Benfica 1-2 Porto: result and report
Liga Portugal · Sunday 3 April 2011
Result
Benfica 1-2 Porto
Liga Portugal · Sunday 3 April 2011, 19:30 UTC · half-time 1-2
Benfica 1-2 Porto: match report
Benfica lost to Porto 1-2 in Liga Portugal on Sunday 3 April 2011. The half-time score was 1-2.
Fredy Guarin opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Benfica's goal came from Javier Saviola (17', penalty). Porto scored through Fredy Guarin (9') and Hulk (26', penalty).
Discipline: Benfica received 6 yellow cards and 1 red card; Porto received 4 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Benfica were 2nd on 55 points from 24 and Porto 1st on 68 points from 24. Benfica went on to finish that season 2nd with 63 points, and Porto 1st with 84.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Benfica wins, 3 draws and 5 for Porto.
Going into the match Benfica's last five read W-D-L-W-W and Porto's W-W-W-W-W.
Key events
- 3'Yellow card · P. Aimar
- 9'Goal · Fredy Guarin
- 14'Yellow card · Airton
- 17'Penalty goal · Javier Saviola
- 17'Yellow card · Nicolás Otamendi
- 21'Yellow card · Fábio Coentrão
- 26'Penalty goal · Hulk
- 26'Yellow card · Roberto
- 32'Yellow card · Jorge Fucile
- 68'Yellow card · Javi García
- 70'Second yellow · Nicolás Otamendi
- 82'Yellow card · Álvaro Pereira
- 87'Red card · O. Cardozo
- 88'Yellow card · Jardel
- 90+3'Yellow card · João Moutinho
Head-to-head
Team news
Benfica line-up
Luisão, Fábio Coentrão, Sidnei, Airton, Javi García, Nico Gaitán, Eduardo Salvio, Franco Jara, Javier Saviola, Pablo Aimar Giordano, Roberto Jiménez
Porto expected line-up
Helton, Álvaro Pereira, Maicon, Nicolás Otamendi, Jorge Fucile, Souza, Fernando Belluschi, R. Falcao, Walter