Porto — Benfica 3:1, 20 September: match result

match finished Primeira Liga · Matchday 7 Sunday 20 September · 19:30 UTC

Porto 1th · 18 pts WWWWW

3 : 1 1st half 1:0

Benfica 2th · 16 pts WWWLW

venue to be confirmed · referee M. Nogueira

Match predictionValue

Over 1.5 goals

85% · Over 2.5 goals in 4 of 4 Benfica games

Prediction landed. We predicted “Over 1.5 goals”, and the match finished 3:1.

the market is chosen by our model: not always the obvious one, but a likely one

our forecast this is how the model saw the match before kick-off

Porto 40% draw 24% Benfica 36%

The model was right

The most likely outcome was Porto win, and the match finished 3:1. Fans backed Porto win — they got it right.

fans 30 votes

Porto 43% draw 17% Benfica 40%

Voting closed at kick-off

Match events

full timeline

G. Veiga 5'

C. Lenglet 25'

G. Veiga assist: Pepe 1-0 31'

G. Prestianni 34'

C. Lenglet 35'

Hwang In-Beom for G. Veiga 38'

A. Circati for G. Sudakov 38'

A. Bah assist: G. Prestianni 1-1 51'

V. Froholdt assist: Andre Silva 2-1 54'

Hwang In-Beom assist: Andre Silva 3-1 60'

B. Sainz for William Gomes 69'

F. Moura for M. Fernandes 69'

L. Barreiro for F. Aursnes 74'

D. Lukebakio for Rafa Silva 74'

A. Schjelderup for G. Prestianni 74'

Hwang In-Beom 79'

Samu for Andre Silva 85'

S. El Karouani for S. Dahl 85'

O. Pietuszewski for Pepe 85'

O. Pietuszewski 90+2'

A. Bah 90+2'

T. Araujo 90+3'

Line-ups

starting eleven and bench

Porto 4-3-3 · Francesco Farioli 4-2-3-1 · Marco Silva Benfica

Diogo Costa  
Alberto Costa  5 Jan Bednarek  4 Jakub Kiwior  52 Martim Fernandes  
Victor Froholdt  13 Pablo Rosario  10 Gabri Veiga  
William Gomes  19 André Silva  11 Pepê  

Vangelis Pavlidis  
Rafa Silva  10 Georgiy Sudakov  25 Gianluca Prestianni  
Fredrik Aursnes  36 João Palhinha  
Alexander Bah  44 Tomás Araújo  2 Clément Lenglet  26 Samuel Dahl  
Samuel Soares  

Porto bench

22Alan Varela
17Borja Sainz
14Cláudio Ramos
21Dominik Prpić
74Francisco Moura
37Gabriel Mec
16Hwang In-beom
64Luis Gomes
77Oskar Pietuszewski
9Samu Aghehowa
29Santiago Giménez
33Souza

Benfica bench

3Alessandro Circati
1Anatoliy Trubin
21Andreas Schjelderup
72Anísio Cabral
30Claudio Echeverri
58Daniel Banjaqui
11Dodi Lukebakio
13Jakub Kamiński
22Jhon Durán
18Leandro Barreiro
16Manu Silva
34Souffian El Karouani

Match stats

21 metrics for the full match

45%Possession55%

20Shots12

7Shots on target3

7Shots off target5

6Blocked shots4

12Shots inside box8

8Shots outside box4

85Attacks78

44Dangerous attacks27

3Corners3

2Offsides0

17Fouls12

3Yellow cards5

0Red cards1

1Saves4

343Passes425

310Accurate passes360

0Free kicks0

0Throw-ins0

0Goal kicks0

0Penalties0

Porto

BenficaThe source gives no per-half split — only totals for the match

How the match went

text generated from our data

Porto and Benfica met on matchday 7 of the Primeira Liga on 20 September. Final score — 3:1.

Porto sit 1th on 18 points after 6 matches (6 wins, 0 draws, 0 losses), unbeaten in 6 matches. Benfica sit 2th on 16 points after 7 matches (6 wins, 0 draws, 1 loss), unbeaten in 3 matches, 4 matches without conceding.