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Benfica 2-1 Liverpool - April 01, 2010 / (C3) Europa League 2009/2010

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(C3) Europa League 2009/2010 - Quarter-finals

Estadio da Luz - Lisbon - Portugal

April 01, 2010

Benfica

Portugal

2 - 1

Liverpool

England

(penalty) Óscar Cardozo

59'

(penalty) Óscar Cardozo

79'

Daniel Agger

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9' - Goal Daniel Agger

30' - Red card Ryan Babel

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59' - Goal Óscar Cardozo59

66' - Substitution Maxi Pereirais substituted by Nuno Gomes66

72' - Substitution Carlos Martinsis substituted by Ruben Amorim72

79' - Goal Óscar Cardozo79

82' - Substitution Fernando Torresis substituted by David N'Gog

87' - Substitution Pablo Aimaris substituted by Airton87

91' - Substitution Steven Gerrardis substituted by Yossi Benayoun

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Benfica

2 - 1

Liverpool

Benfica Liverpool

Team line-ups

Benfica

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

7Cardozo5979

Óscar Cardozo

Paraguay

B.date20/05/1983

Age26 years

H1m93

positionStriker

20Di María

Ángel Di María

Argentina

B.date14/02/1988

Age22 years

H1m80

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

10Aimar87

Pablo Aimar

Argentina

B.date03/11/1979

Age30 years

H1m70

positionPlaymaker

8Ramires

Ramires

Brazil

B.date24/03/1987

Age23 years

H1m80

positionBox-to-box midfielder

6Javi García

Javi García

Spain

B.date08/02/1987

Age23 years

H1m86

positionDefensive Midfielder

17Martins72

Carlos Martins

Portugal

B.date29/04/1982

Age27 years

H1m73

positionPlaymaker

18Fábio Coentrão

Fábio Coentrão

Portugal

B.date11/03/1988

Age22 years

H1m81

positionLeft full-back

23David Luiz

David Luiz

Brazil

B.date22/04/1987

Age22 years

H1m88

positionLeft central defender

4Luisão

Luisão

Brazil

B.date13/02/1981

Age29 years

H1m92

positionRight central defender

14Pereira66

Maxi Pereira

Uruguay

B.date08/06/1984

Age25 years

H1m73

positionRight full-back

13Júlio César

Júlio César

Brazil

B.date02/09/1986

Age23 years

H1m90

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
13	G	Júlio César		23	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Luisão		29	242	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	D	David Luiz		22	96	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	D	Maxi Pereira	66	25	109	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	D	Fábio Coentrão		22	46	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	M	Javi García		23	40	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Ramires		23	36	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	M	Carlos Martins	72	27	59	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	M	Pablo Aimar	87	30	63	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	M	Ángel Di María		22	119	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	F	Óscar Cardozo	5979	26	120	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.7 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Liverpool

