Benfica 3-1 Paços de Ferreira: result and report
Liga Portugal · Sunday 7 March 2010
Result
Benfica 3-1 Paços de Ferreira
Liga Portugal · Sunday 7 March 2010, 20:15 UTC · half-time 2-1
Benfica 3-1 Paços de Ferreira: match report
Benfica defeated Paços de Ferreira 3-1 in Liga Portugal on Sunday 7 March 2010. The half-time score was 2-1.
Rúben Amorim opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Benfica's goals came from Rúben Amorim (13'), Javier Saviola (17') and O. Cardozo (58'). Paços de Ferreira scored through William (43').
Discipline: Benfica received 3 yellow cards; Paços de Ferreira received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Benfica were 1st on 52 points from 21 and Paços de Ferreira 7th on 29 points from 21. Benfica went on to finish that season 1st with 76 points, and Paços de Ferreira 9th with 35.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Benfica wins, 1 draw and 0 for Paços de Ferreira.
Going into the match Benfica's last five read W-W-D-W-W and Paços de Ferreira's W-W-D-W-W.
Key events
- 13'Goal · Rúben Amorim
- 17'Goal · Javier Saviola
- 38'Yellow card · Ángel Di María
- 43'Goal · William
- 45'Yellow card · Luisão
- 58'Goal · O. Cardozo
- 62'Yellow card · Javier Saviola
- 75'Yellow card · Jason Davidson
Head-to-head
Team news
Benfica expected line-up (4-3-1-2)
Júlio César, Quim, Luisão, Brandon Truter, David Luiz, Javi García, Kostas Katsouranis, Óscar Cardozo, Ángel Di María, Javier Saviola, Ruben Amorim