Benfica vs Gil Vicente - prediction, team news, lineups

Looking to unafraid a 5th consecutive Primeira Liga victory, Benfica invited Gil Vicente to Estadio da Luz for matchday six enactment connected Sunday.

Marco Silva's squad participate this brushwood connected the backmost of a convincing triumph implicit Moreirense successful their rescheduled matchday 3 fixture successful midweek, portion the Barcelos visitors suffered their archetypal decision of the run past clip retired against recently promoted Academico de Viseu.

Match preview

Silva looks to beryllium pressing the close buttons aft steering Benfica to six consecutive wins crossed each competitions, with 4 of those coming successful the league pursuing a disappointing opening-weekend gully against recently promoted Academico.

The Eagles person present scored a mammoth 16 goals during that winning league streak, coming crossed victories implicit Casa Pia, Estoril Praia and Maritimo, arsenic good arsenic the midweek occurrence astatine Moreirense, wherever goals from Vangelis Pavlidis, Andreas Schjelderup, Gianluca Prestianni and Fredrik Aursnes secured maximum points successful emphatic fashion.

That occurrence saw Benfica determination up to 2nd successful the early-season Primeira Liga table, 2 points down leaders Porto and level with metropolis rivals Sporting Lisbon, a presumption offering genuine anticipation of a rubric propulsion for the Eagles, who person not won the title successful 3 years; they finished 3rd past word nether Jose Mourinho.

Another triumph this play would spot the Reds grounds 5 league wins connected the bounce for the archetypal clip since a tally of 9 consecutive victories successful the Portuguese apical formation betwixt January and April 2025, and they tin astatine slightest gully assurance from a ascendant location grounds successful this fixture.

Benfica person won 9 of their past 11 league meetings with Gil Vicente astatine Da Luz (L2), including each of the past four, with the astir caller a 2-1 occurrence erstwhile the sides met astatine the crushed successful September past year.

This appears adjacent much daunting for a Gil Vicente broadside who present look their astir susceptible of the season, having suffered a archetypal decision of the run successful a 1-0 nonaccomplishment to recently promoted Academico past weekend.

After going six afloat halves without conceding, Gil Vicente's rearguard was yet breached conscionable 4 minutes into that brushwood astatine Estadio Cidade de Barcelos, with Joao Guilherme's onslaught proving decisive and handing the visitors from Viseu a archetypal triumph of the campaign.

The effect saw Luis Pinto endure a archetypal competitory decision astatine the helm since his assignment successful June. It besides near Gil Vicente seventh successful the standings connected 7 points from 4 matches, having beaten Rio Ave and Casa Pia earlier a goalless gully with Famalicao connected matchday four.

As such, the Roosters person gone back-to-back league matches without uncovering the net, and nonaccomplishment to bash truthful this play volition spot them gully a blank successful 3 consecutive league outings for the archetypal clip since February 2025.

Gil Vicente's grounds connected the roadworthy leaves small successful the mode of optimism, having failed to people an distant league extremity connected immoderate of the past 3 trips, portion a winless tally successful the Primeira Liga present stretches to 7 matches connected their travels (D4, L3), a series dating backmost to the erstwhile season.
 

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Team News

Benfica are expected to stay without Alexander Bah, who is sidelined with a enarthrosis injury, meaning younker imaginable Daniel Banjaqui could clasp his spot astatine right-back.

Schjelderup scored a extremity and provided a brace of assists past clip out, with Prestianni besides uncovering the nett and mounting up another, truthful some players are apt to support their places successful attack.

Pavlidis's opener from the spot past clip retired marked his sixth extremity of the Primeira Liga campaign, and the Greek striker volition look to adhd to that tally here.

Captain Aursnes marked his archetypal league quality with a extremity from the seat against Moreirense, with the Norwegian midfielder present pushing for a commencement connected Sunday, though caput manager Silva could opt to instrumentality with his winning lineup from that encounter.

Gil Vicente's decision to Academico came astatine a cost, with Weverson forced disconnected successful the archetypal fractional and present doubtful for Sunday's game, meaning David Moreira is apt to regenerate him.

Meanwhile, Ivory Coast defender Mohamed Bamba is besides a doubt, portion Arthur Tchaptchet and Walace Franca stay sidelined.
 

Benfica imaginable starting lineup:

Soares; Banjaqui, Araujo, Lenglet, Dahl; Palhinha, Barreiro; R Silva, Prestianni, Schjelderup; Pavlidis

Gil Vicente imaginable starting lineup:

Lucao; Esgaio, Buatu, Elimbi, Moreira; Carlos, Martins, Prioste; Souza, Hernandez, Fernandez

We say: Benfica 2-0 Gil Vicente

A location decision to a recently promoted broadside is not the perfect assurance boost for Gil Vicente up of a travel to look a high-flying Benfica side, and we expect the hosts to grounds a convincing triumph successful this encounter, adjacent if the visitors' antiaircraft resilience shows for periods of the game.
 

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