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Benfica 3-1 Rio Ave - January 23, 1999 / Primeira Divisão 1998/1999

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Primeira Divisão 1998/1999 - Round 19

Estadio da Luz - Lisbon - Portugal

January 23, 1999

30 000

Benfica

3 - 1

Rio Ave

Nuno Gomes

48'

Jorge Paulo Cadete

81'

Pepa

90'

58'

André Jacaré

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48' - Goal Nuno Gomes48

58' - Goal André Jacaré photo Bolinhas

58' - Substitution Sérgio Chinais substituted by Bolinhas

75' - Substitution Gamais substituted by Jorge Humberto

77' - Substitution Luís Carlosis substituted by Jorge Paulo Cadete77

81' - Goal Jorge Paulo Cadete81

83' - Substitution Nenad Divacis substituted by Chicabala

84' - Substitution Nuno Gomesis substituted by Pepa84

90' - Goal Pepa90

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Benfica

3 - 1

Rio Ave

Benfica Rio Ave

Team line-ups

Benfica

12 Ovchinnikov

Sergei Ovchinnikov

Russia

B.date10/11/1970

Age28 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

13 Guiaro

Ronaldo Guiaro

Brazil

B.date18/02/1974

Age24 years

H1m86

positionCentral defender

19 Basto

Bruno Basto

Portugal

B.date21/05/1978

Age20 years

H1m75

positionLeft full-back

30 Andrade

Andrade

Portugal

B.date30/09/1973

Age25 years

H1m78

positionDefensive Midfielder

26 Carlos77

Luís Carlos

Portugal

B.date21/08/1972

Age26 years

H1m77

positionMidfield

20 Leal

Hugo Leal

Portugal

B.date21/05/1980

Age18 years

H1m81

positionCentre Midfield

17 Kandaurov

Sergiy Kandaurov

Ukraine

B.date02/12/1972

Age26 years

H1m75

positionMidfield

7 Poborsky

Karel Poborsky

Czech Republic

B.date30/03/1972

Age26 years

H1m74

positionMidfield

8 Pinto

João Pinto

Portugal

B.date19/08/1971

Age27 years

H1m71

positionOffensive Midfielder

21 Gomes4884

Nuno Gomes

Portugal

B.date05/07/1976

Age22 years

H1m81

positionStriker

10 Saunders

Dean Saunders

Wales

B.date21/06/1964

Age34 years

H1m73

positionStriker

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
12	G	Sergei Ovchinnikov		28	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
13	D	Ronaldo Guiaro		24	66	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	D	Bruno Basto		20	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
30	M	Andrade		25	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
26	M	Luís Carlos	77	26	37	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	M	Hugo Leal		18	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	M	Sergiy Kandaurov		26	25	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Karel Poborsky		26	47	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	João Pinto		27	251	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	F	Nuno Gomes	4884	22	66	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	F	Dean Saunders		34	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.1 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Rio Ave

1 To Luis

To Luis

Portugal

B.date29/11/1967

Age31 years

H1m82

positionGoalkeeper

26 Martins

Martins

Portugal

B.date16/08/1970

Age28 years

H1m82

positionDefender

21 Peu

Peu

Brazil

B.date29/06/1971

Age27 years

H1m86

positionCentral defender

2 Divac83

Nenad Divac

Serbia

B.date31/10/1968

Age30 years

H1m81

positionRight full-back

16 Nito

Nito

Portugal

B.date05/07/1967

Age31 years

H1m72

positionLeft full-back

8 China58

Sérgio China

Brazil

B.date22/03/1966

Age32 years

H1m70

positionMidfield

18 Coentrão

Luis Coentrão

Portugal

B.date28/03/1977

Age21 years

H1m74

positionMidfield

7 Emanuel

Emanuel

Portugal

B.date07/07/1975

Age23 years

H1m74

positionRight Midfielder

5 Niquinha

Niquinha

Brazil

B.date30/09/1971

Age27 years

H1m72

positionCentre Midfield

22 Gama75

Gama

Portugal

B.date26/01/1970

Age28 years

H1m76

positionForward

15 Jacaré58

André Jacaré

Brazil

B.date20/05/1974

Age24 years

H1m75

positionForward

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	To Luis		31	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
26	D	Martins		28	46	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	D	Peu		27	36	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	D	Nenad Divac	83	30	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	D	Nito		31	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Sérgio China	58	32	49	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	M	Luis Coentrão		21	31	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Emanuel		23	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	M	Niquinha		27	36	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	F	Gama	75	28	53	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	F	André Jacaré	58	24	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
31	F		Pepa	9084	18	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	F		Jorge Paulo Cadete	8177	30	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
3	D	Jorge Humberto	75	19	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	M	Bolinhas	58	27	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	F	Chicabala	83	18	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Andrade

Taher El-Khalej

OUT

Sergiy Kandaurov

José António Calado

OUT

Karel Poborsky

Paulo Madeira

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

No changes regarding the previous match for the starting players

Manager

Age

Match num

Graeme Souness

Success rate in this team:

63 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

53 %

Souness vs Rio Ave

4 victories

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on January 23, 1999

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Videos

Comments

Key figures

Only back at the time of Toni head of (26/10/1992-01/07/1994), you can see a manager go over Graeme Souness with 2.02 goals scored per game in Primeira Liga (2.15).

