Our prediction for this Portugal Primeira Liga match:
Benfica
Match Time & Date:
22/02/2025
19:00
Prediction: 3-0
Boavista
After surviving Monaco in the Champions League last 32, Benfica will look to overtake Sporting CP in top position when they face Boavista in the Primeira Liga round 23. The Eagles are eyeing their fourth consecutive league win and they are seen as hot favourites to win Saturday’s clash as well. Midfielder Florentino is back from the Champions League ban, while experienced winger Angel Di Maria has yet to overcome his injury.
The Black and Whites, on the other hand, are fighting hard to secure the survival. Boavista, though, are not regarded as good travellers and given their four-game losing run on the road, anything but a routine home win would be a big sensation. In their last meeting in Lisbon, Benfica recorded a routine 2-0 win over Boavista. Defender Goncalo Miguel is rated doubtful for the visiting team after picking up injury in a 1-0 loss to Estrela.
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.
Highlighted Team (Boavista):
Founded on August 1, 1903, Boavista are a Portuguese club that welcome their rivals at Estadio do Bessa. The capacity of the venue is 28,263 and it was built back in 1911. As Panteras (The Panthers) are well known for their black and white shirts and white is the dominant colour of their away kit.
Famous Fellow city club Porto are considered Boavista’s main rivals and the two teams face each other in O Derby da Invicta and there have always been fireworks in clashes between the two local rivals. A Panteras did well to win their first and only Primeira Liga trophy in the 2000/2001 season, with the team finishing the campaign only one point clear of Porto.
Boavista have five Taca de Portugal trophies (1974/75, 1975/76, 1978/79, 1991/92, 1996/97), with the team winning Supertaca de Portugal three times (1979, 1992, 1997). Jose Bosingwa, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Nuno Gomes are the notable footballers who played for Boavista in the past, to name just a few.
