Tip: OVER 3.5 GOALS
Odds: 1.75
Benfica’s career in the recent past seems to point to the fact that the incarnates are perfectly capable of winning yet another national title. Even in a surprising situation, as happened last weekend, losing to a 3-0 win against Boavista, Benfica managed to recover to save a point, while one of their pursuers, Sporting, missed the goal of Shorten distances. Before the Tondela, you will have a new opportunity to demonstrate strength and quality before an opponent who is in a very different fight. For the Tondelenses, who have recently changed their coaches, it will be an opportunity to test their worth, even if the points are a long way from being carried in the luggage back home.
Benfica cured the tie conceded to Boavista with a thrashing before Leixões, in the match of the Portuguese Cup. Rui Vitória had to amend his hand, after giving some space so that in the encounter of League NOS the team entered little focused in its objective. Before Leixões, the speech will have been different, with the team used to have many more headlines than would be expected. The effect was noted. Benfica came to dominate the Matosinhos team, never leaving any doubt that it would advance to the semi-finals of the Portuguese Cup. It is exactly this feeling that the incarnate fans seek for Sunday afternoon. Benfica will have to return to the entrances to kill, so as not to give Tondela even the slightest hope of getting points from the Stadium of Light. Grimaldo and Fejsa are still among the injured while Eliseu has returned to training. However, it seems unlikely that the Portuguese international will return to the team at this meeting, bearing in mind that André Almeida is proving to match the challenge in the left wing of the defense.
Eleven Probable: Éderson – Nélson Semedo, Lindelof, Luisão, André Almeida – Salvio, Pizzi, Samaris, Cervi – Mitroglou, Jonas.
Liga NOSO Tondela continues in last place, to sink, and after to have lost with the Arouca, Petit put again its place at the disposition of the direction and there was no way to resist the psychological whipping. Pepa arrived for a second opportunity in Liga NOS, after having left Moreira de Cónegos, and assumed a complicated schedule to leave the first impressions. It began with a defeat, 0-2 in Braga, and now with the visit to the Stadium of Light, the ambitions are very reduced. Being bad to enter with a plan of work so demanding, these two weeks can serve, so that Pepa works with less pressure on the results, being that later it will have confrontations with Chaves, Belenenses and Feirense to begin to put its mark in points summed up – essential to avoid demotion. Of what Pepa has already shown this year, when he was in the Moreirense, expect a team that tries to populate the midfield, but it does not stop being bold in front of a big one. Even if it costs new defeat and fat numbers. Rafael Amorim is punished while Jhon Murillo, Pedro Nuno and Lystcov are left out of being loaned by Benfica.
Eleven Probable: Cláudio Ramos – Jaílson, Kaka, Pica, Ruca – Fernando Ferreira, Claude Gonçalves – Murilo, Hélder Tavares, Miguel Cardoso – Wagner.
The whole story of the clashes between Tondela and Benfica comes down to last season and this one. Three games, always with victory incarnate.
Without a doubt, Benfica points to an easy victory against a Tondela that is in the process of renewal, as regards the game model and the way to approach the matches, so that, in the absence of the first lap after this match , Try to save yourself from the descent.