Benfica keeps its 14 matches with at least one goal scored running (since 04/11/1998). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 11/01/1998-19/04/1998 time period (19 matches).

Rio Ave keeps its 6 matches with at least one goal scored running (since 13/12/1998). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 24/08/1997-26/10/1997 time period (8 matches).

Read the next 12 key stats

General ranking

+1	1	Benfica	42 pts	19 rd
+1	2	Boavista	41 pts	19 rd
-2	3	FC Porto	40 pts	18 rd
	4	Sporting CP	34 pts	19 rd
	5	Estrela da Amadora	30 pts	18 rd

General ranking

	12	Beira Mar	20 pts	18 rd
	13	Alverça	20 pts	19 rd
	14	Rio Ave	20 pts	19 rd
+1	15	Chaves	19 pts	19 rd
-1	16	Maritimo Funchal	18 pts	18 rd

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DBenfica 2-2 HJK Helsinki04/11/1998

VBenfica 4-1 Braga15/11/1998

VBenfica 2-1 Kaiserslautern24/11/1998

VBenfica 2-0 Vitória Setúbal04/12/1998

VBenfica 3-0 Académica20/12/1998

VBenfica 4-1 Académica10/01/1999

Overall

DPSV Eindhoven 2-2 Benfica09/12/1998

VChaves 0-4 Benfica14/12/1998

VBenfica 3-0 Académica20/12/1998

VSporting CP 1-2 Benfica03/01/1999

VBenfica 4-1 Académica10/01/1999

VEstrela da Amadora 0-1 Benfica16/01/1999

Current form

Away

LEstrela da Amadora 1-0 Rio Ave19/10/1998

VFarense 0-1 Rio Ave07/11/1998

LVitória Guimarães 3-0 Rio Ave20/11/1998

LBoavista 1-0 Rio Ave06/12/1998

LSalgueiros 1911-2005 5-1 Rio Ave20/12/1998

LLeiria 2-1 Rio Ave10/01/1999

Overall

LBoavista 1-0 Rio Ave06/12/1998

VRio Ave 1-0 Leiria13/12/1998

LSalgueiros 1911-2005 5-1 Rio Ave20/12/1998

LRio Ave 1-2 Braga03/01/1999

LLeiria 2-1 Rio Ave10/01/1999

DRio Ave 1-1 FC Porto18/01/1999

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	5	5
Unbeaten streak	17	9
Drawless streak	5	5
Scoring streak	6	13
Conceding streak	1	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	0	1
Loosing streak	4	0
Unbeaten streak	0	1
Winless streak	4	4
Drawless streak	6	0
Scoring streak	2	5
Conceding streak	4	4

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

2	General ranking (Competition total)	14
5	General ranking (Home / Away)	9

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

18	Number of games (Competition total)	18
8	Number of games (Home / Away)	8
12	Victories (Competition total)	5
6	Victories (Home / Away)	2
3	Draws (Competition total)	5
2	Draws (Home / Away)	1
3	Losses (Competition total)	8
0	Losses (Home / Away)	5

Goals

38	Goals scored (Competition total)	15
19	Goals scored (Home / Away)	5
12	Goals conceded (Competition total)	26
4	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	16
2.11	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	0.83
2.38	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.63
0.67	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.44
0.5	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	2

Betting aid

10	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	7
5	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	4
10	Clean sheets (Competition total)	3
5	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	1
2	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	7
1	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	4
7	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	9
3	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	3
2-0 (2 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-1 (2 times)

Bookings

53	Yellow cards (Competition total)	44
20	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	23
6	Red cards (Competition total)	3
2	Red cards (Home / Away)	1

Key players

Nuno Gomes	15 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	4 goals	Gama
Nuno Gomes	7 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	2 goals	Gama
Nuno Gomes	5 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	2 penalties	Sérgio China
Nuno Gomes	3 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Nuno Gomes	15 goals during the last 17 matches	The fittest player	3 goals during the last 3 matches	Sérgio China

