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Benfica 2-2 Sporting CP - April 02, 2024 / Taça de Portugal 2023/2024

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Taça de Portugal 2023/2024 - Semi-finals

Estadio da Luz - Lisbon - Portugal

April 02, 2024 - 20:45

59 113

2 - 2

Sporting CP

Assist by David Neres (header) Nicolás Otamendi

52'

Assist by Alexander Bah (right foot) Rafa Silva

64'

47'

Morten Hjulmand (right foot) Assist by Viktor Gyökeres

55'

Paulinho (left foot)

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45' - Yellow card Ángel Di María45

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46' - Substitution Ousmane Diomandeis substituted by Jerry St. Juste photo Geny Catamo

46' - Substitution Ricardo Esgaiois substituted by Geny Catamo photo Matheus Reis

46' - Substitution Nuno Santosis substituted by Matheus Reis

47' - Goal Morten Hjulmand

49' - Yellow card Ricardo Esgaio

52' - Goal Nicolás Otamendi52

55' - Goal Paulinho

64' - Goal Rafa Silva64

66' - Substitution Daniel Bragancais substituted by Hidemasa Morita

72' - Yellow card Hidemasa Morita

77' - Yellow card Franco Israel

79' - Substitution Casper Tengstedtis substituted by Marcos Leonardo79

85' - Substitution David Neresis substituted by Tiago Gouveia85

85' - Substitution Paulinhois substituted by Marcus Edwards

90' - Substitution Florentinois substituted by João Mário90

92' - Yellow card Marcus Edwards

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Benfica

2 - 2

Sporting CP

Benfica Sporting CP

Team line-ups

Benfica

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

19Tengstedt79

Casper Tengstedt

Denmark

B.date01/06/2000

Age23 years

H1m84

positionCentre forward

7Neres85

David Neres

Brazil

B.date03/03/1997

Age27 years

H1m75

positionRight Winger

27Rafa Silva64

Rafa Silva

Portugal

B.date17/05/1993

Age30 years

H1m70

positionRight Winger

11Di María45

Ángel Di María

Argentina

B.date14/02/1988

Age36 years

H1m80

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

61Florentino90

Florentino

Portugal

B.date19/08/1999

Age24 years

H1m83

positionDefensive Midfielder

87Neves

João Neves

Portugal

B.date27/09/2004

Age19 years

H1m74

positionOffensive Midfielder

8Aursnes

Fredrik Aursnes

Norway

B.date10/12/1995

Age28 years

H1m79

positionDefensive Midfielder

30Otamendi52

Nicolás Otamendi

Argentina

B.date12/02/1988

Age36 years

H1m78

positionLeft central defender

4A. Silva

Antonio Silva

Portugal

B.date30/10/2003

Age20 years

H1m87

positionCentral defender

6Bah

Alexander Bah

Denmark

B.date09/12/1997

Age26 years

H1m83

positionRight full-back

1Trubin

Anatoliy Trubin

Ukraine

B.date01/08/2001

Age22 years

H1m100

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Anatoliy Trubin		22	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
30	D	Nicolás Otamendi	52	36	170	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Antonio Silva		20	86	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	D	Alexander Bah		26	68	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
61	M	Florentino	90	24	122	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	D	Fredrik Aursnes		28	89	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	M	Ángel Di María	45	36	166	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
87	M	João Neves		19	67	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	F	Casper Tengstedt	79	23	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	David Neres	85	27	76	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
27	M	Rafa Silva	64	30	320	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

