A quick peek at the Primeira Liga standings point to an edge to Benfica when they visit Belenenses. Yet; let's wait for the game before we pick a winner!
- Belenenses have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Benfica have the most points (16) away in Primeira Liga
Benfica could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Champions League game only four sleeps ago. That game, against FC Barcelona, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Benfica.
Belenenses form and stats
The story so far in the Primeira Liga for Belenenses at their home stadium (Estádio Nacional) is 1 win, 2 draws and 2 defeats.
Belenenses enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Caldas's place. The match ended 5-3 with Diogo Calila, A. Luković, Pedro Nuno (2) and Afonso Sousa scoring. A goal frenzy last time out for Belenenses, with a total of 8 goals in the match against Caldas. Fun stuff to watch!
Prior to that, an away loss at Portimonense in the Primeira Liga.No one expects the home team to get anything from this game. It's not often a home team are such massive outsiders as in this game. We've searched our database for matches where Belenenses had similar winning odds as today, and found two games. In these, the hosts won zero, drew one and lost one. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Belenenses lost one similar game by at least two goals.
Belenenses are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 5 goals in 5 games. On the other hand, Belenenses have conceded 7 goals.
Benfica form and stats
Rock solid. That's the only way to describe the travels of Benfica so far, with 5-1-0 (wins-draws-losses) so far. Those are Primeira Liga statistics.
Benfica are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 0-0 draw at FC Barcelona. Nicolás Otamendi, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.24. Otamendi hit two key passes and won 3 of 9 duels.
Prior to that match, a home win 4-1 against Pacos de Ferreira in the Taça De Portugal.As mentioned earlier, Benfica will not be satisfied unless they get a comfortable victory in this game. Performing as huge favourites away from home has earlier resulted in four wins (one by two or more goals winning margin), two draws and one surprising defeat.
Benfica have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 14 goals from 6 away matches. Benfica's manager J. Pinheiro de Jesus has created a great defensive setup working very nicely in away games with only 3 conceded goals. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's one Belenenses victory, three draws and six Benfica wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  R. Fernandes Ferreira da Silva 5 goals |  D. Núñez Ribeiro 5 goals |  R. Yaremchuk 4 goals |
Belenenses missing players
Benfica missing players
| Belenenses | Benfica | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 5 | 0 | Played | P | 3 | 6 | 11 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 3 | 5 | 9 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | 5 | 0 | Scored | S | 8 | 14 | 27 |
| 15 | 7 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 82% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 82% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 83% | 82% |
| 27% | 40% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 50% | 55% |
| 9% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 33% | 36% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 17% | 18% |
| 45% | 80% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 50% | 55% |
| 18% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 50% | 36% |
| 55% | 20% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 9% |
| 3.4 | 3.8 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.7 | 7.3 | 7.2 |
| 6.4 | 6.6 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.7 | 4.3 | 3.8 |
| 3.3 | 3.6 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 2.2 | 2 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 9.5 | 8.6 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.7 | 14.5 | 16 |
| 2.7 | 3.4 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 6.2 | 6.5 |
| 23% | 29% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 53% | 38% | 38% |
| 16 | 12.8 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.7 | 10.3 | 8.4 |
| 4.5 | 3.6 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.3 | 3.3 | 2.8 |
- All of Belenenses's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Belenenses have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Belenenses have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Belenenses have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Belenenses haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Benfica have created more than twice as many corners as Belenenses.
- Benfica have not yet lost a game away.
- Benfica have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Benfica have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Benfica have scored more than double the goals of Belenenses.
- Benfica have the most points (16) away in Primeira Liga
- Benfica have the most scored goals (14) away in Primeira Liga
- Benfica have the the best goal difference (+11) away in Primeira Liga
- Benfica 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 | Porto | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 28 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 21 | 29 |
| 2 | Sporting CP | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 13 | 29 |
| 3 | Benfica | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 27 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 20 | 28 |
| 4 | Estoril | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 20 |
| 5 | Sporting Braga | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 17 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 19 |
| 6 | Portimonense | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 17 |
| 7 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 16 |
| 8 | Gil Vicente | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 13 |
| 9 | Tondela | 11 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 17 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | -4 | 12 |
| 10 | Pacos de Ferreira | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -5 | 11 |
| 11 | Boavista | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 13 | -6 | 11 |
| 12 | Famalicao | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 16 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 11 | -1 | 10 |
| 13 | Arouca | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | -6 | 10 |
| 14 | Vizela | 11 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | -7 | 10 |
| 15 | Moreirense | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | -8 | 8 |
| 16 | Belenenses | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | -8 | 8 |
| 17 | Maritimo | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -7 | 7 |
| 18 | Santa Clara | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 23 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | -16 | 6 |