Champions League match preview: Benfica versus Dynamo Kyiv

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Competition: Europe Champions League
Competition: Wed 08.December
Match begins: 20:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica (64642 seats)

Benfica and Dynamo Kyiv get a break from their league challenge to fight for a possible trophy in this Champions League Group Stage fixture.

Dynamo Kyiv could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Premier League game only four sleeps ago. That game was also an away game, at Veres. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.

It's quite the trip for Dynamo Kyiv when visiting Benfica as the cities are 4100 kilometers apart.

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Benfica form and stats

Benfica participated in Champions League the last season, where they reached the 3rd qualifying round.

Benfica have performed here at Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica this season with 4 wins from 6 Primeira Liga matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 0 games and lost 2. 4W-3D-2L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the Champions League for Benfica.

The Benfica crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 1-3 to Sporting CP here at Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica in a Primeira Liga match. Midfield player Alejandro Grimaldo got a match rating of 7.13 in that game, the max score being 10. Grimaldo dribled past the opponent 3 of 4 times and had 32 successful passes (of 38 total).

A strong away win before that one, visiting Belenenses and winning 7-0.

The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Benfica home games with this odds we find eleven games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in eight wins, two draws and one defeat. Looking at the victories, six matches were won by at least two goals.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Benfica as they are travelling to their away game against Famalicao in the Primeira Liga. That match is four days after this one.

With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (14 in 6 games), Benfica's attacking play is working. On the other hand, Benfica have conceded 7 goals.

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Dynamo Kyiv form and stats

They also participated in Champions League last season. This ended in the group stage.

The away performances of Dynamo Kyiv have been very solid so far with 7 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats in the Premier League. The question is whether this happy travelling can continue. When we have look at the Champions League statistics, we find 0W-1D-4L. This is both home and away. The away team travel with confidence. Not since the Kolos Kovalivka game have they lost an away game, meaning Dynamo Kyiv has taken points from 22 away matches in a row.

Dynamo have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Georgiy Bushchan. It's been 226 minutes since they last conceded in Premier League.

Dynamo play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 3-0 victory visiting Veres.

Preceding that game was the away Premier League victory against Minai with the score of 2-0.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Dynamo played away with similar odds. This revealed one game. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, zero were draws and the home team won as expected one time.

A new game in only four days for Dynamo, the Premier League home match versus Zorya. Busy days.

Today's guests are confident travelers having scored 22 goals in 8 league games away this season. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (6 so far).

Head 2 Head

The participants have met each other previously this season, with the final score Dynamo Kyiv - Benfica 0-0 written in the official records. Head-2-head stats last three meetings: two - one - zero (Benfica wins - draws - Dynamo Kyiv wins). As for goals, zero matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Dynamo KyivV. Tsygankov
V. Tsygankov
11 goals
BenficaD. Núñez Ribeiro
D. Núñez Ribeiro
8 goals
Dynamo KyivV. Buyalskyy
V. Buyalskyy
8 goals

Benfica missing players

Dynamo Kyiv missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Benfica Dynamo Kyiv
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
25 11   Played P   15 25
16 8   Won W   9 14
5 0   Drew D   2 4
4 3   Lost L   4 7
55 25   Scored S   28 46
25 13   Conceded C   20 25
88% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 92%
80% 91%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   93% 80%
60% 73%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   60% 52%
40% 45%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   27% 24%
24% 18%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   27% 20%
48% 55%   BTTS BTTS   47% 36%
44% 27%   Clean Sheets C S   27% 44%
20% 18%   Failed to Score F T   27% 28%
 
5.8 6.3   Corners for (avg) C F   7.1 6.5
4.2 3.1   Corners against (avg) C A   3.6 3.5
2.4 2.2   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.8 2
2 0   Red cards R C   0 0
 
13.2 14.4   Shots (avg) S (   12.9 12.2
5.4 5.5   Shots on Target (avg) S O   4.7 5
40% 42%   Goal Efficiency G E   41% 38%
 
