Benfica 0-0 Nacional: result and report
Liga Portugal · Monday 22 December 2008
Result
Benfica 0-0 Nacional
Liga Portugal · Monday 22 December 2008, 19:45 UTC · half-time 0-0
Benfica 0-0 Nacional: match report
Benfica drew with Nacional 0-0 in Liga Portugal on Monday 22 December 2008. The half-time score was 0-0.
Neither side found the net.
Discipline: Benfica received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card; Nacional received 5 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Benfica were 1st on 25 points from 11 and Nacional 6th on 20 points from 11. Benfica went on to finish that season 3rd with 59 points, and Nacional 4th with 52.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Benfica wins, 1 draw and 0 for Nacional.
Going into the match Benfica's last five read W-D-W-W-W and Nacional's W-L-W-D-L.
Key events
- 32'Yellow card · Edson Sitta
- 43'Yellow card · Konstantinos Katsouranis
- 45'Yellow card · Alonso
- 47'Yellow card · Hassan Yebda
- 61'Yellow card · Nenê
- 71'Yellow card · Cléber Monteiro
- 78'Second yellow · Alonso
- 87'Yellow card · Luis Alberto
- 90+5'Red card · Nuno Gomes
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