112

Sporting CP

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

9Gyökeres

Viktor Gyökeres

Sweden

B.date04/06/1998

Age25 years

H1m87

positionStriker

20Paulinho5585

Paulinho

Portugal

B.date09/11/1992

Age31 years

H1m87

positionSecond striker

17Trincão

Francisco Trincão

Portugal

B.date29/12/1999

Age24 years

H1m84

positionRight Winger

23Braganca66

Daniel Braganca

Portugal

B.date27/05/1999

Age24 years

H1m69

positionDefensive Midfielder

42Hjulmand47

Morten Hjulmand

Denmark

B.date25/06/1999

Age24 years

H1m85

positionCentre Midfield

11Santos46

Nuno Santos

Portugal

B.date13/02/1995

Age29 years

H1m79

positionLeft Midfielder

47Ricardo Esgaio4649

Ricardo Esgaio

Portugal

B.date16/05/1993

Age30 years

H1m73

positionRight full-back

25Inacio

Gonçalo Inacio

Portugal

B.date25/08/2001

Age22 years

H1m87

positionCentral defender

4Coates

Sebastián Coates

Uruguay

B.date07/10/1990

Age33 years

H1m96

positionRight central defender

26Diomande46

Ousmane Diomande

Ivory Coast

B.date04/12/2003

Age20 years

positionCentral defender

12Israel77

Franco Israel

Uruguay

B.date22/04/2000

Age23 years

H1m89

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
12	G	Franco Israel	77	23	25	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
26	D	Ousmane Diomande	46	20	48	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Sebastián Coates		33	360	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
25	D	Gonçalo Inacio		22	162	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
47	D	Ricardo Esgaio	4649	30	166	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	M	Daniel Braganca	66	24	98	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	D	Nuno Santos	46	29	179	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
42	M	Morten Hjulmand	47	24	42	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	M	Paulinho	5585	31	136	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Viktor Gyökeres		25	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	M	Francisco Trincão		24	91	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.9 years

Average number of matches played for the team

123

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
24	G	Samuel Soares		21
5	D	Morato		22
44	D	Tomás Araújo		21
3	D	Álvaro Carreras		21
20	M	João Mário	90	31	139	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	M	Orkun Kökcü		23
47	F	Tiago Gouveia	85	22	22	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
36	F	Marcos Leonardo	79	20	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Arthur Cabral		25

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
51	G	Diogo Pinto		19
3	D	Jerry St. Juste	46	27	47	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
72	D	Eduardo Quaresma		22
13	D	Luís Neto		35
2	D	Matheus Reis	46	29	154	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	M	Hidemasa Morita	6672	28	72	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
80	M	Koba Koindredi		22
10	M	Marcus Edwards	8592	25	105	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	F	Geny Catamo	46	23	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Casper Tengstedt

Arthur Cabral

OUT

Antonio Silva

Tomás Araújo

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Gonçalo Inacio

Jerry St. Juste

OUT

Ricardo Esgaio

Geny Catamo

OUT

Sebastián Coates

Matheus Reis

OUT

Morten Hjulmand

Hidemasa Morita

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Roger Schmidt

102

Success rate in this team:

72 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

59 %

Schmidt vs Sporting CP

3 victories

3 draws

1 loss

Latest figure on April 02, 2024

Schmidt vs Amorim

1 victory

3 draws

1 loss

Latest figure on April 02, 2024

Manager

Age

Match num

Ruben Amorim

204

Success rate in this team:

69 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

70 %

Amorim vs Benfica

5 victories

3 draws

4 losses

Latest figure on April 02, 2024

Amorim vs Schmidt

1 victory

3 draws

1 loss

Latest figure on April 02, 2024

Referee

João Pinheiro

17 victories	4 draws	4 losses	Benfica25 matches	General total	Sporting CP24 matches	11 victories	7 draws	6 losses
0 victory	1 draw	0 loss	Benfica1 match	Season total	Sporting CP1 match	0 victory	1 draw	0 loss
Latest figure on April 02, 2024					Latest figure on April 02, 2024

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Key figures

Benfica keeps its 10 matches with at least one goal conceded vs Sporting CP in Taça de Portugal running (since 07/06/1987). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 17/02/1980 (9 matches)

End of streak for Benfica after 3 matches with only one goal conceded at most vs Sporting CP at home in Taça de Portugal (since 02/04/1983). It's a record streak. The first of history

It's the first time Morten Hjulmand scores 1 goal in Taça de Portugal

Read the next 21 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VBenfica 2-1 Toulouse FC15/02/2024

VBenfica 6-1 Vizela18/02/2024

VBenfica 4-0 Portimonense25/02/2024

DBenfica 2-2 Glasgow Rangers07/03/2024

VBenfica 3-1 Estoril10/03/2024

VBenfica 1-0 Chaves29/03/2024

Overall

LFC Porto 5-0 Benfica03/03/2024

DBenfica 2-2 Glasgow Rangers07/03/2024

VBenfica 3-1 Estoril10/03/2024

VGlasgow Rangers 0-1 Benfica14/03/2024

VCasa Pia 0-1 Benfica17/03/2024

VBenfica 1-0 Chaves29/03/2024

Current form

Away

VBSC Young Boys 1-3 Sporting CP15/02/2024

VMoreirense 0-2 Sporting CP19/02/2024

DRio Ave 3-3 Sporting CP25/02/2024

VArouca 0-3 Sporting CP10/03/2024

LAtalanta 2-1 Sporting CP14/03/2024

VEstrela da Amadora 1-2 Sporting CP29/03/2024

Overall

VSporting CP 3-2 Farense03/03/2024

DSporting CP 1-1 Atalanta06/03/2024

VArouca 0-3 Sporting CP10/03/2024

LAtalanta 2-1 Sporting CP14/03/2024

VSporting CP 6-1 Boavista17/03/2024

VEstrela da Amadora 1-2 Sporting CP29/03/2024

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	2	4
Unbeaten streak	17	5
Drawless streak	2	4
Scoring streak	17	5
Invincibility streak	1	3

