Porto 1-1 Benfica: result and report
Liga Portugal · Sunday 8 February 2009
Result
Porto 1-1 Benfica
Liga Portugal · Sunday 8 February 2009, 19:45 UTC · half-time 0-1
Porto 1-1 Benfica: match report
Porto drew with Benfica 1-1 in Liga Portugal on Sunday 8 February 2009. The half-time score was 0-1.
Hassan Yebda opened the scoring in the 45th minute. Porto's goal came from Lucho González (77', penalty). Benfica scored through Hassan Yebda (45').
Discipline: Porto received 1 yellow card; Benfica received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Porto were 1st on 34 points from 16 and Benfica 2nd on 33 points from 16. Porto went on to finish that season 1st with 70 points, and Benfica 3rd with 59.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Porto wins, 2 draws and 2 for Benfica.
Going into the match Porto's last five read W-W-D-W-D and Benfica's W-D-W-L-D.
Key events
- 45'Goal · Hassan Yebda
- 50'Yellow card · Fernando
- 52'Yellow card · M. Pereira
- 64'Yellow card · Konstantinos Katsouranis
- 70'Yellow card · Hassan Yebda
- 77'Penalty goal · Lucho González
Head-to-head
Team news
Benfica expected line-up (4-2-3-1)
Quim, Léo, Luisão, Brandon Truter, Gilles Binya, Luis Filipe, Edcarlos, Kostas Katsouranis, Cristian Gabriel Rodríguez Barrotti, Rui Costa, Óscar Cardozo