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Benfica vs Portimonense Prediction & Betting tips
Match of the second day of the Taça da Liga de Portugal between Benfica and Portimonense, to be held at the Luz stadium.
Very important for this pick is the classification system, because only one team is classified and after the tie at 1 on the first day between Benfica and Braga it will be very important the goalaverage to consider the classified, and even more so when the Setúbal won his match and can join the fight. Therefore, both for Portimao and Benfica, it is essential to win and do it with goals.
Benfica :
Benfica this year is in a transitional season. After the loss of important players like the Semedo, Guedes, Lindehof or Mitroglou … the “embodied” are far from winning the League and Champions League have fallen into the debacle. However, the Lisbon set problems are inherited from last season and are mainly game creation. With players like Jonás, Salvio or Raúl Jiménez, the benfiquistas have sufficient resources to score, and their main lack has been in the domain of the matches. For this reason, their games are often crazy, round trip, and more if we compare them with compact teams like Sporting or Porto.
In this sense, their goalscorers are spectacular with 37 goals scored and 10 conceded, being the second team with the highest average of goals per game (3.1) and the most accomplished in the championship, despite the bad game displayed.
Who beats Benfica in goals? Precisely his rival tomorrow, the Portimonense, a very cheerful team for football that we usually see in Portugal, quite general in general. Although in his last 5 league games he was under, he was 9-1 in overs / unders, and averaged 3.2 in his matches: the highest in Portugal. In this sense, it is the 4th most scored team in the country (behind the relegation teams) and the top scorer among the mortals of the Portuguese league, in part thanks to its top scorer, the Japanese Nakajima.
Portimonense :
This weekend they faced Sporting (excellent yardstick), a team that per game is much more over than Benfica, with a game more controlled and slow than the benfiquistas. This game was 2-0, marked by the expulsion of a Portimonense player and the truce signed from this goal: neither the Portimonense tried to tie, nor Sporting made up for hurting his rival more. Under normal circumstances, there would have been more goals and that is what I expect in Lisbon.
In a big stadium like da Luz, with a team gaining confidence after the 1-5 of the weekend against Tondela, needing to score to qualify and in front of a happy and offensive rival, it seems the perfect scenario for us to see a victory embodied and that you see enough goals in this match.
Benfica vs Portimonense head to head matches
08.09.17 PL Benfica Portimonense 2 : 1
14.10.11 TP Portimonense Benfica 0 : 2
13.03.11 PL Benfica Portimonense 1 : 1
24.10.10 PL Portimonense Benfica 0 : 1