Belenenses vs Sporting Lisbon Prediction & Betting Tips - Liga Portugal

Prediction published on 24/12/2020, 19:56  by James | Modified on 24/12/2020 at 20:56 in Liga Portugal Predictions

Primeira Liga leaders Sporting Lisbon travel to Belenenses on Sunday for a clash at the Estadio Nacional. Clear at the top by two points, Sporting have 26 points from 10 matches this season. It is a superb run of form from a team yet to lose a league game this season. Belenenses have made a comparably decent start, their 11-point tally putting them eighth in the table. Although they can be difficult to beat - with only three defeats from ten games - an inability to win matches will inevitably see Belenenses slide down the table, as only two wins this season have. Home form has been the foundation of Belenenses' points haul; they are unbeaten on home turf since losing their home opener, a run of four league games. Only Sporting themselves have managed to string together a longer unbeaten home run in the current campaign.

Sporting aren't bad away from home either. They have won four of their five games on the road in this campaign, leading scorer Pote averaging one goal per game. In Portugal, this season, the standout player is Pote, a number ten bearing several similarities to Sporting's previous talisman, Bruno Fernandes. It is unlikely that Belenenses, a team that has lost their last six meetings with Sporting, will stop him. Belenenses have not been able to score in six of their last eight matches, which doesn't bode well ahead of a game against the division's best defence. We suggest backing Sporting to win this game with a clean sheet.