📏 Form Guide

Vitória Guimarães

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Vitória Guimarães will be looking for a repeat result of a 0-1 Primeira Liga success over Gil Vicente.

The only name on the scoresheet from Vitória Guimarães was Gustavo Silva (77').

Over their prior 6 games, Luís Freire's Vitória Guimarães have hit the target a total of 9 times giving them an average number of goals scored per match of 1.5.

A look at their previous results shows us that Vitória Guimarães:

• have not beaten Benfica in their previous 25 matches in the league. They'll surely be desperate to put an end to that run.
• are undefeated in their last 11 league matches at home. Visiting teams have certainly not had an easy time of it here.

Benfica

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In their last fixture, Benfica drew 2-2 in the Primeira Liga match with Arouca.

In that match, Benfica had 55% possession and 26 shots at goal with 8 of them on target. For Benfica, goals were scored by Orkun Kökçü (60') and Vangelis Pavlidis (79'). Arouca got 8 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Güven Yalçın (72') and Weverson (95') scored for Arouca.

In a total of 6 of the previous 6 games featuring Benfica, three or more goals have been struck. The overall average number of goals per game in that spell is 4.33, with the number of goals averaged by Benfica standing at 2.67.

Taking a look at their past results, Benfica:

• have not emerged victorious against Vitória Guimarães when they have played them away from home in the previous 2 matches in the league.
• haven't been defeated by Vitória Guimarães in away games against them for the last 12 matches in the league. What an away run they have had against them.
• are undefeated in their previous 5 away league matches.

↔️ Head to head

A review of past results between these clubs stretching back to 27/02/2022 tells us that these fixtures have not been good ones for Vitória Guimarães. They have not been able to register any wins whatsoever whereas Benfica have been too good for them, running out winners in 67 per cent of those matches.

An aggregate of 18 goals were scored between them in this period, with 3 for Os Vimaranenses and 15 netted by Benfica. That’s an average goals per game of 3.

The last league clash featuring the two was Primeira Liga match day 13 on 07/12/2024 when it finished Benfica 1-0 Vitória Guimarães.

In that match, Benfica had 55% possession and 8 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target. The scorer was Kerem Aktürkoğlu (29').

For their opponents, Vitória Guimarães got 10 shots at goal with 2 of them on target.

The referee was Miguel Nogueira.

🗞️ Team News: Vitória Guimarães

In our view, Os Vimaranenses look set to kick off with a 4-2-3-1 formation for the game, beginning the first half with Bruno Varela, Maga, Mikel Villanueva, Filipe Relvas, Joao Mendes, Tiago Silva, Tomas Handel, Telmo Arcanjo, Joao Mendes, Gustavo Silva and Nelson Oliveira.

📰 Team News: Benfica

Benfica manager Bruno Lage has some current player fitness concerns. Renato Sanches (Muscle injury), Manu Silva (Cruciate ligament tear) and Alexander Bah (Cruciate ligament tear) will not be playing here.

We’re of the thinking that Benfica might elect for a 4-2-3-1 system by sending out Anatoliy Trubin, Tomas Araujo, Antonio Silva, Nicolas Otamendi, Alvaro Carreras, Orkun Kokcu, Florentino Luis, Angel Di Maria, Fredrik Aursnes, Kerem Akturkoglu and Vangelis Pavlidis.

💭 Prediction

In our view, Vitória Guimarães have enough to score a goal against this Benfica outfit, although just one goal is unlikely to be enough to give them the result that they want.

Therefore, we’re predicting a tight encounter finishing with a 1-2 winning score for Benfica after 90 minutes. Let’s wait and see how it plays out.

Andre Moura, 19:12 19/04/2025