Benfica 3-1 Estoril: result and report

Liga Portugal · Saturday 3 January 2026

Result

Benfica 3-1 Estoril

Liga Portugal · Saturday 3 January 2026, 18:00 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Benfica 3-1 Estoril: match report

Benfica beat Estoril 3-1 in Liga Portugal on Saturday 3 January 2026. The half-time score was 2-1.

Vangelis Pavlidis opened the scoring in the 34th minute. Benfica's goals came from Vangelis Pavlidis (34', penalty), Vangelis Pavlidis (45+1') and Vangelis Pavlidis (80'). Estoril scored through João Carvalho (45+3').

Discipline: Benfica received no yellow cards; Estoril received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Benfica were 3rd on 36 points from 16 and Estoril 9th on 20 points from 16. Benfica went on to finish that season 3rd with 80 points, and Estoril 10th with 39.

Benfica lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Estoril in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Vangelis Pavlidis of Benfica (9.1), ahead of Richard Ríos (7.5).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Benfica wins, 0 draws and 0 for Estoril.

Going into the match Benfica's last five read D-W-W-D-W and Estoril's W-W-L-D-L.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 34'Penalty goal · Vangelis PavlidisBenfica · 1-0
  • 45+1'Goal · Vangelis PavlidisBenfica · 2-0
  • 45+3'Goal · João CarvalhoEstoril · 2-1
  • 69'Yellow card · Felix BacherEstoril
  • 80'Goal · Vangelis PavlidisBenfica · 3-1
  • 87'Yellow card · Tiago Parreira ParenteEstoril

Head-to-head

6 meetings: Benfica 6, draws 0, Estoril 0.

Team news

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Benfica line-up (4-2-3-1)

Anatoliy Trubin, Amar Dedic, Tomás Araújo, Nicolás Otamendi, Samuel Dahl, Manu Silva, Richard Ríos, Gianluca Prestianni, Leandro Barreiro, Georgiy Sudakov, Vangelis Pavlidis

Estoril line-up (4-4-2)

Joel Robles, Ricard Sánchez, Kévin Boma, Felix Bacher, Pedro Amaral, Rafik Guitane, Jandro Orellana, Jordan Holsgrove, João Carvalho, Alejandro Marqués, Yanis Begraoui