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Benfica 2-1 Bayer Leverkusen - February 21, 2013 / (C3) Europa League 2012/2013

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(C3) Europa League 2012/2013 - Round of 32

Estadio da Luz - Lisbon - Portugal

February 21, 2013

65 000

Benfica

Portugal

2 - 1

Bayer Leverkusen

Germany

(right foot) Ola John

60'

Assist by Lima (header) Nemanja Matic

77'

75'

André Schürrle (left foot) Assist by Arkadiusz Milik

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53' - Substitution Carlos Martinsis substituted by Toto Salvio53

57' - Substitution Lars Benderis substituted by Jens Hegeler

60' - Goal Ola John60

64' - Substitution Óscar Cardozois substituted by Lima64

74' - Substitution Stefan Reinartzis substituted by Arkadiusz Milik

75' - Goal André Schürrle

77' - Goal Nemanja Matic77

94' - Substitution Ola Johnis substituted by Jardel94

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Benfica

2 - 1

Bayer Leverkusen

Benfica Bayer Leverkusen

Team line-ups

Benfica

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

7Cardozo64

Óscar Cardozo

Paraguay

B.date20/05/1983

Age29 years

H1m93

positionStriker

15John6090+4

Ola John

Netherlands

B.date19/05/1992

Age20 years

H1m79

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

35Pérez

Enzo Pérez

Argentina

B.date22/02/1986

Age26 years

H1m77

positionCentre Midfield

20Gaitán

Nicolás Gaitán

Argentina

B.date23/02/1988

Age24 years

H1m73

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

21Matic77

Nemanja Matic

Serbia

B.date01/08/1988

Age24 years

H1m94

positionLeft central midfielder

17Martins53

Carlos Martins

Portugal

B.date29/04/1982

Age30 years

H1m73

positionPlaymaker

25Melgarejo

Lorenzo Melgarejo

Paraguay

B.date10/08/1990

Age22 years

H1m78

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

24Garay

Ezequiel Garay

Argentina

B.date10/10/1986

Age26 years

H1m89

positionRight central defender

4Luisão

Luisão

Brazil

B.date13/02/1981

Age32 years

H1m92

positionRight central defender

34Almeida

André Almeida

Portugal

B.date13/09/1990

Age22 years

H1m86

positionRight full-back

1Artur Moraes

Artur Moraes

Brazil

B.date25/01/1981

Age32 years

H1m92

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Artur Moraes		32	73	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
24	D	Ezequiel Garay		26	69	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Luisão		32	351	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
34	D	André Almeida		22	25	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
35	M	Enzo Pérez		26	31	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	M	Nemanja Matic	77	24	58	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	M	Carlos Martins	53	30	124	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	M	Ola John	6090+4	20	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	M	Nicolás Gaitán		24	116	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
25	D	Lorenzo Melgarejo		22	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	F	Óscar Cardozo	64	29	240	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.1 years

