Benfica 3-1 Nacional: result and report

Liga Portugal · Saturday 4 April 2015

Result

Benfica 3-1 Nacional

Liga Portugal · Saturday 4 April 2015, 16:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Benfica 3-1 Nacional: match report

Benfica beat Nacional 3-1 in Liga Portugal on Saturday 4 April 2015. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Jonas opened the scoring in the 21st minute. Benfica's goals came from Jonas (21'), Lima (30') and Jonas (59'). Nacional scored through Tiago Rodrigues (74').

Discipline: Benfica received 3 yellow cards; Nacional received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Benfica were 1st on 65 points from 26 and Nacional 7th on 34 points from 26. Benfica went on to finish that season 1st with 85 points, and Nacional 8th with 46.

Benfica lined up in a 4-4-2 and Nacional in a 4-3-3.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Benfica wins, 1 draw and 0 for Nacional.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 21'Goal · JonasBenfica · 1-0
  • 30'Goal · LimaBenfica · 2-0
  • 50'Yellow card · Nuno SequeiraNacional
  • 59'Goal · JonasBenfica · 3-0
  • 74'Goal · Tiago RodriguesNacional · 3-1
  • 90+2'Yellow card · Rúben AmorimBenfica
  • 90+2'Yellow card · EliseuBenfica
  • 90+3'Yellow card · Rúben AmorimBenfica

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Benfica 4, draws 1, Nacional 0.

Team news

Benfica line-up (4-4-2)

Júlio César, Brandon Truter, Lisandro López, Jardel, Eliseu, Eduardo Salvio, Andreas Samaris, Pizzi, Nico Gaitán, Jonas, Lima

Nacional expected line-up (4-3-3)

Eduardo Gottardi, Zainadine Júnior, Marçal, Rui Correia, João Aurélio, Ali Ghazal, Saleh Gomaa, Tiago Rodrigues, Luís Aurélio, Marco Matias, Lucas João