📊 Form Guide

Farense

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Farense will play in this match after a 1-1 Primeira Liga drawn game against Vitória Guimarães.

In that game, Farense had 32% possession and 10 shots on goal with 6 on target. The only player to score for Farense was Bruno Duarte (9'). Vitória Guimarães had 22 shots on goal with 7 on target. Jorge Fernandes (96') was the scorer for Vitória Guimarães.

Farense have been conceding pretty frequently of late, but they have also managed to convert their own chances into goals. Over their last 6 matches, Farense have been punished defensively in 5 of them as well as getting on the scoresheet in 6 of those games. Such a trend might not be carried forward into this next game, however.

Taking a look at their past results, Farense:

• haven't lost in the league to Benfica in their last 2 games.
• have not been beaten in their last 2 home league matches.

Benfica

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Since suffering a loss in their previous game against Marseille in Europa League competition, Benfica will be hoping to turn things around here.

In their last half-dozen clashes, Benfica have helped themselves to the sum of 9 goals. Benfica have additionally got on the scoresheet in every single one of those games. During those fixtures, they have had 3 goals go into their own net.

🤜🤛 Head to head

An examination of their prior head-to-head clashes stretching back to 13/04/2001 shows us that Farense have won 0 of these & Benfica 3, with the tally of drawn results being 3.

A combined total of 18 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 5 of them from Farense and 13 belonging to Benfica. The average goals per game has been 3.

The previous league encounter between the two was Primeira Liga match day 13 on 08/12/2023 which ended up with the score at Benfica 1-1 Farense.

On that day, Benfica managed 66% possession and 37 attempts at goal with 14 of them on target. The scorer was Rafa Silva (71').

Farense got 9 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Cláudio Falcão (51') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Miguel Nogueira.

ℹ️ Team News: Farense

The Farense boss José Mota has a full complement, with no fitness concerns at all coming into this game with a fully injury-free squad available to select from.

We think that Farense may well employ a 4-3-3 system, utilising Ricardo Velho, Pastor, Goncalo Silva, Igor Rossi, Talys Oliveira, Fabricio Isidoro, Claudio Falcao, Rafael Barbosa, Mohamed Belloumi, Ze Luis and Marco Matias.

📋 Team News: Benfica

Owing to a fully healthy group available for selection, the Benfica manager Roger Schmidt does not have any fitness concerns at all before this match.

There’s a good chance that Benfica will likely make use of a 4-2-3-1 formation, going with Anatolii Trubin, Alexander Bah, Nicolas Otamendi, Antonio Silva, Alvaro Carreras, Florentino Luis, Joao Mario, Angel Di Maria, Orkun Kokcu, Tiago Gouveia and Arthur Cabral.

💡 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Farense are capable enough to put one past this Benfica team, although just one goal is unlikely to be good enough.

Our selection here is for a tight encounter finishing with a 1-2 winning margin for Benfica after the 90. We are expecting it to be pretty even.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 19:08 22/04/2024