Champions League betting and spectator preview: Dynamo Kyiv and Benfica meet at NSK Olimpijs'kyj to measure strength and learn who makes it to the next stage.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Benfica, who are travelling more than 4100 kilometers to play this game.
Dynamo Kyiv form and stats
Last season, Dynamo's Champions League journey ended in the group stage.4-0-0 (win-draw-lost) are the Premier League numbers at home for Dynamo Kyiv so far this season. Dynamo Kyiv has a nice streak going on as they have played 24 consecutive leaguegames without losing (regardless of home/away). They are keen to extend their tally, a streak that began after the Shakhtar Donetsk defeat 310 days ago.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Georgiy Bushchan not having conceded a league goal in 284 minutes.
Dynamo are returning here after visiting Metalist 1925 Kharkiv in a Premier League game and winning with a 2-0 scoreline. Viktor Tsygankov and Denys Garmash scored the goal(s).
Ahead of that match, Dynamo won a home game hosting Kolos Kovalivka (7-0).Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Oleksandria are coming to town in four days.
With more than three goals on average, the attacking play of Dynamo Kyiv is on fire here. A stunning 17 from 4 league matches. Dynamo have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 0 goals.
Benfica form and stats
Benfica's mission in Champions League last season failed in the 3rd qualifying round.Benfica are on a winning streak away after three games, as mentioned below. A maximum 9 points in the bag from 3 travels in the Primeira Liga. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Champions League stats, they have 3 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses both home and away. In general it has been a productive period now for Benfica as they haven't lost any of their last twelve games.
It's the second away game in a row for Benfica, but there's smiles all around after the 5-0 victory versus Santa Clara in the Primeira Liga last time out. Attacker Darwin Núñez got a player rating of 8.81 in the game. "Man of the match" Núñez scored two goals and dribled passed the opponent 4 of 5 times. As mentioned above, Benfica was the only team on the pitch versus Santa Clara in their previous game, winning 5-0. This could be a tougher task.
Before that, Benfica secured a home win against Tondela with the score 2-1.Benfica are scoring goals for fun in their league games away this season, having clocked up more than three goals per game on average (9 goals from 3 away games). Benfica are tight as a drum on their travels, having allowed the opposition only 1 goal away.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head statistics (for the prior two meetings): Dynamo won zero games, zero matches ended with a tie and Benfica got two wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: zero / twoTop Goalscorers
  V. Tsygankov 5 goals |  V. Buyalskyy 5 goals |  C. de Pena Bonino 2 goals |
Dynamo Kyiv missing players
Benfica missing players
| Dynamo Kyiv | Benfica | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 9 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 14 | 7 | Won | W | 9 | 19 | ||
| 8 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | ||
| 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | ||
| 57 | 26 | Scored | S | 29 | 53 | ||
| 22 | 1 | Conceded | C | 6 | 18 | ||
| 96% | 89% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 91% | 92% | ||
| 84% | 78% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 91% | 84% | ||
| 52% | 44% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 55% | 48% | ||
| 32% | 44% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 45% | 28% | ||
| 24% | 22% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 27% | 20% | ||
| 44% | 11% | BTTS | BTTS | 36% | 48% | ||
| 48% | 89% | Clean Sheets | C S | 55% | 48% | ||
| 12% | 11% | Failed to Score | F T | 18% | 12% | ||
| 5.7 | 7.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.3 | 5.2 | ||
| 3.3 | 2.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.3 | 4.1 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.6 | 2.9 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 4 | 4 | ||
| 12.8 | 15.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.9 | 12.2 | ||
| 5.6 | 7.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 4.5 | ||
| 42% | 41% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 48% | 49% | ||
| 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Dynamo Kyiv | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | FC Barcelona | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | FC Bayern München | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Dynamo Kyiv | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 20 | 19 |
| 2 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 10 | 16 |
| 3 | Oleksandria | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 14 |
| 4 | Dnipro-1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 13 |
| 5 | Desna | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | -1 | 13 |
| 6 | Vorskla | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 12 |
| 7 | Zorya | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 11 |
| 8 | Veres | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 8 |
| 9 | Rukh Vynnyky | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | -3 | 8 |
| 10 | Inhulets | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -4 | 7 |
| 11 | Minai | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -2 | 6 |
| 12 | Metalist 1925 Kharkiv | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | -6 | 6 |
| 13 | Chornomorets | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | -9 | 5 |
| 14 | Kolos Kovalivka | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | -9 | 5 |
| 15 | Mariupol | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -5 | 4 |
| 16 | Lviv | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -8 | 2 |
| 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 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 11 | 15 |
| 2 | Porto | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 11 |
| 3 | Sporting CP | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 11 |
| 4 | Estoril | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 5 | Boavista | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| 6 | Sporting Braga | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| 7 | Portimonense | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 8 | Gil Vicente | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 9 | Pacos de Ferreira | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 7 |
| 10 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 11 | Vizela | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | -6 | 5 |
| 12 | Maritimo | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | -2 | 4 |
| 13 | Santa Clara | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | -9 | 4 |
| 14 | Moreirense | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | -2 | 3 |
| 15 | Tondela | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 3 |
| 16 | Arouca | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | -6 | 3 |
| 17 | Famalicao | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -4 | 2 |
| 18 | Belenenses | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | -5 | 2 |