Benfica 3-1 Belenenses: result and report
Liga Portugal · Saturday 9 April 2022
Result
Benfica 3-1 Belenenses
Liga Portugal · Saturday 9 April 2022, 17:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Benfica 3-1 Belenenses: match report
Benfica beat Belenenses 3-1 in Liga Portugal on Saturday 9 April 2022. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Afonso Sousa opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Benfica's goals came from Darwin Núñez (22'), Darwin Núñez (54') and Darwin Núñez (58'). Belenenses scored through Afonso Sousa (3').
Discipline: Benfica received 1 yellow card; Belenenses received 7 yellow cards.
Going into the game Benfica were 3rd on 58 points from 27 and Belenenses 18th on 21 points from 27. Benfica went on to finish that season 3rd with 71 points, and Belenenses 18th with 26.
Benfica lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Belenenses in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Darwin Núñez of Benfica (9.7), ahead of Adel Taarabt (8.9).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Benfica wins, 1 draw and 1 for Belenenses.
Going into the match Benfica's last five read L-W-D-W-W and Belenenses's W-D-D-D-L.
Key events
- 3'Goal · Afonso Sousa
- 22'Goal · Darwin Núñez
- 33'Yellow card · Diogo Calila
- 45+2'Yellow card · Yaya Sithole
- 48'Yellow card · Rafael Camacho
- 54'Goal · Darwin Núñez
- 58'Goal · Darwin Núñez
- 69'Yellow card · Yohan Tavares
- 77'Yellow card · Nilton
- 85'Yellow card · Licá
- 88'Yellow card · Valentino Lazaro
- 90+3'Yellow card · Danny Henriques
Head-to-head
Team news
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Benfica line-up (4-2-3-1)
Odysseas Vlachodimos, André Almeida, Nicolás Otamendi, Morato, Valentino Lazaro, Adel Taarabt, Soualiho Meïté, Diogo Gonçalves, João Mário, Everton, Darwin Núñez
Belenenses line-up (4-2-3-1)
Luis Felipe, Carraça, Cafú Phete, Yohan Tavares, Diogo Calila, Braima Sambú, Yaya Sithole, Yves Baraye, Afonso Sousa, Rafael Camacho, Alisson Safira