Football betting preview: Paços de Ferreira vs Benfica

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Competition: Portugal Primeira Liga
Competition: Sun 15.May
Match begins: 00:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estádio da Capital do Móvel (6404 seats)

Paços de Ferreira will aim to draw on their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home team are currently 33 points behind Benfica.

Insights:
  • Paços de Ferreira have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Benfica have the most scored goals (40) away in Primeira Liga

Ferreira are staying put; they can neither be promoted or relegated this season and are fighting only for positions.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Paços de Ferreira form and stats

5 victories, 6 draws and 5 defeats. That’s what Paços de Ferreira have to build on here at Estádio da Capital do Móvel in the Primeira Liga.

Paços de Ferreira lost their last game at Santa Clara (placed 7th) after a 0-2 scoreline. Baixinho, defender, was given a rating of 7.4/10 in that game, top of the team. Baixinho won 2 of 4 duels.

The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 1-1 versus Tondela.

Paços de Ferreira are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 19 goals in 16 games. On the other hand, Ferreira have conceded 20 goals. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Benfica form and stats

Benfica have an excellent away record in the Primeira Liga so far with 12-2-2 from 16 games. Momentum is building for Benfica in their away games, having won their two previous outings.

The manager Veríssimo was unhappy after their last game, played at their home ground Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica (da Luz). Benfica suffered a 0-1 loss to Porto (placed 1st). Benfica were so close to getting something from the game against Porto, but ended up with egg all over their face after conceding the deciding goal four minutes into overtime. Midfielder Taarabt was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.43. Taarabt dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.

Prior to that result Benfica won their away game at Marítimo. The scoreline was 1-0.

With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Benfica are regular goalscorers on their travels. It's not easy to score on Benfica as they have only conceded 14 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

This was the final score when the sides faced each other previously this campaign; Benfica - Paços de Ferreira 2-0. Paços de Ferreira-Benfica H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Paços de Ferreira zero wins, Benfica nine wins, one draw. five of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

BenficaD. Núñez Ribeiro
D. Núñez Ribeiro
26 goals
BenficaR. Fernandes Ferreira da Silva
R. Fernandes Ferreira da Silva
8 goals
BenficaG. Ramos
G. Ramos
7 goals

Paços de Ferreira missing players

Benfica missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Paços de Ferreira Benfica
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
33 16 5 Played P 5 16 33
9 5 0 Won W 3 12 22
11 6 1 Drew D 2 2 5
13 5 4 Lost L 0 2 6
29 19 3 Scored S 11 40 76
42 20 9 Conceded C 4 14 30
88% 88% 80% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 97%
76% 81% 60% Over 1.5 O 1.5 80% 88% 85%
33% 44% 40% Over 2.5 O 2.5 60% 62% 61%
12% 19% 20% Over 3.5 O 3.5 40% 50% 39%
3% 6% 20% Over 4.5 O 4.5 20% 25% 18%
45% 62% 40% BTTS BTTS 60% 56% 61%
30% 25% 20% Clean Sheets C S 40% 44% 33%
36% 25% 60% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 9%
 
5.2 5.7 5.6 Corners for (avg) C F 6 6.2 6.7
5 4.5 6.6 Corners against (avg) C A 5.4 4.3 4
3.2 3 1.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.8 2.4 2.5
5 1 0 Red cards R C 0 2 3
 
10.8 12.4 8.8 Shots (avg) S ( 13 13.2 15.9
3.2 3.6 2.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.6 5.6 5.8
28% 33% 21% Goal Efficiency G E 48% 45% 39%
 
14.4 13.8 14.6 Shots against (avg) S A 10.6 10.7 10.2
5 4.8 6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.4 3.2 3.2
Key stats in Primeira Liga this season:
  • Benfica have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • 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 Paços de Ferreira.
  • Benfica have the most scored goals (40) away in Primeira Liga
  • Benfica have the the best goal difference (+26) away in Primeira Liga
  • Benfica haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Paços de Ferreira have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.

