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
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.
Key events
- 9'Goal · Ezequiel Garay
- 15'Yellow card · Ivan Todorovic
- 21'Goal · O. Cardozo
- 29'Penalty goal · Claudemir
- 39'Goal · Rodrigo
- 51'Yellow card · Axel Witsel
- 58'Yellow card · Claudemir
- 61'Goal · Rodrigo
- 65'Yellow card · Diego Barcelos
- 78'Yellow card · Luís Neto
- 81'Missed penalty · O. Cardozo
- 81'Yellow card · Danielson
- 85'Yellow card · Daniel Candeias
Head-to-head
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