Santa Clara — Benfica 1:2, 26 October: match result

match finished Primeira Liga · Matchday 9 Monday 26 October · 18:45 UTC

Santa Clara 4th · 21 pts WLWDW

1 : 2 1st half 1:0

Benfica 2th · 22 pts WWWLW

venue to be confirmed · referee C. Pereira

Match predictionValue

No rout: margin of two goals or fewer

90% · Santa Clara games average 2.2 goals

Prediction landed. We predicted “No rout: margin of two goals or fewer”, and the match finished 1:2.

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

Santa Clara 34% draw 25% Benfica 41%

The model was right

The most likely outcome was Benfica win, and the match finished 1:2. Fans backed Benfica win — they got it right.

fans 63 votes

Santa Clara 36% draw 12% Benfica 52%

Voting closed at kick-off

Match events

full timeline

A. Bah 8'

M. Silva 10'

Fernando penalty 1-0 32'

E. Fernandes 36'

P. Pacheco 40'

A. Schjelderup for G. Sudakov 46'

D. Lukebakio for Rafa Silva 46'

V. Pavlidis 59'

V. Pavlidis assist: G. Prestianni 1-1 62'

Welinton Torrao for Brenner 67'

G. Prestianni 1-2 68'

F. Aursnes 74'

Vasconcelos for Daniel Borges 75'

A. Circati for T. Araujo 82'

J. Duran for V. Pavlidis 82'

Leo Jaco for Lucas Soares 86'

Vitinho for P. Ferreira 86'

S. Dahl 88'

Guilherme Romao 90'

Vasconcelos 90+4'

Manu Silva for G. Prestianni 90+2'

Line-ups

starting eleven and bench

Santa Clara 4-2-3-1 4-2-3-1 Benfica

Lucas França  
Lucas Soares  4 Pedro Pacheco  21 Emanuel Fernandes  5 Guilherme Romão  
Pedro Ferreira  41 Daniel Borges  
Vinícius Lopes  20 Tiago Ribeiro  10 Brenner  
Luis Fernando  

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  

Santa Clara bench

18Afonso Duarte
81Doque Seydou Fofana
25Frederico Silva
3Henrique Silva
17João Vasconcelos
73Leo Jacó
12Neneca
99Sorriso
80Tiago Duarte
22Vitinho
11Welinton Torrao
19Ythallo

Benfica bench

3Alessandro Circati
1Anatoliy Trubin
21Andreas Schjelderup
72Anísio Cabral
30Claudio Echeverri
11Dodi Lukebakio
33Gabriel Indio
22Jhon Durán
62José Neto
16Manu Silva
34Souffian El Karouani
88Tiago Freitas

Match stats

20 metrics for the full match

39%Possession61%

13Shots16

6Shots on target3

6Shots off target7

1Blocked shots6

5Shots inside box7

8Shots outside box9

91Attacks94

24Dangerous attacks54

2Corners3

0Offsides3

17Fouls13

4Yellow cards5

1Saves5

301Passes482

216Accurate passes390

0Free kicks0

0Throw-ins0

0Goal kicks0

1Penalties0

Santa Clara

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

How the match went

text generated from our data

Santa Clara and Benfica met on matchday 9 of the Primeira Liga on 26 October. Final score — 1:2.

Santa Clara sit 4th on 21 points after 6 matches (4 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss), 4 matches without conceding. Benfica sit 2th on 22 points after 7 matches (6 wins, 0 draws, 1 loss), unbeaten in 3 matches, 4 matches without conceding.