Porto and Benfica meet at Estádio Do Dragão, in a match for the 14th round of the Primeira Liga. In this stadium, the history of direct confrontations indicates a total balance between these two teams, since there were 2 draws and 1 victory for each team in the last 4 games. However, the last time these two teams played a match at this stadium was on 08‑02‑2020, for the Primeira Liga, which ended with the victory of Porto by (3‑2). The goals of the match were scored by Rúben Dias (44 ‘Autogolo), Alex Telles (38’) and Sérgio Oliveira (10 ‘), for Porto, and Carlos Vinícius (18’ and 50 ‘), for Benfica.
Porto :
After 10 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses, the home team is currently in 2nd position, with 31 points won. In their last match, they beat Famalicão away by (1‑4), after having won (3‑0) at home in the previous match, in a match against Moreirense. In the last match they played, for the Taça de Portugal, they beat Nacional away by (2‑4), at the end of extra time. In their last 7 home games for the championship, Porto won 6 and lost 1, for which they won 18 points out of 21 possible.
For this competition, he has a sequence of 5 wins in his last home matches. His attack has scored regularly as he has scored at least one goal in each of the last 10 matches for this competition. In 13 matches in the competition, he conceded the first goal 6 times, but got the comeback in 3.
The FC Porto team aims to revalidate the conquest of the national champion title, but comes to this day with only 31 points, as well as rival Benfica, four behind the leader Sporting Lisboa, and occupies second place in the leaderboard . On the last day of the championship, he won easily in the visit to Famalicão (1×4), in a match in which Iranian striker Mehdi Taremi stood out with two goals (12 ‘and 58’). The other goals were scored by Sérgio Oliveira (32 ‘) and João Mário (89′). Last Tuesday, FC Porto faced Nacional in the round of 32 of the Portuguese Cup and won by 2×4, but only after extra time, due to the difficulties they felt to overcome the Madeira team.
Benfica :
After 10 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses, the visiting team is currently in 3rd position, with 31 points won. In their last match, they beat Tondela at home by (2‑0), after having drawn away in the previous match, in a match against Santa Clara, by (1‑1). The team comes to this match after a away win against Estrela by (0‑4). For the championship, Benfica won 13 points out of 18 possible, after 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss in the last 6 games they played as a visitor. His attack has scored regularly, since he has scored goals in 9 of the last 10 matches for this competition. There is a tendency to have goals in their away matches, since 46 of the last 54 matches they have played have ended with Over 1.5 goals. In 13 games in this tournament, he suffered the first goal 4 times, but got the comeback in 2.
Benfica invested heavily in preparation for this season, to once again fight for all titles in national competitions. Despite not having any of these goals committed, the truth is that Jorge Jesús’ team is slightly below expectations and reaches this fourteenth day of the LIGA NOS in third position in the classification table, with the same 31 points as FC Porto, both four points behind Sporting Lisboa, the first classified. On the last day, Benfica managed to return to the victories, against Tondela, by 2×0, with goals from Seferovic, 57 ‘, and Waldschmidt, 90’ + 3 ‘, after having drawn in the visit to Santa Clara (1×1) . Last Tuesday, in the round of 32 of the Portuguese Cup, they won a 4×0 victory against Estrela da Amadora.
