Topic: Portuguese League - Liga Portugal 2023/24 - page 4. (Read 4761 times)

Anyone keeping an eye on the two cup games today and tomorrow?

I don't even need to say much, Benfica vs Sporting is going to be a very interesting game, I'm going to watch it and place a bet, although it's very difficult, the 2 best teams in Portugal at the moment, with a slight advantage for Sporting in my opinion
But Benfica have more tradition in deciding matches

Guimaraes vs Porto, it's a chance for Porto to redeem themselves from their bad results this season, I think they'll give more importance to the cup than usual, as they're the team that most needs to win this championship

I'll bet on Porto

Needless to say, I've already lost the bet because of Porto's defeat 

This season is not going well for the team, and they probably won't even qualify for the next Champions League
It's been a long time since that happened

What's more, if Braga win today, they'll only be two points behind Porto, and they're still in danger of not even qualifying for the Europa League
I'll do some research later, but I think this is Porto's worst season in years

I still believe that Benfica is much better, plus it is going to be home game for them right? That will definitely mean something in the end. Benfica has been doing fine for a long time and they have to win this, Sporting is ahead even with one game at hand, so if Benfica loses this and Sporting wins that extra game, that could be game over, the point difference would be 7 in that case (1 already, 3 from winning this game, 3 from missing game).

So Benfica has to win, it means the world to them, not even a tie, there is no draw in this game, Benfica has to do whatever they can do to win this, that's the only way they can get out of this. That would make them 2 point ahead, and even if Sporting wins the missing game, that would be just 1 point difference.

I would relate struggle of Sporting and Benfica with international break, it's not easy to play after it. But still, they're getting wins and it leaves not much hope for Porto. They need to get perfect results in remaining games and get some favor from Sporting and Benfica. Next week there is Lisbon derby, probably for Porto perfect result would be draw.

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EDIT Porto lost to Estoril and now they would need something even more than miracle to get back to title race. Another poor performance, red card of goalkeeper and then ending game with just 9 players on the pitch...

There are still more than 6 games left for the league to finish and in the Portuguese league it is still possible for Porto to be champions or to greatly reduce this difference in points, if we were talking about Braga there would be a difference of just a few points with Benfica or Sporting. , so I would say that it is impossible forobraga to reach first and second place. but Porto is a team that, if they are unable to win games in a way that relies on the talent of their players, they can count on luck, and when I talk about luck, I mean those penalties and red cards for the opponents that we see when They are not having a good time  

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Estrela Amadora 1 - 2 sporting

This was a game in which in the first minutes the Estrela Amadora played very well, they managed to put a lot of pressure on Sporting's defense for a few minutes and then managed to score a goal. I thought that with that goal they would continue to press and that they could score more goals. but minutes later, in a very well done attack, Sporting scored the equalizer, this was without a doubt something that left the Estrela Amadora players in a state of lack of concentration in their defense to the point where Sporting's players were able to play freely in the defensive zone of Estrela Amadora and with the pressure Sporting was putting on, it was only a matter of time before Sporting scored the second goal and won the game. I expected Porting to get a very easy victory with lots of goals, but the game wasn't very easy for Sporting, although they won the game

benfica 1 - 0 chaves

I confess that I was surprised by this result, I expected that Benfica would be able to score a lot of goals because they were playing against the weakest opponent in the league who are fighting to get out of the relegation zone and who in the last few games they haven't won in any game. but even so, Benfica only managed to score 1 goal, this shows Benfica's great fragility. first di maria wasted a penalty, then arthur wasted another penalty. Benfica has a very weak attack in certain games, so it is very complicated when they play against Sporting and Porto. To be honest, I highly doubt that Benfica will be able to get far in European competitions like that, even if they always get a place in European competitions, they won't get far. It's time for Portuguese teams to have teams that can also go far in European competitions



They could have left with 3 goals

And the most interesting thing is that on April 2nd, Sporting and Benfica will face each other in the second leg of the Portuguese Cup match.
In the first game, Sporting won 2-1. Everything is open.

That's why the next one is full of big games between Benfica and Sporting.

There's one thing that's bothering me so far, and that's the game Sporting has to play, which has been canceled against Famalicao
Without that game it's difficult to compare the table correctly

But in general, this Sporting vs Benfica game is going to be one of the most important matches, and could even be compared to a final, depending on the number of points the two teams
I think Sporting will keep up the pace, especially as Viktor Gyökeres continues to play very well, scoring a lot of goals, and is helping Sporting a lot in this season

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Sporting and Benfica already won their matches, half of my bet is good 

It must be really annoying for Porto to be behind Benfica by 9 points still even after they destroyed them by 5-0 in this month. Probably the gap would go down to 6 points again as I expect Porto to win against Estoril without problems. But it looks like there won't be a miracle like Sporting and Benfica both start getting poor results for weeks.

Porto won't be able to qualify for the Champions League also if things go on like this. Because the Liga Portugal has only 2 spots one of which is not even directly for the group stage. 

When it comes to who will become champion I believe Sporting will make it. The Sporting - Benfica match on April 6 will play a huge role in this.