Leixões vs Chaves betting tip 2024/2025 - Picks and Predictions for the League 2 Portugal match on January 25th, 2025

Leixões and Chaves will be playing against each other on Saturday, January 25th, 2025, at 14:00h (UTC), in a League 2 Portugal football game in Portugal, check the Leixões vs Chaves betting tip 2024/2025 to win with your bets.

Stadium and City where Leixões vs Chaves will occur

The game takes place in the small Estádio do Mar stadium, in the city of Matosinhos, with a capacity for 9821 spectators, that will try to help the team achieve a positive result.

Where to follow the live game

At Betarena, you can follow the match live with access to all the information to help with your sports betting, including statistics, events and odds.

Introduction to the Leixões vs Chaves betting tip 2024/2025

Despite the season change, the League 2 Portugal has not changed much regarding goals. Today's average goals in the competition are still similar to what was seen in the tournament's last edition. The current mark is 2.52 goals per game, which is very close to the 2.45 goals per game of the last championship.

Leixões last match

Leixões is coming off a loss. In its last outing they faced Benfica II in a match valid for League 2 Portugal, and the match ended 4-0. The eleven coached by J. Ferreira da Mota played in a 4-1-4-1 formation.

Before the kick-off the home team's defeat had odds of 2.15, which explains why it was considered a fairly even match.

Chaves last match

On the other hand, the visiting team arrives at this match after a victory in the last round. In a dispute valid for League 2 Portugal, Chaves, who used a 4-2-3-1 formation, faced the Academico Viseu team with a final score of 3-0.

A win for the home team had odds of 2.15, which makes it clear that a close match was expected.

Leixões vs Chaves h2h

Last time these teams faced each other, Chaves occupied 16th place in Segunda Liga and, team Leixões the 7th place. Chaves entered the field with the tactic 4-5-1, while Leixões arranged their formation in a 4-4-2.

The last time these teams played against each other during the 2024/2025 season in a League 2 Portugal themed match was a hard-fought battle as it ended in a 0-0 draw.

Last time a draw between these teams, what to expect now?

Teams varying in strengths and motivations.

Curiosity about previous games

The two teams had very different results in their previous games. While Chaves thrashed in a game that was not expected to be so easy, against Academico Viseu, Leixões lost in a match against Benfica II. Let's see how this previous result can interfere with the morale of the teams for this game.

Leixões

League 2 Portugal leaderboard now

However, Leixões enters this game with 23 points and ranking in 11th place in the League 2 Portugal, the team has a negative balance of 7 lost games, won 6, and drawing in 5.

This means that in the 19th round, the Portimonense team is closing in at 12th place, with no points difference separating them.

Leixões will try to utilize the home factor as an advantage to get a win. This, despite being located in the middle of the league table in the Portugal League 2 Portugal and having no high aspirations or relegation concerns.

Leixões analysis

After 18 rounds, Leixões has conceded more goals than has scored. They conceded a total of 24 goals so far and scored 22 times.

The team proves to be better playing in their own base, having 5 wins versus 1 loss, and 3 draws. They won 1 game playing as the visiting team.

Best goalscorer from Leixões

At the individual level in the team's offensive line, we have to highlight Werton de Almeida Rêgo. With 5 goals on his own, the Attacker has been instrumental in helping the Leixões team achieving several victories this season.

Chaves

League 2 Portugal leaderboard now

Chaves arrives in this game with 29 points, and in 5th place in the League 2 Portugal, having won 8 games in total and lost 5 times, making a total of 5 draws.

Chaves analysis

After 18 rounds, Chaves has a positive goal difference, with 23 goals scored and only 19 goals taken by their goalkeeper.

With an average of 4 shots on goal per match, Chaves certainly cannot call itself a fearsome, or particularly prolific, attack, and this is another very good indicator to take into account in evaluations.

This is a top 5 team in the League 2 Portugal that wants to keep up with the good performances!

Ball possession above 50% usually enables teams to gain some control over their opponents. This is why the Chaves team typically tries to achieve an average ball possession of 56.67% to control the game.

Chaves is a more offensive team than Leixões, having 1516 attacks vs. 1491 from Leixões, having scored 23 times, in comparison, Leixões converted into goal 22 times.

Best goalscorer from Chaves

In the individual highlights of the team in the offensive sector, the focus falls on Paul Ayongo so far in the competition. With 3 goals with his signature, the Attacker has helped his team Chaves to achieve victorious results this season.

For punters some entries may be interesting for this game, namely:

Goals Top Betting Tips

In short, a much stronger team Chaves, better placed in the competition, that usually wins and doesn't concede goals, against an irregular Leixões that has difficulty converting and that comes from a sequence of balanced performances.

Currently, at Bet365, the odds for the Both Teams To Score - No market are quoted at 1.8.

It can also be interesting to bet on who will score in this match. The featured player of Leixões is Werton de Almeida Rêgo, who has already scored 5 goals in the competition. On the other hand, the leading scorer of Chaves is Paul Ayongo, he has scored in 3 opportunities.

75-90 minutes into the game is a good time to bet with most goals being made in this period.

Corners Top Betting Tips

A good thing to note for those wanting to get sports betting results is that there is an average of 1.47 corners per game.

Cards Top Betting Tips

Highly disciplined, the teams have an average of only 3.78 yellow cards per match, when added together. In other words, the 'Under 4.5 cards' option looks like a great alternative for bettors.

This is a match with several good betting entries to have some return on sports betting.

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