11.2 9.8   Shots against (avg) S A   9.2 8.2
4 3.5   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   3.3 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 Bayern München 5 5 0 0 19 3 2 2 0 0 10 2 3 3 0 0 9 1 16 15
2 Barcelona 5 2 1 2 2 6 3 1 1 1 1 3 2 1 0 1 1 3 -4 7
3 Benfica 5 1 2 2 5 9 2 1 0 1 3 4 3 0 2 1 2 5 -4 5
4 Dynamo Kyiv 5 0 1 4 1 9 3 0 1 2 1 3 2 0 0 2 0 6 -8 1
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Porto 13 11 2 0 33 8 6 6 0 0 18 3 7 5 2 0 15 5 25 35
2 Sporting CP 13 11 2 0 22 5 7 6 1 0 11 1 6 5 1 0 11 4 17 35
3 Benfica 13 10 1 2 35 10 6 4 0 2 14 7 7 6 1 0 21 3 25 31
4 Sporting Braga 12 6 4 2 21 15 6 3 2 1 13 6 6 3 2 1 8 9 6 22
5 Estoril 12 5 6 1 18 11 6 1 4 1 7 7 6 4 2 0 11 4 7 21
6 Portimonense 13 6 2 5 13 12 7 2 1 4 4 8 6 4 1 1 9 4 1 20
7 Vitoria Guimaraes 12 4 4 4 14 12 6 3 1 2 9 6 6 1 3 2 5 6 2 16
8 Gil Vicente 12 3 5 4 15 15 6 1 2 3 7 8 6 2 3 1 8 7 0 14
9 Arouca 12 3 4 5 13 18 6 3 1 2 9 8 6 0 3 3 4 10 -5 13
10 Tondela 12 4 0 8 17 23 6 3 0 3 12 12 6 1 0 5 5 11 -6 12
11 Boavista 12 2 5 5 15 22 6 2 3 1 9 7 6 0 2 4 6 15 -7 11
12 Pacos de Ferreira 12 2 5 5 9 16 6 1 3 2 5 7 6 1 2 3 4 9 -7 11
13 Famalicao 12 2 4 6 16 20 6 0 3 3 4 9 6 2 1 3 12 11 -4 10
14 Maritimo 12 2 4 6 12 17 6 1 3 2 6 7 6 1 1 4 6 10 -5 10
15 Vizela 12 1 7 4 10 20 6 1 4 1 6 6 6 0 3 3 4 14 -10 10
16 Moreirense 12 1 6 5 14 22 6 1 3 2 10 11 6 0 3 3 4 11 -8 9
17 Belenenses 12 1 5 6 7 22 6 1 2 3 5 14 6 0 3 3 2 8 -15 8
18 Santa Clara 12 1 4 7 9 25 6 1 2 3 4 13 6 0 2 4 5 12 -16 7
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Shakhtar Donetsk 17 14 2 1 44 9 9 8 0 1 26 7 8 6 2 0 18 2 35 44
2 Dynamo Kyiv 16 13 2 1 43 8 8 6 1 1 21 2 8 7 1 0 22 6 35 41
3 Dnipro-1 16 11 1 4 29 16 8 7 0 1 19 7 8 4 1 3 10 9 13 34
4 Zorya 16 10 2 4 35 18 8 5 1 2 12 4 8 5 1 2 23 14 17 32
5 Vorskla 16 9 4 3 29 17 10 6 3 1 22 8 6 3 1 2 7 9 12 31
6 Desna 16 7 3 6 18 22 8 4 1 3 10 9 8 3 2 3 8 13 -4 24
7 Oleksandria 16 6 5 5 15 14 5 3 0 2 6 4 11 3 5 3 9 10 1 23
8 Veres 16 6 4 6 14 16 7 4 3 0 7 1 9 2 1 6 7 15 -2 22
9 Metalist 1925 Kharkiv 16 6 1 9 16 26 7 4 0 3 12 13 9 2 1 6 4 13 -10 19
10 Kolos Kovalivka 16 5 3 8 11 22 9 3 1 5 7 11 7 2 2 3 4 11 -11 18
11 Rukh Vynnyky 15 4 4 7 15 20 7 3 3 1 8 6 8 1 1 6 7 14 -5 16
12 Lviv 17 4 4 9 13 26 9 1 3 5 6 15 8 3 1 4 7 11 -13 16
13 Chornomorets 16 2 5 9 17 36 9 1 3 5 9 21 7 1 2 4 8 15 -19 11
14 Minai 16 1 7 8 11 25 9 1 5 3 8 12 7 0 2 5 3 13 -14 10
15 Inhulets 15 2 4 9 11 26 7 1 2 4 5 10 8 1 2 5 6 16 -15 10
16 Mariupol 16 2 1 13 18 38 8 0 0 8 9 22 8 2 1 5 9 16 -20 7

Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Bayern München 5 5 0 0 19 3 2 2 0 0 10 2 3 3 0 0 9 1 16 15
2 Barcelona 5 2 1 2 2 6 3 1 1 1 1 3 2 1 0 1 1 3 -4 7
3 Benfica 5 1 2 2 5 9 2 1 0 1 3 4 3 0 2 1 2 5 -4 5
4 Dynamo Kyiv 5 0 1 4 1 9 3 0 1 2 1 3 2 0 0 2 0 6 -8 1

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