📏 Form Guide

Estoril

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Estoril, buoyed by their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 1-3 Primeira Liga victory versus Casa Pia.

In that match, Estoril had 59% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 4 on target. For Estoril, the goalscorers were Yanis Begraoui (21'), Alejandro Marqués (82') and João Carvalho (87'). Casa Pia got 8 shots on goal with 4 on target. Cassiano (43') scored for Casa Pia.

Over their preceding six fixtures, Ian Cathro's Estoril have celebrated scoring 6 times, an average number of goals per match of 1.

Ahead of this clash, Estoril haven’t won at home in the past 3 league matches.

Benfica

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Benfica come into this game after a 6-0 Primeira Liga win to beat AVS in their most recent outing.

In that match, Benfica managed 57% possession and 23 attempts at goal with 11 on target. For Benfica, the goalscorers were Tomás Araújo (8'), Vangelis Pavlidis (23'), Zeki Amdouni (26'), Kerem Aktürkoğlu (40'), Andrea Belotti (71') and Nicolás Otamendi (82'). For their opponents, AVS had 10 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target.

The attack-minded Benfica have helped themselves to an avalanche of goals over their last six games (21 to be exact). That works out as an ominous average of 3.5 goals scored per game over this period.

Coming into this meeting, Benfica are undefeated in their previous 6 league matches away from home.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their past head to head meetings going back to 20/03/2022 shows that these fixtures have not been good ones for Estoril. They have not been able to come away with any wins whatsoever while Benfica have just been too good for them, beating them in 100% of those match-ups.

In all, 18 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 3 of them for Canarinhos and 15 belonging to Benfica. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.

The last league encounter between the two was Primeira Liga match day 15 on 23/12/2024 when it finished Benfica 3-0 Estoril.

That time, Benfica managed 59% possession and 15 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Goals were scored by Vangelis Pavlidis (28') and Zeki Amdouni (73', 94').

For their opponents, Estoril had 10 shots at goal with 2 on target.

The match was refereed by António Nobre.

📋 Team News: Estoril

There’s just one fitness concern for the Estoril boss Ian Cathro to contend with from a near full-strength group of players. Xeka (unknown injury) is out of contention.

In all likelihood, Canarinhos should make use of the 3-4-3 system, beginning the first half with Kevin Chamorro, Pedro Alvaro, Kevin Boma, Felix Bacher, Pedro Carvalho, Vinicius Zanocelo, Tiago Brito, Pedro Amaral, Joao Carvalho, Alejandro Marques and Rafik Guitane.

📰 Team News: Benfica

Benfica boss Bruno Lage has a number of players out of action. Ángel Di María (Muscle injury), Manu Silva (Cruciate ligament tear), Alexander Bah (Cruciate ligament tear) and Renato Sanches (Muscle injury) are not able to play.

There’s a good chance that Benfica will likely elect for a 4-2-3-1 lineup, starting the game with Anatoliy Trubin, Tomas Araujo, Nicolas Otamendi, Antonio Silva, Samuel Dahl, Orkun Kokcu, Florentino Luis, Zeki Amdouni, Fredrik Aursnes, Kerem Akturkoglu and Vangelis Pavlidis.

💡 Prediction

Estoril have enough to find the net against this Benfica team, but one goal possibly won’t quite be as many as the goals that they could concede.

We’re therefore tipping a close game with a 1-2 advantage for Benfica when all is said and done. Let’s wait and see how it plays out.

Andre Moura, 19:01 03/05/2025