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Benfica is surprised away from home and loses 3-1 to Casa Pia!
Livolant received the pass up front, on the counter-attack, invaded the area and hit it hard, high, to extend the score!
Casa Pia changes: Nuno Moreira and Fonte leave for Kluivert and Pablo Roberto.
Yellow for Miguel Sousa, for a strong foul in the middle of the field.
Substitutions at Benfica: Barreiro, Di María and Arthur Cabral left for Manu Silva, Aursnes and Amdouni.
Yellow for Nuno Moreira, for a foul on Bah in the attacking field.
Substitutions were made on both teams. Benfica’s Akturkoglu and Florentino left to make way for Pavlidis and Schjelderup. Casa Pia’s Rafael Brito and Larrazabal left to make way for Geraldes and Miguel Sousa.
Arthur Cabral, from the cross into the area, headed the ball hard and sent it to the right of the goal!
Casa Pia changes: Cassiano leaves and Svensson enters.
Nuno Moreira received a pass from Larrazabal, invaded the area and hit a powerful shot into the right corner to turn the game around for Casa Pia!
Otamendi, from Kokçu’s cross, headed the ball powerfully and sent it over the goal.
Larrazabal received a cross from Rafael Brito and shot hard, but over the goal.
Rafael Brito received the pass and shot hard, but over the goal.
The teams return to the field and the ball rolls for the second half of the match!
Benfica took the lead, but saw Casa Pia equalize, closing the first half at 1-1!
Arthur Cabral received the pass and hit it hard, but it was in Sequeira’s hands.
Lelo received the pass at the edge of the area and shot hard, but it was blocked by the defense.
Otamendi fouled Nuno Moreira inside the box, resulting in a penalty. VAR reviewed the incident and disallowed the penalty!
Cassiano received the pass up front and hit it hard, into the right corner, to tie the match!
Di María, at the edge of the area, hit hard, but was blocked by the defense.
Akturkoglu received the pass at the edge of the area and shot hard, but it hit the crossbar!
Akturkoglu received the pass and hit it hard from afar, but sent the ball into Sequeira’s hands.
Barreiro invaded the area and was brought down by Tchamba, earning the penalty. Di María hit the right corner to open the scoring!
Tchamba received a cross from Nuno Moreira and headed the ball hard, but it went wide of the left side of the goal.
Arthur Cabral, once again, managed a powerful shot, already inside the area, with Sequeira palming it away.
Arthur Cabral received the pass from Akturkoglu and hit it hard, but sent the ball into Sequeira’s hands.
The teams take to the pitch and the ball rolls for the first half of the match!
The players leave the pitch to finish warming up and then return to play the ball.
In these 42 matches, Benfica have scored 132 goals, with an average of 3.14, against 38 goals for Casa Pia, with an average of 0.9.
At home, Casa Pia has hosted Benfica 22 times, with two wins, six draws and 14 losses. In the Portuguese League there have been three matches, with three losses.
There have been 42 matches between the two teams in history, with 29 wins for Benfica, eight draws and five wins for Casa Pia. In the Portuguese League there have been seven matches, with six wins for Benfica and one draw.
Batista, Kluivert, Zolotic, Benaissa-Yahia, Pablo, Miguel Sousa, Geraldes, Svenssson, Obeng.
Sequeira, Goulart, Fonte and Tchamba; Larrazabal, Mukendi, Brito and Lelo; Livolant, Cassiano and Moreira.
The players go up onto the pitch to begin warming up.
Samuel S., Amdouni, Aursnes, Pavlidis, Manu, Schjelderup, Rollheiser, Beste e Tomás A.
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“Yes, our opponents are having a very good campaign. That’s why we have to be totally focused on the next game. It’s essential that we all have 100 percent energy, because it’s going to be a difficult game, against a competent team, who play with a line of five, but an attacking line of five, with the two full-backs deployed, a lot of speed in the corridors… The front three are dynamic, with a good attack from deep. It’s a very difficult opponent, but looking at what we did in the last game… I feel that this is what I want, what I like, that the team is getting closer and closer to the ideas I want, to the attacking mentality. That’s why we’re ready and determined to play a great game. We just have to go in as determined as we have been. What we’ve been talking about is our consistency, our determination, and what we’ve put a lot of emphasis on is a team that’s confident, that’s determined to win the game, to get into the game well, as we did in the last game – against one of the best teams in Europe, we were already winning after 2 minutes – as we did in a very confident game against Famalicão. I’ll repeat what I said a little while ago: appreciate what we’ve done, appreciate what we’ve done, hold our heads high and look ahead to the next game with great determination. What you mentioned – and rightly so – I don’t just mean the two of them, I mean the three men up front, because it’s a very interesting dynamic, trying to drag our defensive line and having another man between the lines to try and link the play, as well as the speed of the wing players. So it’s a team with quality, who are having a very good league season, but we have to go 100 percent, with energy and determination to win the game. I hope it gives him more confidence, because we’ve always given him confidence. Not just in words here, because I’ve even joked that if there’s one man who knows what it’s like to score goals, and then go a while without scoring, it’s Cristiano Ronaldo, and that famous phrase about ‘ketchup’… And the ketchup has appeared, and I’m confident and certain that the ketchup isn’t over. He’s a great player, he’s only been at Benfica for half a season, he’s got a lot to give. And in the same situation as Pavlidis… I’d like to take this opportunity to talk about Arthur [Cabral], Zeki [Amdouni], and also the kid who is already working with us more often, [João] Rego. They’re men we have a lot of faith in to play in those two forward positions, men who score goals. We have a lot of confidence in them and they have to keep working hard so that, at every moment, they can contribute goals to victories”.
The probable Casa Pia team for today’s game is: Sequeira, Tchamba, Fonte and Goulart; Larrazabal, Beni, Sousa and Lelo; Livolant, Cassiano and Moreira.
Benfica will be without the injured Renato Sanches and Tiago Gouveia for today’s game. Casa Pia will be without Manuel Jorge and Adrian Kraev, who are also injured.
Benfica is in second place in the Portuguese League with 41 points, three points behind Sporting, one above Porto and seven above Braga. Casa Pia is in sixth place with 27 points, one above Vitória and three above Moreirense, and four behind Santa Clara.
Casa Pia comes into today’s game with a draw, a loss and a win in their last games. On January 5, in a 1-1 draw at home, they tied with Famalicão, with João Goulart opening the scoring and Óscar Aranda equalizing. On Sunday (12), at home, in the Portuguese Cup, they lost 3-1 to Rio Ave, with goals from Kiko Bondoso, Clayton and Tiago Morais, while Henrique Pereira scored. And on Monday (20), they won 3-2 against Boavista, with goals from Abascal and Filipe Ferreira, both own goals, and Livolant, while Onyemaechi and Bozenik scored goals.
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