Santa Clara 0-2 Benfica: result and report

Santa Clara 0-2 Benfica

Liga Portugal · Friday 11 January 2019, 19:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

Santa Clara · Benfica · Liga Portugal predictions

Santa Clara were beaten by Benfica 0-2 in Liga Portugal on Friday 11 January 2019. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Haris Seferovic opened the scoring in the 22nd minute. Santa Clara did not score. Benfica scored through Haris Seferovic (22') and Jardel (48').

Discipline: Santa Clara received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card; Benfica received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Santa Clara were 9th on 20 points from 15 and Benfica 3rd on 31 points from 14. Santa Clara went on to finish that season 8th with 40 points, and Benfica 1st with 77.

Santa Clara lined up in a 4-4-2 and Benfica in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Odysseas Vlachodimos of Benfica (8.2), ahead of Jardel (8.1).

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