Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Benfica & Sporting Covilhã face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the League Cup. 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 Benfica and Sporting Covilhã.
Benfica form and stats
Last season, Benfica's League Cup journey ended in the semi-finals.The home supporters can't complain about results here at Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica as Benfica have scored 14 goals to get 12 points from 6 games. The overall stats in the Primeira Liga are 4-0-2 (wins-draws-losses).
Happy days for Benfica in their previous game, a Primeira Liga match away at Famalicão that ended with a 4-1 victory. Núñez was absolutely essential when Benfica beat Famalicão 4-1, scoring three goals. Darwin Núñez, a forward, was the declared top performer for the side in that fixture, earning a rating of 9.41 (out of 10). Núñez scored three goals and dribled past the opponent 4 of 7 times.
Previous to that game, a Champions League home match hosting Dynamo Kyiv in a game that was won 2-0.Benfica are huge favourites in this match and it would be a big surprise if they fail to leave Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica with a victory. The home side has been in this situation before, with huge expectations of a win. In their match history eight earlier games are comparable to this one, and Benfica has won eight times, drawn zero and lost zero. Sports bettors who like handicap betting will like to know that Benfica has won by at least two goals five times when in this position.
Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Primeira Liga game versus Maritimo in only four days. This game is also played here at Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica.
Benfica can score goals in their home matches. After 6 league matches they have found the net 14 times. Benfica's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 7 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Sporting Covilhã form and stats
They also participated in League Cup last season. This ended in the group stage.Sporting Covilhã have only collected 6 points from their away games in the Segunda Liga, after 1-3-4 (8 played). The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the League Cup stats, they have 2 wins, 0 draws and 1 loss both home and away. The sun doesn’t shine and the birds do not sing for Covilhã, who have now gone twelve games without a victory. The Academico Viseu game was their last win and it’s been a dry spell since.
Two away games in a row for Sporting Covilhã, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-2 versus Leixoes in the Segunda Liga.
A loss against Chaves was the result prior to that, in a Segunda Liga home game.Sporting Covilhã are huge outsiders in this game. Running a check in our games database we found one match where they were as big outsiders as an away team. Results were one win, zero draws and zero defeats. Of the defeats, zero games were lost by at least two goals margin.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Covilhã as they have only managed to score 5 times from 8 away games in the league. As for defending, Covilhã rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 15 goals from these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Statistics for the preceeding three meetings between these two teams are: two wins for Benfica, one draw and zero wins for Sporting Covilhã. Over 2,5 goals: one time; under 2,5 goals: two games.Top Goalscorers
  D. Núñez Ribeiro 11 goals |  R. Fernandes Ferreira da Silva 6 goals |  J. Batista Santos 5 goals |
Benfica missing players
Sporting Covilhã missing players
| Benfica | Sporting Covilhã | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 16 | 9 | Won | W | 4 | 8 | ||
| 5 | 0 | Drew | D | 4 | 8 | ||
| 4 | 3 | Lost | L | 6 | 9 | ||
| 57 | 27 | Scored | S | 13 | 24 | ||
| 25 | 13 | Conceded | C | 20 | 31 | ||
| 88% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 86% | 84% | ||
| 80% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 79% | 76% | ||
| 60% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 44% | ||
| 44% | 42% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 14% | 12% | ||
| 28% | 17% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 7% | 4% | ||
| 48% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 36% | 44% | ||
| 44% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 36% | 32% | ||
| 20% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 43% | 40% | ||
| 5.6 | 6.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.8 | 4.5 | ||
| 4.5 | 3.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.4 | 5.3 | ||
| 2.3 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.1 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 3 | ||
| 12.9 | 14 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 10.8 | ||
| 5.5 | 5.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.8 | 4.4 | ||
| 42% | 41% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 21% | 22% | ||
| 11.6 | 10 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.1 | 10.4 | ||
| 4 | 3.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 4.2 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 | Benfica | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Sporting Covilhã | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 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 | Porto | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 34 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 26 | 38 |
| 2 | Sporting CP | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 19 | 38 |
| 3 | Benfica | 14 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 39 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 4 | 28 | 34 |
| 4 | Sporting Braga | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 23 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 25 |
| 5 | Estoril | 14 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 19 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 24 |
| 6 | Portimonense | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 23 |
| 7 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 22 |
| 8 | Gil Vicente | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 20 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 20 |
| 9 | Maritimo | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 11 | -2 | 14 |
| 10 | Arouca | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 20 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 12 | -6 | 13 |
| 11 | Tondela | 13 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 19 | 28 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 16 | -9 | 12 |
| 12 | Boavista | 14 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 25 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 17 | -9 | 12 |
| 13 | Pacos de Ferreira | 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 19 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | -9 | 11 |
| 14 | Vizela | 12 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 14 | -10 | 10 |
| 15 | Famalicão | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 17 | 28 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 15 | -11 | 10 |
| 16 | Santa Clara | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 30 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 16 | -18 | 10 |
| 17 | Moreirense | 13 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 23 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | -9 | 9 |
| 18 | Belenenses | 13 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 23 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | -16 | 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 II | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 31 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 10 | 15 | 29 |
| 2 | Casa Pia | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 27 |
| 3 | Feirense | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 22 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 26 |
| 4 | Rio Ave | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 24 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 24 |
| 5 | Penafiel | 14 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 23 |
| 6 | Mafra | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 22 |
| 7 | Nacional | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 22 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 20 |
| 8 | Chaves | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 21 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 20 |
| 9 | Trofense | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 20 |
| 10 | Leixoes | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 19 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 18 |
| 11 | Porto II | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 19 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 13 | -1 | 18 |
| 12 | Academico Viseu | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 12 | -6 | 17 |
| 13 | Estrela Amadora | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 21 | 26 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 12 | -5 | 16 |
| 14 | Vilafranquense | 14 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -5 | 15 |
| 15 | Farense | 14 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 17 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 10 | -2 | 14 |
| 16 | Sporting Covilhã | 14 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 21 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 15 | -12 | 12 |
| 17 | Varzim | 14 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -13 | 7 |
| 18 | Academica | 14 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 14 | -12 | 6 |