Rio Ave vs Arouca betting tip 2024/2025 - Picks and Predictions for the Liga Portugal match on September 01th, 2024

Rio Ave and Arouca will on Sunday, September 01th, 2024 at 17:00h (UTC), play in a Liga Portugal football game in Portugal, check the Rio Ave vs Arouca betting tip 2024/2025 to win with your bets.

Stadium and City where Rio Ave vs Arouca will occur

The game is set to be played in the small Estádio do Rio Ave Futebol Clube stadium, in the city of Vila do Conde, with a capacity for 12815 spectators, who hope to help the team to surprise in this match.

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Introduction to the Rio Ave vs Arouca betting tip 2024/2025

Rio Ave comes from a defeat recorded in the last match played. The opponent was Porto, in a match valid for Liga Portugal, and the two teams finished the match with a score of 2-0. On the field, L. Batalha Freire's team lined up with a 3-4-3.

This defeat was something that was already predicted before the game. The odds for them to win, of 10.00 indicated as much.

The team's defensive line was far from their best in the contest. Aderllan Santos had a terrible performance, failed at crucial moments, and became one of the leading players responsible for the negative result.

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 Nacional team with a final score of 1-0.

Prior to the match the odds were 1.83, making clear the team's favoritism, which was later confirmed with the positive result.

The last time these teams played, victory was hard-won.

The two teams have not faced each other since 20-07-2024. On that occasion they were playing for the 2024 season of the Club Friendlies, and the match ended with a 3-2 win for Rio Ave.

Rio Ave

Current leaderboard

At this beginning of the championship, Rio Ave occupies the 13th place in the league, with 3 points conquered until this 4th round.

Rio Ave analysis

After 3 rounds, Rio Ave has conceded more goals than has scored. They conceded a total of 5 goals so far and scored 2 times.

Rio Ave is not a team that imposes its rhythms on the field, it usually has a rather counterattacking game: in fact, during this league we see that it has an average ball possession of 40.33%. In the next match against Arouca a change of attitude on the field will be needed, Rio Ave will have to try to maintain possession to create goal chances and win.

Clayton's 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 Rio Ave last game. Against Porto, once again he failed to score goals, accumulating another bad performance.

Arouca

Current leaderboard

Arouca sit in 12th place in the league currently after the 4th round having gained 3 points from their matches so far this season.

Arouca analysis

Arouca, with 2 goals scored and 4 conceded, has a negative goal difference after 3 rounds.

The average number of shots toward the net of Arouca can give us useful indications about the team's offensive abilities, and its goal average. The team counted 2.33 shots into the opponent's goal for each match played.

Usually, it is with an 56% average ball possession that the Arouca team tries to control the game. This is because typically, teams with ball possession above 50% have some control over their opponents.

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 Nacional, he was a fundamental piece, providing great security for the whole team and showing he is already fully adapted to the new club.

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

As we are at the beginning of the competition, there is still little data to be studied, that allows suggestions for good bets. However, it is important to note that, usually, in the first games of a tournament, the matches have goals in the first half. The teams are still getting familiar, and there is no interest in maintaining any specific result due to the leaderboard.

Corners Top Betting Tips

Although the sample is still small, and therefore less accurate, due to the tournament being in the initial rounds, it is already possible to have an average of corners won by these teams. Adding the number of corner shots of these two teams, we reach an average of 5.17 per game.

Arouca 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 6.67 corners per game played. Therefore, it might be interesting to bet on the over corner kicks of Arouca in this match.

Cards market betting suggestions

It is also challenging to get a precise average about the number of cards that the teams receive during the matches; however, so far, Rio Ave has received 3 yellow cards and 1 red in 3 matches contested. At the same time, Arouca was cautioned with yellow cards in 11 opportunities and red 1 time in 3 games.

Goals Top Betting Tips

The number of goals scored and conceded by both teams at the beginning of the championship round can be a good betting parameter. In the last round of the competition, Rio Ave didn't score any goal and conceded in 5 opportunities, whilst Arouca scored 2 times and didn't concede any goal.

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

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