Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Estoril & Benfica face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Taça De Portugal. All the pre-match information is available here!
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Estoril and Benfica.
Estoril form and stats
Last season, Estoril's Taça De Portugal journey ended in the round of 16.Estoril's struggle is real here at Estádio António Coimbra da Mota with only 5 points collected from 6 Primeira Liga games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-2-3.
Estoril experienced an unexpected loss 1-5 against Benfica in their previous outing, also played at home. As you see from the result above, Estoril suffered greatly in their last game. Thankfully the team has a new chance to prove themselves in this one. The attacking player Erison won the honour of being "man of the match" for Estoril with a rating of 6.85/10. Erison hit the woodwork once and hit one key pass.
Before that, Estoril played out a Primeira Liga draw 1-1 when visiting Portimonense.No one expects the home team to get anything from this game. It's not often a home team are such massive outsiders as in this game. We've searched our database for matches where Estoril had similar winning odds as today, and found 6 games. In these, the hosts won 0, drew 2 and lost 4. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Estoril lost 3 similar games by at least two goals.
At Estádio António Coimbra da Mota, Estoril has the goal stats of 6-12 (for/against) from 6 league fixtures.
Benfica form and stats
Benfica's mission in Taça De Portugal last season failed in the round of 16.Benfica have been very strong on the road so far with a massive 16 points collected from 6 Primeira Liga games. 5 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats is the record so far.
It's the second away game in a row for Benfica, but there's smiles all around after the 5-1 victory versus Estoril last time out. As you can tell from the results above, Benfica was very dominant against Estoril, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 5-1 (!) with Ristić, Silva (2), Mário and Musa providing the goals. Musa has scored for this side three games in a row. The ability! Silva was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 9.04. The defender Silva scored two goals and won 5 of 5 duels.
Before that, the Champions League victory away at Maccabi Haifa.
After this away game Benfica return home for a Primeira Liga game against Gil Vicente. That game is only four sleeps after this.
The travelling fans enjoy Benfica's attacking play in away games, having scored 11 goals in 6 league matches away. Benfica are tighter than a frog's bottom, as only {1 away goals} have been conceded so far.
Head 2 Head
Benfica have not lost in the last 19 games (16-3-0) facing Estoril.Top Goalscorers
  R. Silva 6 goals |  J. Naval da Costa Eduardo 5 goals |
Estoril missing players
Benfica missing players
| Estoril | Benfica | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Won | W | 9 | 21 | ||
| 6 | 4 | Drew | D | 3 | 4 | ||
| 12 | 6 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | ||
| 26 | 13 | Scored | S | 26 | 70 | ||
| 39 | 23 | Conceded | C | 6 | 20 | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 76% | 77% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 84% | ||
| 44% | 46% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 42% | 64% | ||
| 28% | 38% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 48% | ||
| 12% | 15% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 40% | ||
| 52% | 54% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 56% | ||
| 28% | 31% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 44% | ||
| 24% | 23% | Failed to Score | F T | 8% | 4% | ||
| 4 | 3.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.9 | 7.5 | ||
| 7.1 | 6.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.6 | 4 | ||
| 3.1 | 3.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2.2 | ||
| 10 | 5 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | ||
| 9.3 | 7.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14.4 | 17.4 | ||
| 3.1 | 2.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.4 | 7.1 | ||
| 33% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 39% | ||
| 15.1 | 14.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.3 | 7.5 | ||
| 5.3 | 5.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 2.8 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Benfica | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 28 | 34 |
| 2 | Porto | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 27 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 19 | 26 |
| 3 | Sporting Braga | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 27 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 16 | 25 |
| 4 | Casa Pia | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 23 |
| 5 | Sporting CP | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 24 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 22 |
| 6 | Vitória SC | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 20 |
| 7 | Portimonense | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 7 | -1 | 19 |
| 8 | Arouca | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | -4 | 19 |
| 9 | Boavista | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 11 | -6 | 17 |
| 10 | Estoril | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | -2 | 16 |
| 11 | Chaves | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 10 | -4 | 16 |
| 12 | Rio Ave | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 13 | -3 | 15 |
| 13 | Vizela | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | -4 | 12 |
| 14 | Famalicão | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 11 | -6 | 11 |
| 15 | Santa Clara | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | -4 | 10 |
| 16 | Gil Vicente | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -8 | 9 |
| 17 | Maritimo | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 26 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 18 | -18 | 6 |
| 18 | Pacos de Ferreira | 12 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 24 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 12 | -17 | 2 |
