📊 Form Guide

Benfica

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Benfica, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following the 1-4 Primeira Liga triumph vs Porto.

In that game, Benfica managed 39% possession and 14 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. For Benfica, goals were scored by Vangelis Pavlidis (1', 42', 69') and Nicolás Otamendi (94'). On the other side, Porto got 14 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Samu Aghehowa (81') scored for Porto.

Benfica have been on a persistent run of goalscoring form, hitting the target in one hundred percent of their last 6 matches.

They’ve hit an aggregate of 17 during that time while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 8. We shall soon see if that trend will end up being sustained here.

Their past results show that Benfica:

• have not lost a league tie with Arouca in their last 10 games. Quite a long unbeaten run against them.
• are undefeated in their last 5 league matches at home.

Arouca

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Following on from suffering a loss in their previous game against Famalicão in Primeira Liga competition, Arouca and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that game, Arouca managed 58% possession and 15 shots on goal with 8 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Arouca was Henrique Araújo (71'). At the other end, Famalicao got 6 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. Óscar Aranda (35') and Mirko Topić (76') scored for Famalicão.

The numbers tell their own story, and Arouca have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 9 goals in all. In defence, Arouca have clearly had some problems.

👥 Head to head

Delving into past results between these clubs going back to 21/01/2022 shows that these encounters have been miserable for Arouca. They’ve not been able to get any victories at all whereas Benfica have maintained the edge over them, getting wins in 100% of those ties.

A sum of 19 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 19 from Benfica and 0 created by Arouca. That’s an average goals per game of 3.17.

The last league contest featuring the two was Primeira Liga match day 12 on 01/12/2024 when the final score was Arouca 0-2 Benfica.

In that match, Arouca managed 49% possession and 12 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. The scorer was José Fontán (12' Own goal).

Benfica got 14 shots at goal with 8 of them on target. Ángel Di María (71') was the scorer.

The referee was Luis Godinho.

🗞️ Team News: Benfica

Renato Sanches (Muscle injury), Manu Silva (Cruciate ligament tear) and Alexander Bah (Cruciate ligament tear) won’t be able to feature for Benfica gaffer Bruno Lage.

We are thinking that Benfica may well use the 4-2-3-1 formation in the match, handing starts to Anatoliy Trubin, Tomas Araujo, Nicolas Otamendi, Antonio Silva, Alvaro Carreras, Orkun Kokcu, Florentino Luis, Angel Di Maria, Fredrik Aursnes, Kerem Akturkoglu and Vangelis Pavlidis.

📰 Team News: Arouca

Thanks to a mainly available group, there is only the one fitness problem for the Arouca boss Vasco Seabra to be concerned with. Nino Galović (unknown injury) misses out for this game.

It’s our belief that Arouca will likely play in a 4-2-3-1 lineup, starting Nico Mantl, Alex Pinto, Boris Popovic, Jose Fontan, Weverson, Mamadou Loum Ndiaye, Taichi Fukui, Alfonso Trezza, Jason, Morlaye Sylla and Guven Yalcin.

🧠 Prediction

We feel that Arouca have it in them to put one past this Benfica side, but that possibly won’t be as many as they’ll concede.

We’re tipping a very close game with a 2-1 victory for Benfica at full-time. We’ll have to see what happens.

Renata Leite, 16:02 13/04/2025