In order to recover from what happened in the middle of the week, this Monday the Benfica cast jumps to the stadium of the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, with the aim of achieving a victory that will allow it to retake the first place in the Primeira Liga de Portugal, When you receive a visit from a committed to the theme of permanence, as it is Maritime, in game that corresponds to the 30th day of Portuguese football.
Benfica :
Those led by Bruno Lage could not take advantage of the score obtained in the first leg of the quarterfinals of the UEFA Europa League and so at midweek they fell by 2-0 in their visit to Eintracht Frankfurt and due to the added value of The away games were left out of the semifinals of that competition and this has been the second blow received for the Eagles in this month since at the beginning of the month they were eliminated from the semifinals of the Taca de Portugal by Sporting Lisboa.
But in the end, now is the time to focus solely on his participation in the Primeira Liga de Portugal where he comes from winning by 4-2 to Vitória Setúbal and with it added his fourth consecutive victory, but due to the triumph of the Dragons on Saturday against Santa Clara are now second with three points less, so this Monday they have to make prevail their status as homeownership where they have lost only one of fourteen played in this Primeira Liga where eleven ended in victories, in order to achieve a triumph that allows them to retake the lead due to a better goal difference.
Maritime :
Meanwhile, those led by Petit have been very irregular in these last days and so the cast of Marítimo comes to win once and lose the next.
So Marítimo last weekend took advantage of his status as home owner and won 2-0 to Cole Feirense, to add 33 points, but still can not feel calm because the difference with Chaves is five points, so these last days for the final will be true final.
One of the main weak points of Marítimo is its poor result playing away from home where they come from losing their last three games and being a little wider we can say that Marítimo did not win in 18 of his last 22 games as a visitor and for a change now they visit to a Benfica that of the 25 times they met in Lisbon 21 of them ended in local victory and the remaining four were draws.
PREDICTION: Over 2,5 goals @ 1,38
