The Porto & Benfica head coaches Conceição and Schmidt are both afraid of and eagerly anticipating this key fixture in the higher area of the Liga Portugal league table.
- Porto have won all their matches at home so far.
- Benfica is in the best form (5-1-0) in Liga Portugal
Both sides have had enough rest since their previous match. Let's trust this will be an in-your-face fixture!
Porto form and stats
When playing at home in the Liga Portugal, Porto have managed 4 wins, 0 draws and suffered 0 defeats from 4 games. Ever since the Marítimo game Porto has been unbeatable here at Estádio Do Dragão producing four straight wins.
Porto are returning here after visiting Anadia in a Taça De Portugal fixture and winning with a 6-0 scoreline.
In the game before, a fine away win at Bayer Leverkusen. A Champions League game.
It's goals goals goals for Porto who have scored 15 goals from 4 league home games. Porto are not conceding a lot of goals here at Estádio Do Dragão in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 2 from 4 matches.
Benfica form and stats
The visitors are W3-D1-L0 on the road this term. That's in the Liga Portugal.
It's another away match for the visitors, as they travelled to Caldas in their previous outing. The Taça De Portugal battle ended 1-1. Midfielder Mário was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.64. Mário hit seven key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times and had 85 successful passes (of 93 total).
Preceding that, 1-1 away against Paris Saint Germain in the Champions League.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Juventus in just four days.
The visiting Benfica have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 5 goals from 4 games.
Head 2 Head
Porto have put together a streak of 9 consecutive matches without defeat (7-2-0) when facing Benfica.The matches between these teams sometimes lean towards being a bit rough, having seen 6 sending-offs from the last ten duels.
Top Goalscorers
  M. Taremi 5 goals |  Evanilson 4 goals |
Porto missing players
Benfica missing players
| Porto | Benfica | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 9 | 4 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 7 | 4 | 2 | Won | W | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | 15 | 7 | Scored | S | 4 | 5 | 23 |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 75% | 89% |
| 89% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 25% | 67% |
| 56% | 100% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 25% | 67% |
| 33% | 50% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 44% |
| 22% | 50% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| 44% | 50% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| 56% | 50% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 11% |
| 6.6 | 5.5 | 4.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 8.5 | 7 | 8.6 |
| 3.3 | 4 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 4.2 | 3.3 |
| 1.8 | 1.8 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 1.8 | 2.3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 17.6 | 17 | 14 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14.5 | 12 | 20.2 |
| 6.1 | 6.2 | 5.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.2 | 6.7 |
| 40% | 60% | 64% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 67% | 38% | 38% |
| 7.2 | 8.2 | 8.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 5.5 | 5.2 | 5 |
| 2.1 | 2.5 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 1 | 1.2 | 1.7 |
- All of Porto's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Benfica have not yet conceded a single goal in all their away games.
- Benfica have not yet lost a game.
- Benfica have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Benfica have the fewest conceded goals (0) away in Liga Portugal
- Benfica have the most clean sheets (4) away in Liga Portugal
- Benfica have the most clean sheets (6) in Liga Portugal
- Benfica have the most points from losing position (9) in Liga Portugal
- Benfica have the most scored goals in the second half (13) in Liga Portugal
- Benfica have the the best goal difference (+18) in Liga Portugal
- Benfica have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Benfica have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Benfica is in the best form (5-1-0) in Liga Portugal
- Porto have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Porto have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Porto have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Benfica have scored away.
- Porto have scored in all their matches so far.
- Porto have won all their matches at home so far.
- Porto haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 18 | 25 |
| 2 | Porto | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 16 | 22 |
| 3 | Sporting Braga | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 14 | 19 |
| 4 | Casa Pia | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 17 |
| 5 | Sporting CP | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 16 |
| 6 | Boavista | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -4 | 16 |
| 7 | Estoril | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 15 |
| 8 | Portimonense | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -1 | 15 |
| 9 | Vitória SC | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 14 |
| 10 | Chaves | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | -1 | 12 |
| 11 | Arouca | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | -6 | 12 |
| 12 | Vizela | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -2 | 11 |
| 13 | Rio Ave | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 12 | -4 | 9 |
| 14 | Gil Vicente | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -4 | 9 |
| 15 | Famalicão | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | -6 | 7 |
| 16 | Santa Clara | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | -5 | 5 |
| 17 | Paços de Ferreira | 9 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -11 | 2 |
| 18 | Marítimo | 9 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 25 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 18 | -19 | 1 |
