Vitória Guimarães 1-2 Benfica: result and report
Liga Portugal · Sunday 2 November 2008
Result
Vitória Guimarães 1-2 Benfica
Liga Portugal · Sunday 2 November 2008, 19:45 UTC · half-time 1-2
Vitória Guimarães 1-2 Benfica: match report
Vitória Guimarães lost to Benfica 1-2 in Liga Portugal on Sunday 2 November 2008. The half-time score was 1-2.
Óscar Suazo Velázquez opened the scoring in the 14th minute. Vitória Guimarães's goal came from Douglas (40'). Benfica scored through Óscar Suazo Velázquez (14') and Sidnei (18').
Discipline: Vitória Guimarães received 3 yellow cards; Benfica received 4 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Vitória Guimarães were 9th on 9 points from 6 and Benfica 4th on 12 points from 6. Vitória Guimarães went on to finish that season 8th with 38 points, and Benfica 3rd with 59.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Vitória Guimarães win, 1 draw and 2 for Benfica.
Going into the match Vitória Guimarães's last five read D-D-W-L-W and Benfica's W-D-W-W-D.
Key events
- 11'Yellow card · Danilo Rocha
- 14'Goal · Óscar Suazo Velázquez
- 18'Goal · Sidnei
- 33'Yellow card · P. Aimar
- 34'Yellow card · Flavio Meireles
- 40'Goal · Douglas
- 42'Yellow card · José Antonio Reyes
- 45'Second yellow · José Antonio Reyes
- 63'Yellow card · Wênio
- 87'Yellow card · Hassan Yebda
- 90'Yellow card · Konstantinos Katsouranis
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