Topic: Portuguese League - Liga Portugal 2022/23 - page 6. (Read 4603 times)

This has been defended by several commentators and people connected with football. But so far this idea has not been put into practice. It was expected that the VAR would come to help, and it even helps a little, but the quality of referees in active duty is very weak and has many vices. It is expected that the next generation of referees will be a little better, not least because the level of training is different and has been improving. But while the older ones are active, it's going to be very complicated.

It's not even a matter of them being subordinates, it's actually the fact that they have poor quality in their assessment of situations. Where things that are obvious are totally devalued by them.

I'm not from Portugal and I don't follow this league that much, so I don't know does these accusations really basis or just conspiracy theories. From what I saw, in Greece have similar problem. So, their solution - they just invite foreign referees to all big games involved main teams like Olympiacos, AEK, Pao and etc. Nobody trusts local referees there, while foreign referees supposed to be neutral. Had their ever considered such thing in Portugal.

The news in Portugal falls a lot on the suspicions of the referees favoring certain clubs. Especially between Benfica and Porto, both tend to accuse themselves that they are being benefited. In reality, we see more often certain referees making decisions that in the end will favor Porto.

For example, in this game against Chaves, 2 minutes before Chaves scored a goal, he took a penalty on a Benfica player and it wasn't signaled. Of course, this does not justify the bad game that Benfica played against Chaves. But maybe I wouldn't have lost that game.

Without a doubt, the game against Estoril will be very difficult for Benfica. Especially if you lose and play a very exhausting game against Inter.

It is very difficult, almost impossible to uncover such corruption, but it exists in many leagues.
Last year they discovered in Brazil a bribery scheme for players to do certain actions during the game, so that they could bet and win money.
But they didn't find anything related to the referees.
There is a lot of talk, but they can't prove it.

Going back to the Portuguese championship, as I don't live in Portugal, I don't know how the news are daily, and if it is possible something like this, but in my opinion, from a foreigner, it doesn't make much sense to sell a championship because one day they can find out and lose a lot of things with FIFA and even be relegated or banned from participating in other competitions.
Besides that if you win the championship, you get the prize money.



For sure the participation in the Champions League affected Benfica's team, especially for having lost the match against Inter, playing in Portugal, we all know that affects the players, and they get more nervous and make more mistakes.
Having 10 points ahead, and now only 4, they are already on alert and I say that they will probably be eliminated from the Champions League and will win again in the Portuguese championship.

The two games against Braga and Sporting will be very difficult, it could be that Benfica and Porto's championship will be decided in those two matches.
I think they will be the best matches to watch and the worst to bet hehehe.

If anyone is sure that Benfica will lose against Estoril, the odds are great to bet on, odds of 22

It's been a long time since I have followed the development of the Portuguese league match and was quite surprised by Benfica's defeat last week to their opponent Chaves with a narrow score. This is a bad result for Benfica, especially losing to the 10th position in the standings. Elsewhere there are Porto and Braga who managed to win narrowly over their opponents and this also made Porto's distance smaller than Benfica by 4 points. This successive defeat is really not a good achievement for Benfica, moreover they have lost 3 times in a row, including losing to Porto and in the UCL competition against Inter. I hope Benfica can bounce back in this week's match and make the distance from Porto again.

It's really very unfortunate indeed, as a team that has dominated the league this season, but Benfica actually got two successive defeats. Even worse, in yesterday's match Benfica lost by Chaves and in fact, this was Chaves' first win over Benfica. Maybe Benfica is in a difficult situation because they also have to play in the Champions League, so this factor has made their performance decrease in the Portuguese League.

Currently, Benfica's point gap with Porto is only four points and of course, this position does not make Benfica comfortable at the top of the standings. Because yes, the poor results that Benfica got in the Champions League quarter-finals also certainly had a big impact on their current mentality.

Logically Benfica, Porto or Sporting will not accept money from rivals to lose the championship.

But there are many suspicions of corruption in the refereeing or at least a lot of pressure on the referees, who can actually end up making decisions in some bids that will benefit a certain club.

