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Moreirense

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Moreirense will be looking to improve on their last outing here after a 3-1 Primeira Liga losing effort in their last game against Braga.

In that game, Moreirense had 33% possession and 13 shots on goal with 5 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Moreirense was Luis Asué (53'). At the other end, SC Braga got 19 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Gabri Martínez (43') and Rodrigo Zalazar (56', 76') scored for Braga.

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

They’ve totted up the amount of 10 during that period while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 6. Despite that, we’ll just have to find out if that trend shall be sustained in this game or not.

Analysis of their past results shows that Moreirense:

• have left without a victory over Benfica in their previous 9 league games.
• are unbeaten in their last 3 home league matches.

Benfica

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Benfica come into this match following on from a 1-0 Primeira Liga win as they beat Estrela Amadora in their last game.

In that game, Benfica had 58% possession and 17 attempts on goal with 9 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Benfica was Orkun Kökçü (19'). Estrela Amadora got 6 attempts on goal with 0 of them on target.

A tendency of at least one side getting a clean sheet in games involving Benfica has been evident recently. A glance at their last six meetings reveals that it’s occurred 5 times. During these clashes, opposing sides have hit a goal tally of 5 while Benfica have scored 10.

Coming into this clash, Benfica haven’t won away from home in the past 3 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their prior head-to-head meetings dating back to 14/02/2021 shows that Moreirense have won 0 of these games and Benfica 2, with the tally of draws being 4.

A total of 10 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 3 for Os verdes e brancos and 7 belonging to Benfica. The average number of goals per game works out to 1.67.

📋 Team News: Moreirense

There aren’t many personnel worries, with just a single fitness concern for the Moreirense boss César Peixoto to be concerned with from of an almost fully healthy set of players. Alan (unknown injury) is sidelined.

In our view, Os verdes e brancos may well line up in a 4-3-3 system for this one, utilising Kewin, Fabiano Silva, Marcelo, Maracas, Godfried Frimpong, Ruben Ramos, Lawrence Ofori, Sidnei Tavares, Jeremy Antonisse, Luis Asue and Madson.

ℹ️ Team News: Benfica

Benfica manager Roger Schmidt has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Fredrik Aursnes (Muscle injury), Jan-Niklas Beste (Muscle injury) and Tiago Gouveia (Shoulder injury) can’t be considered.

We believe Benfica seem most likely to make use of a 4-2-3-1 formation, giving starts to Anatolii Trubin, Alexander Bah, Nicolas Otamendi, Antonio Silva, Alvaro Carreras, Florentino Luis, Leandro Barreiro, Angel Di Maria, Orkun Kokcu, Gianluca Prestianni and Vangelis Pavlidis.

🧠 Prediction

We’re of the view that Benfica certainly have the ability to fashion enough chances to find the net more than once while not conceding when they face Moreirense, who may well find it hard getting goals.

We’re predicting a routine 0-2 winning margin for Benfica at the end of the match.

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

Andre Moura, 19:22 30/08/2024