Benfica 1-0 União de Leiria: result and report

Liga Portugal · Saturday 5 May 2012

Result

Benfica 1-0 União de Leiria

Liga Portugal · Saturday 5 May 2012, 19:30 UTC · half-time 1-0

Benfica · União de Leiria · Liga Portugal predictions

Benfica 1-0 União de Leiria: match report

Benfica beat União de Leiria 1-0 in Liga Portugal on Saturday 5 May 2012. It was 1-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from Bruno César of Benfica in the 21st minute.

Discipline: Benfica received 3 yellow cards; União de Leiria received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Benfica were 2nd on 63 points from 28 and União de Leiria 16th on 19 points from 28. Benfica went on to finish that season 2nd with 69 points, and União de Leiria 16th with 19.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 7 Benfica wins, 2 draws and 0 for União de Leiria.

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

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 14'Yellow card · Ezequiel GarayBenfica
  • 20'Yellow card · Abdullah Al HafithUnião de Leiria
  • 21'Goal · Bruno CésarBenfica · 1-0
  • 26'Yellow card · M. PereiraBenfica
  • 37'Yellow card · J. OguUnião de Leiria
  • 87'Yellow card · André AlmeidaBenfica

Head-to-head

9 meetings: Benfica 7, draws 2, União de Leiria 0.

Team news

Benfica line-up

Artur Moraes, Luisão, Brandon Truter, Ezequiel Garay, Axel Witsel, Luís Martins, Bruno César, Óscar Cardozo, Yannick Djaló, Javier Saviola, Pablo Aimar Giordano

União de Leiria expected line-up (4-2-3-1)

Jan Oblak, Ivo Pinto, Maximilian Haas, Edson Henrique, José Shaffer, John Ogu, Cacá, Marcos Paulo, Marco Soares, Alphousseyni Kéïta, Bruno Moraes