Chaves 0-2 Benfica: result and report
Liga Portugal · Saturday 24 September 2016
Result
Chaves 0-2 Benfica
Liga Portugal · Saturday 24 September 2016, 17:15 UTC · half-time 0-0
Chaves 0-2 Benfica: match report
Chaves were beaten by Benfica 0-2 in Liga Portugal on Saturday 24 September 2016. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Konstantinos Mitroglou opened the scoring in the 69th minute. Chaves did not score. Benfica scored through Konstantinos Mitroglou (69') and Pizzi (84').
Discipline: Chaves received 3 yellow cards; Benfica received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Chaves were 4th on 11 points from 5 and Benfica 3rd on 13 points from 5. Chaves went on to finish that season 10th with 40 points, and Benfica 1st with 82.
Chaves lined up in a 4-3-3 and Benfica in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Victor Lindelöf of Benfica (7.7), ahead of Rodrigo Battaglia (7.5).
Going into the match Chaves's last five read W-D-W-W-D and Benfica's W-W-W-D-W.
Key events
- 26'Yellow card · Lisandro López
- 50'Yellow card · Bruno Braga
- 69'Goal · Konstantinos Mitroglou
- 83'Yellow card · Freire
- 84'Goal · Pizzi
- 85'Yellow card · Rodrigo Battaglia
Team news
Chaves line-up (4-3-3)
António Filipe, Paulinho, Nelson Lenho, Felipe Lopes, Leandro Freire, Rafael Assis, Rodrigo Battaglia, Fábio Martins, Rafael Lopes, Jeferson Macedo, Bruno Braga
Benfica line-up (4-2-3-1)
Ederson, Lisandro López, Alejandro Grimaldo, Victor Lindelöf, Nélson Semedo, Ljubomir Fejsa, André Horta, Eduardo Salvio, Gonçalo Guedes, Pizzi, Konstantinos Mitroglou