Arouca vs Nacional betting tip 2024/2025 - Picks and Predictions for the Liga Portugal match on August 25th, 2024

Arouca and Nacional will on Sunday, August 25th, 2024 at 14:30h (UTC), play in a Liga Portugal football game in Portugal, check the Arouca vs Nacional betting tip 2024/2025 to win with your bets.

Stadium and City where Arouca vs Nacional will occur

The game takes place in the small Estádio Municipal de Arouca stadium, in the city of Arouca, with a capacity for 5600 spectators, who hope to help the team to surprise in this match.

Where to follow the live game

Including statistics, events and odds, you can follow the match live at Betarena, with access to all the information to help with your sports betting.

Introduction to the Arouca vs Nacional betting tip 2024/2025

Arouca is coming off a loss. In its last outing they faced Moreirense in a match valid for Liga Portugal, and the match ended 3-1. The eleven coached by G. García García played in a 4-2-3-1 formation.

A fairly even game was expected, with odds for the home defeat at 2.10.

This was certainly not the best performance of the season for the defense. Tiago Esgaio leads the departmental disaster: with his late interventions and bad passes he allowed many chances to the opposing team's attacks.

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, Nacional, who used a 5-4-1 formation, faced the Sporting CP team with a final score of 1-6.

Before the match all forecasts pointed to a defeat. The odds for their victory, 9.00 were the best proof of this.

The previous match between these teams was a cliffhanger.

These two clubs faced each other for the last time in a match of the 2017/2018 League 2 Portugal season. The match, played on 06-05-2018, recorded the 0-1 win for Nacional.

Arouca

Current leaderboard

Arouca currently occupies 16th place in the table, with 0 points achieved up to 3rd round.

Arouca analysis

The goal difference is not positive for Arouca: at the end of the round 2 it registers 1 goals scored against 4 taken by its goalkeeper.

The Arouca team typically attempts to achieve an average ball possession of 60.5% to control the game. The reason for this is that teams with ball possession above 50% usually have some control over their opponents.

The adaptation of Pablo Gozálbez with the new jersey has not been the best. He had another disappointing performance in Arouca last game of the season, against Moreirense. In the clash, the midfielder failed to be effective and did little for the team. Despite the good expectations for the player, his performance is starting to worry.

Nacional

Current leaderboard

Nacional is currently in 14th place in the league after the 3rd round, having won 1 point from their matches so far this season.

Nacional analysis

Currently, in the Liga Portugal, Nacional sums 2 goals for and a total of 7 goals against, after 2 rounds played.

An average of 3 shots on goal per game is certainly not exciting for Nacional, which is therefore a team that does not score many goals, nor does it particularly engage the goalkeepers. This will be an important factor to consider when evaluating the match.

One of the team's signings for the season still seems to be in a slow pace of adaptation. Ze Vitor played another underwhelming game in the club's last appearance, against Sporting CP. He failed to show the expected security and did not help Nacional to come out with the victory.

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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 4.25 per game.

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, until now, Arouca has received 9 yellow cards and 1 red in 2 matches played. At the same time, Nacional was cautioned with yellow cards in 2 opportunities and received no red card in 2 games.

Goals Top Betting Tips

The number of goals that both teams scored and conceded at the start of the championship round can be a successful betting parameter. Arouca didn't score any goal in the last round games and conceded in 4 opportunities, while Nacional scored 2 times and didn't concede any goal.

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