Benfica and Monaco are going to take on on Thursday the 1st of January at 12:00 am in the 8th week of the Champions League. The match will be staged in Lisboa at the Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica. The referee will be Glenn Nyberg.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Benfica
Benfica has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up during the season (7 times or 77.78%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (7 times), 5-3-2 (once) and 4-2-3-1 (once).
Bruno Miguel Silva do Nascimento is expected to play against Monaco with the following players: Anatoliy Trubin, Álvaro Carreras, Nicolás Otamendi , António Silva, Tomás Araújo, Leandro Barreiro, Orkun Kökçü, Zeki Amdouni, Andreas Schjelderup, Kerem Aktürkoğlu and Vangelis Pavlidis.
Suppose that this will be the line-up, the resulting average age of Benfica would be 25.27.
Bruno Miguel Silva do Nascimento will probably not be able to employ Fredrik Aursnes because of injury.
Alexander Bah, Ángel Di María , Renato Sanches , Manu and Tiago Gouveia will definitely miss the match.
Bruno Miguel Silva do Nascimento will not be able to have the presence of Florentino who is suspended.
Monaco
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (9 times).
Adolf Hütter is expected to play against Benfica with the following players: Radosław Majecki, Caio Henrique, Mohammed Salisu, Thilo Kehrer, Krépin Diatta, Eliesse Ben Seghir, Takumi Minamino, Lamine Camara, Maghnes Akliouche, Mika Biereth and Breel Embolo.
Suppose that this will be the line-up, the projected average age of Monaco would be 25.36.
Adolf Hütter will probably not be able to employ Wilfried Singo because of injury.
Jordan Teze, Aleksandr Golovin and Folarin Balogun will definitely miss the match.
Adolf Hütter will not be able to have the presence of Vanderson, Mutassim Al Musrati and Denis Zakaria who are all suspended.
