📊 Form Guide

Benfica

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Benfica will play in this match coming off the back of a 0-0 Primeira Liga drawn match vs Tondela.

In that match, Benfica had 76% possession and 23 attempts at goal with 9 on target. Tondela got 6 attempts at goal with 1 of them 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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Last time out, Alverca drew 1-1 in the Primeira Liga tie with Estrela Amadora.

In that game, Alverca had 57% possession and 8 shots on goal with 4 on target. The only player to score for Alverca was Fabrício Garcia (87'). At the other end, Estrela Amadora had 5 attempts at goal with 2 of them 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

Looking at their most recent head-to-head clashes going back to 04/05/2001 tells us that Benfica have won 5 of these games and Alverca 1, with the number of drawn results being 0.

An aggregate of 19 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 13 from Benfica and 6 netted by Alverca. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.17.

The previous league meeting featuring these clubs was Primeira Liga match day 4 on 31/08/2025 when the final score was Alverca 1-2 Benfica.

On that occasion, Alverca had 46% possession and 10 shots on goal with 6 on target. Their only player to score was Davy Gui (85').

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

The match was refereed by José Bessa.

🗞️ Team News: Benfica

In our view, Benfica should line up in a 4-2-3-1 formation in the match featuring Anatolii Trubin, Daniel Banjaqui, António Silva, Nicolas Otamendi, Samuel Dahl, Fredrik Aursnes, Leandro Barreiro, Gianluca Prestianni, Georgiy Sudakov, Andreas Schjelderup and Vangelis Pavlidis.

ℹ️ Team News: Alverca

It’s our belief that Alverca could decide to play in a 3-4-3 formation, starting the game with André Gomes, Kaiky Naves, Sergi Gomez, Bastien Meupiyou, Nabil Touaizi, Sabit Abdulai, 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, 15:14 04/02/2026