Académica 0-2 Benfica: result and report
Liga Portugal · Sunday 23 November 2008
Result
Académica 0-2 Benfica
Liga Portugal · Sunday 23 November 2008, 20:15 UTC · half-time 0-1
Académica 0-2 Benfica: match report
Académica lost to Benfica 0-2 in Liga Portugal on Sunday 23 November 2008. The half-time score was 0-1.
Rúben Amorim opened the scoring in the 31st minute. Académica did not score. Benfica scored through Rúben Amorim (31') and O. Cardozo (48').
Discipline: Académica received 3 yellow cards; Benfica received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Académica were 11th on 9 points from 8 and Benfica 2nd on 18 points from 8. Académica went on to finish that season 7th with 39 points, and Benfica 3rd with 59.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Académica win, 0 draws and 3 for Benfica.
Going into the match Académica's last five read L-D-D-D-L and Benfica's W-W-W-D-W.
Key events
- 31'Goal · Rúben Amorim
- 47'Yellow card · M. Pavlović
- 48'Goal · O. Cardozo
- 53'Yellow card · Luiz Nunes
- 64'Yellow card · Nuno Piloto
- 67'Yellow card · Gilles Binya
- 90'Yellow card · M. Pereira
Head-to-head
Team news
Benfica expected line-up (4-2-3-1)
Quim, Léo, Luisão, Brandon Truter, Gilles Binya, Luis Filipe, Edcarlos, Kostas Katsouranis, Cristian Gabriel Rodríguez Barrotti, Rui Costa, Óscar Cardozo