Sporting CP 0-2 Benfica: result and report

Sporting CP 0-2 Benfica

Liga Portugal · Monday 21 February 2011, 20:15 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Sporting CP were beaten by Benfica 0-2 in Liga Portugal on Monday 21 February 2011. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Eduardo Salvio opened the scoring in the 15th minute. Sporting CP did not score. Benfica scored through Eduardo Salvio (15') and Nicolás Gaitán (63').

Discipline: Sporting CP received 3 yellow cards; Benfica received 5 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Sporting CP were 3rd on 33 points from 19 and Benfica 2nd on 45 points from 19. Sporting CP went on to finish that season 3rd with 48 points, and Benfica 2nd with 63.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Sporting CP wins, 4 draws and 4 for Benfica.

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