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UEFA Champions League - Benfica VS Bologna Prediciton
UEFA Champions League - Benfica VS Bologna
Match Time:12-12-2024 04:00 Thursday (GMT+8)
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Benfica - WLWWWW
Benfica will want to continue from where they left off last time out with the 1-0 Primeira Liga victory versus Vitória Guimarães.
In that match, Benfica had 55% possession and 8 shots at goal with 1 on target. The only player to score for Benfica was Kerem Aktürkoğlu (29'). Vitoria SC had 10 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target.
Fixtures with Benfica have usually been lively encounters recently with plenty of scoring anticipated. Over their past six clashes alone, a grand total of 21 goals have been scored for both sides combined (at an average of 3.5 goals per game) with 16 of those being chalked up by Benfica.
Renato Sanches (Muscle injury), Gianluca Prestianni (Ankle injury) and Tiago Gouveia (Shoulder injury) are unavailable for Benfica manager Bruno Lage.
In our view, Benfica will probably employ a 4-3-3 system for this game, beginning the first half with Anatolii Trubin, Alexander Bah, Tomas Araujo, Nicolas Otamendi, Alvaro Carreras, Fredrik Aursnes, Florentino Luis, Orkun Kokcu, Angel Di Maria, Vangelis Pavlidis and Kerem Akturkoglu.
Bologna - WLLWWD
In their previous fixture, Bologna drew 2-2 in the Serie A match with Juventus.
In that game, Bologna managed 46% possession and 10 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. For Bologna, the scorers were Dan Ndoye (30') and Tommaso Pobega (52'). On the other side, Juventus had 10 shots at goal with 3 on target. Teun Koopmeiners (62') and Samuel Mbangula (92') scored for Juventus.
Indicating their predisposition for fruitful encounters, goals have been seen as many as 20 times in the previous six games in which Bologna have sent out their troops, making it a mean average of 3.33 goals per clash. Opposition teams have hit 7 from this total. Let’s find out if that trend will end up being sustained here.
Bologna boss Vincenzo Italiano has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Charalampos Lykogiannis (muscular problems), Michel Aebischer (Adductor pain), Oussama El Azzouzi (surgery), Riccardo Orsolini (Hamstring muscle injury) and Nicolò Cambiaghi (Cruciate ligament surgery) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.
From our viewpoint, Rossoblu seem likely to play in a 4-2-3-1 formation, starting the game with Lukasz Skorupski, Emil Holm, Sam Beukema, Jhon Lucumi, Juan Miranda, Lewis Ferguson, Remo Freuler, Dan Ndoye, Jens Odgaard, Samuel Iling-Junior and Santiago Castro.
Benfica possible starting lineup:
Trubin; Bah, Araujo, Otamendi, Carreras; Aursnes, Luis, Kokcu; Di Maria, Pavlidis, Akturkoglu
Bologna possible starting lineup:
Skorupski; Posch, Beukema, Lucumi, Miranda; Freuler, Pobega; Ndoye, Ferguson, Dominguez; Castro
Benfica vs Bologna Head-to-Head and Key Numbers
Benfica have never played an official game against Bologna in the UEFA Champions League and will need to adapt to a new opponent this week.
Benfica are set to face an opponent from Italy in their third consecutive campaign in major European competitions and have won two of their last four such games.
Bologna are set to play their first match away from home against an opponent from Portugal in a major European competition, with their previous such game ending in a 2-0 victory against Sporting Lisbon in the UEFA Cup in 1998.
Bologna have won only one of their last six matches at home in the UEFA Champions League, with their only such victory during this period coming by a 4-0 margin against Atletico Madrid this season.
Bologna are yet to take a lead in the UEFA Champions League this season
Prediction: Benfica 2-0 Bologna
Only one of Benfica's last 36 UEFA fixtures has finished goalless, and they are scoring freely at the moment - with plenty of attacking options available on the bench if Bruno Lage requires 'Plan B'. It is a virtually make-or-break situation for Bologna, but their lack of a razor-sharp cutting edge could cost them again.
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