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For the start in Group G Benfica receives the team of RB Leipzig. The hosts have much more experience in the European business and are very strong at home. In the last season, only the home game against Bayern Munich was lost.
The remaining five duels in the Champions and Europa League were not lost, although it went against difficult opponents such as Ajax or Galatasaray. With the RB Leipzig but now looks at a counterpart in the Estadio da Luz, which can easily be classified in the previous list.
The East Germans have come out of the starting block in the Bundesliga and are currently in first place. Last weekend saw the top match against Bayern Munich as a dress rehearsal: The game ended with a slightly happy 1-1 – at least in terms of the first half of the game.
The host Elf of coach Bruno Lage thus occurs against a troupe at eye level. This reflects the Benfica against RB Leipzig quotas, which are very close to each other. In view of the very good attacking rows, the tip for a goal celebration on both sides is selected in the encounter between Benfica and RB Leipzig.
In addition, we trust the guests at least a draw. The Benfica against RB Leipzig forecast is played with three units.
Benfica Lisbon:
The Aguias had to stretch in the last season already in the group stage, the wings. However, the opposition with teams like the German record champions FC Bayern Munich and the semi-finalist Ajax Amsterdam was extremely challenging.
With the exception of the game against the kicker of the Isar no home game was lost. Instead, Benfica scored 1-1 against Ajax and AEK Athens were defeated 1-0. As third of the group, the journey then continued in the Europa League.
With Galatasaray and Dinamo Zagreb, the following two laps were overcome, but with the Adler colleagues from Frankfurt, the end station was reached – although extremely tight, because only due to the away goals control. But also in the playoffs Benfica presented very strong home.
In addition to a goalless draw against Galatasaray wins against Zagreb and Eintracht were achieved. In the current season of the domestic Primeira League, things are almost as planned. After five games, the record has four wins, including away against the strong kicker of Sporting Braga.
However, the defeat hurts Porto on Matchday 3, which surprisingly had to be accepted at home. With 13 hits, SLB already has the best offensive again, as in the previous year. In this context, Haris Seferovic should be in a particularly good mood.
Although his current performances on the lawn are still expandable, but the top scorer of the last season in the Primeira Liga may instead be happy about his new role as a father. Due to the birth of his child, the attacker missed the last international match of Switzerland against Gibraltar on the penultimate weekend.
The Confederates could get over this and sit down without their top scorer 4-0. Perhaps Haris Seferovic can now focus more on the events on the pitch, because the excitement around the birth no longer distracts.
On the contrary, it is conceivable that the joy of having one’s own scion called Inaya will inspire the Swiss to better achievements again. The eleven of coach Bruno Lage is already riddled with several other very good offensive players anyway. A formidable example of the red and white is midfielder Pizzi dar.
The 29-year-old was the best assistants in the Portuguese House of Lords in the past season, but in addition to this basic virtue Pizzi has now discovered the top scoring for themselves. In four of the five league games so far, the Portuguese international has scored twice and twice.
Given the marksmanship of the hosts Benfica against RB Leipzig, the odds for at least three goals in the game are also interesting.
RB Leipzig:
The kickers from the Pleiße are optimally started in the current season of the Bundesliga: After four matchdays, the team of coach Julian Nagelsmann has three wins on. As part of the recent match last weekend RB also reached a home draw against champions from Munich.
The squad of the team from the fair city is, as in recent years, extremely well staffed. In defense, for example, Leipzig has several young French junior players such as Ibrahima Konaté or Nordi Mukiele, which are thus particularly well recorded.
This applies despite the early season time for the entire team, since with the exception of the Portuguese Bruma – kicks now at PSV Eindhoven – and the Frenchman Jean-Kevin Augustin, termination of the loan by AS Monaco, no significant disposals had to be recorded in the summer.
In attack, the hopes are mainly on Timo Werner. Although the 23-year-old scored in the recent two internationals no goal, but the two faces that shows the attacker in the DFB selection and the jersey of the Saxons are nothing new.
His performances so far this season at RB Leipzig have certainly been very successful – as five goals after four rounds show. Coach Julian Nagelsmann will certainly also have realized that Emil Forsberg belongs to the starting eleven. On the first three matchdays, the new coach brought the Swedes only as a joker.
In the penultimate match against Borussia Mönchengladbach the Leipzig coach changed this tactic and sent Forsberg from the start on the court. The 27-year-old immediately lived up to his expectations and set up Timo Werner’s first goal. It was already his second model, proving once again his outstanding qualities as a game-intelligent passer.
His latest start against Bayern paid the Scandinavian on top of that with one hit. Already in the past season Emil Forsberg was together with Timo Werner the best original donor of the troupe from Cottaweg.
In the international break, the attacking midfielder also scored an important goal in the 1-1 draw of his Sweden against Norway, which he can fully certify a very good early form. Furthermore, with the Czech Patrick Schick, another powerful attacker was hired by AS Roma shortly before the end of the transfer phase.
The 23-year-old was often followed by injury in recent years, but is now physically fit. His class revealed Schick recently in the international match in Kosovo, as he contributed as Forsberg the only goal of his selection, the Czechs still with 1: 2 lost the short. For the attacker, it was the third consecutive success for the national team of his country.
Benfica vs RB Leipzig head to head matches
30.07.17 EMI RB Leipzig Benfica 2 : 0