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FC Barcelona 2-0 Benfica - April 05, 2006 / Champions League 2005/2006

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Champions League 2005/2006 - Quarter-finals

Camp Nou - Barcelona - Spain

April 05, 2006

90 000

2 - 0

Benfica

Portugal

(right foot) Ronaldinho

19'

(right foot) Samuel Eto'o

89'

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19' - Goal Ronaldinho19

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55' - Substitution Geovanniis substituted by Georgios Karagounis

72' - Substitution Betois substituted by Laurent Robert

82' - Substitution Manuel Fernandesis substituted by Marcel

84' - Substitution Mark van Bommelis substituted by Edmílson84

85' - Substitution Henrik Larssonis substituted by Ludovic Giuly85

89' - Goal Samuel Eto'o89

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

FC Barcelona

2 - 0

Benfica

FC Barcelona Benfica

Team line-ups

FC Barcelona

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

10Ronaldinho19

Ronaldinho

Brazil

B.date21/03/1980

Age26 years

H1m81

positionPlaymaker

9Eto'o89

Samuel Eto'o

Cameroon

B.date10/03/1981

Age25 years

H1m80

positionStriker

7Larsson85

Henrik Larsson

Sweden

B.date20/09/1971

Age34 years

H1m78

positionStriker

20Deco

Deco

Portugal

B.date27/08/1977

Age28 years

H1m77

positionLeft central midfielder

17van Bommel84

Mark van Bommel

Netherlands

B.date22/04/1977

Age28 years

H1m87

positionDefensive Midfielder

24Iniesta

Andrés Iniesta

Spain

B.date11/05/1984

Age21 years

H1m70

positionLeft central midfielder

12van Bronckhorst

Giovanni van Bronckhorst

Netherlands

B.date05/02/1975

Age31 years

H1m78

positionLeft full-back

23Oleguer

Oleguer

Spain

B.date02/02/1980

Age26 years

H1m87

positionVersatile Defender

5Puyol

Carles Puyol

Spain

B.date13/04/1978

Age27 years

H1m78

positionCentral defender

2Belletti

Juliano Belletti

Brazil

B.date20/06/1976

Age29 years

H1m79

positionRight full-back

1Valdés

Víctor Valdés

Spain

B.date14/01/1982

Age24 years

H1m83

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Víctor Valdés		24	149	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	D	Oleguer		26	116	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Carles Puyol		27	285	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
12	D	Giovanni van Bronckhorst		31	113	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	D	Juliano Belletti		29	71	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	M	Mark van Bommel	84	28	31	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	M	Deco		28	78	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
24	M	Andrés Iniesta		21	111	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	F	Ronaldinho	19	26	126	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	F	Henrik Larsson	85	34	51	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Samuel Eto'o	89	25	83	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.2 years

Average number of matches played for the team

110

Benfica

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

20Simão

Simão

Portugal

B.date30/10/1979

Age26 years

H1m70

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

30Miccoli

Fabrizio Miccoli

Italy

B.date27/06/1979

Age26 years

H1m68

positionStriker

11Geovanni55

Geovanni

Brazil

B.date11/01/1980

Age26 years

H1m71

positionForward

14Fernandes82

Manuel Fernandes

Portugal

B.date05/02/1986

Age20 years

H1m76

positionCentre Midfield

6Petit

Armando Petit

Portugal

B.date25/09/1976

Age29 years

H1m72

positionRight central midfielder

16Beto72

Beto

Brazil

B.date20/11/1976

Age29 years

H1m77

positionCentre Midfield

33Rocha

Ricardo Rocha

Portugal

B.date03/10/1978

Age27 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

4Luisão

Luisão

Brazil

B.date13/02/1981

Age25 years

H1m92

positionRight central defender

3Anderson

Cleber Anderson

Brazil

B.date27/04/1980

Age25 years

H1m86

positionCentral defender

5Léo

Léo

Brazil

B.date06/07/1975

Age30 years

H1m69

positionLeft full-back

31Moretto

Marcelo Moretto

Brazil

B.date10/05/1978

Age27 years

H1m95

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
31	G	Marcelo Moretto		27	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Cleber Anderson		25	37	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Luisão		25	101	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
33	D	Ricardo Rocha		27	136	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Léo		30	33	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	M	Beto	72	29	33	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	M	Manuel Fernandes	82	20	90	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	M	Armando Petit		29	139	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	F	Simão		26	184	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	F	Geovanni	55	26	127	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
30	F	Fabrizio Miccoli		26	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.4 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
15	D		Edmílson	84	29	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M		Ludovic Giuly	85	29	70	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
10	M	Georgios Karagounis	55	29	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
34	M	Laurent Robert	72	30	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	F	Marcel	82	24	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Juliano Belletti

Thiago Motta

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Geovanni

Nuno Gomes

OUT

Manuel Fernandes

Georgios Karagounis

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Frank Rijkaard

146

Success rate in this team:

62 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

50 %

Rijkaard vs Benfica

1 victory

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on April 05, 2006

Rijkaard vs Koeman

1 victory

2 draws

1 loss

Latest figure on April 05, 2006

Manager

Age

Match num

Ronald Koeman

Success rate in this team:

57 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

58 %

Koeman vs FC Barcelona

0 victory

1 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on April 05, 2006

Koeman vs Rijkaard

1 victory

2 draws

1 loss

Latest figure on April 05, 2006

Referee

Lubos Michel

1 victory	2 draws	1 loss	FC Barcelona4 matches	General total	Benfica2 matches	0 victory	0 draw	2 losses
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	FC Barcelona1 match	Season total	Benfica2 matches	0 victory	0 draw	2 losses
Latest figure on August 26, 2008					Latest figure on April 05, 2006

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Key figures

FC Barcelona keeps its 4 matches with only one goal conceded at most vs Benfica running (since 11/12/1991). It's a record streak. The first of history

FC Barcelona keeps its 4 consecutive matches without a loss vs Benfica running (since 11/12/1991). It's a record streak. The first of history

FC Barcelona keeps its 10 matches with only one goal conceded at most in Champions League running (since 14/09/2005). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 24/09/2002-09/04/2003 time period (12 matches).

