União de Leiria 1-2 Benfica: result and report
Liga Portugal · Sunday 20 September 2009
Result
União de Leiria 1-2 Benfica
Liga Portugal · Sunday 20 September 2009, 19:15 UTC · half-time 1-1
União de Leiria 1-2 Benfica: match report
União de Leiria lost to Benfica 1-2 in Liga Portugal on Sunday 20 September 2009. The half-time score was 1-1.
Javier Saviola opened the scoring in the 4th minute. União de Leiria's goal came from an own goal by David Luiz (18'). Benfica scored through Javier Saviola (4') and O. Cardozo (78', penalty).
Discipline: União de Leiria received 3 yellow cards; Benfica received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game União de Leiria were 6th on 6 points from 4 and Benfica 2nd on 10 points from 4. União de Leiria went on to finish that season 10th with 35 points, and Benfica 1st with 76.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 União de Leiria wins, 1 draw and 3 for Benfica.
Going into the match União de Leiria's last five read W-D-D-D and Benfica's W-W-W-D.
Key events
- 4'Goal · Javier Saviola
- 18'Own goal · David Luiz
- 40'Yellow card · Saïdou Panandétiguiri
- 73'Yellow card · R. Kalaba
- 78'Penalty goal · O. Cardozo
- 78'Yellow card · Mamadou Tall
- 90'Yellow card · Javi García
Head-to-head
Team news
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