Topic: Portuguese League - Liga Portugal 2023/24 - page 6. (Read 5272 times)

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. Sporting are very much impactful in their games and Benfica too, the league seems less competitive as these teams unendingly saves the day for themselves and one would really wish there can be improvement as we'd love to see more clubs rising up to the contest before them and holding onto it fully.

 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.

 Braga although have been a good team though, but they've incurred some losses too and lost but the 3points fairly in their last game. They were a better side and they were also the hosts too. Their game play didn't work well in their favor. Sadly they weren't able to keep a clean sheet and still had to bear 3goal margin from their visitors.

It's amazing how hard Porto are struggling in the league
It's the opposite of what happened last year, where in the end the team got a lot of points and won a lot of games, this season the team is struggling to keep up
With the loss to Vitória, the team is in serious danger of losing third place to Braga or Vitória, and if that happens, it would be a bad season in 2025 without participating in the main European leagues

Porto have lost 6 games so far, and coincidentally, they will be playing Vitória for the 3rd time in a while in the Taça de Portugal , which is the team's last chance to redeem themselves and win a title this year
It's really hard to bet on Porto this year

With this victory, Sporting has strengthened its position as the top of the standings and the threat that was posed by Benfica has disappeared, making it more convincing for Sporting to be champions of the League this season.
There is no longer any chance for Benfica to surpass Sporting because the only chance they had was yesterday match, but even so, Benfica still has chance for the Europa League.
In the Europa League quarter-finals they will face Marseille, Benfica still has chance to advance to the semifinals.
But when they actually managed to beat Marseille in the two matches they had until they advanced to the semifinals then it was new challenge because the Europa League semifinals would only leave strong team that could get rid of Benfica easily.
Moreover, for the Portuguese Cup itself, Benfica was also eliminated by Sporting in the semifinal match.

Sporting 2-1 Benfica

It seems to me that the season ended badly for Benfica, Sporting's next games will only have one strong opponent, which is Porto, and with this big difference in points that exists with Benfica, it seems to me that the season is already over for Benfica, I doubt it. so much so that in the remaining 7 games that Sporting will play they lose in 1 game and draw in one, they would have to lose in 1 game and draw 1 against Benfica if they win in all the remaining games to become champions, but Benfica's bad luck could get worse If Sporting wins the missing game they have, unfortunately all paths point to Sporting as champions. I understand that it's normal for some teams to lose and others to win, it's part of the game, but the problem in my opinion is that Benfica has been a team that has a lot of difficulties beating big teams.

With this coach and this squad, I don't see Benfica achieving great things in European competitions this season and next season, when Benfica had that bad performance in the group stage of the European Champions League, it was clear that Benfica were weak and honestly It would be hard for Benfica to become champions when every time they play against a strong team they lose, Benfica's next game will be a European League game against a weak opponent, I hope Benfica at least manages to win in both legs and not embarrass themselves.

Braga 0 - 3 Arouca

I confess that I am surprised by this result, I expected that this game would be balanced and that Braga would be able to win the game, but it was a game that Arouca dominated in the sense that they had many chances to score a goal, only in the 1 half Arouca they had more than 3 chances and managed to score 2 goals in the 1 half while Braga only had 1 chance to score a goal in the 1 half and failed to score a goal in the 1 half, the difference between these two teams in the 1 half was clear. In the 2nd half, Braga started to put more pressure on Arouca and dominated the second half, but they were unable to score a goal, it's funny that they caused a lot of danger to Arouca's defense, which meant that Arouca had little chance of causing danger to Braga's defense. , but even so, Arouca managed to score the third goal



It was incredible how Rafa Mújica managed to get past Braga's goalkeeper and score a goal

I lost my bet because I bet on draw haha

I watched the game yesterday, I only missed the first few minutes when Sporting scored a goal
It was a derby, and as the title was possibly at stake, so it was a very nervous game, with lots of fouls and even aggression on the pitch from Di Maria, the game had 9 yellow cards and 1 red card
I'd say even the fans helped Sporting in that game  

It was a big step towards the title, I couldn't find any source giving the percentage, but I would say at this point that Sporting have a 90% chance of being champions

Sporting Lisbon is taking firm steps towards the championship.Sporting, which managed to defeat its closest rival 2-1 at home, is now very close to becoming the champion.Sporting, which has one game less than its rival, has now managed to score 4 points with this win.Sporting, which took the lead with a goal in the 1st minute, finished the first half with a goal in the last minute and ended the first half with a 1-1 draw.While the last minutes of the match were exciting, Sporting, who won the match with the goal they scored in the last minutes, will now continue the league even more comfortably.
Braga, on the other hand, turned down a great chance for 3rd place after losing to Arouca at home.I didn't expect them to lose this match against Arouca at home.Braga, which is in the race with Porto, has one more match and the point difference with its rival has remained at 2.From this week, Porto will no longer be a team that can leave the 3rd place to its rival.

