União de Leiria 0-3 Benfica: result and report
Liga Portugal · Sunday 9 January 2011
Result
União de Leiria 0-3 Benfica
Liga Portugal · Sunday 9 January 2011, 20:15 UTC · half-time 0-1
União de Leiria 0-3 Benfica: match report
União de Leiria lost to Benfica 0-3 in Liga Portugal on Sunday 9 January 2011. The half-time score was 0-1.
Javier Saviola opened the scoring in the 27th minute. União de Leiria did not score. Benfica scored through Javier Saviola (27'), Nicolás Gaitán (80') and O. Cardozo (90').
Discipline: União de Leiria received 3 yellow cards; Benfica received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game União de Leiria were 4th on 24 points from 14 and Benfica 2nd on 30 points from 14. União de Leiria went on to finish that season 10th with 35 points, and Benfica 2nd with 63.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 União de Leiria wins, 1 draw and 5 for Benfica.
Going into the match União de Leiria's last five read W-W-W-W-D and Benfica's W-W-W-W-L.
Key events
- 14'Yellow card · Saïdou Panandétiguiri
- 27'Goal · Javier Saviola
- 50'Yellow card · Javi García
- 74'Yellow card · Patrick
- 80'Goal · Nicolás Gaitán
- 90'Goal · O. Cardozo
- 90'Yellow card · Serge N'Gal
Head-to-head
Team news
União de Leiria line-up
Eduardo Gottardi, Saïdou Panandétiguiri, Mamadou Tall, Zé Antonio, Patrick, Ricardo Pateiro, Paulo Sérgio, Marcos Paulo, Serge N'Gal, Chengdong Zhang, Leandro Lima
Benfica line-up
Luisão, Brandon Truter, Fábio Coentrão, David Luiz, Javi García, Carlos Martins, Nico Gaitán, Óscar Cardozo, Eduardo Salvio, Javier Saviola, Roberto Jiménez