Topic: Portuguese League - Liga Portugal 2023/24 - page 12. (Read 5272 times)

And yesterday Braga must have messed up a lot of bets, including mine 

I bet on the team victory, thinking it would be a very easy game, after all Braga are playing well, in 4th place, theoretically it would be an easy game, playing at home, and against Chaves who are in almost last place, with the same number of points as Vizela (the last one)
And the game ended in a draw hehehe, I lost my bet

In the last 5 games Braga only won 2, only 1 point ahead of Vitória SC, it will be a good fight to 4th place

What is the difference to other European leagues? Like Spanish, French or German?
Apart from the money involved, the level of competitiveness for the winner is equivalent. With two or three teams the only candidates for the title.

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.

Sporting CP, Benfica and FC Porto are still competing fiercely at the moment. These three clubs still have hopes of winning the title this season. Sporting CP appeared more confident after scoring 8 goals when facing Casa Pia. I see that these 3 clubs also have a good career journey. I am of the view that the chance to win this season is Benfica.

5 points between 1st and 3rd place isn't much, considering that we still have remaining h2h games between these teams. Don't agree with you, if such situation would be in your mentioned leagues, fight for title still would be open. C'mon, we have almost half of season remaining.
Benfica conceding first against Estrela didn't looked like real threat. It would be different if their second goal would be counted, but there was offside. BTW, didn't understood why you're calling Estrela amateur stars, but yeah, this is how their name can be translated in English.
Sporting scoring 8 goals is serious statement. And it looked that they can score as many as they want, Casa Pia just didn't arrived to the game.

I'm just waiting for Braga to win against Chaves to win my bet hehe, Sporting, Benfica and Porto have done their part 


What were the total odds on that bet?
The Braga game is still in my round 19 bet, but I can also include it in my round 20 bet
It looks like the next round is also good for betting

In the remaining match schedule for round 19 and later in round 20 I tried by selecting four matches with all four teams in the top standings, maybe this could be an easy match for them to win.
Some of the top teams have been able to have quite satisfactory match results in their last few matches, I want to see whether when betting on them they will be able to produce the victory as expected.
In the last match, Sporting were also able to get big 8 - 0 win over Casa Pia and this was very easy win to predict for them from the start of the match.

The number of goals scored by them is impressive and a great one yet it does not mean anything in the fight for the title as the title fight is wide open between the top three teams and of course with more chances to be won by a Lisboa team rather than Porto.Benfica is a great team and in consistency and the team who is most consistent in the end will most likely win.Sporting needs to keep up the good performance or they risk big as the team who makes a mistake greatly reduce their chances to win the league.

I'm commenting late, but I was waiting for all the games involving the 3 big teams to finish before I could comment. I will start with the Farense game against Porto, this was a game that in my opinion the difference between both teams was in the efficiency of Porto's attack and the inefficiency of Farense's attack, while Farense created danger for Porto's defense but wasted goals , Porto did not waste goals at every good opportunity. If the Farense player had a good attack, then they would have achieved a draw in this game. Congratulations to Porto who played well and were very efficient in attack, a team should not waste every opportunity they have to score a goal. with this victory, Porto remains in third place and in the race for the title, it is still possible that Porto can overcome Benfica and Sporting, I say this because in the Portuguese league this is possible, if it were in the league of Italy, Spain, France and Germany I highly doubt that the second third place with a difference of 5 points would be able to overtake the top team

Amateur star played against Benfica, in a game in which I saw Benfica winning, but I confess that I was surprised by the fact that Benfica conceded a goal and were losing, it was a goal that could have been avoided by Benfica's defense. Benfica's goalkeeper saved the first shot, but when defending he returned the ball to the same player who shot the ball, and as Benfica's goalkeeper was leaving the ground, he had little space and time to save the second shot, as result the amateur star scored a goal. Still in the 1 half, the amateur star was very close to scoring the second goal, without a goalkeeper, the amateur star's attacker was unable to score the second goal. Benfica reacted and managed to score 1 goal and with that the game was tied, but it's funny that it only took 1 minute for Benfica to score the second goal and the 1 half ended. In the 2nd half, in the first minutes, Benfica scored the third goal, and then Benfica scored the fourth goal and won the game. In my opinion, the amateur star did well in the 1 half but the fact that they didn't take advantage of all the opportunities they had meant they left that game with just 1 goal

Sporting played against Casa Pia, I confess that this was a result that shocked me, how could a team allow them to concede 8 goals? 5 goals were scored in the 1 half and there was no player from the home team who had a red card, so they conceded 5 goals in 45 minutes even though they were playing with full players. in the second half there was only Sporting causing danger and scoring more goals. At the end of the game there were 8 goals scored by Sporting, I've been commenting a lot here about how Sporting has had a good attack in the last few games. It looks like it won't be easy for Benfica to overcome Sporting

This has been my strategy since last season, most of the time I place a multiple bet on the top 4, but I don't place these bets on the league cup or any other championship, it's exclusively in the Bwin League that I've found this opportunity and it has paid off

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I was quite surprised by Sporting's result yesterday, scoring 8 goals in one match is quite difficult 
A very important detail, these 8 goals scored can be excellent at the end of the championship if the team needs a tiebraker, it is difficult to happen but it can help the team in the future
Benfica and Porto conceded fewer goals than Sporting, but now Sporting's goal difference is very good, with a 34-goal difference

Benfica won 4-1 away from home.Although Estrela scored the first goal, Benfica managed to come back.There were 3 goals in the first half and Benfica closed the first half 2-1 ahead.Benfica started the second half fast and increased the difference to 2 with Otamendi.The match was already at the breaking point when Estrela was red carded and left 10 men.The goal that decided the score of the match came from Marcos Leonardo.
Sporting Lisbon demolished Casa Pia at home.They rained goals and scored 8 goals in total.Sporting, who scored 5 goals in the first half, did not let up in the second half and scored 3 more goals.Sporting did not even give their opponent a chance and continued their leadership with this win.

Placing bets on these teams that failed to maintain consistent performance is worthy wise idea, my suggestion should be playing on top teams. It's not easy as it seems, you don't expect mediocre team to begin record winnings in matches because there's high level of competitive race in the league. For a start, Estoril stats this season, 5W 2D 11L which is trembling poor for the club in general. They're fighting to escape the relegation zone on the table, 15th position is no safe spot for the club, they just have to retrace their steps and fall back to winning matches as usual.

What Sporting CP did! I don't think anyone expected them to score 8 goals tonight. They intimidated all their rivals. They sent the message that we'll be champions this season. With such a good squad and such a good game, they really should be champions.
Benfica and Porto also won this week so the point difference is still same.

In the Portuguese league, there are teams with higher impacts in the league games and European contests too. Benfica, Sporting, Porto are most impactful in this regard. 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. Currently it 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.

I would have liked Estoril to win the title because they're a smaller team, and they came very close, started winning, conceded a goal but still managed to hold on until the end
I thought they'd do it, as often in championships a team wins several games on penalties
But even in second place the team deserves all the credit, they were ahead of the top 4 and they should be proud.

I should place my bets on Porto again today