Liga Bwin: X-ray of the Chaves-Benfica match

Leader of the Liga Bwin, Benfica faces Chaves on matchday 28, scheduled for this Saturday, April 15, at 6 pm, at the Estádio Municipal Eng.º Manuel Branco Teixeira.

After six consecutive away wins for the Championship, all managing to keep a clean sheet, the Reds aim to extend this streak against the 12th placed team, who won three of the 13 matches held at their home ground in the League (they also registered five draws and five losses).

This will be the 37th official encounter between the two teams, and the balance is 29 wins (81%) for Benfica, against three wins for the flavienses.

With a seven-points lead over the 2nd place, the men under Roger Schmidt have the best attack of the competition (68 goals). Gonçalo Ramos and João Mário share the status of top scorer – both scored 17 times.

Chaves arrives at round 28 with 27 goals, has Steven Vitória and Héctor Hernández as the top scorers (six goals each).

In an analysis of data from the Wyscout platform, the differences are also notorious in ball possession, an item in which the Reds have an average of 62.6% against 46% of Chaves. With 421 shots, Benfica is superior to the next rival (351), a similar situation in terms of crosses (591, with 38.3% success rate, compared to 357 and 32.5% effectiveness of CD Chaves).

The team with the most touches on the opposing box (705), the reds beat Vítor Campelos' team, who registers 388.

Benfica ranks first, with 16,363 passes made (87.7% success rate). On the other hand, Chaves has 9475 passes made and 81.1% success rate.

In the key passes and into the final third, the picture remains the same: 175 for the competition leader, against 99 for the next opponent, and 1956 for the eagles against 1195 for the flavienses, respectively.

Defensively, Benfica is the team with the best performance, considering the 16 goals conceded. Chaves conceded 33, being the team that allows the most shots: 411. On the opposite pole are the Reds, who conceded only 173 shots on goal, the best record among the 18 participating teams.

Out of 1954 defensive duels, Benfica shows a 63.9% success rate, while Chaves shows 55% in 1816 actions undertaken. The third team with the fewest ball losses (2681), Benfica faces an opponent that also has the worst numbers in this item (2789).

In the last match, against Gil Vicente, whose result was a scoreless draw, the coach of the flavienses chose Paulo Vítor, Nélson Monte, Ponck, Steven Vitória, Bruno Langa, João Teixeira, João Mendes, Guima, Euller, Juninho and Benny, fielded in 4x3x3.