Historical head to head

Home

10 matches

8 v

2 d

0 l

24 gf

2 ga

Away

12 matches

9 v

1 d

2 l

23 gf

10 ga

Total

22 matches

17 v

3 d

2 l

47 gf

12 ga

Historical head to head

Home

12 matches

2 v

1 d

9 l

10 gf

23 ga

Away

10 matches

0 v

2 d

8 l

2 gf

24 ga

Total

22 matches

2 v

3 d

17 l

12 gf

47 ga

Largest victory

Overall	8 - 0	January 27, 1980
Home	8 - 0	January 27, 1980

Largest victory

Overall	3 - 1	September 20, 1997
Away	No success yet

Latest head to head

August 30, 1998 - Primeira Divisão 1998/1999

Rio Ave

0 - 2

Benfica

February 15, 1998 - Primeira Divisão 1997/1998

Benfica

2 - 1

Rio Ave

November 16, 1997 - Taça de Portugal 1997/1998

Benfica

3 - 0

Rio Ave

September 20, 1997 - Primeira Divisão 1997/1998

Rio Ave

3 - 1

Benfica

May 04, 1997 - Primeira Divisão 1996/1997

Benfica

0 - 0

Rio Ave

Best historical scorers against Rio Ave

Nuno Gomes	3 goals	1998 - 1998
Mats Magnusson	3 goals	1987 - 1989
Hélder	1 goal	1992 - 1992
Vasiliy Kulkov	1 goal	1992 - 1992
Jorge Bermúdez	1 goal	1996 - 1996
Vata	1 goal	1989 - 1989

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 31/10/1987. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Benfica

Marcos	2 goals	1997 - 1998
Nenad Divac	1 goal	1997 - 1997
Peu	1 goal	1997 - 1997

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 31/10/1987. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Rio Ave

Michel Preud'homme	6 matches	1996 - 1998
João Pinto	5 matches	1992 - 1997
Paulo Madeira	5 matches	1992 - 1998
José António Calado	4 matches	1997 - 1998
António Veloso	4 matches	1987 - 1992
Martin Pringle	4 matches	1997 - 1998

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 31/10/1987. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Benfica

Nenad Divac	3 matches	1997 - 1998
Martins	3 matches	1997 - 1998
Sérgio China	3 matches	1997 - 1998
Baíca	3 matches	1997 - 1998
Camberra	3 matches	1997 - 1998
Gama	3 matches	1997 - 1998

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 31/10/1987. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

Nelo

36 matches

24 matches

1994 - 1999

Total : 1 players

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 17/08/1994. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

Nelo

36 matches

24 matches

1994 - 1999

Total : 1 players

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 17/08/1994. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Competition info

The other matches

January 22, 1999

Leiria

0 1

Guimarães

Line-ups available

January 23, 1999

Line-ups available

Line-ups available

January 24, 1999

Line-ups available

Line-ups available

Line-ups available

Line-ups available

January 25, 1999

Braga

0 0

Farense

Line-ups available

Post-match general ranking

		pts	m	v	d	l	GF	GA	diff
+11	Benfica	42	19	13	3	3	41	13	+28
+12	Boavista	41	19	12	5	2	33	16	+17
-23	FC Porto	40	18	12	4	2	39	17	+22
4	Sporting CP	34	19	9	7	3	34	18	+16
5	Estrela da Amadora	30	18	8	6	4	21	18	+3
6	Leiria	28	19	8	4	7	19	16	+3
7	Salgueiros 1911-2005	25	18	6	7	5	26	26	0
8	Vitória Guimarães	23	19	6	5	8	26	21	+5
9	Vitória Setúbal	22	18	6	4	8	15	24	-9
10	Braga	21	18	5	6	7	26	35	-9
11	Farense	21	18	6	3	9	16	25	-9
12	Beira Mar	20	18	4	8	6	18	20	-2
13	Alverça	20	19	4	8	7	17	25	-8
14	Rio Ave	20	19	5	5	9	16	29	-13
+115	Chaves	19	19	5	4	10	22	35	-13
-116	Maritimo Funchal	18	18	4	6	8	19	23	-4
17	Campomaiorense	15	18	4	3	11	19	32	-13
18	Académica	13	18	3	4	11	19	33	-14

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Benfica 3-1 Rio Ave - January 23, 1999 / Primeira Divisão 1998/1999

Benfica

3 - 1

Rio Ave

Team line-ups

First 11

First 11

Substitutes

Substitutes

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Manager

Souness vs Rio Ave

Videos

Comments

Key figures

General ranking

General ranking

Pre-match

Current form

Current form

Running streaks

Running streaks

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

Goals

Betting aid

Bookings

Key players

Historical head to head

Historical head to head

Largest victory

Largest victory

Latest head to head

Best historical scorers against Rio Ave

Best historical scorers against Benfica

Players with most games played vs Rio Ave

Players with most games played vs Benfica

They played in both sides

They played in both sides

Competition info

The other matches

Post-match general ranking