📏 Form Guide

Benfica

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Benfica will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 0-3 Primeira Liga victory versus Gil Vicente.

In that match, Benfica managed 57% possession and 18 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. For Benfica, goals were scored by Fredrik Aursnes (22'), Andrea Belotti (51') and Ángel Di María (97'). At the other end, Gil Vicente had 7 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target.

Three or more goals per match were seen in 5 of the past 6 fixtures where Benfica have played. Opposition teams scored 6 times in this period while Benfica managed to get a total of 13. We will just have to see if that trend will end up being continued on in this game.

Going into this contest, Benfica are unbeaten in their previous 4 league matches at home.

Farense

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After being defeated in their last game at the hands of Braga in Primeira Liga competition, Farense will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, Farense had 43% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. SC Braga got 10 shots at goal with 4 on target. Gabri Martínez (70') was the scorer for Braga.

The numbers tell their own story, and Farense have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, seeing opposing sides hit 9 goals overall. In defence, Farense have been far from perfect.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Farense:

• have not been beaten in their last 2 league matches away from home.
• have not won away from home in their last 5 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Delving into their past head to head meetings stretching back to 18/03/2002 shows that these encounters have not been happy ones for Farense. They have not been able to get themselves any wins at all while Benfica have remained in the ascendancy, beating them in 67% of those games where they have faced each other.

A total of 19 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 14 of them for Benfica and 5 coming from Farense. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.17.

The last league match featuring the two was Primeira Liga match day 10 on 02/11/2024 which ended up with the score at Farense 1-2 Benfica.

That day, Farense had 30% possession and 9 shots on goal with 4 on target. Their only player to score was Darío Poveda (15').

On the other side, Benfica got 18 attempts at goal with 7 on target. Álvaro Carreras (21') and Vangelis Pavlidis (54') scored.

The match was refereed by Cláudio Pereira.

ℹ️ Team News: Benfica

Alexander Bah (Cruciate ligament tear) and Manu Silva (Cruciate ligament tear) aren’t available for Benfica manager Bruno Lage.

In our view, Benfica will possibly make use of the 4-2-3-1 system for this one, handing starts to Anatoliy Trubin, Alvaro Carreras, Antonio Silva, Nicolas Otamendi, Samuel Dahl, Florentino Luis, Orkun Kokcu, Kerem Akturkoglu, Fredrik Aursnes, Bruma and Andrea Belotti.

📰 Team News: Farense

We’re of the thinking that Farense might play in a 3-4-3 lineup, settling for Ricardo Velho, Tomas Ribeiro, Artur Jorge, Marco Moreno, Pastor, Miguel Menino, Claudio Falcao, Derick Poloni, Elves, Tomane and Rony Lopes.

✨ Prediction

It’s likely that Farense will surely find it tough to find the net against a Benfica team who should be able to dominate this game and keep it tight in defence.

We are predicting a very comfortable 3-0 win for Benfica at full-time.

Renata Leite, 19:02 02/04/2025