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Benfica squad 2026/2027

Liga Portugal · 7 matches played

Benfica's 2026/2027 squad, ranked by minutes played. Compare goals, assists, xG, xA and expected goal involvement across the squad.

Top scorer 8 Vangelis Pavlidis · from 5.81 xG
Most xG 5.81 Vangelis Pavlidis · 8 goals
Most xA 2.78 Gianluca Prestianni · 3 assists
Most xGI 7.56 Vangelis Pavlidis · 5.81 xG + 1.75 xA

What the squad numbers say

Vangelis Pavlidis leads the squad both for expected goal involvement, with 7.56, and for goals, with 8 goals from 5.81 expected goals. Gianluca Prestianni leads the squad for expected assists, with 2.78, against 3 assists. The same player carries the widest gap between goals and expected goals in the squad: 5 goals against 1.67 expected goals, +3.33 above them.

Expected goals

  1. 2 Rafa Silva 1.92

Expected assists

Expected goal involvement

  1. 3 Rafa Silva 2.48

Goals above xG

8 goals · 5.81 xG

Goals below xG

No player in the sample below is below his xG.

Taken over players with at least 180 minutes and 2.00 expected goals, so the gap is measured against chances actually taken rather than against one afternoon of them.

The squad

Every player with a season at this club: appearances, starts, minutes, goals, assists and the chances behind them.
Player POS MIN MIN% G A xG xA xGI xGI/90 xGI share
Samuel Soares Goalkeeper 630 100% 0 0 0.00 0.01 0.01 0.00 0%
Samuel Dahl Defender 613 97% 0 0 0.53 0.68 1.21 0.18 4%
Tomás Araújo Defender 599 95% 0 1 0.25 0.18 0.43 0.06 2%
Clément Lenglet Defender 575 91% 1 0 0.31 1.00 1.31 0.21 5%
Gianluca Prestianni Forward 572 91% 5 3 1.67 2.78 4.45 0.70 16%
Vangelis Pavlidis Forward 557 88% 8 2 5.81 1.75 7.56 1.22 28%
Rafa Silva Forward 492 78% 1 0 1.92 0.56 2.48 0.45 9%
Leandro Barreiro Midfielder 486 77% 2 1 1.61 0.54 2.15 0.40 8%
Alexander Bah Defender 369 59% 1 1 0.76 0.39 1.15 0.28 4%
João Palhinha Midfielder 353 56% 0 0 0.56 0.28 0.84 0.21 3%
Georgiy Sudakov Midfielder 331 53% 0 0 0.71 1.00 1.71 0.46 6%
Andreas Schjelderup Forward 290 46% 1 2 0.51 1.51 2.02 0.63 7%
Enzo Barrenechea Midfielder 254 40% 0 1 0.09 0.26 0.35 — 1%
Daniel Banjaqui Defender 171 27% 0 0 0.03 0.05 0.08 — 0%
Fredrik Aursnes Midfielder 130 21% 1 0 0.35 0.08 0.43 — 2%
Dodi Lukebakio Forward 94 15% 0 0 0.18 0.12 0.30 — 1%
Jhon Durán Forward 90 14% 1 0 0.31 0.07 0.38 — 1%
Alessandro Circati Defender 80 13% 0 0 0.00 0.05 0.05 — 0%
Jakub Kamiński Midfielder 73 12% 0 0 0.12 0.03 0.15 — 1%
Richard Ríos Midfielder 37 6% 0 0 0.00 0.04 0.04 — 0%
Manu Silva Midfielder 31 5% 0 0 0.00 0.01 0.01 — 0%
Souffian El Karouani Defender 22 3% 0 0 0.00 0.08 0.08 — 0%
Claudio Echeverri Midfielder 18 3% 0 1 0.04 0.05 0.09 — 0%
Gonçalo Moreira Midfielder 10 2% 0 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 0%
xGI share is a player's expected goal involvement against the sum of every involvement the feed measured at this club in this competition — 30 players, including any who have since left. It is a share of measured player involvement, not of the club's own expected goals, and the two do not reconcile: the club's figure counts every shot it took, including those by players the feed missed, and expected assists are a different measurement altogether.

Rates per ninety minutes are shown for a player with at least 270 minutes behind him — the control above moves that floor, and it moves nothing else. Minutes share is a player's minutes against the 7 matches this club has played in this competition, at ninety minutes each. Expected goals, non-penalty expected goals and expected assists are summed from this competition's per-match feed, so a player it holds no figures for carries a dash rather than a nought.

About the data

Where these figures come from, and what they leave out

Data source
Appearances, starts, minutes, goals and assists are the provider's season line. Expected goals, expected assists and non-penalty expected goals are summed from its per-match feed over this club's fixtures. Liga Portugal only — no figure here adds two competitions together.
Calculated by xgEdge
xGI, the per-90 rates, goals minus expected goals, xGI share and minutes share are worked out here from those figures. Nothing on this page is a model's output.
Missing data
A dash means a figure was not measured; a nought means it was measured and came to nothing. Per-90 figures are hidden below the minimum-minutes setting, which opens at 270 and never removes a row.

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