CF Os Belenenses vs Arouca Prediction & Betting Tips

Contrasting levels of form

Belenenses have won 11 of their last 20 matches across competitions, drawing five and losing four, with 34 goals scored and 20 conceded. Most of those games have come in Liga 3, alongside a Taça de Portugal run and some friendlies, so it's a very different standard to what Arouca face week to week.

CF Os Belenenses: 20 completed matches; Arouca: 20 completed matches.

CF Os Belenenses

20 matches

Win

55% 11 / 20

Draw

25% 5 / 20

Loss

20% 4 / 20

Scored

34

Conceded

20

Difference

+14

Arouca

20 matches

Win

45% 9 / 20

Draw

25% 5 / 20

Loss

30% 6 / 20

Scored

27

Conceded

21

Difference

+6

Arouca's record over a similar sample is nine wins, five draws and six losses, all in the Primeira Liga, with 27 scored and 21 conceded. That's a top-flight return against sterner opposition on a weekly basis, even if the win rate looks less flattering on paper.

Belenenses arrive full of confidence from their own level, but the jump in class against Arouca is real.

A cup leveller

The Portugal Cup often throws up mismatches like this, where a lower-tier home side gets one shot against top-flight visitors. Belenenses can lean on a home crowd and a decent run of results at their level, while Arouca will fancy their overall quality across ninety minutes.

With the tie still some weeks away from the form sample used here, and no head-to-head or squad news to draw on, it's hard to say much more than that both sides go in on the back of recent wins, just of very different value.