Mainly, there are many suspicions of this pressure coming from Porto, which usually always occurs towards the end of the championship when things are not going well for the club. Despite the suspicions, nothing has really been proven to date. But even the fans find some situations that occur strange, and that's why there are so many suspicions.



Edit the post to correct a sentence, which I misspelled in English. I apologize.

Now I remembered, I saw your post and it was you who had commented that Porto could be champion and that there is probably something wrong in the championship.
I still have doubts, I prefer to believe that it wouldn't come to that point of corruption in the championship.

I found very strange the way Benfica lost the last match, with a very grotesque mistake by Otamendi, almost in the last minute of the game.

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obs - I couldn't find any bets for the champion team, I think you are only allowed to bet on the champion before the championship starts

well, as i said before that benfica always have a big difference in points when approaching the end of the season they mysteriously start to lose games while porto miraculously start to win games after benfica have lost the game against porto, benfica lost again and this time lost in the game against the chaves, and porto as expected won, I said weeks ago when they said that benfica will be champion and I said that benfica when it is close to the end of the league will start losing games and Porto will be champions, and it's always the same movie in the Portuguese league

For example, in the next game for Benfica, it will be against Estoril, who are a weak team, obviously, in order not to give too much attention, Benfica will win or draw, but in these last games, Benfica will play against Braga, which without a doubt, Benfica will lose. and then benfica will play against sporting that without a doubt benfica will also lose so and just do the math well that we will easily see that the whole stage was already set from the beginning for porto to be champion, I don't see benfica being champion, benfica already makes money from selling players, so winning the league is not something that benfica takes seriously

Another loss for benfica this round its their second in a row after the loss against porto and with that only four points separate them from porto this will certainly keep the competition alive some tough games await benfica and there is a chance porto team might catch up.

What a shame ending of the season for Sporting Lisboa, i still remember the start of them winning against Totenham in UCL, and seems like they are gonna make a surprise both in UCL and in League, but ended up being a very bad season for them, out of all the important.

Sporting Lisbon drew against arouca, the in-form team of the last few weeks.It's fair to say that it didn't make much difference for either team.Although sporting clearly had the upper hand in the last meetings between them, I think sporting got such a draw, probably thinking about the juventus match.Even if they had won, nothing much would have changed since their closest rival braga also won their match.Arouca, on the other hand, got an important point from this away game to qualify for the european conference cup.

Seems that fight for 3rd place and spot in CL qualifiers becomes almost impossible for Sporting. After draw with Arouca they're 7 points behind Braga.
There is no questions about first penalty, but second one - I'm not sure how you can award such penalty even after VAR review. IMO, it was diving.
And goal that Sporting conceded - their defender Diomande basically made assist to Arouca player. One last thing about game, I haven't seen for a while 11 minutes added by referee.
BTW, Arouca isn't getting much attemtion here, but they have not bad season and they have good chances to qualify to Conference league together with Sporting, they're 4 points ahead 6th place.

It was an impressive and unexpected result yesterday. Lucky for me I didn't place any bets, otherwise I would have lost money.

A player like Otamendi, at 94 minutes, making a mistake at that level? It's bizarre...

He mis-dominated a ball, fell down, didn't make a foul to stop the play, and doesn't even seem to have tried very hard.
Watch: https://youtu.be/8dfPWN8buYU?t=174

It was a 10 point difference that seemed impossible to overcome, but now it is only 4 points.
I still believe that Benfica will win the title, it is quite favorite, and accidents happen along the way, but the nervousness of the team after losing against Inter is visible, after the 2-0 playing at home the team was nervous.
Probably after the UCL return game and a possible declassification, the team will play well again, but they have to be very careful not to start fighting each other and lose this championship.

One last observation, is that Benfica's team will have more difficult matches than Porto.

The general feeling of the Benfica fans, after that defeat against Chaves, is that we are going to lose the championship. This has already happened in the recent past, being ahead with several points of advantage, and without any apparent explanation the team starts to lose games. So the fear of this happening again is very big. The coach has to do something about this and maybe make some changes. But with just a few games left in the season, there isn't much time to recover.

