Sporting 1–2 Benfica — Primeira Liga 2025/26 Match Stats

Primeira Liga · 2025Sun, 19 Apr 2026, 17:15 UTCEstádio José Alvalade

Sporting

WDWWW

1–2Historical match

Benfica

DWWDW

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

Match at a glance

Benfica won 1–2.

Shots: 1914
Shots on target: 65
Expected goals: 1.662.27
Possession: 61%39%

Full time

What the match recorded

Benfica beat Sporting CP 2–1. Recorded in this match (Sporting CP – Benfica): shots 19–14, shots on target 6–5, expected goals 1.66–2.27, possession 61%–39%. 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.

Both teams have elevated corners records

strong

Each team's season corners average is above the competition baseline.

7.13 corners/match ●CornersSporting CP · Benfica7.06 corners/match

Evidence and caveat

Comparison: Both team averages are compared with the same competition baseline.

Window: season

Metric	Sporting CP	Benfica	Baseline
Corners	7.13 corners/match	7.06 corners/match	4.41 corners/match

Caveat: A shared historical pattern is descriptive and may not repeat in one fixture.

This match

Match statistics

Shots19 shots14 shotsSporting 19 shots, Benfica 14 shots
Shots on target6 shots5 shotsSporting 6 shots, Benfica 5 shots
Expected goals1.66 xG2.27 xGSporting 1.66 xG, Benfica 2.27 xG
Possession61%39%Sporting 61%, Benfica 39%
Corners3 corners8 cornersSporting 3 corners, Benfica 8 corners
Fouls13 fouls8 foulsSporting 13 fouls, Benfica 8 fouls
Yellow cards2 cards1 cardSporting 2 cards, Benfica 1 card

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
size = xG

Sporting CP: 19 shots, 6 on target, 1.70 xG. Benfica: 14 shots, 5 on target, 2.27 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: Sporting CP 1.70 xG · Benfica 2.27 xG.

History

Head-to-head

Recent meetings between these teams.

Last 5 meetings

2Sporting

2Draws

1Benfica

5 Dec 2025Benfica — Sporting · Primeira Liga1–1

10 May 2025Benfica — Sporting · Primeira Liga1–1

29 Dec 2024Sporting — Benfica · Primeira Liga1–0

6 Apr 2024Sporting — Benfica · Primeira Liga2–1

12 Nov 2023Benfica — Sporting · Primeira Liga2–1

Head-to-Head & Recent Meetings

Metric comparison

Team comparison

Season averages, with the sample size beside each metric.

Where the edge is

Season: Sporting favored in 5 of 11 directional metrics · Benfica in 2 · 4 too close

led this metric higher value (descriptive) too close

Window

Season

Sporting30 matchesBenfica32 matches

2.67 goals/match ▲Goals scored30/322.16 goals/match

0.63 goals/matchGoals allowed30/32▲ 0.59 goals/match

2.07 xG/matchExpected goals29/301.97 xG/match

18 shots/matchShots30/3217.3 shots/match

7.07 shots/match ▲Shots on target30/326.06 shots/match

61.8% ●Possession30/3259%

7.13 corners/match ●Corners30/327.06 corners/match

2.44 cards/matchCards25/262.27 cards/match

12.5 fouls/matchFouls30/3211 fouls/match

Evidence quality

How much supports this analysis

Grade A · Strong evidenceStrong evidence — limited

Season samples30 / 32home / away teams

Recent samples5 / 5last-five windows

FreshnessLess than one dayfrom nearest prior match

The fixture is outside the configured active season.
Recent samples and important metric coverage meet the strong evidence 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: Sun, 19 Apr 2026, 21:15 UTC · analysis-v4

Team rankings in Primeira Liga

Goals per match ranking xG per match ranking Shots per match ranking

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Match at a glance