Read the next 11 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

LFC Barcelona 1-3 Atlético Madrid05/02/2006

VFC Barcelona 5-1 Real Betis18/02/2006

VFC Barcelona 3-2 Deportivo La Coruña04/03/2006

DFC Barcelona 1-1 Chelsea07/03/2006

VFC Barcelona 3-1 Getafe21/03/2006

DFC Barcelona 1-1 Real Madrid01/04/2006

Overall

LOsasuna 2-1 FC Barcelona12/03/2006

VReal Sociedad 0-2 FC Barcelona18/03/2006

VFC Barcelona 3-1 Getafe21/03/2006

DMálaga 0-0 FC Barcelona25/03/2006

DBenfica 0-0 FC Barcelona28/03/2006

DFC Barcelona 1-1 Real Madrid01/04/2006

Current form

Away

LLeiria 3-1 Benfica04/02/2006

LVitória Guimarães 2-0 Benfica18/02/2006

VEstrela da Amadora 1-2 Benfica04/03/2006

VLiverpool 0-2 Benfica08/03/2006

VRio Ave 0-1 Benfica19/03/2006

VOs Belenenses 1-2 Benfica01/04/2006

Overall

DBenfica 0-0 Naval 1 de Maio12/03/2006

LBenfica 0-1 Vitória Guimarães15/03/2006

VRio Ave 0-1 Benfica19/03/2006

VBenfica 1-0 Braga25/03/2006

DBenfica 0-0 FC Barcelona28/03/2006

VOs Belenenses 1-2 Benfica01/04/2006

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Drawing streak	1	3
Unbeaten streak	5	5
Winless streak	1	3
Scoring streak	28	1
Conceding streak	7	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	4	1
Unbeaten streak	4	4
Drawless streak	10	1
Scoring streak	4	1
Conceding streak	1	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

3	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	13
1	FBDB index ranking (National)	1

Results

9	Number of games (Competition total)	9
4	Number of games (Home / Away)	4
6	Victories (Competition total)	4
3	Victories (Home / Away)	1
3	Draws (Competition total)	3
1	Draws (Home / Away)	2
0	Losses (Competition total)	2
0	Losses (Home / Away)	1

Goals

19	Goals scored (Competition total)	8
13	Goals scored (Home / Away)	4
4	Goals conceded (Competition total)	5
3	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	3
2.11	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	0.89
3.25	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1
0.44	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0.56
0.75	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	0.75

Betting aid

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

Bookings

15	Yellow cards (Competition total)	13
5	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	5
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Ronaldinho	6 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	2 goals	Fabrizio Miccoli
Ronaldinho	5 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	2 goals	Simão
Ronaldinho	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)		-
Ronaldinho	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Andrés Iniesta	2 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)	1 assist	Nelson
Andrés Iniesta	2 assists	Player with most assists (Home / Away)		-
Ronaldinho	6 goals, 1 assist during the last 9 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last 2 matches	Simão

Historical head to head

Home

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

2 gf

1 ga

Away

2 matches

0 v

2 d

0 l

0 gf

0 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

2 gf

3 ga

Total

4 matches

1 v

2 d

1 l

4 gf

4 ga

Historical head to head

Home

2 matches

0 v

2 d

0 l

0 gf

0 ga

Away

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

1 gf

2 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

3 gf

2 ga

Total

4 matches

1 v

2 d

1 l

4 gf

4 ga

Largest victory

Overall	2 - 1	April 15, 1992
Home	2 - 1	April 15, 1992

Largest victory

Overall	3 - 2	May 31, 1961
Away	No success yet

Latest head to head

March 28, 2006 - Ligue des Champions 2005/2006

Benfica

0 - 0

FC Barcelona logo FC Barcelona

April 15, 1992 - Coupe d’Europe des Clubs Champions 1991/1992

FC Barcelona

2 - 1

Benfica

December 11, 1991 - Coupe d’Europe des Clubs Champions 1991/1992

Benfica

0 - 0

FC Barcelona logo FC Barcelona

May 31, 1961 - (C1) Ligue des Champions 1960/1961

Benfica

3 - 2

FC Barcelona logo FC Barcelona

Best historical scorers against Benfica

Hristo Stoichkov	1 goal	1992 - 1992
Sandor Kocsis	1 goal	1961 - 1961
José María Bakero	1 goal	1992 - 1992
Zoltan Czibor	1 goal	1961 - 1961

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 31/05/1961. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against FC Barcelona

José Aguas	1 goal	1961 - 1961
César Brito	1 goal	1992 - 1992
Mario Coluna	1 goal	1961 - 1961

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 31/05/1961. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Benfica

Andoni Zubizarreta	2 matches	1991 - 1992
Ricardo Serna	2 matches	1991 - 1992
Josep Guardiola	2 matches	1991 - 1992
Michael Laudrup	2 matches	1991 - 1992
Eusebio	2 matches	1991 - 1992
Nando	2 matches	1991 - 1992

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 31/05/1961. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs FC Barcelona

Rui Costa	2 matches	1991 - 1992
Isaías	2 matches	1991 - 1992
César Brito	2 matches	1991 - 1992
Neno	2 matches	1991 - 1992
Rui Bento	2 matches	1991 - 1992
António Veloso	2 matches	1991 - 1992