Our prediction for this Portugal Primeira Liga match:
Casa Pia
Match Time & Date:
10/08/2024
19:00
Prediction: 1-0
Boavista
Casa Pia will look to make a promising start to the new Primeira Liga campaign when they face Boavista at their Estadio Municipal de Rio Maior. Casa Pia aim to recover from back-to-back preseason defeats to Famalicao and Mafra, but Saturday’s game will be anything but a walk in the park for the home side. Summer signing Claudio is widely expected to play an important role in the home team in the upcoming season.
The Black and Whites, on the other hand, experienced all sorts of problems at the back in a 5-1 loss to Penafiel in their last friendly game, which is probably the main reason why we are going to bet on the hosts. Boavista chiefs have signed Ibrahim Alhassan from Beerschot VA, while fellow midfielder Bruninho has joined the club on loan from Atletico-MG. You should know that under 2.5 goals have been netted in each of the previous five meetings between the two sides.
Highlighted Team (Boavista):
Founded on August 1, 1903, Boavista are a Portuguese club that welcome their rivals at Estadio do Bessa. The capacity of the venue is 28,263 and it was built back in 1911. As Panteras (The Panthers) are well known for their black and white shirts and white is the dominant colour of their away kit.
Famous Fellow city club Porto are considered Boavista’s main rivals and the two teams face each other in O Derby da Invicta and there have always been fireworks in clashes between the two local rivals. A Panteras did well to win their first and only Primeira Liga trophy in the 2000/2001 season, with the team finishing the campaign only one point clear of Porto.
Boavista have five Taca de Portugal trophies (1974/75, 1975/76, 1978/79, 1991/92, 1996/97), with the team winning Supertaca de Portugal three times (1979, 1992, 1997). Jose Bosingwa, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Nuno Gomes are the notable footballers who played for Boavista in the past, to name just a few.