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

Torres82

Fernando Torres

Spain

B.date20/03/1984

Age26 years

H1m86

positionStriker

Babel30

Ryan Babel

Netherlands

B.date19/12/1986

Age23 years

H1m85

positionLeft Winger

Gerrard90+1

Steven Gerrard

England

B.date30/05/1980

Age29 years

H1m83

positionRight central midfielder

Kuyt

Dirk Kuyt

Netherlands

B.date22/07/1980

Age29 years

H1m84

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

Leiva

Lucas Leiva

Brazil

B.date09/01/1987

Age23 years

H1m79

positionDefensive Midfielder

Mascherano

Javier Mascherano

Argentina

B.date08/06/1984

Age25 years

H1m74

positionDefensive Midfielder

Insúa

Emiliano Insúa

Argentina

B.date07/01/1989

Age21 years

H1m79

positionLeft full-back

Agger9

Daniel Agger

Denmark

B.date12/12/1984

Age25 years

H1m91

positionCentral defender

Carragher

Jamie Carragher

England

B.date28/01/1978

Age32 years

H1m82

positionRight central defender

Johnson

Glen Johnson

England

B.date23/08/1984

Age25 years

H1m81

positionRight full-back

Reina

Pepe Reina

Spain

B.date31/08/1982

Age27 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Pepe Reina		27	250	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Daniel Agger	9	25	107	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Jamie Carragher		32	621	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Emiliano Insúa		21	61	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Glen Johnson		25	28	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Javier Mascherano		25	130	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Lucas Leiva		23	112	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Steven Gerrard	90+1	29	523	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Dirk Kuyt		29	191	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Fernando Torres	82	26	114	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ryan Babel	30	23	121	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.9 years

Average number of matches played for the team

205

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
5	D	Ruben Amorim	72	25	67	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	M	Airton	87	20	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	F	Nuno Gomes	66	33	381	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		Yossi Benayoun	90+1	29	126	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	F		David N'Gog	82	20	48	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Júlio César

Quim

OUT

Pablo Aimar

Javier Saviola

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Lucas Leiva

Maxi Rodríguez

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Jorge Jesus

Success rate in this team:

75 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

42 %

Jesus vs Liverpool

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on April 01, 2010

Jesus vs Benítez

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on April 01, 2010

Manager

Age

Match num

Rafa Benítez

341

Success rate in this team:

56 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

50 %

Benítez vs Benfica

0 victory

0 draw

3 losses

Latest figure on April 01, 2010

Benítez vs Jesus

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on April 01, 2010

Referee

Jonas Eriksson

2 victories	0 draw	1 loss	Benfica3 matches	General total	Liverpool3 matches	0 victory	0 draw	3 losses
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Benfica1 match	Season total	Liverpool1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on March 13, 2014					Latest figure on May 18, 2016

Videos

June 21, 2010

Comments

Key figures

Pepe Reina played his game number 250 in his professional career with Liverpool

Liverpool keeps its 5 matches with at least one goal scored running (since 15/03/2010).

Benfica keeps its 4 consecutive matches without a loss vs Liverpool running (since 07/11/1984). It's a record streak. The first of history

Read the next 19 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VBenfica 3-0 Leiria03/02/2010

VBenfica 1-0 Os Belenenses13/02/2010

VBenfica 4-0 Hertha Berlin23/02/2010

VBenfica 3-1 Paços de Ferreira07/03/2010

DBenfica 1-1 Marseille11/03/2010

VBenfica 1-0 Braga27/03/2010

Overall

VBenfica 3-1 Paços de Ferreira07/03/2010

DBenfica 1-1 Marseille11/03/2010

VNacional Madeira 0-1 Benfica14/03/2010

VMarseille 1-2 Benfica18/03/2010

VFC Porto 0-3 Benfica21/03/2010

VBenfica 1-0 Braga27/03/2010

Current form

Away

LArsenal 1-0 Liverpool10/02/2010

DManchester City 0-0 Liverpool21/02/2010

VUnirea Urziceni 1-3 Liverpool25/02/2010

LWigan 1-0 Liverpool08/03/2010

LLille 1-0 Liverpool11/03/2010

LManchester United 2-1 Liverpool21/03/2010

Overall

LWigan 1-0 Liverpool08/03/2010

LLille 1-0 Liverpool11/03/2010

VLiverpool 4-1 Portsmouth15/03/2010

VLiverpool 3-0 Lille18/03/2010

LManchester United 2-1 Liverpool21/03/2010

VLiverpool 3-0 Sunderland28/03/2010

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	1	4
Unbeaten streak	11	25
Drawless streak	1	4
Scoring streak	11	24
Invincibility streak	1	2

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Loosing streak	3	0
Unbeaten streak	0	1
Winless streak	3	0
Drawless streak	4	8
Scoring streak	1	4
Conceding streak	4	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

16	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	13
1	FBDB index ranking (National)	4

