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Betting – Benfica, facts and statistics | UEFA Champions League

It is still very close between Paris Saint-Germain and Benfica who are at the level of the Parc des Princes with seven points leading Group H.

After the two teams won their first two games, their meeting in Lisbon ended with an equal score, with Lionel Messi leading the guests in 22nd.And minute with sound 127And goals in the UEFA Champions League before Danilo’s own goal near half-time restored the balance.

Paris started their UEFA Champions League season with a 2-1 home win against Juventus, with Benfica beating Maccabi Haifa 2-0 at home in the opening match. The French champions then returned to a 3-1 win in Israel, while Benfica followed suit with a 2-1 win in Turin.

Paris and Benfica are four points clear of Juve in the group, with Maccabi Haifa still looking for the first point.

Previous meetings

The last of six meetings between Benfica and Paris before this season took place in 6And Matchday of the UEFA Champions League 2013/14. The Portuguese club, under the leadership of Jorge Jesus, won 2-1 in Lisbon thanks to goals from Lima (45And sp) and Nicolás Gaitán (58And) after the advantage of Edinson Cavani at 37thAnd minutes for visitors.

The match at the Parc des Princes ended 3-0 for Paris, Zlatan Ibrahimović (5And30And) scoring before and after the advantage of Marquinhos in the 25th minuteAnd minute. Laurent Blanc’s men came out victorious in Group C with 13 points, three ahead of Olympiacos and Benfica, who were beaten by the Greeks in head-to-head matches and finished second in the UEFA Europa League for the second consecutive year.

These two sides met in the round of 16 of the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League. Benfica won 2-1 at home and then kept the lead in 1-1 at the Parc des Princes. The Lisbon club had returned after being led in the first match after Péguy Luyindula’s first goal (14And). He had equalized by Maxi Pereira (42And) and Franco Jara (81) scored the winning goal. Benfica increased that lead in France with Gaitán’s 27th goalAndMinute. Volley shot by Mathieu Bodmer at 35AndMinute was in vain, the men of Jorge Jesus qualified.

The two sides also met in the 2006/07 UEFA Cup round of 16. Fernando Santos’ Benfica lost 2-1 away to Paul Le Guen’s Paris, but won 3-1 in Lisbon thanks to a Simão penalty in the 89th minuteAnd minute.

Paris have won two of their three home games against Benfica, drawing the third.

About teams

Paris
Paris will play their fifteenth UEFA Champions League group stage – less than France’s record held by Lyon – and eleventh in a row, even less than Lyon’s streak of streak from 2000/01 to 2011/12. The club have reached the round of 16 in the last ten seasons in the competition and the last one has not progressed beyond the group stage in 2004/05.

In 2021/22, Mauricio Pochettino’s team finished second behind Manchester City in Group A, with 11 points from 6 games, and looked set to reach their third consecutive quarter-final by beating Real Madrid 1-0 at home in in the first leg of the round of 16 and doubled the advantage in the second leg – Kylian Mbappé scored both goals – before losing three times in the last half hour in Spain.

The French club’s most successful UEFA Champions League campaign came in 2019/20, when they reached the final but lost 1-0 to Bayern in Lisbon.

Paris won their 10th Ligue 1 title in 2021/22, equaling Saint-Étienne’s 41-year national record, and have won that title in eight of the last ten seasons.

Pochettino was replaced as manager this summer by Christophe Galtier, who led LOSC Lille to the scudetto ahead of Paris in 2020/21 and also led Nice to the Coupe de France final last season, with a win in the eighth final. on penalties against Paris at the Parco dei Principi.

This season, the losses of Juventus and Maccabi Haifa have brought Parisians’ number of victories in their last 16 European games to seven (4 draws and 5 defeats).

Paris have lost only six of their last 66 European home games (W 43, D 17), although four of those defeats have come in their last 16 games at the Parc des Princes.

