Benfica 2-0 Nice: result and report

Champions League · Tuesday 12 August 2025

Result

Benfica 2-0 Nice

Champions League · Tuesday 12 August 2025, 19:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Benfica 2-0 Nice: match report

Benfica beat Nice 2-0 in the Champions League on Tuesday 12 August 2025. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Fredrik Aursnes opened the scoring in the 18th minute. Benfica's goals came from Fredrik Aursnes (18') and Andreas Schjelderup (27'). Nice did not score.

Discipline: Benfica received 1 yellow card; Nice received 2 yellow cards.

This fixture belongs to an earlier Champions League season and is kept for reference.

Benfica lined up in a 4-4-2 and Nice in a 3-4-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Fredrik Aursnes of Benfica (8.5), ahead of Andreas Schjelderup (8.2).

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 18'Goal · Fredrik AursnesBenfica · 1-0
  • 27'Goal · Andreas SchjelderupBenfica · 2-0
  • 33'Yellow card · Juma BahNice
  • 65'Yellow card · Jonathan ClaussNice
  • 90+2'Yellow card · Gianluca PrestianniBenfica

Head-to-head

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

Team news

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Benfica line-up (4-4-2)

Anatoliy Trubin, Amar Dedic, António Silva, Nicolás Otamendi, Samuel Dahl, Fredrik Aursnes, Richard Ríos, Enzo Barrenechea, Andreas Schjelderup, Franjo Ivanović, Vangelis Pavlidis

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

Yehvann Diouf, Antoine Mendy, Juma Bah, Kojo Oppong, Jonathan Clauss, Tom Louchet, Djibril Coulibaly, Melvin Bard, Badredine Bouanani, Terem Moffi, Isak Jansson