Benfica 3-0 Nacional: result and report

Liga Portugal · Saturday 8 March 2025

Result

Benfica 3-0 Nacional

Liga Portugal · Saturday 8 March 2025, 18:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Benfica 3-0 Nacional: match report

Benfica won against Nacional 3-0 in Liga Portugal on Saturday 8 March 2025. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Zeki Amdouni opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Benfica's goals came from Zeki Amdouni (5'), Orkun Kökçü (23', penalty) and Vangelis Pavlidis (90+2', penalty). Nacional did not score.

Discipline: Benfica received no yellow cards; Nacional received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Benfica were 2nd on 53 points from 23 and Nacional 13th on 26 points from 24. Benfica went on to finish that season 2nd with 80 points, and Nacional 14th with 34.

Benfica lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Nacional in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Orkun Kökçü of Benfica (8.6), ahead of Zeki Amdouni (8.0).

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

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 5'Goal · Zeki AmdouniBenfica · 1-0
  • 19'Yellow card · Ze VitorNacional
  • 23'Penalty goal · Orkun KökçüBenfica · 2-0
  • 45+1'Yellow card · Djibril SoumaréNacional
  • 45+7'Missed penalty · DuduNacional
  • 88'Yellow card · João AurélioNacional
  • 90+2'Penalty goal · Vangelis PavlidisBenfica · 3-0

Head-to-head

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

Team news

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Benfica line-up (3-4-2-1)

Samuel Soares, António Silva, Nicolás Otamendi, Álvaro Carreras, Leandro Santos, Fredrik Aursnes, Orkun Kökçü, Samuel Dahl, Zeki Amdouni, Bruma, Andrea Belotti

Nacional line-up (4-1-4-1)

Lucas França, Garcia, Ulisses, Ze Vitor, Arvin Appiah, Djibril Soumaré, Fuki Yamada, Luís André Leite Esteves, Chiheb Labidi, Paulinho Bóia, Dudu Teodora