  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 33 28 4 1 84 22 16 14 2 0 48 11 17 14 2 1 36 11 62 88
2 Sporting CP 33 26 4 3 69 23 16 13 1 2 30 8 17 13 3 1 39 15 46 82
3 Benfica 33 22 5 6 76 30 17 10 3 4 36 16 16 12 2 2 40 14 46 71
4 Sporting Braga 33 19 8 6 50 28 17 10 4 3 27 13 16 9 4 3 23 15 22 65
5 Gil Vicente 33 13 12 8 47 37 17 6 6 5 25 19 16 7 6 3 22 18 10 51
6 Vitória SC 33 12 9 12 45 41 16 8 3 5 29 20 17 4 6 7 16 21 4 45
7 Santa Clara 33 9 13 11 38 50 17 8 6 3 24 23 16 1 7 8 14 27 -12 40
8 Estoril 33 9 12 12 36 41 17 4 8 5 21 21 16 5 4 7 15 20 -5 39
9 Marítimo 33 9 11 13 39 43 16 4 6 6 19 16 17 5 5 7 20 27 -4 38
10 Paços de Ferreira 33 9 11 13 29 42 16 5 6 5 19 20 17 4 5 8 10 22 -13 38
11 Boavista 33 7 16 10 37 50 17 4 10 3 20 20 16 3 6 7 17 30 -13 37
12 Portimonense 33 9 8 16 30 45 17 4 4 9 15 22 16 5 4 7 15 23 -15 35
13 Famalicao 32 7 12 13 39 47 16 4 7 5 19 19 16 3 5 8 20 28 -8 33
14 Vizela 33 7 12 14 36 54 17 4 7 6 16 21 16 3 5 8 20 33 -18 33
15 Arouca 33 7 9 17 30 54 16 5 3 8 15 29 17 2 6 9 15 25 -24 30
16 Tondela 33 7 6 20 39 65 16 4 3 9 22 31 17 3 3 11 17 34 -26 27
17 Moreirense 33 6 8 19 29 50 16 4 3 9 18 22 17 2 5 10 11 28 -21 26
18 Belenenses 32 5 10 17 21 52 16 5 3 8 13 27 16 0 7 9 8 25 -31 25

Table
  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 33 28 4 1 84 22 16 14 2 0 48 11 17 14 2 1 36 11 62 88
2 Sporting CP 33 26 4 3 69 23 16 13 1 2 30 8 17 13 3 1 39 15 46 82
3 Benfica 33 22 5 6 76 30 17 10 3 4 36 16 16 12 2 2 40 14 46 71
4 Sporting Braga 33 19 8 6 50 28 17 10 4 3 27 13 16 9 4 3 23 15 22 65
5 Gil Vicente 33 13 12 8 47 37 17 6 6 5 25 19 16 7 6 3 22 18 10 51
6 Vitória SC 33 12 9 12 45 41 16 8 3 5 29 20 17 4 6 7 16 21 4 45
7 Santa Clara 33 9 13 11 38 50 17 8 6 3 24 23 16 1 7 8 14 27 -12 40
8 Estoril 33 9 12 12 36 41 17 4 8 5 21 21 16 5 4 7 15 20 -5 39
9 Marítimo 33 9 11 13 39 43 16 4 6 6 19 16 17 5 5 7 20 27 -4 38
10 Paços de Ferreira 33 9 11 13 29 42 16 5 6 5 19 20 17 4 5 8 10 22 -13 38
11 Boavista 33 7 16 10 37 50 17 4 10 3 20 20 16 3 6 7 17 30 -13 37
12 Portimonense 33 9 8 16 30 45 17 4 4 9 15 22 16 5 4 7 15 23 -15 35
13 Famalicao 32 7 12 13 39 47 16 4 7 5 19 19 16 3 5 8 20 28 -8 33
14 Vizela 33 7 12 14 36 54 17 4 7 6 16 21 16 3 5 8 20 33 -18 33
15 Arouca 33 7 9 17 30 54 16 5 3 8 15 29 17 2 6 9 15 25 -24 30
16 Tondela 33 7 6 20 39 65 16 4 3 9 22 31 17 3 3 11 17 34 -26 27
17 Moreirense 33 6 8 19 29 50 16 4 3 9 18 22 17 2 5 10 11 28 -21 26
18 Belenenses 32 5 10 17 21 52 16 5 3 8 13 27 16 0 7 9 8 25 -31 25

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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.