<![CDATA[ Benfica-Sporting: Dérbi eterno em 10 factos relevantes ]]>

The exercise of looking at statistics in an attempt to make a safe prediction about the outcome of what many are already calling the “derby of the century” is as risky as it is wrong. After all, football is a collective sport whose richness, complexity and unpredictability question the determinism and causality that other sports usually find in numbers. If we add to this the contextual and historical importance of the Luz derby, between Benfica and Sporting, then we understand that this is truly a game that goes beyond performance metrics.