Académica 3-1 União Madeira: result and report
Liga Portugal · Saturday 2 January 2016
Result
Académica 3-1 União Madeira
Liga Portugal · Saturday 2 January 2016, 16:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Académica 3-1 União Madeira: match report
Académica defeated União Madeira 3-1 in Liga Portugal on Saturday 2 January 2016. The half-time score was 1-1.
Ricardo Nascimento opened the scoring in the 8th minute. Académica's goals came from Ricardo Nascimento (8'), Fernando Alexandre (67') and João Real (85'). União Madeira scored through Paulo Monteiro (21', penalty).
Discipline: Académica received 4 yellow cards; União Madeira received 6 yellow cards.
Going into the game Académica were 17th on 10 points from 14 and União Madeira 14th on 14 points from 14. Académica went on to finish that season 18th with 24 points, and União Madeira 17th with 29.
Going into the match Académica's last five read L-W-L-D-D and União Madeira's W-D-L-W-L.
Key events
- 8'Goal · Ricardo Nascimento
- 20'Yellow card · Pedro Trigueira
- 21'Penalty goal · Paulo Monteiro
- 22'Yellow card · Ivanildo
- 44'Yellow card · Gian Martins
- 63'Yellow card · Élio Martins
- 67'Goal · Fernando Alexandre
- 81'Yellow card · Amilton
- 84'Yellow card · Paulinho
- 85'Goal · João Real
- 86'Yellow card · Soares
- 87'Yellow card · Fernando Alexandre
- 88'Yellow card · Joãozinho
- 90'Yellow card · Rabiola
Team news
Académica line-up
Pedro José da Silva Trigueira, Aderlan, Ricardo Nascimento, Iago Santos, Leandro Silva, Christopher Oualembo, Ivanildo, Gonçalo Paciência, Pedro Nuno, Nii Plange, Fernando Alexandre
União Madeira line-up
André Moreira, Paulinho, Joãozinho, Paulo Monteiro, Diego Galo, William Soares, Abdullahi Shehu, Gian Martins, Danilo Dias, Amilton, Élio Martins