Benfica 1-1 Basel: result and report
Champions League · Wednesday 2 November 2011
Result
Benfica 1-1 Basel
Champions League · Wednesday 2 November 2011, 19:45 UTC · half-time 1-0
Benfica 1-1 Basel: match report
Benfica drew with Basel 1-1 in the Champions League on Wednesday 2 November 2011. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Rodrigo opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Benfica's goal came from Rodrigo (4'). Basel scored through Benjamin Huggel (64').
Discipline: Benfica received 4 yellow cards; Basel received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Benfica were 3rd on 15 points from 7 and Basel 41st on 4 points from 3. This fixture belongs to an earlier Champions League season and is kept for reference.
Benfica lined up in a 4-3-3 and Basel in a 4-4-1-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Benfica win, 0 draws and 0 for Basel.
Going into the match Benfica's last five read W-W-D-W-D and Basel's L-D-W.
Key events
- 4'Goal · Rodrigo
- 18'Yellow card · Park Joo-Ho
- 34'Yellow card · Benjamin Huggel
- 45+2'Yellow card · P. Aimar
- 45+3'Yellow card · Ezequiel Garay
- 57'Yellow card · M. Pereira
- 64'Goal · Benjamin Huggel
- 89'Yellow card · Miguel Vítor
Head-to-head
Team news
Benfica line-up (4-3-3)
Artur Moraes, Luisão, Brandon Truter, Ezequiel Garay, Axel Witsel, Luís Martins, Bruno César, Nico Gaitán, Nemanja Matić, Rodrigo, Pablo Aimar Giordano
Basel line-up (4-4-1-1)
Yann Sommer, Ju-ho Park, Aleksandar Dragovic, David Abraham, Markus Steinhofer, Benjamin Huggel, Scott Chipperfield, Xherdan Shaqiri, Fabian Frei, Granit Xhaka, Jacques Zoua