Mafra vs União de Leiria betting tip 2024/2025 - Picks and Predictions for the League 2 Portugal match on October 28th, 2024

Mafra and União de Leiria will play on Monday, October 28th, 2024, at 18:00h (UTC), in a League 2 Portugal game to be held in Portugal, check the Mafra vs União de Leiria betting tip 2024/2025 to win with your bets.

Stadium and City where Mafra vs União de Leiria will occur

The game is set to be played in the small Estádio Municipal de Mafra stadium, in the city of Mafra, with a capacity for 6000 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 Mafra vs União de Leiria 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 2.53 goals per game, which is very close to the 2.45 goals per game of the last championship.

Mafra last match

Mafra in its last official match lost (2-1) against Porto II, in a match valid for League 2 Portugal. Coach C. Vaz Pinto's lined up a 4-2-3-1 formation.

Before the kick-off the home team's defeat had odds of 2.00, which explains why it was considered a fairly even match.

União de Leiria last match

On the other hand, the visiting team arrives at this contest after a previous event's victory. In a dispute valid for Taça De Portugal, União de Leiria faced the Nacional team, and the score ended in favor with a 2-1.

A very even game was expected, with odds for the home win at 3.10.

Mafra vs União de Leiria h2h

The last time these teams played against each other was in Segunda Liga, where União de Leiria was at 11th place while Mafra occupied 8th place. União de Leiria went in with a 4-3-1-2 formation while Mafra opened their game with a 4-2-3-1 tactic.

The most recent precedent between these two clubs was in 02-03-2024, in the 2023/2024 season of the League 2 Portugal, which ended with a 2-3 win for Mafra.

The previous match between these teams was a cliffhanger.

The União de Leiria team has accomplished more consistent results in the past five games, than Mafra its counterpart.

Mafra

League 2 Portugal leaderboard now

The Mafra team with 6 points currently occupies the 16th place of the leaderboard, being in the qualifying place for the Relegation Play-off, with a campaign of 1 win, 3 draws and 4 losses.

In the 9th round, the team has an advantage of 1 point against the Portimonense team, which is ranked just below in position 17. It also has 1 point less than Porto II team that is in the 15th place.

Mafra analysis

Mafra at the end of round 8 in League 2 Portugal had 7 goals scored and 13 conceded.

Mafra seems to be facing a problem in scoring goals, as they have recorded a low number of goals and a high number of matches where they failed to score. This could be an indication that they are struggling to generate good scoring opportunities and need to improve their attacking performance.

Mafra has a ball possession average of 49% in the league. Therefore, they are not the team that proposes the game, which can be a problem for this match. Therefore, fans hope the team to have more possession in this Mafra vs União de Leiria 2024/2025 match and, especially, to convert it into goals.

União de Leiria

League 2 Portugal leaderboard now

União de Leiria arrives in this game with 9 points, and in 11th place in the League 2 Portugal, having won twice in total and lost 3 times, making a total of 3 draws.

This means that in the 9th round the team has no advantage in relation to the Torreense team that is in the 12th place.

União de Leiria analysis

Currently, in the League 2 Portugal, União de Leiria sums 8 goals for and a total of 9 goals against, after 8 rounds played.

União de Leiria averaged 3.88 attempts toward the opponent's goal per match played, which may say a lot about the team's offensive skills and its ability to score.

With União de Leiria having a balance of 2 wins, 1 loss, and 1 draw when playing away in the League 2 Portugal, they usually allows little chances for opponents to win.

União de Leiria is a more offensive team than Mafra, having 671 attacks vs. 649 from Mafra, having scored 8 times, in comparison, Mafra converted into goal 7 times.

Best goalscorer from União de Leiria

In the individual highlights of the team in the offensive sector, the focus falls on Daniel so far in the competition. With 2 goals with his signature, the Attacker has helped his team União de Leiria to achieve victorious results this season.

For bettors some entries may be interesting for this match, namely:

Goals Top Betting Tips

União de Leiria has conceded 2 away goals in 4 away matches. Here the recommended bet will be that União de Leiria will have a clean sheet, remember that the last time these teams met the score was 2-3, something to take into consideration.

The best time to place bets is between 75-90 minutes as some study have shown this to be where most goals happen.

Bets on the under 2.5 goals market is an alternative because adding the goals scored at home by Mafra 0.75 and the average conceding goals of the visiting team União de Leiria 1.25 does not exceed the average of 3 goals, suggesting a good entry in this market.

Currently, at Bet365, the odds for the Total Goals Under 2.5 market are quoted at 1.62.

Corners Top Betting Tips

One will find that combining the number of corners of both teams gives an average of 2.38 corners per game, making this something to note in attempting to obtain good betting results.

Cards Top Betting Tips

Highly disciplined, the teams have an average of only 3.75 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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