Leixões vs Sporting Braga betting tip 2024/2025 - Picks and Predictions for the Portuguese Cup match on November 23rd, 2024

Leixões and Sporting Braga are scheduled to play against each other on November 23rd, 2024, Saturday, in a Portuguese Cup match to be held in Portugal, check the Leixões vs Sporting Braga betting tip and prediction to win with your bets.

We are now at the tournament stage where the teams from the lower divisions that managed to win the past matches try to stay alive, having to face theoretically stronger teams from the Segunda Liga or even from the Portuguese Primeira Liga.

It's at this stage that the bettors can start paying attention to the surprise teams, which aren't usually favorites in their matches, studying their last games in the competition, in comparison with the current form of the teams from the upper echelons, which start their way in the Portuguese Cup at this time.

The game is set to be played 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.

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

Introduction to the Leixões vs Sporting Braga betting tip 2024/2025

In the matches for this competition, there are always different match facts. And, if wins are always needed to get to this stage (including overtime and/or penalties), we have to look at other criteria that makes them get here. Leixões performance to this stage is 3 goals scored and still 1 against.

On the other hand, Sporting Braga come this far with 2 goals scored and 1 conceded.

The teams last played against each other in a Club Friendlies 1 game on 10-07-2018, during the 2018 season, with Leixões winning 1-2.

And while we're on the historical factor, it's important to point out that it's always pertinent to consider the history of relevance in the competition, so for this game it should be noted that Leixões has in its curriculum 1 win of the Portuguese Cup while Sporting Braga has won the competition 3 times.

Regarding the current form of the teams, based on statistical data, we can assume that regarding the last 5 matches played, both are very identical in terms of regularity of results and points won, accumulating both a total of 3 wins.

Leixões

In the Segunda Liga, the Leixões emblem has 5 wins, 3 defeats and 3 draws, giving them a total of 18 points after 11 rounds, ranking them in 4th place. Also, the Leixões team goes with a total of 16 goals scored and 10 goals conceded.

Leixões come from a victory in the last match. The game against Marítimo, valid for the League 2 Portugal, ended with a 2-1. The team coached by C. Fangueiro Soares lined up in the last match with a 4-3-3 formation.

On the last matchday of the premier competition of Portuguese football, the team of Leixões faced and beat the team of Alcains, with a score of 2-1, in a game counting for the 3rd Round putting them in the game against Sporting Braga.

The crucial point that we need to analyze now is the main objective of all teams, which is to score goals. It's evident that Leixões, in their two principal domestic competitions (Segunda Liga and Portuguese Cup), has managed to score a total of 19 goals so far in this 2024/2025 season.

On the flip side, the Leixões team's defense and goalkeeping now adds up to a total of 11 goals conceded this season in their two main domestic competitions.

Sporting Braga

The visiting team arrives at this match after a defeat in the last round. In a dispute valid for Liga Portugal, Sporting Braga, who used a 3-4-2-1 formation, faced the Sporting CP team with a final score of 2-4.

On the last matchday of the premier competition of Portuguese football, the team of Sporting Braga faced and beat the team of 1º Dezembro, with a score of 2-1, in a game counting for the 3rd Round putting them in the game against Leixões.

Now a few markets where you can get some return from your bets:

Score market betting suggestions

For those looking to bet, noting that most goals occur 75-90 minutes into the game could be helpful.

In order to generate a good prediction on the goal market for this match, we must first analyze the average number of goals in each team's games this season. Thus, we were able to obtain that in their matches, the Leixões team scores a total of 1.5 goals on average and accumulates a total of 0.5 goals conceded.

On the other hand, in the matches of Sporting Braga, they score an average of 2 goals per match and conceed a total of 1 goals. After analyzing this data, we are convinced that good bets can result from this market. Therefore, the betting odds selected by us for the goal market are Both Teams to Score - Yes. Currently, at Bet365, the odds for the Both Teams To Score - Yes market are quoted at 2.1.

Corners market betting suggestions

One should consider that the combined number of corners of both teams will give an average of 5.5 corners per game if one would like to have good betting results.

Individual Analysis of Corner Kicks

In order to generate a good prediction in the corner kicks market for this match, we must first analyze this average individually in each team's games in this season. Thus, we have that Leixões can obtain, on average, a total of 7 corners in its favor in each match.

On the other hand, in games where Sporting Braga is present, this team obtains an average of 4 corners. As the sum of the individual average of corner kicks per match for both teams is higher than 9.5 corners in their matches this season, we are convinced that good bets can result in this selection, as a high number of corner kicks are expected.

Cards market betting suggestions

On the Leixões side, we know that it is a more aggressive team having received the red card once this season, very different from Sporting Braga who saw no red card. Both the red and yellow cards market can be a good bet.