Sporting Braga vs Farense betting tip 2024/2025 - Picks and Predictions for the Liga Portugal match on October 27th, 2024

Sporting Braga and Farense going to face each other on October 27th, 2024, Sunday at 15:30h (UTC), in a game counting for the Liga Portugal in Portugal, check the Sporting Braga vs Farense betting tip 2024/2025 to win with your bets.

Stadium and City where Sporting Braga vs Farense will occur

The game takes place in the Estádio Municipal de Braga stadium, in the city of Braga, with a capacity for 30286 spectators, that will try to help the team achieve a positive result.

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Introduction to the Sporting Braga vs Farense 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 2.37 goals per match played.

Sporting Braga last match

Sporting Braga come from a defeat in the last match. The game against Bodø / Glimt, valid for the Europa League, ended with a 1-2. The team coached by C. Soares da Costa Faria Carvalhal lined up in the last match with a 4-2-3-1 formation.

The odds of 4.75 show that no one expected a defeat for the team in this match. Despite being the favorites to win, they could not avoid defeat.

The defense appeared lacking in energy throughout the match. Particularly below expectations, Adrián Marín, who did not appear in his best form. His team's results in the future will also depend on his performance.

Farense 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, Farense faced the Sanjoanense team, and the score ended in favor with a 2-4.

The team's favoritism prior to the match was confirmed thanks to the positive result, a victory that had odds of 1.55.

Sporting Braga vs Farense h2h

Sporting Braga was in 5th place in the Liga Portugal while Farense was in 9th place, the last time these teams faced each other. Sporting Braga team entered the field with the 4-2-3-1 formation, the same tactic Farense used in the match.

The last face-to-face between these two clubs was on 18-02-2024 in a Liga Portugal match of the 2023/2024 season. On that occasion, the match ended with a 2-1 win for Sporting Braga.

The previous match between these teams was a cliffhanger.

Sporting Braga

Liga Portugal leaderboard now

Considering the home team Sporting Braga, standing in 5th place with 14 points in the Liga Portugal competition in Portugal. Their performance statistics have been such as 4 wins, 2 losses and, 2 draws.

This means that, in the 9th round, the team has the same score, and the Vitória SC team is just behind in 6th place.

Sporting Braga analysis

After 8 rounds, Sporting Braga has a positive ratio of goals scored and goals against. The team sums 13 goals for and 6 conceded.

The Sporting Braga team comes from a defeat in the Europa League, and its coach Carlos Augusto Soares da Costa Faria Carvalhal wants to counter this trend by imposing a loss on his opponent, using the advantage of playing at home.

Sporting Braga averaged 4.25 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.

The Sporting Braga team, knowing that teams with ball possession above 50% typically have some control over the opponents, usually tries to control the game with an average ball possession of 57.5%.

Sporting Braga is a more offensive team than Farense, having 927 attacks vs. 635 from Farense, having scored 13 times. In comparison, Farense converted into goal 3 times.

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

Best goalscorer from Sporting Braga

At the individual level in the team's offensive line, we have to highlight Bruma. With 2 goals on his own, the Attacker has been instrumental in helping the Sporting Braga team achieving several victories this season.

Farense

Liga Portugal leaderboard now

With 4 points won, Farense is in 18th place on the leaderboard, which leaves the team in the Relegation zone. The team's campaign so far is 1 win against 6 losses, plus 1 draw.

The team has a slight disadvantage of 1 point against Nacional who occupies the position 17 in the 9th round.

Farense analysis

After 8 rounds, Farense has conceded more goals than has scored. They conceded a total of 13 goals so far and scored 3 times.

Recent games have demonstrated that Farense 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.

The team is not scoring many goals, averaging 0.38 goals per game. Moreover, it will be going to play on a difficult field, so the outcome of the match may seem one-sided. But soccer, you know, is unpredictable.

Bet suggestions for this game:

Goals Top Betting Tips

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

Taking into consideration that Farense scores an average of 0.25 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 2.35.

Corners Top Betting Tips

One should consider that the combined number of corners of both teams will give an average of 5.94 corners per game if one would like to have good betting results.

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 6.63 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.

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

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