Nacional vs Sporting Braga betting tip 2024/2025 - Picks and Predictions for the Liga Portugal match on September 20th, 2024

Nacional and Sporting Braga will be playing against each other on Friday, September 20th, 2024, at 19:15h (UTC), in a Liga Portugal football game in Portugal, check the Nacional vs Sporting Braga betting tip 2024/2025 to win with your bets.

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

The Liga Portugal has had fewer goals than the previous season. Last season the tournament had an average of 2.87 goals scored per match, while now the competition has an average of 2.38 goals per match played.

Nacional last match

Nacional is coming off a loss. In its last outing they faced Estoril in a match valid for Liga Portugal, and the match ended 1-0. The eleven coached by T. Carvalho Margarido played in a 4-3-3 formation.

The match between the two teams was expected to be quite close, as evidenced by the fact that the home team's defeat had odds of 2.55.

The defense certainly did not shine in this match. One of those responsible for the crisis of the defensive department is Gustavo García, cumbersome and unpunctual, constantly behind the opponents. The team's overall underwhelming performance was also due to his disappointing performance.

Sporting Braga last match

On the other hand, 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 4-2-3-1 formation, faced the Vitória SC team with a final score of 0-2.

A fairly even game was expected, with odds for the home defeat at 3.40.

Nacional vs Sporting Braga h2h

The last time these teams faced off against each other in League Cup, Sporting Braga was in 2nd place while Nacional was in the 3rd place. Sporting Braga opened with a 4-2-3-1 arrangement while Nacional charged with a 4-3-3 formation.

The two teams have not faced each other since 22-12-2023. On that occasion they were playing for the 2023/2024 season of the League Cup, and the match ended with a 1-3 win for Sporting Braga.

The Sporting Braga team has accomplished more consistent results in the past five games, than Nacional its counterpart.

Nacional

Liga Portugal leaderboard now

Nacional arrives in this game with 4 points in 15th place in the Liga Portugal, with a negative balance, having lost 3 games in total and won only 1, making a total of 1 draw.

In the 6th round, the team has an advantage of 1 point over the Arouca team which is just below, in 16th place and with 1 point less than Estoril team that is in the 14th place.

Nacional analysis

Nacional after 5 matchdays have scored 4 goals and conceded 9 goals, and therefore shows a negative goal difference.

The Nacional team comes from a defeat in the Liga Portugal, and its coach Tiago Miguel Carvalho Margarido wants to counter this trend by imposing a loss on his opponent, using the advantage of playing at home.

Recent performances have highlighted that Nacional is having trouble generating goals, with a low number of goals for and a high number of failed to score matches. This suggests that the team is struggling to create quality chances and convert them into goals, indicating the need for improvement in their attacking play.

With an average ball possession of 46.6% per game in the current league, Nacional cannot call itself a team that holds the game in its hands, rather it prefers the counterattacking strategy. But if they want to try to win the game against Sporting Braga they must try to impose their game to create difficulties for their opponents.

Tiago Reis' life is not being easy in this beginning of his trajectory for his new club. Hired for this season, the player has not been performing well, a fact that was repeated in Nacional last game. Against Estoril, once again he failed to score goals, accumulating another bad performance.

Sporting Braga

Liga Portugal leaderboard now

Sporting Braga arrives in this game with 8 points, and in 7th place in the Liga Portugal, having won twice in total and lost once, making a total of 2 draws.

Sporting Braga analysis

Currently, in the Liga Portugal, Sporting Braga sums 5 goals for and a total of 4 goals against, after 5 rounds played.

Recent games have demonstrated that Sporting Braga is having difficulties in scoring goals, as they have recorded a low number of goals and a high number of matches where they failed to score. This suggests that their attacking play needs to be improved, with a focus on creating more quality chances.

With an average of 3.4 shots on goal per match, Sporting Braga certainly cannot call itself a fearsome, or particularly prolific, attack, and this is another very good indicator to take into account in evaluations.

Teams with ball possession above 50% typically have some control over the opponents. Therefore, the Sporting Braga team usually tries to control the game with an average ball possession of 60.8%.

Chances of winning against Sporting Braga who playing away has a balance of 1 win, 0 losses, and 1 draw in the Liga Portugal, are very slim.

Sporting Braga is a more offensive team than Nacional, having 611 attacks vs. 382 from Nacional, having scored 5 times, in comparison, Nacional converted into goal 4 times.

One of the team's signings for the season still seems to be in a slow pace of adaptation. Bright Arrey-Mbi played another underwhelming game in the club's last appearance, against Vitória SC. He failed to show the expected security and did not help Sporting Braga to come out with the victory.

Best goalscorer from Sporting Braga

In the individual highlights of the team in the offensive sector, the focus falls on Rodrigo Zalazar Martínez so far in the competition. With 2 goals with his signature, the Midfielder has helped his team Sporting Braga to achieve victorious results this season.

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

Goals Top Betting Tips

Sporting Braga has conceded 0 away goals in 2 away matches. Here the recommended bet will be that Sporting Braga will have a clean sheet, remember that the last time these teams met the score was 1-3, something to take into consideration.

Most goals are scored between 75-90 as some study shows, which makes this a good time to bet for those following the live game.

The under 2.5 goals market can also be a good alternative since Sporting Braga scores an average of 0.5 goals per match when playing away from home, and considering that often does not suffer when playing away, it will be a betting market to explore.

Currently, at Bet365, the odds for the Total Goals Under 2.5 market are quoted at 1.95.

Corners Top Betting Tips

The corners market can help a favorable return on your bets, the average team corners per game are 5.5 corners.

Sporting Braga is usually quite offensive in their matches, and this has resulted in a high average of corner kicks in the competition. Currently, the team averages 7.6 corners per game played. Therefore, it might be interesting to bet on the over corner kicks of Sporting Braga in this match.

Cards Top Betting Tips

Highly disciplined, the teams have an average of only 4 yellow cards per match, when added together. In other words, the 'Under 4.5 cards' option looks like a great alternative for bettors.

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