Benfica vs Celtic preview: Europa League form and team news

Benfica form and Europa League position

Benfica’s last five results, starting with the most recent, are a 2-0 win over Vitória SC, a 1-3 defeat away to FC Porto, the 2-0 win at AC Milan, a 3-1 victory over GIL Vicente and a 4-0 win away to Moreirense. That run includes three wins from their last three matches before the Porto defeat, followed by a home win in their most recent outing.

Benfica are listed seventh of 36 in the Europa League table, with three points and a goal difference of plus two. Their competition statistics record two clean sheets and no matches in which they failed to score. The figures also show 4.7 goals scored per home game and 0.7 conceded per home game across the listed sample of seven matches.

Celtic’s recent results and European record

Celtic’s latest result was a 2-0 away win against Motherwell. Before that, they lost 0-1 to Rangers, 1-3 at home to Ferencvarosi TC and 0-3 away to Rangers in the League Cup; the five-match sequence also includes a 1-0 win away to St Johnstone.

Celtic are 28th in the 36-team Europa League table with no points and a goal difference of minus two. Their competition sample covers one match: the home defeat to Ferencvarosi TC, in which they scored once and conceded three. The available figures do not provide an away-match sample for Celtic in this competition this season.

Head-to-head and provisional team news

The two listed head-to-head meetings took place in 2012. Benfica won 2-1 at home on 20 November, while the teams drew 0-0 at Celtic on 19 September. Those results are more than a decade old, so they provide little recent evidence about how this fixture may unfold.

The data provider lists Benfica players D. Banjaqui, E. Barrenechea and J. Kaminski as missing, and lists Celtic players A. Johnston, S. Mheuka, C. Osmand, Yang Hyun-Jun and J. van den Berg as unavailable. C. Carter-Vickers is marked questionable. Starting line-ups have not been published and team news should be treated as provisional until nearer kick-off.

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