Average number of matches played for the team

103

Bayer Leverkusen

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

11Kiessling

Stefan Kiessling

Germany

B.date25/01/1984

Age29 years

H1m91

positionStriker

9Schürrle75

André Schürrle

Germany

B.date06/11/1990

Age22 years

H1m75

positionLeft Winger

27Castro

Gonzalo Castro

Germany

B.date11/06/1987

Age25 years

H1m70

positionVersatile Defender

8Bender57

Lars Bender

Germany

B.date27/04/1989

Age23 years

H1m85

positionRight central midfielder

6Rolfes

Simon Rolfes

Germany

B.date21/01/1982

Age31 years

H1m89

positionDefensive Midfielder

3Reinartz74

Stefan Reinartz

Germany

B.date01/01/1989

Age24 years

H1m88

positionDefensive Midfielder

17Boenisch

Sebastian Boenisch

Poland

B.date01/02/1987

Age26 years

H1m91

positionLeft full-back

21Toprak

Ömer Toprak

Turkey

B.date21/07/1989

Age23 years

H1m86

positionCentral defender

4Wollscheid

Philipp Wollscheid

Germany

B.date06/03/1989

Age23 years

H1m94

positionCentral defender

20Carvajal

Dani Carvajal

Spain

B.date11/01/1992

Age21 years

H1m73

positionRight full-back

1Leno

Bernd Leno

Germany

B.date04/03/1992

Age20 years

H1m90

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Bernd Leno		20	69	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	D	Ömer Toprak		23	59	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Philipp Wollscheid		23	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
27	M	Gonzalo Castro		25	290	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	D	Sebastian Boenisch		26	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	D	Dani Carvajal		21	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	M	Stefan Reinartz	74	24	136	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	M	Simon Rolfes		31	290	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Lars Bender	57	23	128	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	M	André Schürrle	75	22	71	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	F	Stefan Kiessling		29	266	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.3 years

Average number of matches played for the team

125

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
33	D	Jardel	90+4	26	59	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	M	Toto Salvio	53	22	71	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	F	Lima	64	29	31	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
13	M		Jens Hegeler	57	25	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	F		Arkadiusz Milik	74	18	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Óscar Cardozo

Lima

OUT

Carlos Martins

Toto Salvio

OUT

Nemanja Matic

Maxi Pereira

OUT

Nicolás Gaitán

Rodrigo

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Simon Rolfes

Sidney Sam

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Jorge Jesus

194

Success rate in this team:

70 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

49 %

Jesus vs Bayer Leverkusen

2 victories

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on February 21, 2013

Jesus vs Hyypiä

2 victories

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on February 21, 2013

Manager

Age

Match num

Sami Hyypiä

Success rate in this team:

56 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

56 %

Hyypiä vs Benfica

0 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on February 21, 2013

Hyypiä vs Jesus

0 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on February 21, 2013

Referee

Pavel Kralovec

3 victories	0 draw	0 loss	Benfica3 matches	General total	Bayer Leverkusen3 matches	1 victory	0 draw	2 losses
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Benfica1 match	Season total	Bayer Leverkusen1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on April 10, 2014					Latest figure on February 25, 2015

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Key figures

It's the first time André Schürrle scores 1 goal vs Benfica in his professional career

Benfica keeps its 12 matches with at least one goal scored at home in Europa League running (since 20/08/2009). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 05/12/1995 (7 matches)

Benfica keeps its 6 matches with at least 2 goals scored at home in Europa League running (since 01/04/2010). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 23/02/2010 (5 matches)

Read the next 15 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VBenfica 4-1 Maritimo Funchal15/12/2012

VBenfica 6-0 Aves02/01/2013

VBenfica 3-2 Académica09/01/2013

DBenfica 2-2 FC Porto13/01/2013

VBenfica 3-0 Vitória Setúbal03/02/2013

VBenfica 1-0 Académica17/02/2013

Overall

VBraga 1-2 Benfica26/01/2013

VPaços de Ferreira 0-2 Benfica30/01/2013

VBenfica 3-0 Vitória Setúbal03/02/2013

DNacional Madeira 2-2 Benfica10/02/2013

VBayer Leverkusen 0-1 Benfica14/02/2013

VBenfica 1-0 Académica17/02/2013

Current form

Away

VHoffenheim 1-2 Bayer Leverkusen25/11/2012

VWerder Bremen 1-4 Bayer Leverkusen28/11/2012

LHannover 96 3-2 Bayer Leverkusen09/12/2012

LWolfsburg 2-1 Bayer Leverkusen19/12/2012

DFreiburg 0-0 Bayer Leverkusen26/01/2013

DBorussia M'gladbach 3-3 Bayer Leverkusen09/02/2013

Overall

VBayer Leverkusen 3-1 Eintracht Frankfurt19/01/2013

DFreiburg 0-0 Bayer Leverkusen26/01/2013

LBayer Leverkusen 2-3 Borussia Dortmund03/02/2013

DBorussia M'gladbach 3-3 Bayer Leverkusen09/02/2013

LBayer Leverkusen 0-1 Benfica14/02/2013

VBayer Leverkusen 2-1 Augsburg16/02/2013

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	2	2
Unbeaten streak	11	24
Drawless streak	2	2
Scoring streak	11	16
Invincibility streak	2	2

