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 · Benfica · Liga Portugal predictions

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.

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 2'Goal · WeldonBenfica · 0-1
  • 14'Yellow card · Luiz NunesAcadémica
  • 25'Yellow card · Modou SougouAcadémica
  • 29'Goal · Diogo GomesAcadémica · 1-1
  • 40'Goal · WeldonBenfica · 1-2
  • 54'Yellow card · Rúben AmorimBenfica
  • 74'Yellow card · Markus BergerAcadémica
  • 80'Goal · Rúben AmorimBenfica · 1-3
  • 80'Yellow card · Rui NereuAcadémica
  • 84'Yellow card · Javi GarcíaBenfica
  • 88'Goal · William Kwabena TieroAcadémica · 2-3
  • 90'Yellow card · Diogo GomesAcadémica
  • 90'Yellow card · M. PereiraBenfica

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Académica 2, draws 0, Benfica 3.

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