Topic: Portuguese League - Liga Portugal 2023/24 - page 11. (Read 5272 times)

One of the fixtures for the UCL round of 16 between Arsenal and Porto is more of an average probable game. Both teams are likely to win. Although Arsenal are a better side judging from their EPL performances, to their group stage performances too. Porto themselves aren't doing so bad in their league and they've got good track record in the group stage.

 Arteta's Arsenal are young, vibrant and victory oriented too. They won't want to give off their chances at the trophy just so easily to Porto. They're a side more likely to put up a fierce contest and make the game tough for their opponent Porto. Maybe or maybe not, Porto will be able to endure the strength Arsenal would put up. Arsenal are to some extent technically better than them still.

But this season Porto will not have the opportunity to stay longer in the UCL competition because their opponent in the round of 16 is Arsenal, in the Premier League Arsenal performed so well that in the UCL competition maybe they will remain the same.
In the last match, Arsenal managed to beat Liverpool, which is one of the strong team whose quality of play has improved, so it can be confirmed that Arsenal may have also improved their performance.
Previously, Arsenal experienced several problems that made them decline, but now it is starting to appear that Arsenal has started to slowly recover.

The top three teams are fighting to be more active in collecting points from each match.
Porto will probably only get an achievement like last season by overthrowing Sporting from second place.
Porto will be runners-up and the winner of the title will remain the same, namely Benfica and of course being runner-up is the maximum achievement that Porto can achieve this season.

Yes, the Portuguese league does have clubs that have had a big influence over the years, like the clubs you mentioned, because these clubs have always dominated the league. Porto is still performing very well in the league as well as in the Champions League and is not having a big impact even though they have a busy schedule, as well as Sporting CP and Benfiqa must prepare themselves to compete in the play off round of the European league in the near future so that they can bring in the big names of the league Portugal is competing in the big league but not as big as the Champions League because Porto is also trying hard in the match they will play this month when they face Arsenal because it is quite a tough match.

Yes, you could say that in every league there are definitely clubs that always dominate, such as the Bundesliga, French League 1, and the Turkish league. These leagues also have several clubs that always dominate, making the league not so competitive so that other clubs in the league have to fight hard to break this dominance so that the league becomes more competitive.

I also think it's very difficult for the team to do what they did last year, because they're playing in the Champions League, and they were the only Portuguese team to qualify, the others are playing in the Europa League, which is theoretically easier
Apart from anything else, I don't see Porto having as much strength as they did last year, especially as Sporting are playing very well this year
Last year it was practically Benfica and Porto fighting it out. This year there's still Sporting

For Porto, they're 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 applies for Benfica and Sporting who's got their own record in the European cups too. Benfica did well at securing the three points in their last game with a good goal margin. It only shows how set they are for the task put before them. Although a lesser performance wasn't expected from them though but they're definitely a stable team in the league.

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.

That sounds pretty difficult to achieve right now from Porto.I think last year they were also a bit lucky in that final stretch and also Benfica was playing in Champions and Porto took profit from this fact.I doubt now that Benfica would favor the Champions over the Liga Portugal abd will give it all to win.For me though Sporting is the strongest contender to the title as they are in the best performance so far.

With Porto's draw I've already lost my bet  , but I have to say, what a bad game for Porto
They played against a weaker opponent in 16th place, failed to score a single goal and missed out on two extra points

With Sporting and Benfica having won their last 5 games, it's getting difficult for Porto to keep up, they're now 4 points behind the leaders but with 1 more game
It looks like Porto will only be fighting for the league 2025 and not the title

Or could Porto do the same as last year and start winning everything in the final stretch? 

In fact, it could even harm you.

If Benfica wins, they will move ahead of Sporting, and psychologically this could affect them, especially after Porto drew with Rio Ave. Furthermore, Sporting has a very full calendar, and according to competition regulations, the game must be played within the next 4 weeks. In other words, this will increase the team's physical effort and could jeopardize its performance.

The competition regulations are not prepared for this type of scenario and it could harm the teams.

Today Benfica will welcome Gil Vidicente to their home ground today at the Estadio da Luz. Benfica are second in the points table, one point behind Sporting Portugal in the title race. In the semi-finals of the League Cup, they lost on penalty shoot-out with Estoril. However, in the last match, Benafica won 4-1 against Estrella Amadora. Although Gil Vidicente are at number 10 in the points table, they have played well in the last two matches and beat Vitoria in the last match. Both teams have had good recent performances but I'd put Benfica ahead here. I think both teams will score, but my prediction is that Benfica will lose 2-1 at Gil Vidicente.

this Porto game against Rio Ave, it seemed like it was a game in which players from both teams were on the field to fight rather than play football, there were a lot of fouls, there were a lot of offsides, there were a lot of good opportunities in which Porto could have scored a goal, but the lack of creativity on the part of Porto's attackers was very great, with more than 70% possession of the ball, Porto could have scored at least one goal in that game, but they couldn't and with this draw I'm starting to think that Porto won't To be able to reach the top teams, Porto's solution is probably to fire the coach, but it will be very complicated for another coach to be able to get Porto back to the Portuguese league's achievements without signing many players.

I saw on TV about the postponement of the Sporting game, this does not harm Sporting, but I think that measures need to be taken so that cases like these do not happen again in the future, I have seen in the news that they are asking for more investigation into this and for punishment the culprits, the league pays for protection, so there is no justification for these types of situations to occur, in any case I see that they will place all the blame on low-ranking police officers. today benfica will have a complicated game, gil vicente had only 1 defeat in the last 5 games and comes from a sequence of 3 games without losing and in the last games gil vicente has been a team with good defense, and they hardly suffer more than 1 goal while Benfica has been a team that has shown to have a good attack, and in most games they have managed to score at least 2 goals. I hope Benfica wins this game

After Sporting game got postponed, only game is remaining today - Porto - Rio Ave. Difficult to expect that Porto will have problems today, though, some recent meetings with Rio Ave were really tough for them,

And this game got postponed. First it was delayed for 1 hour, but now it was confirmed that game won't be played today. As I understand, there wasn't enough police to guarantee safety. It's required to have at least 15 officers at game and only 2 were available. Nothing surprising that riots happened before the game, several fans were injured, at least one is heavy. Sporting fans probably is most aggressive in Portugal.

And this is my bet



Again, betting in top 4
Wish me luck and Braga please do your best hehehe 

Last round Braga messed with my bet