Primeira Liga preview with statistics: Famalicão welcomes Benfica to Estádio Municipal 22 de Junho

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Competition: Portugal Primeira Liga
Competition: Sat 10.September
Match begins: 14:30 (UTC)
Venue: Estádio Municipal 22 de Junho (10000 seats)

Famalicão welcome Benfica for another entertaining Primeira Liga fixture here at Estádio Municipal 22 de Junho.

Insights:
  • Famalicão have the fewest scored goals (1) in Primeira Liga
  • Benfica have the most points from losing position (6) 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.

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Famalicão form and stats

Only two Primeira Liga home games for Famalicão so far, yet both highs and lows with 1 win, 0 draws and 1 defeat.

Famalicão lost their last game at Portimonense (placed 4th) after a 0-1 scoreline. The attacker Rodrigues was declared "man of the match" for Famalicão with a rating of 7.43/10. Rodrigues hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 3 of 4 times and had 36 successful passes (of 41 total).

Ahead of that match, Famalicão won a home game hosting Santa Clara (1-0).

"Both teams to score yes/no" info: This side have played 5 league matches in a row with only one (or none) club finding the net.

Early season league goal statistics from Famalicão's 2 home games: 1 goal, 3 conceded.

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Benfica form and stats

Benfica are yet to lose a point on their Primeira Liga travels this season with 2 wins from 2 away games.

The followers enjoyed Benfica's previous fixture versus Maccabi Haifa, a Champions League win (2-0) played at home. Grimaldo was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 8.64. The defender Grimaldo scored one goal, served one assist, hit two key passes and won 4 of 10 duels.

That result followed a home victory 2-1 versus Vizela in the Primeira Liga.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Benfica manager Schmidt as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Juventus.

As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Benfica has managed 4 goals and let in 0 from 2 matches.

Head 2 Head

Benfica have put together a sequence of 8 consecutive games without defeat (5-3-0) when playing Famalicão.

Top Goalscorers

BenficaJoão Mário
João Mário
4 goals
BenficaR. Silva
R. Silva
2 goals

Famalicão missing players

Benfica missing players

Famalicão Benfica
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
5 2 1 Played P 0 2 5
1 1 0 Won W 0 2 5
1 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
3 1 1 Lost L 0 0 0
1 1 0 Scored S 0 4 13
6 3 3 Conceded C 0 0 3
80% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
40% 50% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 50% 80%
20% 50% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 80%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 40%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 20%
0% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 40%
40% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 100% 60%
80% 50% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
4.8 6.5 7 Corners for (avg) C F 0 8.5 10.2
5.4 5.5 7 Corners against (avg) C A 0 5.5 3.8
2.8 3 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 3 3.6
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
12.2 11.5 11 Shots (avg) S ( 0 14.5 21.4
3.8 4.5 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 3 5.4
5% 11% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 67% 48%
 
14.2 18.5 24 Shots against (avg) S A 0 5.5 4.6
4.4 6 10 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 1 1.6
Key stats in Primeira Liga this season:
  • Benfica have created more than twice as many corners as Famalicão.
  • Benfica have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Benfica have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Benfica have scored more than double the goals of Famalicão.
  • Benfica have the most points from losing position (6) in Primeira Liga
  • Benfica have won all their games so far.
  • Benfica have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Benfica haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Benfica is in the best form (5-0-0) in Primeira Liga
  • Famalicão have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Famalicão have the fewest scored goals (1) in Primeira Liga
  • Famalicão have the fewest scored goals in the second half (0) in Primeira Liga
  • Famalicão have won significantly more corners at home than away.
Famalicão Last season Benfica
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
34 17   Played P   17 34
9 5   Won W   13 23
12 7   Drew D   2 5
13 5   Lost L   2 6
45 22   Scored S   42 78
51 21   Conceded C   14 30
85% 76%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 97%
76% 71%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   88% 85%
59% 59%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   59% 59%
38% 29%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   47% 38%
18% 18%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   24% 18%
59% 59%   BTTS BTTS   53% 59%
26% 35%   Clean Sheets C S   47% 35%
29% 29%   Failed to Score F T   0% 9%
 
4.6 5.5   Corners for (avg) C F   6.1 6.6
4.9 4   Corners against (avg) C A   4.4 4.1
3.1 2.8   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.3 2.4
6 3   Red cards R C   2 3
 
12.2 13.6   Shots (avg) S (   13.3 15.8
4.6 4.8   Shots on Target (avg) S O   5.8 5.9
28% 27%   Goal Efficiency G E   43% 39%
 
12.4 9.5   Shots against (avg) S A   10.7 10.3
4.7 3.8   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   3.2 3.2

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Benfica 5 5 0 0 13 3 3 3 0 0 9 3 2 2 0 0 4 0 10 15
2 Sporting Braga 5 4 1 0 18 3 3 2 1 0 9 3 2 2 0 0 9 0 15 13
3 Porto 5 4 0 1 12 4 2 2 0 0 8 1 3 2 0 1 4 3 8 12
4 Portimonense 5 4 0 1 7 2 3 2 0 1 3 2 2 2 0 0 4 0 5 12
5 Boavista 5 3 0 2 4 6 3 2 0 1 3 4 2 1 0 1 1 2 -2 9
6 Chaves 5 2 2 1 6 4 3 0 2 1 2 3 2 2 0 0 4 1 2 8
7 Casa Pia 5 2 2 1 3 1 3 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 2 8
8 Estoril 5 2 1 2 7 5 3 1 1 1 4 4 2 1 0 1 3 1 2 7
9 Sporting CP 5 2 1 2 8 8 2 1 0 1 3 2 3 1 1 1 5 6 0 7
10 Arouca 5 2 1 2 3 11 2 1 0 1 1 6 3 1 1 1 2 5 -8 7
11 Vitoria Guimaraes 5 2 0 3 3 4 2 1 0 1 1 1 3 1 0 2 2 3 -1 6
12 Vizela 5 1 2 2 5 6 2 0 1 1 2 3 3 1 1 1 3 3 -1 5
13 Rio Ave 5 1 2 2 6 8 2 1 0 1 3 2 3 0 2 1 3 6 -2 5
14 Gil Vicente 5 1 2 2 3 5 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 0 1 1 2 3 -2 5
15 Santa Clara 5 1 1 3 4 6 3 1 1 1 3 3 2 0 0 2 1 3 -2 4
16 Famalicão 5 1 1 3 1 6 2 1 0 1 1 3 3 0 1 2 0 3 -5 4
17 Pacos de Ferreira 5 0 0 5 2 11 2 0 0 2 0 6 3 0 0 3 2 5 -9 0
18 Maritimo 5 0 0 5 3 15 2 0 0 2 1 3 3 0 0 3 2 12 -12 0

Read more about Primeira Liga

The Primeira Liga, also known as Liga NOS, is the top level of football in Portugal. It has 18 teams each playing 34 fixtures to decide the final league table. Portuguese football is dominated by “The Big Three”: Benfica, Porto and Sporting CP (Lisbon). These three clubs generally end up in the top three positions.