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Vitoria de Guimarães and Benfica play at the Estádio Dom Afonso Henriques, in a duel of the 16th round of Liga Sagres. In this stadium, the history of direct confrontations is favorable to the visiting team, which has 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss in the last 5 games. In fact, the last time they faced in this stadium was on 02-01-2016, in a game for Liga Sagres that ended the victory of Benfica by (0-1). The only goal of the match was scored by Renato Sanches (74 ‘).
Vitoria de Guimarães
After 9 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses, the home team is in 5th place, having won 30 points. In the last match, he beat Arouca (0-1), having won the home game against Vitoria de Setubal (3-1) in the last game. The team arrives at this meeting after a draw at home with Paços Ferreira by (2-2). For the championship, Vitoria de Guimarães won 12 points in 21 chances, after 3 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat in the last 7 games that played in his stadium.
In this competition, you do not lose in your stadium there are 6 matches. In their domestic league matches the most frequent marker in the break was 1-0 (3 in 7 matches). His attack has scored regularly, as he has scored at least one goal in each of the last 10 games in this competition. In 15 games in this competition, managed to turn the score in 2 of the 5 games in which he suffered the first goal. In the last 10 home games in all competitions there are 1 highlights: he has scored 5 of his 13 goals in minutes (61’-75 ‘).
The team from Vitória de Guimarães comes to this game, with a 2-2 draw against Paços de Ferreira, in the group stage of the League Cup: David Teixeira and Zungu scored the goals of the team. In this indoor game, coach Pedro Martins should line up in 4-2-3-1 benefiting the setback and counterattacks, exploring the best of the opponent’s defensive line. It is important to note that the home team has only one defeat in seven games played in their field, precisely against rival Braga. Moussa Marega is the great highlight of Vitória de Guimarães with 10 goals and 2 assists, however, is in doubt, and will represent his country in the CAN. For this game the home manager can not count on Bruno Gaspar and Rafael Miranda, players who recover from injury.
Benfica
After 12 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss, the visiting team is in 1st place, having won 38 points. In the last match, he won at Rio Ave at home (2-0), after having won the previous match in a game against Estoril (0-1). In the last game he played for the League Cup, he beat Vizela at home (4-0). In the last eight away games, Benfica have 6 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat, having won 19 points out of 24. In his games as a visitor there are some more frequent results: 0-0 (3 in 7 matches) and 0-1 (4 in 7 matches) and at the end of 90 ‘0-2 (3 in 7 matches). The defense has been in good shape and has only conceded goals in 3 of the last 10 games, and their attack has been marked with great regularity, since it has always scored at least one goal in the last 10 games in this competition. This is a team that scores many times first: it opened the scoring in 12 of its last 15 games for the Liga Sagres, of these 12 reached the interval in advantage in 10 and managed to always maintain the advantage until the end of 90 ‘.
Benfica come to this motivated game, due to a 4-0 home win over Vizela in the League Cup group stage: goals scored by Lisandro López, Mitroglou and Jonas (2 goals). In this away game, coach Rui Vitoria should keep the team in 4-4-2, benefiting possession of the ball and organized attacks, especially from the sides: Cervi and Rafa are very fast and competent in driving the ball to the attack. Analyzing the 8 games played away from home it is possible to verify that the eagles scored in average 1.75 goals and suffered in average 0.63 goals per game, that is, they present great quality playing in this condition. For this game the visiting coach should not count Alex Grimaldo, Eduardo Salvio and Eliseu, all injured.
Prediction: Benfica Win @ 1.66