FC Porto 0–0 Benfica — Primeira Liga 2025/26 Match Stats

Primeira Liga · 2025Sun, 5 Oct 2025, 20:15 UTCEstádio Do Dragão

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A completed match from a finished season. This page is the record of what happened.

Match at a glance

FC Porto and Benfica drew 0–0.

Shots: 84
Shots on target: 21
Expected goals: 0.660.13
Possession: 52%48%

Full time

What the match recorded

FC Porto and Benfica drew 0–0. Recorded in this match (FC Porto – Benfica): shots 8–4, shots on target 2–1, expected goals 0.66–0.13, possession 52%–48%. This is what was recorded. It is not a claim that the result was foreseeable.

Pre-match record

What the data showed before kick-off. Kept for reference; it did not know the result.

FC Porto's recent record differs from the season

weak

FC Porto's last-five goals scored average is below their season average.

2 goals/match ▲Goals forLast 5 · Season2.38 goals/match

Evidence and caveat

Comparison: An unweighted last-five average is compared with the unweighted season average.

Window: last_5 versus season

Metric	Last 5	Season	Baseline
Goals for	2 goals/match	2.38 goals/match	1.25 goals/match

Caveat: Five matches are sensitive to opponent mix and isolated match states.

This match

Match statistics

Shots8 shots4 shotsFC Porto 8 shots, Benfica 4 shots
Shots on target2 shots1 shotFC Porto 2 shots, Benfica 1 shot
Expected goals0.66 xG0.13 xGFC Porto 0.66 xG, Benfica 0.13 xG
Possession52%48%FC Porto 52%, Benfica 48%
Corners3 corners3 cornersFC Porto 3 corners, Benfica 3 corners
Fouls16 fouls6 foulsFC Porto 16 fouls, Benfica 6 fouls
Yellow cards6 cards2 cardsFC Porto 6 cards, Benfica 2 cards

Every shot

Shot map

Every recorded shot, placed where it was taken and sized by its expected-goals value. Arrows show each team’s attacking direction.

off target
on target
goal
penalty
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FC Porto: 8 shots, 2 on target, 0.69 xG. Benfica: 4 shots, 1 on target, 0.12 xG.

How the match built

Expected-goals timeline

Expected goals accumulated minute by minute. Circles mark the goals that were actually scored.

The step line is cumulative expected goals; circles mark goals. Final: FC Porto 0.69 xG · Benfica 0.12 xG.

History

Head-to-head

Recent meetings between these teams.

Last 5 meetings

2FC Porto

0Draws

3Benfica

6 Apr 2025FC Porto — Benfica · Primeira Liga1–4

10 Nov 2024Benfica — FC Porto · Primeira Liga4–1

3 Mar 2024FC Porto — Benfica · Primeira Liga5–0

29 Sept 2023Benfica — FC Porto · Primeira Liga1–0

7 Apr 2023Benfica — FC Porto · Primeira Liga1–2

Head-to-Head & Recent Meetings

Metric comparison

Team comparison

Season averages, with the sample size beside each metric.

Where the edge is

Season: FC Porto favored in 8 of 11 directional metrics · Benfica in 0 · 3 too close

led this metric higher value (descriptive) too close

Window

Season

FC Porto8 matchesBenfica9 matches

2.38 goals/match ▲Goals scored8/91.78 goals/match

0.13 goals/match ▲Goals allowed8/90.44 goals/match

1.92 xG/match ▲Expected goals8/81.78 xG/match

15 shots/matchShots8/914.6 shots/match

5.75 shots/match ▲Shots on target8/95.33 shots/match

54.9%Possession8/9● 60.6%

6 corners/match ●Corners8/94.33 corners/match

3.25 cards/matchCards8/82.75 cards/match

14 fouls/matchFouls8/913 fouls/match

Evidence quality

How much supports this analysis

Grade B · Useful evidenceUseful evidence — limited

Season samples8 / 9home / away teams

Recent samples5 / 5last-five windows

FreshnessLess than one dayfrom nearest prior match

Evidence is usable but does not meet the strongest completeness threshold.

Known unknowns

Lineups, injuries, suspensions and tactical changes are not available in the retained dataset.
The fixture season differs from the competition's configured active season.

Analysis cutoff: Mon, 6 Oct 2025, 00:15 UTC · analysis-v4