📊 Form Guide

Gil Vicente

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Gil Vicente will be hoping to return to winning ways here following the 0-1 Primeira Liga loss in their previous game against Santa Clara.

In that game, Gil Vicente had 67% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Santa Clara had 3 attempts at goal with 1 on target. João Costa (27') was the scorer for Santa Clara.

Under three goals per match were seen in 5 of the last 6 fixtures where Gil Vicente have taken part. Regarding the goal split in that period, their opponents scored a total of 9 and Gil Vicente got themselves 2. Putting that to one side, it remains to be seen if that pattern will be replicated here in this game or not.

Taking a look at their past results, Gil Vicente:

• have not won against Benfica in their last 5 matches in the league.
• are without a win at home for the past 3 league games.

Benfica

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Benfica head into the encounter following on from a 2-3 Primeira Liga win against Rio Ave in their previous game.

In that match, Benfica managed 60% possession and 20 attempts at goal with 8 on target. For Benfica, the goalscorers were Orkun Kökçü (30'), Vangelis Pavlidis (53') and Kerem Aktürkoğlu (80'). At the other end, Rio Ave had 7 shots on goal with 2 on target. Brandon Aguilera (64') and Clayton (75') scored for Rio Ave.

Proving their penchant for productive encounters, goals have been seen as many as 22 times in the previous six games in which Benfica have played, yielding an average of 3.67 goals each clash. Opposition teams have got 9 from this total.

Their previous form shows that Benfica:

• have not been beaten by Gil Vicente when they've played them away from home in the last 14 league matches. It doesn't get much better than that.
• have not been beaten in their last 3 away league matches.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their prior head to head clashes going back to 02/02/2022 tells us that Gil Vicente have won 1 of them & Benfica 5, with the number of draws being 0.

There were also plenty of goals scored in those games, 23 overall which averages out at 3.83 goals per match.

The previous league match between these sides was Primeira Liga match day 7 on 28/09/2024 and the score finished Benfica 5-1 Gil Vicente.

On that day, Benfica had 50% possession and 18 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. The goals were scored by Nicolás Otamendi (17'), Kerem Aktürkoğlu (24'), Zeki Amdouni (78'), Florentino (90') and Benjamin Rollheiser (93').

Gil Vicente got 9 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. Felix Correia (7') was the scorer.

The referee was Miguel Nogueira.

📰 Team News: Gil Vicente

In all likelihood, Gilistas could use a 4-2-3-1 system in the match featuring Andrew, Ze Carlos, Josue, Jonathan Buatu, Sandro Cruz, Mohamed Bamba, Joao Teixeira, Tidjany Toure, Santi Garcia, Felix Correia and Pablo.

📰 Team News: Benfica

Benfica manager Bruno Lage has to choose from a squad that has some fitness concerns. Alexander Bah (Cruciate ligament tear), Tiago Gouveia (Knee injury), Zeki Amdouni (muscular problems) and Manu Silva (Cruciate ligament tear) are not able to play.

We are inclined to think that Benfica will likely make use of a 3-4-3 formation, going with Anatoliy Trubin, Tomas Araujo, Antonio Silva, Alvaro Carreras, Leandro Santos, Fredrik Aursnes, Florentino Luis, Samuel Dahl, Bruma, Vangelis Pavlidis and Kerem Akturkoglu.

⚡ Prediction

We’re thinking that Benfica certainly have the ability to get the goals that they need when they meet Gil Vicente, who may well struggle to break down their defence.

Accordingly, we see a pretty comfortable 0-2 win for Benfica when the full-time whistle blows.

Victor Martins, 20:02 28/03/2025