Benfica vs Tondela Prediction and Betting Tips | October 29th 2025

Benfica will host Tondela at the Estádio da Luz on Wednesday in the quarterfinals of the 2025-26 Portuguese Taca da Liga campaign. The hosts will be in high spirits going into this midweek's fixture and will look to build on their impressive domestic form this season.

Benfica returned from the international break to get a solid 2-0 win over second division team Chaves in the third round of the Taca da Portugal and have since followed that up with a brilliant 5-0 win over Arouca in the league. Jose Mourinho’s side are the defending champions of the league cup after beating Sporting CP on penalties in the final last season and will go into Wednesday's game hoping to start their title defense in top form.

Tondela, on the other hand, have had an appalling start to the season and currently sit in second-to-last place in the Portuguese top flight, having only won two out of 10 competitive games played so far. CDT have never appeared in the quarterfinals of the Portuguese League Cup in their history and will be hoping to pull off an upset when they visit the Eagles on Wednesday.

Benfica vs Tondela Head-to-Head and Key Numbers

• The sides have met on 15 previous occasions going into this midweek. Benfica have won 13 of those games, one has ended in a draw while Tondela have won only one.
• Benfica are undefeated across the last five editions of this fixture with 12 goals scored across those games.
• Tondela have failed to get on the scoresheet in six of the last eight editions of this fixture.
• The hosts have the third-best offensive and joint-second best defensive records in the league having scored 18 goals only conceded four goals all season.
• The visitors have the worst offensive record in the Portuguese top flight and the joint-third worst defensive this season with only four goals scored and 17 goals conceded after just nine games.

Benfica vs Tondela Prediction

As Aguias are strong favorites and should cruise to an easy victory when they host a much weaker side in front of their home fans.

Auriverdes will need to put up a really special performance to get a result and will only hope to avoid a humiliating scoreline.

Prediction: Benfica 3-0 Tondela

Benfica vs Tondela Betting Tips

Tip 1 - Result: Benfica

Tip 2 - Goals - Over/under 2.5 - Over 2.5 goals (Each of the visitors’ last five games have all featured more than 2.5 goals)

Tip 3 - Both teams to score: No (Both sides have found the back of the net in just one of the hosts' last six games)

Edited by Ashwin Hanagudu