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Benfica vs Sporting Prediction & Betting tips
How could the new football year 2018 start better in Portugal than with the Derby de Lisboa between Benfica and Sporting Lisbon? After a two-and-a-half-week break, the ball rolls back into the Primeira Liga and the match between the two clubs from Lisbon is above all else. Exactly 300 times were the two clubs so far in a competitive match. Benfica Lisbon leads with 130 wins and 506: 463 goals. Sporting was able to win 108 duels, 62 times, the two parted with a draw.
Benfica:
Benfica Lisbon are ranked third in the Primeira Liga after fifteen out of 34 match days, meaning only one place in the Europa League qualifying campaign at the end of the season. As you know, Portugal has lost a starting position in the Champions League from the next season, so that in the future the FC Porto and just Sporting and Benfica for the only two coveted tickets for the premier class will argue. The gap between Benfica on Porto and Sporting is just three points. All in all, Benfica’s Lisbon come up with eleven wins, three draws and just one defeat away at Boavista Porto.
At home, Benfica, as the only team in the Primeira league, has yet to make a point. All seven home games at the Estadio da Luz have won Benfica Lisbon with an outstanding goal difference of 22: 3. All in all, Benfica Lisbon are the league’s second-best offensive with 37 goals and the third-best defensive with ten penalties. The national championship is the only chance to win another title this season. Out of the Champions League, Benfica Lisbon are pretty blatantly eliminated with zero points and 1-14 goals in a group with Manchester United, FC Basel and CSKA Moscow. In the first knockout round of the national cup was league rivals Rio Ave and also in the League Cup Benfica Lisbon eliminated with three draws in three games.
Sporting :
Sporting Lisbon, on the other hand, is still represented in all four possible competitions. In the premier class, it was enough in a group with FC Barcelona, Juventus and Olympiakos Piraeus still ranked third and thus the Europa League, in the semifinals of FK Astana from Kazakhstan waiting. In the Taca de Portugal, the national cup competition Sporting Lisbon sovereign in the quarter-finals and also in the League Cup reached the club shortly before New Year’s the next round. In the domestic Primeira Liga Sporting Lisbon is only due to the worse goal difference behind FC Porto. Like the front runner, Sporting Lisbon also boasts twelve wins and three draws.
The last defeat in the league conceded Sporting Lisbon on 33 Matchday of the preseason, as it was virtually nothing for the club. Away, Sporting Lisbon is currently the best team in the league. Away from home, Sporting took six wins and a draw with a 17: 5 goal difference. In direct comparison with Benfica Lisbon, the tide in recent years turned back in favor of its competitors. While Sporting Lisbon remained unbeaten in five direct duels between 31.08.2014 and 21.11.2015 and won three of them, there was no victory in the last three direct encounters. After two successes from Benfica Lisbon, the two city rivals separated in the last match 1: 1.
Benfica vs Sporting head to head matches
22.04.17 PL Sporting Benfica 1 : 1
11.12.16 PL Benfica Sporting 2 : 1
05.03.16 PL Sporting Benfica 0 : 1
21.11.15 TP Sporting Benfica 2 : 1 (1 : 1)
25.10.15 PL Benfica Sporting 0 : 3