Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Benfica & Paços de Ferreira face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Taça De Portugal. All the pre-match information is available here!
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Benfica form and stats
Last season, Benfica's Taça De Portugal journey ended in the final.4-0-1 (win-draw-lost) are the Primeira Liga numbers at home for Benfica so far this season.
Benfica's previous game was a Primeira Liga match also played at home, ending 6-1 versus Sporting Braga. The home side are looking to build on that result. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Benfica played a great game against Sporting Braga and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one. The attacker Everton was declared "man of the match" for Benfica with the rating of 9.65/10. Everton scored two goals, signed up for two assists, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Bayern München (2-5).There will be little rest for Benfica after this match as they are travelling to Barcelona for a Champions League game in only four days.
Benfica are showing their attacking force in their league home games this season, scoring more than 2,5 goals per game on average (13 goals in 5 games). Benfica have only conceded 4 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Paços de Ferreira form and stats
Last season their Taça De Portugal adventure ended in the 4th round.The story so far for the visiting team on their Primeira Liga travels is 1 win, 2 draws and 2 defeats.
The manager A. Rocha Simão was unhappy after their last game, a Primeira Liga match played at their home ground Estádio da Capital do Móvel. Ferreira suffered a 0-2 loss to Sporting CP. It is a bit troubling for Ferreira that their keeper André Ferreira pulled off six saves in the Sporting CP game, but still were unable to prevent a loss. Goalkeeper André Ferreira got the top player rating of the team with 7.72/10. Ferreira stopped the opponent with six saves.
Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to Moreirense.With the home team given a victory chance of around 80% by the bookies, any beneficial result for the away side would be unexpected. Checking earlier matches with similar odds and Ferreira as the visiting side, we found three results. The numbers from these were zero away wins, one draw and two defeats. The away team lost one of these games by at least two goals.
The attacking power of Ferreira when travelling is not overwhelming with 4 goals scored from 5 league matches away. 7 goals have been conceded by Ferreira in these games.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's nine Benfica victories, one draw and zero Paços de Ferreira 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 |
Benfica missing players
Paços de Ferreira missing players
| Benfica | Paços de Ferreira | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 16 | 9 | Won | W | 5 | 8 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Drew | D | 3 | 7 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Lost | L | 6 | 10 | ||
| 48 | 25 | Scored | S | 15 | 27 | ||
| 24 | 12 | Conceded | C | 18 | 30 | ||
| 88% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 88% | ||
| 76% | 77% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 71% | 72% | ||
| 52% | 54% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 57% | 48% | ||
| 32% | 31% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 7% | 16% | ||
| 20% | 15% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 7% | 4% | ||
| 48% | 46% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 44% | ||
| 44% | 38% | Clean Sheets | C S | 21% | 32% | ||
| 20% | 23% | Failed to Score | F T | 36% | 36% | ||
| 5.6 | 5.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 4.7 | ||
| 4.3 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.2 | 5.4 | ||
| 2.5 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.9 | 3 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | ||
| 12.3 | 12.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.4 | 11 | ||
| 4.8 | 4.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 3.7 | ||
| 41% | 43% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 26% | 28% | ||
| 11.5 | 9.6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14.2 | 12.7 | ||
| 4.3 | 3.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.8 | 4.1 | ||
| 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 | Paços 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 |