A home win is expected from this fixture if the league table is anything to judge by. The home fans are optimistic that the difference between 1st and 18th place in the table will show on the pitch.
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
Benfica form and stats
Benfica, who have the most scored goals (38) in Primeira Liga, have been outstanding at home so far in the Primeira Liga with 7 wins, 0 draws and only 1 loss. Benfica haven’t lost a game in twelve attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Porto, 139 days ago. Ever since the Porto game Benfica has been unbeatable here at Estadio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica producing six straight wins.
The Benfica goalkeeper Odisseas Vlachodimos is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 226 minutes without conceding a goal in the Primeira Liga.
Benfica are returning here after visiting Vitória SC in a Primeira Liga game and winning with a 1-0 scoreline. 2-2 away at Vitória FC before that.
Everyone expects Benfica to win this match. We have checked our database for matches where they have been as big a favourite and found 18 games: 15 home wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat. Benfica have won with at least two goals margin 10 times in similar situations.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Rio Ave are coming to town in four days.
Goals are plentiful at Estadio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica in the league this season as Benfica has scored 22 goals here in 8 home games. Benfica have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 2 goals.
Desportivo Aves form and stats
Desportivo Aves, who have the most conceded goals (31) in Primeira Liga, have only collected 0 points from their away games in the Primeira Liga, after 0-0-8 (8 played). The manager Nuno Santos is not happy with the away performances in the Primeira Liga so far, as all 8 matches have been lost. A depressing eight defeats in a row for Desportivo Aves in their away games. Unhappy days, as the last time they avoided a loss on the road was versus Boavista.
M. Mohammadi was the last player to score for the away team. Desportivo Aves haven't scored a league goal in the last 262 minutes.
Desportivo Aves failed to get anything from their last game, a Primeira Liga home match vs Santa Clara (placed 13th) that ended with defeat 0-1. Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Vitória FC's place.
Desportivo Aves are huge outsiders in this game. Running a check in our games database we found twelve matches where they were as big outsiders as an away team. Results were 2 wins, 1 draw and 9 defeats. Of the defeats, 6 games were lost by at least two goals margin.
Desportivo Aves are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 8 away goals from 8 games (in the league). People interested in "over 2,5 goals" betting will like to know that Desportivo Aves concede an average of more than 2,5 goals per away match all on their own.
Head 2 Head
Benfica-Desportivo Aves H2H statistics last nine meetings regardless of arena: Benfica 8 wins, Desportivo Aves 0 wins, 1 draw. 5 of these nine matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  Pizzi 11 goals |  Carlos Vinícius 10 goals |   Mehrdad Mohammadi 5 goals |
Benfica missing players
Desportivo Aves missing players
| Benfica | Desportivo Aves | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 8 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 8 | 15 |
| 14 | 7 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 8 | 13 |
| 38 | 22 | 9 | Scored | S | 1 | 8 | 15 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 6 | 22 | 31 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 80% | 88% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 75% | 60% |
| 53% | 50% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 75% | 60% |
| 40% | 50% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 50% | 40% |
| 13% | 12% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 50% | 33% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 75% | 60% |
| 73% | 88% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 7% | 12% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 25% | 33% |
| 6.7 | 8.1 | 7.5 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 4 | 5.1 | 4.9 |
| 3.7 | 3.4 | 2 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 8.5 | 7.1 | 7.5 |
| 1.9 | 1.5 | 0.5 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 2.4 | 2.7 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 207 | 114 | 32 | Total Shots | T S | 22 | 85 | 159 |
| 68 | 38 | 13 | Shots on Target | S O | 2 | 18 | 41 |
| 56% | 58% | 69% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 44% | 37% |
- Benfica has the fewest conceded goals (5)
- Benfica has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2)
- Benfica has the most clean sheets (11)
- Benfica has the most scored goals (22) at home
- Benfica has the most scored goals (38)
- Benfica has the most scored goals in the second half (25)
- Benfica has the the best goal difference (+20) at home
- Benfica has the the best goal difference (+33)
- Benfica have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Benfica have scored more than double the goals of Desportivo Aves.
- Benfica have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Benfica have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Benfica haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Benfica is in the best form (6-0-0)
- Desportivo Aves has the fewest clean sheets (1)
- Desportivo Aves has the fewest points (0) away
- Desportivo Aves has the most conceded goals (22) away
- Desportivo Aves has the most conceded goals (31)
- Desportivo Aves has the most conceded goals in the first half (14)
- Desportivo Aves has the the worst goal difference (-14) away
- Desportivo Aves have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Desportivo Aves have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Desportivo Aves have lost all their away matches so far.
- Desportivo Aves have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Desportivo Aves haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Desportivo Aves is in the worst form (1-0-5)
| 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 | 15 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 38 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 3 | 33 | 42 |
| 2 | Porto | 15 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 30 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 23 | 38 |
| 3 | Famalicão | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 29 | 25 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 15 | 4 | 27 |
| 4 | Sporting CP | 15 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 25 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 26 |
| 5 | Sporting Braga | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 23 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 21 |
| 6 | Vitória SC | 15 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 24 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 21 |
| 7 | Tondela | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 10 | -3 | 19 |
| 8 | Vitória FC | 15 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 | -5 | 19 |
| 9 | Rio Ave | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 17 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 19 |
| 10 | Boavista | 15 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | -1 | 19 |
| 11 | Gil Vicente | 15 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 11 | -2 | 18 |
| 12 | Marítimo | 15 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 16 | 23 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 11 | -7 | 18 |
| 13 | Santa Clara | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -7 | 17 |
| 14 | Moreirense | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 18 | 20 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 13 | -2 | 17 |
| 15 | Belenenses | 15 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 28 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 13 | -16 | 15 |
| 16 | Paços de Ferreira | 15 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 22 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 14 | -11 | 14 |
| 17 | Portimonense | 15 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 21 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 11 | -9 | 13 |
| 18 | Desportivo Aves | 15 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 15 | 31 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 22 | -16 | 6 |