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Primeira Liga · Round 15 · Sun 20 Dec, 00:00

Rio Ave
vs
Benfica

Prediction

12%
80%
Rio Ave 8% Draw 12% 80% Benfica

ℹPlayer-based sharpening isn't available for this competition yet.

Expected goals
0.76 – 2.99
Over 2.5 goals
72%
Both teams to score
50%
Model confidence
normal

Most likely scorelines

0-2 10% 0-3 10% 1-2 8% 1-3 8% 0-4 8%

Rio Ave · last 5 D

Académico Viseu (A) 2-1 L Académico Viseu (A) 2-1 L Famalicao (H) 0-4 L Famalicao (H) 0-4 L Nacional (H) 3-2 W

Benfica · last 5 A

Alverca (H) 1-0 W Alverca (H) 1-0 W Santa Clara (A) 1-2 W Omonia (A) 1-4 W Celtic (H) 4-1 W

Head-to-head

17 Jan 2026 Rio Ave 0–2 Benfica 23 Sep 2025 Benfica 1–1 Rio Ave 16 Mar 2025 Rio Ave 2–3 Benfica 27 Oct 2024 Benfica 5–0 Rio Ave 17 May 2024 Rio Ave 1–1 Benfica 14 Jan 2024 Benfica 4–1 Rio Ave 02 Apr 2023 Rio Ave 0–1 Benfica 08 Oct 2022 Benfica 4–2 Rio Ave 01 Mar 2021 Benfica 2–0 Rio Ave 18 Oct 2020 Rio Ave 0–3 Benfica

News

Arsenal’s Slegers hails ‘role model’ Russo after historic hat-trick sinks Benfica guardian · 28 Oct Russo scores hat-trick as Arsenal beat Benfica bbc · 28 Oct