The 12-year goalless spell is expected to break the stats with Barca winning 2-1[yuyi]

At 4 am Beijing time on January 22, the seventh round of the Champions League ushered in a focus showdown, Barcelona away to Benfica. Barcelona in the just ended La Liga league, away to a cold draw with the league weak Getafe, interrupted the previous 4 consecutive wins. However, from the current data of the game, Barca still has a lot of support, or a 2-1 victory.

Barca's excellent form in the Champions League this season, the first six rounds of Champions League matches 5-1, 21 goals lost 7 goals, accumulated 15 points ranked second in the Champions League table. In the last 5 matches, the team has scored 5 wins, 1 draw, 17 goals and only conceded 4 goals. Although the cold draw with Getafe in the just ended La Liga league, there is still no shortage of high-quality matches such as 5-2 victory over Real Madrid to win the Western Super Cup championship, which can be described as full of gold.

In addition, the main striker Olmo was out of the game due to injury, which also led to the team will continue to rely on Yamal, Rafinha and Lewandofs composed of the front trident. Barcelona's recent schedule is intensive, four games will be played in nearly two weeks, and the lack of substitutes in the front line, once the Trident is not in good condition, there is no back hand at all.

Benfica's performance in the Champions League this season is normal, with 3 wins, 1 draw, 2 losses in the first 6 rounds of the Champions League, scoring 10 goals and conceding 7 goals, ranking 15th in the Champions League standings with 10 points, three points short of qualifying for the elimination zone. In the last 15 games, the team has scored 10 wins, 3 draws, 2 losses, 35 goals and lost 9 goals, while in the last 4 games, it has scored 3 wins, 1 draw, 11 goals and lost 2 goals.

Benfica coach Bruno left veteran midfielder Di Maria out of the game in preparation for the clash with Barca after their 4-0 win over weak struggler Famalicon last weekend. It is worth mentioning that Di Maria has recently achieved an important milestone by playing 200 games for Benfica. Having just achieved this achievement, it is still worth paying attention to what kind of state he can come up with in this game.

In terms of confrontation, the two sides nearly 3 times of the same host and guest encounters, Benfica 1 win, 1 draw and 1 lose did not show the advantage. However, it should be noted that Barcelona in the last 3 games against Benfica, regardless of home and away operations did not score a goal, the last visit to Benfica also 0-3 defeat.

At present, the initial win and draw data of Benfica VS Barca is 3.42(win) 3.92(draw) 1.72(negative), in the case of Barca's clash data and state are not good, the customer win data still gives 1.72, reflecting Barca's advantage. In terms of score, Barca 2-1 win is the lowest 1 loss 7.5, combined with Barca's recent intensive physical condition, and the last 3 games have lost the ball, this game tends to break the curse of Barca 2-1 small win.