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	1	2
Unbeaten streak	1	2
Drawless streak	3	4
Scoring streak	24	14
Conceding streak	2	3

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

13	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	14
1	FBDB index ranking (National)	2

Results

5	Number of games (Competition total)	5
2	Number of games (Home / Away)	2
4	Victories (Competition total)	5
2	Victories (Home / Away)	2
0	Draws (Competition total)	0
0	Draws (Home / Away)	0
1	Losses (Competition total)	0
0	Losses (Home / Away)	0

Goals

12	Goals scored (Competition total)	20
5	Goals scored (Home / Away)	6
6	Goals conceded (Competition total)	2
2	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	1
2.4	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	4
2.5	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	3
1.2	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0.4
1	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	0.5

Betting aid

4	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	5
1	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	2
1	Clean sheets (Competition total)	3
1	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	1
0	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	0
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	0
4	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	2
1	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	1
2-0 (1 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	3-1 (1 times)

Bookings

11	Yellow cards (Competition total)	10
3	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	8
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Rafa Silva	3 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	6 goals	Viktor Gyökeres
Rafa Silva	2 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	2 goals	Viktor Gyökeres
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Nuno Santos
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	1 penalty	Marcus Edwards
Fredrik Aursnes	3 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)	4 assists	Nuno Santos
João Mário	1 assist	Player with most assists (Home / Away)	1 assist	Nuno Santos
Fredrik Aursnes	2 goals, 3 assists during the last 5 matches	The fittest player	6 goals, 2 assists during the last 4 matches	Viktor Gyökeres

Historical head to head

Home

82 matches

47 v

23 d

12 l

153 gf

93 ga

Away

83 matches

28 v

21 d

34 l

105 gf

111 ga

Neutral ground

7 matches

4 v

1 d

2 l

15 gf

6 ga

Total

172 matches

79 v

45 d

48 l

273 gf

210 ga

Historical head to head

Home

83 matches

34 v

21 d

28 l

111 gf

105 ga

Away

82 matches

12 v

23 d

47 l

93 gf

153 ga

Neutral ground

7 matches

2 v

1 d

4 l

6 gf

15 ga

Total

172 matches

48 v

45 d

79 l

210 gf

273 ga

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	August 04, 2019
Home	5 - 0	March 12, 1986

Largest victory

Overall	7 - 1	December 14, 1986
Away	3 - 0	October 25, 2015

Latest head to head

February 29, 2024 - Taça de Portugal 2023/2024

Sporting CP

2 - 1

Benfica

November 12, 2023 - Liga Portugal Bwin 2023/2024

Benfica

2 - 1

Sporting CP logo Sporting CP

May 21, 2023 - Liga Portugal Bwin 2022/2023

Sporting CP

2 - 2

Benfica

January 15, 2023 - Liga Portugal Bwin 2022/2023

Benfica

2 - 2

Sporting CP logo Sporting CP

April 17, 2022 - Liga Portugal Bwin 2021/2022

Sporting CP

0 - 2

Benfica

Best historical scorers against Sporting CP

Eusebio	26 goals	1963 - 1973
Óscar Cardozo	12 goals	2008 - 2013
José Torres	8 goals	1963 - 1970
Nené	6 goals	1970 - 1974
Artur Jorge	6 goals	1970 - 1973
Pizzi	5 goals	2019 - 2021

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 19/03/1939. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Benfica

Liédson	11 goals	2005 - 2010
Hector Yazalde	5 goals	1972 - 1974
Manuel Fernandes	4 goals	1976 - 1978
Pedro Goncalves	4 goals	2021 - 2024
Ivaylo Yordanov	4 goals	1992 - 1999
Islam Slimani	4 goals	2013 - 2015

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 19/03/1939. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Sporting CP

António Simões	32 matches	1962 - 1975
Eusebio	29 matches	1962 - 1974
Luisão	27 matches	2004 - 2017
Nuno Gomes	22 matches	1997 - 2009
Mario Coluna	21 matches	1960 - 1969
Pizzi	20 matches	2015 - 2022

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 15/01/1939. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Benfica

Rui Patricio	26 matches	2008 - 2018
Anderson Polga	20 matches	2004 - 2012
Beto	17 matches	1996 - 2005
Liédson	17 matches	2004 - 2010
Sebastián Coates	17 matches	2016 - 2024
Pedro Barbosa	16 matches	1995 - 2005