Olympiacos F.C. 5-1 Benfica: result and report

Europa League · Thursday 27 November 2008

Result

Olympiacos F.C. 5-1 Benfica

Europa League · Thursday 27 November 2008, 19:45 UTC · half-time 4-1

Olympiacos F.C. · Benfica · Europa League predictions

Olympiacos F.C. 5-1 Benfica: match report

Olympiacos F.C. beat Benfica 5-1 in the Europa League on Thursday 27 November 2008. It was 4-1 at half-time.

Luciano Galletti opened the scoring in the 1st minute. Olympiacos F.C.'s goals came from Luciano Galletti (1'), C. Patsatzoglou (18'), Diogo (24'), F. Belluschi (44') and Diogo (53'). Benfica scored through David Luiz (33').

Discipline: Olympiacos F.C. received 1 yellow card; Benfica received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Olympiacos F.C. were 50th on 6 points from 3 and Benfica 66th on 4 points from 4. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.

Olympiacos F.C. lined up in a 4-5-1 and Benfica in a 4-2-3-1.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 1'Goal · Luciano GallettiOlympiacos F.C. · 1-0
  • 18'Goal · C. PatsatzoglouOlympiacos F.C. · 2-0
  • 24'Goal · DiogoOlympiacos F.C. · 3-0
  • 33'Goal · David LuizBenfica · 3-1
  • 43'Yellow card · Gilles BinyaBenfica
  • 44'Goal · F. BelluschiOlympiacos F.C. · 4-1
  • 53'Goal · DiogoOlympiacos F.C. · 5-1
  • 79'Yellow card · Anastasios PantosOlympiacos F.C.

Team news

Olympiacos F.C. expected line-up (4-5-1)

Paraskevas Antzas, Michal Zewlakow, VasilīsTorosidīs, Anastasios Pantos, Ieroklis Stoltidis, Predrag Djordjevic, Luciano Galletti, Lomana Lualua, Antonis Nikopolidis, Cristian Ledesma

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