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Sporting Lisbon has already celebrated 22 national championships in the top division in the country of the reigning European champion and Nations League winner. Since 2002, however, there has been no getting past Porto and city rival Benfica. This also applies to the current season, in which the green-whites bobbed around in the middle for a long time.
Only at the weekend did the Braga lions regain third place in the Primeira Liga. This is now to be defended in the Lisbon city duel against host Belenenses. The odds comparison on a betting basis gives information about which bookmaker offers the best odds at Belenenses against Sporting Lisbon.
As an indication of a profitable outsider tip, the away record of the lions could be seen in the forecast at Belenenses against Sporting Lisbon. Sporting won only five of the 13 league games on foreign pitches. This contrasts with the home record of Belenenses, which only four of their 13 games in the Estádio Nacional were victorious.
Accordingly, it makes the most sense to play tip 2 at Belenenses against Sporting Lisbon, especially since Sporting returned strongly from the three-month break with seven out of nine possible points.
Belenenses:
The Clube de Futebol Os Belenenses was originally founded in 1919. However, it only broke two years ago. After financial problems and related disagreements, the traditional club, which even won the Portuguese championship in 1946, split up.
Since then, Belenenses has continued to compete in the Primeira Liga as Belenenses SAD with a new coat of arms and seat in the district town of Oeiras, while Belenenses Lisbon was newly founded in the amateur sector. Accordingly, the duel with Sporting is still a Lisbon city derby in the basic sense, although it has become less explosive due to this split.
Last summer Belenenses SAD finished ninth in the Primeira Liga. Coach Silas then changed camps and hired Sporting, today’s opponent. Although he has been put out there again in the meantime, “O Belém”, as the club is also called, would now love to assert itself against the neighbor again.
After all, Belenenses today is also about reparation. The last home game against the lions at the Estádio Nacional on May 5, 2019 ended in a crashing 1/8 home defeat. Against this background, it should come as no surprise that the bookmakers’ odds against Belenenses against Sporting Lisbon clearly speak against the blue and whites. In the Primeira Liga alone, “O Belém” won only one of the last 17 games against the green-whites.
A victory would come at the perfect time. With four out of nine possible points from the three games since the restart, the Petit team did not really get off the mark. As 13th in the current table of the Primeira Liga, the lead to a relegation zone is still only two points.
The biggest shortcoming of “O Belém” is undoubtedly the holey defensive, which has already conceded 41 goals in 27 league games. A negative value that is only surpassed by taillight Desportivo Aves and promoted Famalicão. Conversely, the only 23 goals scored are also the third worst value in the entire Primeira Liga.
The fact that Petit, in the form of Tomás Ribeiro, Eduardo Kau and Francisco Varela, has to do without three injured defenders in this important home game against the lions makes the endeavor to make room in the basement all the more difficult.
Sporting Lisbon:
The Sporting Clube de Portugal, known as Sporting Lisbon in German-speaking countries, has celebrated the national championship a total of 22 times. The last time the green and whites (port. Verde e brancos) were able to finish the league in first place in 2002. Since then, either city rivals Benfica or FC Porto have faced the lions. In the end, almost always both.
Sporting also ended up in third place last summer and once again entered the new season with the ambition to break the dominance of Benfica and Porto. Because both long-term rivals failed at the start of the season, the lions, for whom ex-Belenenses coach Silas initially seemed to hit the mark, were even at the top after matchday three.
But then Sporting himself failed, which gave surprise team Famalicão the top position before the table returned to normal. To the annoyance of the lions, this also meant that the championship question once again turned into a duel between Porto and Benfica. 18 points are currently missing from the frontrunner Porto.
Sporting lost all three games against Porto, Benfica and Braga in a very short time in January, then retired in February in the Europa League despite a 3-1 first-leg win over Basaksehir Istanbul, and finally suffered a 1-3 defeat at promoted Famalicão in March . Silas then had to pack his bags.
During the season, those responsible bought the trainer Rúben Amorim, who was so successful at Braga, out of the current contract and, with this change, put the pointers to success again. In the four games under the new coach Sporting played three times to zero and scored ten out of twelve possible points.
Also because of this momentum, tip 2 is very popular with Belenenses against Sporting Lisbon, especially since the green-whites have an overall very strong defense. Only 28 goals conceded from 27 league games gave the Lions the third best defense in Portugal, which the coach is delighted to see fully deployed at the moment.
The 35-year-old trainer only has to do without his two strikers Luiz Phellype and Luciano Vietto aggressively when it comes to defending third place in the Lisbon derby that Braga has just recaptured.
Sporting’s away record is not overly scary with only five wins from 13 games in the distance. At least away from Belenenses there has been no defeat in the Primeira Liga for twelve years (0: 1 on February 3, 2008).
Belenenses vs Sporting head to head matches
10.11.19 PL Sporting Belenenses 2 : 0
05.05.19 PL Belenenses Sporting 1 : 8
03.01.19 PL Sporting Belenenses 2 : 1
15.04.18 PL Belenenses Sporting 3 : 4
29.12.17 CUP Belenenses Sporting 1 : 1