Académica 1-2 Benfica: result and report

Liga Portugal · Saturday 9 April 2016

Result

Académica 1-2 Benfica

Liga Portugal · Saturday 9 April 2016, 17:30 UTC · half-time 1-1

Académica · Benfica · Liga Portugal predictions

Académica 1-2 Benfica: match report

Académica were beaten by Benfica 1-2 in Liga Portugal on Saturday 9 April 2016. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Pedro Nuno opened the scoring in the 17th minute. Académica's goal came from Pedro Nuno (17'). Benfica scored through Konstantinos Mitroglou (39') and Raúl Jiménez (85').

Discipline: Académica received 4 yellow cards; Benfica received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Académica were 17th on 22 points from 28 and Benfica 1st on 68 points from 28. Académica went on to finish that season 18th with 24 points, and Benfica 1st with 86.

Académica lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Benfica in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Académica wins, 0 draws and 4 for Benfica.

Going into the match Académica's last five read L-L-L-W-L and Benfica's W-W-W-W-W.

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 17'Goal · Pedro NunoAcadémica · 1-0
  • 21'Yellow card · Ricardo NascimentoAcadémica
  • 28'Yellow card · Pedro NunoAcadémica
  • 39'Goal · Konstantinos MitroglouBenfica · 1-1
  • 45'Yellow card · Iago SantosAcadémica
  • 85'Goal · Raúl JiménezBenfica · 1-2
  • 90+1'Yellow card · Nii PlangeAcadémica

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Académica 0, draws 0, Benfica 4.

Team news

Académica expected line-up (4-2-3-1)

Pedro José da Silva Trigueira, João Real, Aderlan, Rafa Soares, Iago Santos, Leandro Silva, Nii Plange, Nuno Piloto, Ivanildo, Fernando Alexandre

Benfica expected line-up (4-4-2)

Ederson, Victor Lindelöf, Eliseu, Jardel, Pizzi, Nico Gaitán, Renato Sanches, Jonas, Konstantinos Mitroglou