Our prediction for this Portugal Primeira Liga match:
Arouca
Match Time & Date:
06/01/2024
10:00 AM
Prediction: 0-2
Benfica
Benfica will be aiming to put an extra pressure on league leaders Sporting CP when they face Arouca in the Primeira Liga round 16. All Bah, Bernat, David Neres, and Tengstedt continue to miss out with injuries, but there are no suspended players in the home team. Both Nicolas Otamendi and Angel Di Maria are available for selection. You should bear in mind that the Lisbon Eagles are eyeing their seventh away win of the process.
Daniel Sousa’s troops, on the other hand, aim to build on back-to-back wins over Boavista and Estrela. Arouca, though, have always been struggling in meetings with Benfica and given their nine-game losing run against the Eagles, away win should be considered. Daniel Sousa has a luxury to field the best possible side against the title holders. When the two teams met in the League Cup three months ago Benfica defeated Arouca 2-0.
Highlighted Player (Angel di Maria):
Angel Di Maria is a professional footballer who played for Argentine side Rosario Central at the start of his senior career. The left-footed winger is very quick on the ball and he often makes life difficult for opposition defenders. After playing for Benfica between 2007 and 2010, the Argentine superstar signed for Real Madrid on 28 June, 2010 for a fee of €25 million + €11 million in bonuses.
Despite impressing with los Blancos in the 2013/2014 La Liga campaign, the club chiefs decided to sell him to Manchester United on 26 August, 2014. Di Maria was playing below expectations at Old Trafford and he scored three goals in 27 league games for the Red Devils.
In 2015 he moved to Paris Saint-Germain and he scored 10 goals in 29 league appearances for les Parisiens in the 2015/2016 Ligue 1 campaign. In 2014 he won the Champions League trophy with Real Madrid and that is considered the biggest success of his career. Angel Di Maria was born in Rosario on 14 February, 1988.
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