Benfica 2-1 AEK Athens: result and report

Europa League · Thursday 17 December 2009

Result

Benfica 2-1 AEK Athens

Europa League · Thursday 17 December 2009, 20:05 UTC · half-time 1-0

Benfica · AEK Athens · Europa League predictions

Benfica 2-1 AEK Athens: match report

Benfica defeated AEK Athens 2-1 in the Europa League on Thursday 17 December 2009. The half-time score was 1-0.

Ángel Di María opened the scoring in the 45th minute. Benfica's goals came from Ángel Di María (45') and Ángel Di María (73'). AEK Athens scored through Ismael Blanco (84').

Discipline: Benfica received 3 yellow cards; AEK Athens received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Benfica were 18th on 15 points from 7 and AEK Athens 71st on 7 points from 7. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.

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

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 13'Yellow card · Carlos AraújoAEK Athens
  • 41'Yellow card · Felipe MenezesBenfica
  • 45'Goal · Ángel Di MaríaBenfica · 1-0
  • 73'Goal · Ángel Di MaríaBenfica · 2-0
  • 75'Yellow card · José ShafferBenfica
  • 84'Goal · Ismael BlancoAEK Athens · 2-1
  • 90'Yellow card · Geraldo AlvesAEK Athens
  • 90'Yellow card · Nikolaos GeorgeasAEK Athens
  • 90'Yellow card · Carlos MartinsBenfica

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Benfica 0, draws 0, AEK Athens 1.

Team news

Benfica expected line-up

Quim, Luisão, Léo, Gilles Binya, Kostas Katsouranis, Cristian Gabriel Rodríguez Barrotti, Rui Costa, Óscar Cardozo, Ángel Di María, Luis Filipe

AEK Athens line-up

Carlos Araújo, Geraldo Alves, Daniel Majstorovic, Nikolaos Georgeas, Pantelis Kafes, Youssouf Hersi, Grigoris Makos, Savvas Gentsoglou, Ismael Blanco, Gustavo Manduca, Sebastian Saja