Arouca 0-3 Benfica: result and report

Liga Portugal · Tuesday 31 January 2023

Result

Arouca 0-3 Benfica

Liga Portugal · Tuesday 31 January 2023, 21:15 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Arouca 0-3 Benfica: match report

Arouca were beaten by Benfica 0-3 in Liga Portugal on Tuesday 31 January 2023. It was 0-1 at half-time.

João Mário opened the scoring in the 25th minute. Arouca did not score. Benfica scored through João Mário (25'), João Mário (54') and Petar Musa (80').

Discipline: Arouca received 3 yellow cards; Benfica received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Arouca were 7th on 26 points from 17 and Benfica 1st on 47 points from 18. Arouca went on to finish that season 5th with 54 points, and Benfica 1st with 87.

Arouca lined up in a 4-3-3 and Benfica in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to João Mário of Benfica (8.9), ahead of Fredrik Aursnes (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Arouca wins, 0 draws and 1 for Benfica.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 25'Goal · João MárioBenfica · 0-1
  • 46'Yellow card · Jerome OpokuArouca
  • 49'Yellow card · António SilvaBenfica
  • 54'Goal · João MárioBenfica · 0-2
  • 73'Yellow card · Ismaila SoroArouca
  • 76'Yellow card · Alan RuizArouca
  • 80'Goal · Petar MusaBenfica · 0-3

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Arouca 0, draws 0, Benfica 1.

Team news

Arouca line-up (4-3-3)

Ignacio de Arruabarrena, Bogdan Milovanov, Basso, Jerome Opoku, Quaresma, Morlaye Sylla, Bruno Pinto, Ismaila Soro, Alan Ruiz, Benji Michel, Antony

Benfica line-up (4-2-3-1)

Odysseas Vlachodimos, Alexander Bah, António Silva, Nicolás Otamendi, Alejandro Grimaldo, Florentino, Chiquinho, João Mário, David Neres, Fredrik Aursnes, Gonçalo Guedes