Benfica 6-1 Nacional: result and report
Liga Portugal · Monday 26 October 2009
Result
Benfica 6-1 Nacional
Liga Portugal · Monday 26 October 2009, 20:15 UTC · half-time 2-1
Benfica 6-1 Nacional: match report
Benfica beat Nacional 6-1 in Liga Portugal on Monday 26 October 2009. It was 2-1 at half-time.
O. Cardozo opened the scoring in the 17th minute. Benfica's goals came from O. Cardozo (17'), Javier Saviola (40'), O. Cardozo (48', penalty), Javier Saviola (64'), Nuno Gomes (86') and O. Cardozo (90', penalty). Nacional scored through Edgar Costa (27').
Discipline: Benfica received 2 yellow cards; Nacional received 6 yellow cards and 2 red cards.
Going into the game Benfica were 2nd on 19 points from 7 and Nacional 7th on 11 points from 7. Benfica went on to finish that season 1st with 76 points, and Nacional 7th with 39.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Benfica wins, 2 draws and 1 for Nacional.
Going into the match Benfica's last five read W-W-W-W-W and Nacional's W-W-W-L-D.
Key events
- 17'Goal · O. Cardozo
- 27'Goal · Edgar Costa
- 28'Yellow card · Edgar Costa
- 30'Yellow card · Ángel Di María
- 33'Yellow card · Patacas
- 39'Yellow card · Rúben Micael
- 40'Goal · Javier Saviola
- 47'Yellow card · Mateus
- 48'Penalty goal · O. Cardozo
- 49'Yellow card · Felipe Lopes
- 64'Goal · Javier Saviola
- 78'Yellow card · Cléber Monteiro
- 84'Yellow card · Fábio Coentrão
- 85'Second yellow · Patacas
- 86'Goal · Nuno Gomes
- 90'Red card · João Aurélio
- 90'Penalty goal · O. Cardozo
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