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Drawing streak	2	0
Unbeaten streak	2	1
Winless streak	4	0
Drawless streak	0	2
Scoring streak	1	1
Conceding streak	1	4

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

16	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	39
2	FBDB index ranking (National)	3

Results

1	Number of games (Competition total)	7
0	Number of games (Home / Away)	3
1	Victories (Competition total)	4
0	Victories (Home / Away)	2
0	Draws (Competition total)	1
0	Draws (Home / Away)	0
0	Losses (Competition total)	2
0	Losses (Home / Away)	1

Goals

1	Goals scored (Competition total)	9
0	Goals scored (Home / Away)	5
0	Goals conceded (Competition total)	3
0	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	2
1	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.29
0	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1.67
0	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0.43
0	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	0.67

Betting aid

0	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	2
0	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	1
1	Clean sheets (Competition total)	5
0	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	2
0	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	3
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	1
0	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	0
0	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	0
0	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	1-0 (1 times)

Bookings

2	Yellow cards (Competition total)	12
0	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	5
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Óscar Cardozo	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	2 goals	Gonzalo Castro
-		Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	2 goals	Gonzalo Castro
André Almeida	1 assist	Player with most assists (Competition total)	1 assist	Gonzalo Castro
-		Player with most assists (Home / Away)	1 assist	Gonzalo Castro
Óscar Cardozo	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player	2 goals, 1 assist during the last 5 matches	Gonzalo Castro

Historical head to head

Home

1 match

0 v

1 d

0 l

1 gf

1 ga

Away

2 matches

1 v

1 d

0 l

5 gf

4 ga

Total

3 matches

1 v

2 d

0 l

6 gf

5 ga

Historical head to head

Home

2 matches

0 v

1 d

1 l

4 gf

5 ga

Away

1 match

0 v

1 d

0 l

1 gf

1 ga

Total

3 matches

0 v

2 d

1 l

5 gf

6 ga

Largest victory

Overall	1 - 0	February 14, 2013
Home	No success yet

Largest victory

No success yet

Latest head to head

February 14, 2013 - (C3) Europa League 2012/2013

Bayer Leverkusen

0 - 1

Benfica

March 15, 1994 - (C2) Coupe des Vainqueurs de Coupes 1993/1994

Bayer Leverkusen

4 - 4

Benfica

March 01, 1994 - (C2) Coupe des Vainqueurs de Coupes 1993/1994

Benfica

1 - 1

Bayer Leverkusen logo Bayer Leverkusen

Best historical scorers against Bayer Leverkusen

Vasiliy Kulkov	2 goals	1994 - 1994
Isaías	1 goal	1994 - 1994
Óscar Cardozo	1 goal	2013 - 2013
Abel Xavier	1 goal	1994 - 1994
João Pinto	1 goal	1994 - 1994

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 01/03/1994. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Benfica

Ulf Kirsten	2 goals	1994 - 1994
Pavel Hapal	1 goal	1994 - 1994
Markus Happe	1 goal	1994 - 1994
Bernd Schuster	1 goal	1994 - 1994

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 01/03/1994. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Bayer Leverkusen

Isaías	2 matches	1994 - 1994
Neno	2 matches	1994 - 1994
William	2 matches	1994 - 1994
Hélder	2 matches	1994 - 1994
João Pinto	2 matches	1994 - 1994
Abel Xavier	2 matches	1994 - 1994

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 01/03/1994. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Benfica

Christian Wörns	2 matches	1994 - 1994
Ralf Becker	2 matches	1994 - 1994
Mario Tolkmitt	2 matches	1994 - 1994
Paulo Sérgio	2 matches	1994 - 1994
Andreas Fischer	2 matches	1994 - 1994
Franco Foda	2 matches	1994 - 1994