Académica 2-3 Benfica: result and report
Liga Portugal · Sunday 18 April 2010
Result
Académica 2-3 Benfica
Liga Portugal · Sunday 18 April 2010, 17:00 UTC · half-time 1-2
Académica 2-3 Benfica: match report
Académica were beaten by Benfica 2-3 in Liga Portugal on Sunday 18 April 2010. It was 1-2 at half-time.
Weldon opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Académica's goals came from Diogo Gomes (29') and William Kwabena Tiero (88'). Benfica scored through Weldon (2'), Weldon (40') and Rúben Amorim (80').
Discipline: Académica received 5 yellow cards; Benfica received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Académica were 12th on 26 points from 26 and Benfica 1st on 67 points from 26. Académica went on to finish that season 11th with 33 points, and Benfica 1st with 76.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Académica wins, 0 draws and 3 for Benfica.
Going into the match Académica's last five read D-D-L-L-D and Benfica's W-W-W-W-W.
Key events
- 2'Goal · Weldon
- 14'Yellow card · Luiz Nunes
- 25'Yellow card · Modou Sougou
- 29'Goal · Diogo Gomes
- 40'Goal · Weldon
- 54'Yellow card · Rúben Amorim
- 74'Yellow card · Markus Berger
- 80'Goal · Rúben Amorim
- 80'Yellow card · Rui Nereu
- 84'Yellow card · Javi García
- 88'Goal · William Kwabena Tiero
- 90'Yellow card · Diogo Gomes
- 90'Yellow card · M. Pereira
Head-to-head
Team news
Benfica expected line-up (4-2-3-1)
Júlio César, David Luiz, Luisão, Javi García, Ramires, Carlos Martins, Óscar Cardozo, Ángel Di María, Brandon Truter, Pablo Aimar Giordano