📏 Form Guide

Benfica

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Benfica will play in this match after a 0-0 Primeira Liga tied result versus Tondela.

In that game, Benfica managed 76% possession and 23 shots on goal with 9 of them on target. Tondela had 6 shots at goal with 1 on target.

José Mourinho's Benfica have netted 13 times in their preceding 6 outings. The corresponding tally of goals that they have conceded in that same time stands at 5.

Their prior results show that Benfica:

• haven't been beaten in the league by Alverca in their last 5 matches.
• are undefeated in their previous 18 home league matches. It really has been a fortress.

Alverca

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In their previous fixture, Alverca drew 1-1 in the Primeira Liga tie with Estrela Amadora.

In that game, Alverca managed 57% possession and 8 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Alverca was Fabrício Garcia (87'). Estrela Amadora got 5 shots at goal with 2 on target. Sydney van Hooijdonk (81') scored for Estrela Amadora.

The stats tell the story, and Alverca have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 14 goals in all. In defence, Alverca just haven’t been too solid at all. That kind of trend isn’t assured to be sustained into this game, of course.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Alverca:

• have not registered a win against Benfica in games played away from home for the previous 2 matches in the league.
• are without an away win for the past 3 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 04/05/2001 tells us that Benfica have won 5 of these games & Alverca 1, with the number of drawn results being 0.

A total of 19 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 13 from Benfica and 6 for Alverca. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.17.

The previous league fixture between the two was Primeira Liga match day 4 on 31/08/2025 when it ended Alverca 1-2 Benfica.

In that game, Alverca managed 46% possession and 10 shots on goal with 6 on target. The scorer was Davy Gui (85').

For their opponents, Benfica had 6 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Andreas Schjelderup (5') and Amar Dedić (44') scored.

The match was refereed by José Bessa.

📋 Team News: Benfica

In our view, Benfica will probably kick off with a 4-2-3-1 system for this one and select Anatoliy Trubin, Amar Dedic, Tomas Araujo, Nicolas Otamendi, Samuel Dahl, Fredrik Aursnes, Leandro Barreiro, Sidny Lopes Cabral, Georgiy Sudakov, Rafa Silva and Vangelis Pavlidis.

📋 Team News: Alverca

It’s our belief that Alverca could decide to make use of a 3-4-3 formation, choosing Andre Gomes, Kaiky Naves, Sergi Gomez, Bastien Meupiyou, Nabili Touaizi, Vasco Moreira, Lincoln, Francisco Chissumba, Lucas Figueiredo, Marko Milovanovic and Chiquinho.

🧠 Prediction

It looks to us like Alverca will need to play some great football to find the net against a Benfica outfit who look likely to win pretty easily here.

We’re therefore predicting a comprehensive 3-0 margin for Benfica at the end of the 90 minutes.

Peter Guest, 20:11 08/02/2026