Two league leaders in each league, Dinamo Zagreb in the Croatian League vs Benfica in the Portuguese League will face each other in the Europa League last 16.

Currently both teams are leaders in their respective leagues. Dinamo Zagreb currently leads the competition in the Croatian League with a collection of 58 points from 23 matches and 14 points ahead of Rijeka in second place. While Benfica, they just managed to acquire the first position of the Portuguese League after successfully bending Porto with a score of 2-1 at the end of last week. Benfica, who currently sits in first place, is 2 points ahead of Porto in second place.

In the previous round, Dinamo Zagreb’s move was arguably more convincing than Benfica. Despite losing 1-2 in the Czech Republic, Zagreb managed to beat Viktoria Plzen 3-0 in Croatia. While Benfica, they did manage to beat Galatasaray with a score of 2-1 in Turkey, but when in Portugal, Benfica was only able to play a goalless draw.

Both of them also performed quite well lately. Dinamo Zagreb, although in his last match, was only able to draw against Lokomotiva Zagreb at the end of last week but with this result Dinamo Zagreb were unbeaten in their last 4 matches in all competitions (3W, 1D). Whereas Benfica, they are unbeaten in the last 9 matches in all competitions with details of 8 wins and 1 draw.

Materially, Benfica has players who can say a little above Dinamo Zagreb. However, Benfica must be vigilant considering Zagreb have a very good home record this season. In this 2018/2019 season they only suffered 1 defeat, which was when they hosted BSC Young Boys in the Champions League playoff with a score of 1-2 in August. The rest, 20 wins and 4 draws.

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Odds: 3.15