PSV 2-2 Benfica: result and report

Europa League · Thursday 14 April 2011

Result

PSV 2-2 Benfica

Europa League · Thursday 14 April 2011, 19:05 UTC · half-time 2-1

PSV · Benfica · Europa League predictions

PSV 2-2 Benfica: match report

PSV drew with Benfica 2-2 in the Europa League on Thursday 14 April 2011. The half-time score was 2-1.

Balázs Dzsudzsák opened the scoring in the 17th minute. PSV's goals came from Balázs Dzsudzsák (17') and J. Lens (25'). Benfica scored through Luisão (45+2') and O. Cardozo (63', penalty).

Discipline: PSV received 3 yellow cards; Benfica received no yellow cards.

Going into the game PSV were 6th on 25 points from 13 and Benfica 29th on 13 points from 5. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.

PSV lined up in a 4-3-3 and Benfica in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 PSV wins, 0 draws and 1 for Benfica.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 7'Yellow card · Abel TamataPSV
  • 17'Goal · Balázs DzsudzsákPSV · 1-0
  • 25'Goal · J. LensPSV · 2-0
  • 27'Yellow card · Balázs DzsudzsákPSV
  • 35'Yellow card · MarceloPSV
  • 45+2'Goal · LuisãoBenfica · 2-1
  • 63'Penalty goal · O. CardozoBenfica · 2-2

Head-to-head

1 meetings: PSV 0, draws 0, Benfica 1.

Team news

PSV line-up (4-3-3)

Andreas Isaksson, Marcelo, Francisco Javier Rodríguez Pinedo, Stijn Wuytens, Abel Tamata, Atiba Hutchinson, Balázs Dzsudzsák, Zakaria Labyad, Otman Bakkal, Jeremain Lens, Stanislav Manolev

Benfica line-up (4-4-2)

Luisão, Brandon Truter, Fábio Coentrão, Jardel, Javi García, Nico Gaitán, Óscar Cardozo, Eduardo Salvio, Javier Saviola, Roberto Jiménez, Paulo César da Silva Peixoto