Vangelis Pavlidis

In that run, the hosts of Sunday's epic encounter have managed to score only four goals against Ezequias, but have conceded 10.

With Vangelis Pavlidis, 8 goals, and Gianluca Prestiani, 5 goals, leading the league scoring charts this season too, those 10 goals are likely to be added to at the Estadio Dodragao.

The last league encounter saw four goals shared in a combative 2-2 at the Estadio de Luz.

Andreas Schelderup and Leandro Barrero grabbed the goals for Benfica, with Viktor Froholt and Oskar Pietruszewski finding the net for Porto.

I think Marco Silva made nine changes with Porto at the weekend in the Clásico in Portugal.

But you actually look at this side and you think, well, there's still a lot of talent there, right? John Duran comes in up front as opposed to Pavlidis, who's had a phenomenal start to the season, Pavlidis.

But Duran is still a very capable footballer.

Luca Bacchio comes in.

And there feels like a real depth and quality about them.

They've been pretty lights out to start the season.

I say Pavlidis, I think is the leading goal contributor across Europe's top seven leagues.

He's got eight and six and three assists.

Um, and I think that this could be a real breakout season for Zabourey.

Less of a breakout season for Vangelis Pavlidis, who's kind of been doing this for ages.

But it feels, like, wrong not to mention him, because under Marco Silva he's gone absolutely supersonic.

Um, he's played in six games, he's got eight goals and two assists so far, because Benfica have been at the races from an attacking point of view.

They're scoring a lot of goals anyway, so I think that the confidence of that-- It is a little bit metro, you know? Like, when, when you see Marco Silva teams, we've obviously seen a lot of them, and they're in their flow, there, there are players within that system that are just gonna absolutely rip it up.

And that's the most obvious example of somebody that would've benefited from a positive Marco Silva start, isn't it? So, um, yeah, keep an eye on Benfica for sure.

Uh, I, I'm just gonna put it out there now that when, uh, Aleksandar Mitrović left Fulham, I advocated for his replacement to be Vangelis Pavlidis.

Um, so-

That's true.

So look, it's because of the guys ahead of him like Pavlidis, Gioanis, uh, to a certain extent.

Um, but look, Douvikas has grown as a player.

Like, we, we thought that move to Celta Vigo were bad.

Spe- especially-

Sorry

... especially Pav- especially Pavlidis.

Like, that guy's nonstop.

They've won seven in a row in all competitions.

Vangelis Pavlidis scored eight in the league already.

And Prestiani, Gianluca Prestiani, if you remember him, the absolute little shit who got banned for winding up Vinnie Jr. Fucking hell.

He's an awful, awful person.