Benfica looked so strong whole season and when we reached decisive phase of it, seems that they're starting to struggle. Loss to Porto last week, then painful loss against Inter in Champions league at home and now upset against Chaves. It already looked that game will end 0:0, but then on last minute Otamendi did mistake which can't be justified and let Chaves to score.
Porto won their game against Santa Clara 2:1. Not easy, but they got 3 points and now just 4 points behind Benfica. And I just remind that Benfica have remaining games with Braga and Sporting, while Porto have relatively easy remaining schedule. And just more than week ago it looked that Porto now need miracle to win title.

Well, incredible, we now have to say 3 games in a row, i dont see the game, but i can clearly see Benfica bieng not dominant,it was SUPER dominant, but when i stop tracking the match was something like in the 80 minute, when i come back and gonna check thinking, well surely Benfica win the game 1-0 with a goal in the last minutes, and finding i was totally wrong, they lose in a incredible way, Chaves doesnt make so much in the game asides of defend.

This seems like Benfica its having their drop in performanve right now, and its really sad, because its just in the most important part of the season, seeing this development i can clearly say, they are out of the UCL with this mood.

After the defeat to Porto, Benfica continues to suffer losses by losing to Chaves.At this rate, it seems that the determination of the champion will continue until the last weeks.Things may not be going well for Benfica, who lost with a goal in the last minute. The favorite of the match was of course Benfica and we mainly saw the ball in Benfica's feet, but they had difficulty in finding goals because they could not make use of the positions they found, which led to their defeat.Benfica's point difference with Porto remained 4 after this match.We can say that things are starting to get serious.

Day 28 is already starting. Here is the result of the first game:
Famalicão 2-1 Vitória Guimarães

What are your guesses for the remaining games?
Estoril vs Portimonense
Marítimo vs Paços Ferreira
Chaves vs Benfica
Porto vs Santa Clara
Rio Ave vs Casa Pia
Braga vs Gil Vicente
Sporting vs Arouca
Vizela vs Boavista


I think all eyes are on the Chaves-Benfica match. Benfica for the first time this season lost two games in a row, and games with a lot of importance. The game against Chaves can be an excellent opportunity to revive the team for the next games. But, if they don't win the game (even if it's just a draw), they will increase their pressure and could complicate even more this final phase of the season. We'll see what will happen in this game.

After another round, which was very lively with Benfica's first defeat at home, against the main rival Porto, it shows how everything is still open. Despite Benfica keeping 7 points ahead, with only 7 games left for the final, Porto is very attentive behind. Therefore, we will see that Benfica will be affected by this result, and perhaps in the Champions League game we will be able to assess this.

For those who thought that the championship was already decided, in football nothing is guaranteed until the last minute. Here is the updated table, after all the games of the 27th round.

Pos	Team	Played	Won	Draws	Lost	G.For	G.Against	G.Difference	Points
1	Benfica	27	23	2	2	68	16	52	71
2	Porto	27	20	4	3	58	18	40	64
3	Sporting Braga	27	20	2	5	60	24	36	62
4	Sporting CP	27	18	3	6	56	26	30	57
5	Arouca	27	12	8	7	31	32	-1	44
6	Vitória SC	27	12	5	10	26	31	-5	41
7	Vizela	27	11	5	11	31	28	3	38
8	Casa Pia	27	11	5	11	26	31	-5	38
9	Famalicão	27	11	3	13	28	34	-6	36
10	Rio Ave	27	9	7	11	27	31	-4	34
11	Chaves	27	8	9	10	27	33	-6	33
12	Boavista	27	9	6	12	32	45	-13	33
13	Gil Vicente	27	8	7	12	26	32	-6	31
14	Portimonense	27	8	3	16	20	35	-15	27
15	Estoril	27	7	4	16	23	43	-20	25
16	Marítimo	27	5	4	18	21	50	-29	19
17	Paços de Ferreira	27	4	5	18	20	46	-26	17
18	Santa Clara	27	3	6	18	17	42	-25	15