Benfica vs Moreirense Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Benfica

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Benfica fans will want a repeat of their previous result, being the 2-0 Primeira Liga triumph against Paços de Ferreira.

In that game, Benfica had 67% possession and 22 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. For Benfica, the goalscorers were João Mário (45') and Álex Grimaldo (75'). On the other side, Paços de Ferreira had 6 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target.

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

They’ve claimed a sum of 17 during that period while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 8. Let’s see whether or not that trend can be sustained into this next match.

Pre-game facts show that Benfica:

• have not been beaten in the league by Moreirense in their last 6 matches.
• are unbeaten in their previous 2 league matches at home.

Moreirense

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Moreirense head into the match following on from a 0-1 Primeira Liga win vs Vizela in their last game.

In that game, Moreirense had 48% possession and 14 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. The scorer for Moreirense was Rafael Martins (59'). Vizela had 15 shots at goal with 3 of them on target.

In the course of their 6 most recent matches, Lito Vidigal's Moreirense have seen their efforts on goal rewarded 5 times therefore yielding them a goals per game average of 0.83.

Ahead of this meeting, Moreirense have not won against Benfica when they've played them away from home in the last 2 league matches.

👥 Head to head

A study of past results between these clubs stretching back to 17/03/2019 tells us that these encounters have been miserable for Moreirense. They’ve not been able to get themselves any victories at all while Benfica have simply been better than them, getting wins in 67 per cent of those matches.

An aggregate of 16 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 12 from Benfica and 4 being from Os verdes e brancos. That is an average goals per game value of 2.67.

The previous league clash featuring these sides was Primeira Liga match day 1 on 07/08/2021 when it finished Moreirense 1-2 Benfica.

In that game, Moreirense managed 39% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 3 on target. The scorer was Rafael Martins (30').

For their opponents, Benfica got 10 shots on goal with 6 on target. Lucas Verissimo (9') and Luca Waldschmidt (19') scored.

The match was refereed by Vitor Ferreira.

📰 Team News: Benfica

Jan Vertonghen (Corona virus), Éverton (Corona virus), Lucas Veríssimo (Ruptured cruciate ligament) and Rodrigo Pinho (Cruciate Ligament Rupture) will not be taking part for Benfica gaffer Nélson Veríssimo.

In our view, Benfica should make use of the 4-4-2 system for this game, handing starts to Odisseas Vlachodimos, Gilberto, Felipe Morato, Nicolas Otamendi, Alejandro Grimaldo, Rafa Silva, Joao Mario, Julian Weigl, Diogo Gonçalves, Roman Yaremchuk and Darwin Núñez.

📋 Team News: Moreirense

Owing to a fully healthy squad to pick from, the Moreirense boss Lito Vidigal has no fitness concerns to speak of coming into this game.

From our viewpoint, Os verdes e brancos could decide to make use of a 3-4-3 system by sending out Kewin, Artur Jorge, Steven Vitoria, Lazar Rosić, Paulinho, Fabio Pacheco, Filipe Soares, Pedro Amador, Yan Santos, Rafael Martins and Walterson Silva.

🔮 Prediction

In this game, Moreirense have it in them to breach the defence of this Benfica lineup, although it probably won’t quite prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We are anticipating a 2-1 win for Benfica at the end of the match. 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.

Victor Martins, 01:00 11/01/2022