National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Benfica or Belenenses that keep their silverware dream alive.
It's no vacation for neither Benfica nor Belenenses as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Benfica form and stats
Benfica was eliminated in the final last season in the Taça De Portugal.Home games in the Primeira Liga have been a walk in the park for Benfica so far, with 18 points won from 7 matches; 6 wins, 0 draws and 1 loss. This match is a Taça De Portugal match, and the hometeam has the total statistics 3 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses in this competition.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Sporting Braga (1-2).
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Benfica as they are travelling to their away game against Sporting CP in the Primeira Liga. That match is four days after this one.
Benfica can score goals in their home matches. After 7 league matches they have found the net 15 times. Benfica have conceded 7 in these home matches.
Belenenses form and stats
Belenenses was sent out of Taça De Portugal in the 4th round last season.Belenenses have only collected 6 points from their away games in the Primeira Liga, after 1-3-3 (7 played). Total Taça De Portugal statistics for Belenenses: 3 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses.
Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Portimonense's place.
With the home team given a winning probability of about 80% by the bookmakers, any positive result for the visitors would be a surprise. Checking earlier matches with similar odds with Belenenses as the away team, we found five results. Statistics from these were zero away wins, two draws and three defeats. The outsiders lost three of these games by at least two goals.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Belenenses manager A. Gonçalves Teixeira as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Santa Clara.
Goals are few and far between in Belenenses's away league games. Only 1 goal from 7 travels. It's not easy to score on Belenenses as they have only conceded 4 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Benfica seven wins, two draws and Belenenses one victory. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  H. Seferović 7 goals |  G. Waldschmidt 6 goals |  R. Fernandes Ferreira da Silva 3 goals |
Benfica missing players
Belenenses missing players
| Benfica | Belenenses | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 14 | 8 | Won | W | 3 | 7 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Drew | D | 4 | 7 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 7 | 11 | ||
| 53 | 30 | Scored | S | 8 | 19 | ||
| 28 | 12 | Conceded | C | 21 | 30 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 79% | 80% | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 57% | 60% | ||
| 64% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 29% | 32% | ||
| 36% | 42% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 29% | 16% | ||
| 20% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 14% | 8% | ||
| 56% | 58% | BTTS | BTTS | 21% | 28% | ||
| 36% | 42% | Clean Sheets | C S | 36% | 40% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 64% | 52% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 2.5 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 4 | ||
| 12.4 | 13.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.2 | 10.1 | ||
| 4.8 | 5.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 3.1 | ||
| 45% | 48% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 25% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Sporting CP | 14 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 31 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 4 | 22 | 36 |
| 2 | Porto | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 36 | 17 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 8 | 19 | 32 |
| 3 | Benfica | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 30 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 15 | 32 |
| 4 | Pacos de Ferreira | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 22 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 28 |
| 5 | Sporting Braga | 14 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 23 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 8 | 27 |
| 6 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 19 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 26 |
| 7 | Santa Clara | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 9 | -4 | 18 |
| 8 | Moreirense | 15 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 9 | -4 | 18 |
| 9 | Marítimo | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 16 | 21 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 13 | -5 | 17 |
| 10 | Belenenses | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | -4 | 15 |
| 11 | Portimonense | 15 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 14 | -7 | 15 |
| 12 | Rio Ave | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 10 | -7 | 15 |
| 13 | Tondela | 15 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 25 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 17 | -12 | 15 |
| 14 | Famalicao | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 26 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 9 | -10 | 14 |
| 15 | Gil Vicente | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | -6 | 13 |
| 16 | Nacional | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 20 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | -7 | 13 |
| 17 | Farense | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 10 | -4 | 12 |
| 18 | Boavista | 14 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 14 | 24 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 13 | -10 | 11 |