Betting tips for Sporting vs Portimonense - 17.12.2017

First place, shared with FC Porto, put Sporting in the position where they want to be. At the same time, the responsibility that is imposed on the shoulders of this team, has received a good response, with the lions to present themselves able to face the challenges they are encountering. Not always playing the best football possible but learning to manage efforts and options to be in this position. On Sunday, he receives Portimonense, one of the most interesting teams in the Liga NOS, with an attractive offensive model, although with notorious defensive fragilities. It can become a game of many goals.

Sporting this season has achieved a sure and secure career that allows it to be in the top spot in the NOS League, to follow in Europe through the Europa League, remaining in the Portuguese Cup and competing in the first place in the Cup of Nations. Turns on. It is a team that responds to all competitions, with Jorge Jesus managing the squad in a way not seen very much throughout his coaching career. It is true that he has a very definite eleven, with two strategic ideas to be separated by the use or not of an average third, which has also allowed him to compete in the Champions League and move to the League NOS without suffering major problems of adaptation . On the other hand, the leonina team already had a phase of greater exposure in terms of fatigue, and is now focused on getting their effort without blemish until the match at the Estádio da Luz, where he will face Benfica in the early days of the year of 2018. Jonathan Silva is the only absence due to injury, and given the context that this opponent offers, Jorge Jesus should return to a purer 4-4-2 with Daniel Podence in support of the attack.



Liga NOSO Portimonense is enthusiastic, but it is not a team that wins many points in Liga NOS. It takes a relatively quiet life, but Vítor Oliveira has enough experience and knowledge to know that nothing is guaranteed for teams like Portimão, with a smaller structure and a football more focused on the talent of a handful of players than on an idea of ​​organization. The Portimonense has lived a lot of the capacity of players like Paulinho or Nakajima, standing out of a group that, from the midfield to the front, has several names with capacity to differentiate and to ambition to a career in clubs of superior level but, in defensive terms, is the fourth team to suffer more goals in Liga NOS. It is at this juncture of data that one understands the dangers and opportunities of facing the Portimonense team. Chidera Ezeh, Ricardo Pessoa, Inacio and Marcel are absences due to injury, while Oriol Rosell will not play for being loaned.

Sporting vs Portimonense  Prediction: 1/1 160

Sporting vs Portimonense betting tip: Over 3.5 Goals @ 1.80

Sporting vs Portimonense final score recommendations: 3-1 10.00