table loses against the last in the table on the last game day and then loses the championship.

I haven't seen worse work of referee than in Sporting - Maritimo game. Additional time, Sporting leads 1:2, Maritimo attack. Referee assistant raises flag because foul, but main referee don't react, Sporting players basically stop to defend and Maritimo scores a goal. Then referee shows red card to Adan and goes to watch VAR. And then he cancel goal after review. Ridiculous, but actually referee lost control of game long time ago. Something what we discussed many times about level of referee in Portugal.
After this win Sporting still have chances to reach Braga on 3rd place. Meanwhile Benfica had easy game against Portimonense and won 5:1. Next week they're going to face Sporting, but it's almost impossible for them to lose title.
Braga - Santa Clara and Porto - Casa Pia on Sunday.

After the victory against Braga, I also have doubts that Benfica will lose the championship. They could even lose to Sporting, which I doubt, they stayed ahead and will certainly win the other two games they have to play.