Benfica U23 look to Caixa Futebol Campus supporters for inspiration before Sporting Braga U23 match

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Competition: Portugal Liga Revelacao U23
Competition: Tue 04.April
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Caixa Futebol Campus (2708 seats)

Straining Benfica U23 are eager to pull off a surprise victory when they host enterprising Sporting Braga U23 in the next league match. It’s 6th vs 2nd and the home crowd will have modest expectations.

Insights:
  • Benfica U23 have the most conceded goals (14) in Liga Revelacao U23
  • Sporting Braga U23 have the fewest conceded goals (7) in Liga Revelacao U23

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Benfica U23 form and stats

When playing at home in the Liga Revelacao U23, Benfica U23, who have the most conceded goals (14) in Liga Revelacao U23, have managed 0 wins, 1 draw and suffered 3 defeats from 4 games. When Benfica U23 hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Estoril U23), they have won 2 of 3 matches!

The Benfica U23 crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 1-2 to Famalicão U23 here at Caixa Futebol Campus.

2-2 away at Estoril U23 before that.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Benfica have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 7 games) they have won 5 times, drawn 0 and lost 2.

An interesting fact: 8 of the latest 10 league matches from this football club have had at least one goal from each side.

Benfica U23 aren't scoring a lot here at Caixa Futebol Campus in the league, with only {3 goals} from 4 games. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Benfica U23 with 9 goals conceded in these matches. When Benfica U23 hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Vizela U23), the matches have ended over 2.5 goals 2 of 3 times.

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Sporting Braga U23 form and stats

Things could have gone better for Sporting Braga U23 in their Liga Revelacao U23 away matches, but 4 points from 3 games is all right.

Braga aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 186 league minutes without a goal. Rodriguez was the last player to find the net.

Two away games in a row for Sporting Braga U23, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-4 versus Estoril U23. That defeat was their first after four consecutive league games winning points. Braga lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-4 beating and focus on this one.

A 0-0 draw at Vizela U23's stadium before that.

We have checked recent matches where Sporting Braga U23 have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 7 games were 2 victories, 1 draw and 4 defeats.

Goals are few and far between in Sporting Braga U23's away league games. Only {1 goals} from 3 travels. Braga have conceded 4 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Thinking about a bet on both teams to score (or not)? Interestingly enough, the last occasion both teams scored in one of the away team's league matches was the last time they met today's opponent Benfica U23! Sporting Braga U23 - Benfica U23 2-1, five matches ago. Benfica U23-Sporting Braga U23 H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Benfica U23 seven wins, Sporting Braga U23 one win, two draws. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

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Benfica U23 Sporting Braga U23
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
24 12 3 Played P 3 10 24
11 8 2 Won W 1 4 14
7 1 1 Drew D 1 2 4
6 3 0 Lost L 1 4 6
51 30 7 Scored S 2 6 34
35 18 4 Conceded C 2 11 24
92% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 80% 92%
83% 92% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 50% 75%
67% 83% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 30% 50%
46% 50% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 10% 17%
29% 33% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 8%
71% 75% 100% BTTS BTTS 33% 20% 46%
21% 17% 0% Clean Sheets C S 67% 50% 42%
17% 8% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 50% 21%
 
5.8 5.4 4.7 Corners for (avg) C F 5.3 4.8 5
3.5 2.8 2.7 Corners against (avg) C A 4 4.7 5.2
2 2.1 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.3 2.4 2.7
1 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 4
 
12.9 13.4 14 Shots (avg) S ( 10.7 8.7 9.1
6.4 6.4 7.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3 3.9
33% 39% 32% Goal Efficiency G E 22% 20% 36%
 
10.2 9.6 10 Shots against (avg) S A 15.7 12.4 11.1
4.6 4.3 3.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 7.3 5.7 4.9
Key stats in Liga Revelacao U23 this season:
  • Benfica U23 have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Benfica U23 have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Sporting Braga U23 have scored away.
  • Benfica U23 have the fewest clean sheets (2) at home in Liga Revelacao U23
  • Benfica U23 have the fewest clean sheets (5) in Liga Revelacao U23
  • Benfica U23 have the fewest points (1) at home in Liga Revelacao U23
  • Benfica U23 have the fewest points from losing position (4) in Liga Revelacao U23
  • Benfica U23 have the most conceded goals (14) in Liga Revelacao U23
  • Benfica U23 have the most conceded goals (9) at home in Liga Revelacao U23
  • Benfica U23 have the most conceded goals in the second half (23) in Liga Revelacao U23
  • Benfica U23 have the most matches over the total-line (16) in Liga Revelacao U23
  • Benfica U23 have the most scored goals in the first half (21) in Liga Revelacao U23
  • Benfica U23 have the most scored goals in the second half (30) in Liga Revelacao U23
  • Benfica U23 have the the worst goal difference (-6) at home in Liga Revelacao U23
  • Benfica U23 have the the worst goal difference (-7) in Liga Revelacao U23
  • Benfica U23 haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Benfica U23 is in the worst form (0-2-4)
  • Sporting Braga U23 have the fewest conceded goals (7) in Liga Revelacao U23
  • Sporting Braga U23 have the fewest scored goals (1) away in Liga Revelacao U23
  • Sporting Braga U23 have the the worst goal difference (-3) away in Liga Revelacao U23

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Estoril U23 7 4 2 1 15 9 4 3 1 0 11 5 3 1 1 1 4 4 6 14
2 Sporting Braga U23 7 4 1 2 7 7 4 3 0 1 6 3 3 1 1 1 1 4 0 13
3 Estrela U23 7 3 1 3 10 8 3 2 1 0 5 3 4 1 0 3 5 5 2 10
4 Famalicão U23 7 3 1 3 9 8 3 1 1 1 2 2 4 2 0 2 7 6 1 10
5 Vizela U23 7 2 2 3 8 10 3 1 1 1 3 4 4 1 1 2 5 6 -2 8
6 Benfica U23 7 0 3 4 7 14 4 0 1 3 3 9 3 0 2 1 4 5 -7 3

Read more about Liga Revelacao U23

The Campeonato Nacional de Sub-23 (U23) is the under-23 development team league in Portugal. It currently has 14 teams playing each other home and away for a total of 26 fixtures. After that, the top six in the league table play a championship round while the bottom eight play a relegation round.