Porto vs Arouca betting tip 2024/2025 - Picks and Predictions for the Liga Portugal match on September 29th, 2024

Porto will be playing against Arouca in a Liga Portugal football match scheduled to take place on Sunday, September 29th, 2024, at 17:00h (UTC), in Portugal, check the Porto vs Arouca betting tip 2024/2025 to win with your bets.

Stadium and City where Porto vs Arouca will occur

The game is set to be played in the great Estádio Do Dragão stadium, in the city of Porto, with a capacity for 50033 spectators, that will try to help the team achieve a positive result.

Where to follow the live game

At Betarena, you can find everything about the match live, including statistics, events, odds, and everything else that can help with your sports betting.

Introduction to the Porto vs Arouca 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 2.35 goals per match played.

Porto last match

Porto come from a defeat in the last match. The game against Bodø / Glimt, valid for the Europa League, ended with a 3-2. The team coached by V. Ramos Gonçalves lined up in the last match with a 4-2-3-1 formation.

A fairly even game was expected, with odds for the home defeat at 3.90.

The whole defensive section of the team suffered a lot from the opponent's raids, but the most in trouble seemed to be João Mário. The player made many crucial mistakes during the match, and he will have to regain his lucidity as early as the next match in order to return useful to his team.

Arouca 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 Liga Portugal, Arouca, who used a 4-2-3-1 formation, faced the Farense team with a final score of 0-1.

A win for the home team had odds of 2.50, which makes it clear that a close match was expected.

Porto vs Arouca h2h

Arouca was in 8th place in the Liga Portugal while Porto was in 3rd place, the last time these teams faced each other. Arouca team entered the field with the 4-2-3-1 formation, the same tactic Porto used in the match.

The last time these two teams clashed was on 12-02-2024, in a match of the 2023/2024 season of the Liga Portugal, and the match ended with a 3-2 win for Arouca.

The previous encounter between these teams saw them fighting hard to stay ahead.

The Porto team in their last five matches has produced solid performances, while Arouca has been more irregular.

Porto

Liga Portugal leaderboard now

The Porto team with 15 points currently occupies the 2nd place of the leaderboard, being in the qualifying place for the UEFA Champions League Qualifiers, with a campaign of 5 wins, 0 draws and 1 loss.

Which means that in the 7th round, the team is ahead with an advantage of 2 points over Benfica team who is in the 3rd place.

Porto analysis

At the end of round 6 of Liga Portugal, Porto collected 12 goals scored and 3 goals conceded.

The Porto team comes from a defeat in the Europa League, and its coach Vítor Bruno Ramos Gonçalves wants to counter this trend by imposing a loss on his opponent, using the advantage of playing at home.

Teams with ball possession above 50% usually have some control over their opponents. With this in mind, the Porto team tries to achieve an average ball possession of 62.67% to control the game.

While having won twice playing away from home, this team knows how to take advantage of their home court with 3 wins, 0 losses, and 0 draws.

Porto has demonstrated their offensive prowess by scoring 12 times with 488 attacks, while Arouca has only scored 3 times with 390 attacks.

Best goalscorer from Porto

At the individual level in the team's offensive line, we have to highlight Wenderson Galeno. With 4 goals on his own, the Attacker has been instrumental in helping the Porto team achieving several victories this season.

It is important to highlight that more than 50% of the goals scored by this player were from the penalty spot. More precisely, 3 of the 4 goals scored have this characteristic.

Arouca

Liga Portugal leaderboard now

Arouca arrives in this game with 6 points, and in 14th place in the Liga Portugal, having won twice in total and lost 4 times, making a total of 0 draws.

Saddled with the same score that the Estoril team in position 13, in the 7th round.

Arouca analysis

The goal difference is on the negative side for Arouca, which after 6 rounds has conceded 8 but has only scored 3.

Arouca is currently struggling to find the back of the net, with a low number of goals scored and a high number of games where they failed to score. This suggests that their attacking play needs to be improved, with a focus on creating better opportunities and converting them into goals.

The team has shown its limits in attack, scoring 0.5 goals per game on average in the league. When we also consider that it will be playing away, we can imagine how the oddsmakers are not on its side.

Increasingly prominent within the team, Tiago Esgaio, a defender who arrived for this season, did another fine performance in the last duel of the club. In the match against Farense, he was a fundamental piece, providing great security for the whole team and showing he is already fully adapted to the new club.

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

Goals Top Betting Tips

75-90 minutes into the game is where most goals occur, a good time to bet if one is following the live game.

Taking into consideration that Arouca scores an average of 0.67 goals per match when playing away, we should consider the under 2.5 betting market, especially because this team usually does not concede goals when playing out of their stadium.

Currently, at Bet365, the odds for the Total Goals Under 2.5 market are quoted at 2.4.

Corners Top Betting Tips

One should consider that the combined number of corners of both teams will give an average of 6.16 corners per game if one would like to have good betting results.

Porto 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 6.33 corners per game played. Therefore, it might be interesting to bet on the over corner kicks of Porto in this match.

Cards Top Betting Tips

These teams together have a combined average of 5.83 yellow cards per match. Therefore, it might be a good option to bet on the 'Over 4.5 cards' option in this duel.

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

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