The games played in 2013 against Benfica were Paris’s last against a Portuguese club before matchday three. Paris’s overall record against Portuguese clubs is 6 wins, 4 draws and 5 defeats. The Parisians are unbeaten in seven home games against Portuguese teams and have five wins and two draws.

Benfica

Benfica reached the group stage for the 17And times and 12AndIn 13 seasons – they were only absent in 2020/21, when they were beaten by PAOK in the third qualifying round.

In 2021/22, the Eagles passed two qualifying rounds to reach the group stage, where they collected eight points to finish second in Group E behind Bayern, while eliminating Barcelona. He then eliminated Ajax in the round of 16 (2-2 at home, 1-0 away) before losing to Liverpool in the quarter-finals (1-3 at home, 3-3 away).

Benfica – third in the Portuguese Liga in 2021/22, 17 points behind the Porto champions and 11 behind second-placed Sporting CP – reached seven C1 finals, winning the trophy in 1961 and 1962, but losing in the next five appearances. , the last against Milan in 1990.

The Portuguese started this season under new manager Roger Schmidt in the third qualifying round, recording two resounding wins against Midtjylland (4-1 at home, 3-1 away), with a hat-trick from Gonçalo Ramos at the start. He then easily beat Dynamo Kyiv (2-0 away, 3-0 at home) to secure four out of four wins in the UEFA Champions League play-offs.

A 5-2 defeat at Bayern on Matchday 4 last season is one of only two defeats Benfica have suffered in their last 14 European away games (W6 D0). By contrast, Juventus’ home win on matchday two of the current season is one of Benfica’s only two defeats in their last 11 away matches in the UEFA Champions League proper (4N, 5).

Before Matchday 3, Benfica’s last appearances against a French club were in the 2019/20 UEFA Champions League group stage, when the Portuguese beat Lyon 2-1 in Lisbon before losing 3-1 to France.

Benfica have lost 8 of 15 games in France (W4, D3), with their 2019 defeat to Lyon one of three in their last seven away games (W2, D2). At home and away, Benfica have won 8 of their last 14 games against French sides (D3, L3).

Have we met before…
Benfica is 40And club against which Messi scored in the UEFA Champions League, a record.

Julian Draxler joined Benfica on loan from Paris on 1is September. He spent five years at the French club, scoring 26 goals in 198 appearances in all competitions. He has won four Ligue 1s, four French Cups and three League Cups at the Parc des Princes.

Renato Sanches joined Benfica in 2006 at the age of nine, joined the club’s B team in October 2014 and made his first team debut in October 2015. At the end of that season, having made 24 league appearances and 35 in total, he moved to Bayern.

They played in Portugal:
Vitinha (Porto 2011-22)
Pablo Sarabia (ready Sporting CP 2021/22)
Nuno Mendes (Sporting CP 2012-22)
Danilo Pereira (Maritimo 2013-15, Porto 2015-21)

Danilo attended the Benfica academy from 2008 to 2010.

Sarabia has scored two goals in three games against Benfica for Sporting Lisbon (W2, L1), in a 3-1 league win on 3 December 2021 and a goal in 78And minute into the Portuguese League Cup final on January 29 this year to seal a 2-1 victory.

They played in France:
Mihailo Ristic (Montpellier 2019-22)
Gil Dias (Monaco 2014-16, 2017/18, 2019/20)
Florentino (Monaco 2020/21 loan)

Ristić’s record against Paris with Montpellier was 1 draw and 4 defeats.

Florentino entered at the end of the match during Monaco’s 3-2 loss to Paris (3-2) in Ligue 1 on 20 November 2020.

They played together:
Pablo Sarabia and Alejandro Grimaldo (Spain U21)

Teammate selection
Vitinha, Renato Sanches, Danilo Pereira, Nuno Mendes and João Mário (Portugal)
Marquinhos, Neymar and Lucas Verissimo, David Neres (Brazil)
Lionel Messi and Nicolas Otamendi, Enzo Fernandez (Argentine)

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