Strange things happen in the Portuguese championship sometimes. But, yes, Sporting has everything it takes to be champions.
But, we have to see, Sporting would still play against Porto. And even with Porto practically out of the race, it won't make it easier. If Sporting loses to Porto, and draws two or three more games, it will be complicated if Benfica wins every game until the end.

Either way, I think Sporting will be the champion this year.

_{Although he continued to believe that Benfica can win.} 

I assume that we can call Sporting as the champions what would you say for that? 

They got a really important victory against Benfica by 2-1 last night. This was one of the most critical matches for the championship. Benfica were really unlucky during the match by the way. While the score was 1-1 they wasted 2 absolute goal chances. Later on they wasted another chance unbelievably in the last moments of the match. They could have left with at least one point.

I think Sporting will win their missing match vs Famalicao too and make the gap 7 points. This would be a huge advantage before the Porto away match. 

Sorry for the delay, but here is the list of games for matchday 28. I know that some games have already taken place, especially the matchday match, Sporting-Benfica, with Sporting winning 2-1.

MATCH DAY 28:
^{06.04. 20:30} Sporting vs Benfica
^{06.04. 18:00} Braga vs Arouca
^{06.04. 15:30} Famalicão vs Vizela
^{06.04. 15:30} Rio Ave vs Gil Vicente
^{05.04. 20:15} Farense vs Boavista
^{07.04. 15:30} Chaves vs Portimonense
^{07.04. 18:00} Moreirense vs Estrela Amadora
^{07.04. 20:30} Porto vs Vit. Guimarães
^{08.04. 20:15} Casa Pia vs Estoril
_{Info: day.month. time (Lisbon time)}

I guess we can already award league title to Sporting. Win against Benfica in derby, +4 already and one postponed game yet to play. I don't see them wasting it in remaining several rounds. And I wouldn't say that Benfica played bad tonight, it was more or less equal game. But Sporting showed that they have perfect record at home not without a reason with 14 wins in 14 games.
I said that odds for Braga win looks too low, but I couldn't imagine that they will lose game at home 0:3 and that fans will start leaving stadium long time before final whistle.
Tomorrow we have interesting game between Porto and Vitoria Guimaraes. Porto have not much chances to go up, but they still have to protect 3rd place from chasers, while Vitoria is still fighting for Conference league spot.

Oh, thanks for remember
I put a small bet yesterday but I forgot about the hour of the game, now I'm watching on Star+
It's already 1 x 0 for Sporting, goal scored with only 1 minute 

Obs - I bet on draw 

Sporting is still at the top of the standings with 1 point advantage over Benfica and in this derby match, whoever wins will definitely be at the top of the standings.
There are still 5 matches remaining after this derby takes place and it is still possible for surprises to occur in the future even though the competition for the title will only apply to Sporting and Benfica.
For the next match, Sporting should be able to take advantage of their home match advantage, at least they can win the match with narrow score considering that Benfica is also quite strong team.
If this is Sporting victory then they will be much more comfortable because even if they experience one defeat in the future they will still be at the top of the standings with difference of 1 point again like now.
In addition, Sporting has postponed match which they can take advantage of to achieve victory and save full points in the hope of being very comfortable and safe while topping the standings for the completion of the League.

Today's derby between Sporting and Benfica can be decider in fight for title. Now Sporting have +1, with win today it would be +4. Potentially it's +7 because Sporting still have their postponed game yet to play. I think that draw wouldn't be bad result for Sporting, but offcourse, they want to win against main rival and they're favorite tonight. Going with BTTS, what is safe option IMO and would prefer that league winner wouldn't be decided today.
Before that we have Braga - Arouca. Expected a bit higher odds for Braga, considering that their opponent aren't doing bad this season.

And this is the table:



It's pretty annoying to see Sporting and Famalicao with 26 games while others 27 haha
Sporting only have one point more, but a game to be played, it's difficult to get an accurate gauge of how the championship is going