Everton 0-2 Benfica: result and report

Europa League · Thursday 5 November 2009

Result

Everton 0-2 Benfica

Europa League · Thursday 5 November 2009, 20:05 UTC · half-time 0-0

Everton · Benfica · Europa League predictions

Everton 0-2 Benfica: match report

Everton lost to Benfica 0-2 in the Europa League on Thursday 5 November 2009. The half-time score was 0-0.

Javier Saviola opened the scoring in the 62nd minute. Everton did not score. Benfica scored through Javier Saviola (62') and O. Cardozo (76').

Discipline: Everton received 3 yellow cards; Benfica received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Everton were 31st on 10 points from 5 and Benfica 33rd on 9 points from 5. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.

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

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 20'Yellow card · Yakubu AiyegbeniEverton
  • 51'Yellow card · J. RodwellEverton
  • 62'Goal · Javier SaviolaBenfica · 0-1
  • 74'Yellow card · Javier SaviolaBenfica
  • 76'Goal · O. CardozoBenfica · 0-2
  • 79'Yellow card · Tony HibbertEverton
  • 87'Yellow card · Júlio CésarBenfica

Head-to-head

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

Team news

Everton line-up

Tim Howard, Tony Hibbert, Leighton Baines, Joseph Yobo, Sylvain Distin, Jack Rodwell, Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Dan Gosling, Marouane Fellaini, Tim Cahill, Yakubu Aiyegbeni

Benfica line-up

Júlio César, Luisão, Fábio Coentrão, David Luiz, Sidnei, Javi García, Ramires, Óscar Cardozo, Ángel Di María, Javier Saviola, Ruben Amorim