Porto 3-1 Benfica: result and report
Liga Portugal · Sunday 2 May 2010
Result
Porto 3-1 Benfica
Liga Portugal · Sunday 2 May 2010, 19:15 UTC · half-time 1-0
Porto 3-1 Benfica: match report
Porto beat Benfica 3-1 in Liga Portugal on Sunday 2 May 2010. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Mikael Stahre opened the scoring in the 42nd minute. Porto's goals came from Mikael Stahre (42'), Ernesto Farías (59') and F. Belluschi (82'). Benfica scored through Luisão (56').
Discipline: Porto received 4 yellow cards and 1 red card; Benfica received 7 yellow cards.
Going into the game Porto were 3rd on 62 points from 28 and Benfica 1st on 73 points from 28. Porto went on to finish that season 3rd with 68 points, and Benfica 1st with 76.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Porto wins, 3 draws and 3 for Benfica.
Going into the match Porto's last five read W-W-W-W-W and Benfica's W-W-W-W-W.
Key events
- 5'Yellow card · Jorge Fucile
- 5'Yellow card · Ángel Di María
- 12'Yellow card · Fábio Coentrão
- 15'Yellow card · David Luiz
- 41'Yellow card · Javi García
- 42'Goal · Mikael Stahre
- 44'Yellow card · Raul Meireles
- 52'Second yellow · Jorge Fucile
- 56'Goal · Luisão
- 56'Yellow card · Mikael Stahre
- 58'Yellow card · Luisão
- 59'Goal · Ernesto Farías
- 63'Yellow card · Fernando
- 79'Yellow card · Ramires
- 82'Goal · F. Belluschi
- 90'Yellow card · M. Pereira
Head-to-head
Team news
Benfica expected line-up (4-2-3-1)
Júlio César, David Luiz, Luisão, Javi García, Ramires, Carlos Martins, Óscar Cardozo, Ángel Di María, Brandon Truter, Pablo Aimar Giordano