Benfica 4-1 Nacional: result and report

Liga Portugal · Saturday 11 February 2012

Result

Benfica 4-1 Nacional

Liga Portugal · Saturday 11 February 2012, 20:30 UTC · half-time 3-1

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Benfica 4-1 Nacional: match report

Benfica beat Nacional 4-1 in Liga Portugal on Saturday 11 February 2012. It was 3-1 at half-time.

Ezequiel Garay opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Benfica's goals came from Ezequiel Garay (9'), O. Cardozo (21'), Rodrigo (39') and Rodrigo (61'). Nacional scored through Claudemir (29', penalty).

Discipline: Benfica received 1 yellow card; Nacional received 6 yellow cards.

Going into the game Benfica were 1st on 45 points from 17 and Nacional 10th on 19 points from 17. Benfica went on to finish that season 2nd with 69 points, and Nacional 7th with 44.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Benfica wins, 2 draws and 1 for Nacional.

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

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 9'Goal · Ezequiel GarayBenfica · 1-0
  • 15'Yellow card · Ivan TodorovicNacional
  • 21'Goal · O. CardozoBenfica · 2-0
  • 29'Penalty goal · ClaudemirNacional · 2-1
  • 39'Goal · RodrigoBenfica · 3-1
  • 51'Yellow card · Axel WitselBenfica
  • 58'Yellow card · ClaudemirNacional
  • 61'Goal · RodrigoBenfica · 4-1
  • 65'Yellow card · Diego BarcelosNacional
  • 78'Yellow card · Luís NetoNacional
  • 81'Missed penalty · O. CardozoBenfica
  • 81'Yellow card · DanielsonNacional
  • 85'Yellow card · Daniel CandeiasNacional

Head-to-head

6 meetings: Benfica 3, draws 2, Nacional 1.

Team news

Benfica line-up

Artur Moraes, Emerson, Luisão, Ezequiel Garay, Axel Witsel, Nico Gaitán, Nemanja Matić, Óscar Cardozo, Nolito, Rodrigo, Pablo Aimar Giordano

Nacional line-up

Marcelo Valverde, Danielson, Luís Neto, Marçal, Claudemir Pereira Da Silva, Ivan Todorovic, Dejan Školnik, Diego Barcelos, Elizeu, Oliver Minatel, Ladji Keita