Results

12	Number of games (Competition total)	4
6	Number of games (Home / Away)	2
8	Victories (Competition total)	3
5	Victories (Home / Away)	1
2	Draws (Competition total)	0
1	Draws (Home / Away)	0
2	Losses (Competition total)	1
0	Losses (Home / Away)	1

Goals

26	Goals scored (Competition total)	7
18	Goals scored (Home / Away)	3
8	Goals conceded (Competition total)	2
2	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	2
2.17	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.75
3	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1.5
0.67	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0.5
0.33	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1

Betting aid

7	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	2
4	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	1
5	Clean sheets (Competition total)	2
4	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
1	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	1
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	1
6	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	1
2	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	1
4-0 (2 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	3-1 (1 times)

Bookings

24	Yellow cards (Competition total)	7
6	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	4
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Óscar Cardozo	7 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	2 goals	Fernando Torres
Óscar Cardozo	6 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	1 goal	Steven Gerrard
Óscar Cardozo	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Steven Gerrard
Óscar Cardozo	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
-		Player with most assists (Competition total)	1 assist	Dani Pacheco
Maxi Pereira	2 goals during the last 2 matches	The fittest player	2 goals during the last match	Fernando Torres

Historical head to head

Home

4 matches

2 v

0 d

2 l

4 gf

6 ga

Away

4 matches

1 v

0 d

3 l

4 gf

8 ga

Total

8 matches

3 v

0 d

5 l

8 gf

14 ga

Historical head to head

Home

4 matches

3 v

0 d

1 l

8 gf

4 ga

Away

4 matches

2 v

0 d

2 l

6 gf

4 ga

Total

8 matches

5 v

0 d

3 l

14 gf

8 ga

Largest victory

Overall	2 - 0	March 08, 2006
Home	1 - 0	February 21, 2006

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 1	March 21, 1984
Away	4 - 1	March 21, 1984

Latest head to head

March 08, 2006 - Ligue des Champions 2005/2006

Liverpool

0 - 2

Benfica

February 21, 2006 - Ligue des Champions 2005/2006

Benfica

1 - 0

Liverpool

November 07, 1984 - Coupe d’Europe des Clubs Champions 1984/1985

Benfica

1 - 0

Liverpool

October 24, 1984 - Coupe d’Europe des Clubs Champions 1984/1985

Liverpool

3 - 1

Benfica

March 21, 1984 - Coupe d’Europe des Clubs Champions 1983/1984

Benfica

1 - 4

Liverpool

Best historical scorers against Liverpool

Nené	3 goals	1978 - 1984
Simão	1 goal	2006 - 2006
Michael Manniche	1 goal	1984 - 1984
Luisão	1 goal	2006 - 2006
Fabrizio Miccoli	1 goal	2006 - 2006
Diamantino	1 goal	1984 - 1984

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 01/03/1978. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Benfica

Ian Rush	5 goals	1984 - 1984
Ronnie Whelan	2 goals	1984 - 1984
Emelyn Hughes	1 goal	1978 - 1978
Phil Neal	1 goal	1978 - 1978
Terry McDermott	1 goal	1978 - 1978
Craig Johnston	1 goal	1984 - 1984

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 01/03/1978. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Liverpool

Bento	6 matches	1978 - 1984
Minervino Pietra	5 matches	1978 - 1984
Antonio Bastos Lopes	5 matches	1978 - 1984
Nené	5 matches	1978 - 1984
Han Shéu	4 matches	1978 - 1984
Diamantino	4 matches	1984 - 1984

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 01/03/1978. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Benfica

Kenny Dalglish	6 matches	1978 - 1984
Phil Neal	6 matches	1978 - 1984
Alan Hansen	5 matches	1978 - 1984
Bruce Grobbelaar	4 matches	1984 - 1984
Alan Kennedy	4 matches	1984 - 1984
Ronnie Whelan	4 matches	1984 - 1984