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Sporting CP 3-2 Benfica - February 21, 2009 / Liga Sagres 2008/2009

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Liga Sagres 2008/2009 - Round 19

Estadio José Alvalade - Lisbon - Portugal

February 21, 2009

44 863

3 - 2

Benfica

Liédson

11'

Derlei

47'

Liédson

82'

36'

José Antonio Reyes (penalty)

89'

Óscar Cardozo

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11' - Goal Liédson11

26' - Substitution Hélder Postigais substituted by Derlei26

36' - Goal José Antonio Reyes

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47' - Goal Derlei47

57' - Substitution Hassan Yebdais substituted by Ángel Di María

65' - Substitution David Suazois substituted by Óscar Cardozo

78' - Substitution Simon Vukcevicis substituted by Bruno Pereirinha78

78' - Substitution Ruben Amorimis substituted by Nuno Gomes

82' - Goal Liédson82

89' - Goal Óscar Cardozo

91' - Substitution Marat Izmaylovis substituted by Tonel91

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Sporting CP

3 - 2

Benfica

Sporting CP Benfica

Team line-ups

Sporting CP

16 Ferreira

Tiago Ferreira

Portugal

B.date16/04/1975

Age33 years

H1m80

positionGoalkeeper

4 Polga

Anderson Polga

Brazil

B.date09/02/1979

Age30 years

H1m82

positionCentral defender

3 Carriço

Daniel Carriço

Portugal

B.date04/08/1988

Age20 years

H1m80

positionLeft central defender

18 Grimi

Leandro Grimi

Argentina

B.date09/02/1985

Age24 years

H1m85

positionLeft full-back

5 Silva

Pedro Silva

Brazil

B.date25/04/1981

Age27 years

H1m80

positionRight full-back

26 Rochemback

Fábio Rochemback

Brazil

B.date10/12/1981

Age27 years

H1m82

positionDefensive Midfielder

7 Izmaylov90+1

Marat Izmaylov

Russia

B.date21/09/1982

Age26 years

H1m72

positionRight Midfielder

28 Moutinho

João Moutinho

Portugal

B.date08/09/1986

Age22 years

H1m70

positionLeft central midfielder

10 Vukcevic78

Simon Vukcevic

Montenegro

B.date29/01/1986

Age23 years

H1m79

positionOffensive Midfielder

23 Postiga26

Hélder Postiga

Portugal

B.date02/08/1982

Age26 years

H1m82

positionStriker

31 Liédson1182

Liédson

Portugal

B.date17/12/1977

Age31 years

H1m75

positionStriker

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
16	G	Tiago Ferreira		33	116	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Anderson Polga		30	227	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Daniel Carriço		20	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	D	Leandro Grimi		24	39	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Pedro Silva		27	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
26	M	Fábio Rochemback		27	92	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Marat Izmaylov	90+1	26	75	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
28	M	João Moutinho		22	197	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	M	Simon Vukcevic	78	23	64	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	F	Hélder Postiga	26	26	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
31	F	Liédson	1182	31	229	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.3 years

Average number of matches played for the team

100

Benfica

1 Moreira

Moreira

Portugal

B.date20/03/1982

Age26 years

H1m84

positionGoalkeeper

27 Sidnei

Sidnei

Brazil

B.date23/08/1989

Age19 years

H1m88

positionLeft central defender

23 David Luiz

David Luiz

Brazil

B.date22/04/1987

Age21 years

H1m88

positionLeft central defender

4 Luisão

Luisão

Brazil

B.date13/02/1981

Age28 years

H1m92

positionRight central defender

14 Pereira

Maxi Pereira

Uruguay

B.date08/06/1984

Age24 years

H1m73

positionRight full-back

15 Amorim78

Ruben Amorim

Portugal

B.date27/01/1985

Age24 years

H1m82

positionDefensive Midfielder

26 Yebda57

Hassan Yebda

Algeria

B.date14/05/1984

Age24 years

H1m87

positionCentre Midfield

8 Katsouranis

Costas Katsouranis

Greece

B.date21/06/1979

Age29 years

H1m83

positionCentre Midfield

6 Reyes36

José Antonio Reyes

Spain

B.date01/09/1983

Age25 years

H1m76

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

10 Aimar

Pablo Aimar

Argentina

B.date03/11/1979

Age29 years

H1m70

positionPlaymaker

30 Suazo65

David Suazo

Honduras

B.date05/11/1979

Age29 years

H1m82

positionStriker

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Moreira		26	130	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
27	D	Sidnei		19	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	D	David Luiz		21	43	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Luisão		28	197	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	D	Maxi Pereira		24	65	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	M	Ruben Amorim	78	24	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
26	M	Hassan Yebda	57	24	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Costas Katsouranis		29	112	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	M	José Antonio Reyes	36	25	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	M	Pablo Aimar		29	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
30	F	David Suazo	65	29	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.3 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
13	D	Tonel	90+1	28	133	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
25	M	Bruno Pereirinha	78	20	81	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	F	Derlei	4726	33	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
20	M	Ángel Di María	57	21	68	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	F	Nuno Gomes	78	32	351	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	F	Óscar Cardozo	8965	25	68	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Hélder Postiga

Derlei

OUT

João Moutinho

Miguel Veloso

OUT

Leandro Grimi

Adrien Silva

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Maxi Pereira

Jorge Ribeiro

OUT

David Suazo

Óscar Cardozo

OUT

Hassan Yebda

Carlos Martins

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Paulo Bento

162

Success rate in this team:

62 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

62 %

Paulo Bento vs Benfica

3 victories

3 draws

2 losses

Latest figure on February 21, 2009

Paulo Bento vs Sánchez Flores

1 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on February 21, 2009

Manager

Age

Match num

Quique Sánchez Flores

Success rate in this team:

50 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

47 %

Sánchez Flores vs Sporting CP

1 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on February 21, 2009

Sánchez Flores vs Paulo Bento

1 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on February 21, 2009

Referee

Olegario Benquerença

19 victories	8 draws	7 losses	Sporting CP34 matches	General total	Benfica24 matches	12 victories	4 draws	8 losses
2 victories	1 draw	0 loss	Sporting CP3 matches	Season total	Benfica2 matches	0 victory	1 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on April 12, 2015					Latest figure on September 10, 2010

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Key figures

Sporting CP keeps its 5 matches with at least one goal scored at home running (since 10/01/2009). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 13/04/2008-09/11/2008 time period (10 matches).

Liédson scored 8 goals vs Benfica in Primeira Liga

Quique Sánchez Flores has registered 50 goal(s) since the 24/05/2008 as the manager of Benfica next after this match..

Read the next 18 key stats

General ranking

	1	FC Porto	41 pts	19 rd
	2	Benfica	37 pts	19 rd
+1	3	Sporting CP	37 pts	19 rd
-1	4	Leixões	34 pts	18 rd
	5	Nacional Madeira	32 pts	18 rd

General ranking

	1	FC Porto	41 pts	19 rd
	2	Benfica	37 pts	19 rd
+1	3	Sporting CP	37 pts	19 rd
-1	4	Leixões	34 pts	18 rd
	5	Nacional Madeira	32 pts	18 rd

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VSporting CP 3-0 Maritimo Funchal14/12/2008

DSporting CP 0-0 Académica20/12/2008

VSporting CP 2-0 Maritimo Funchal10/01/2009

VSporting CP 5-1 Paços de Ferreira18/01/2009

VSporting CP 4-1 FC Porto04/02/2009

LSporting CP 2-3 Braga08/02/2009

Overall

VSporting CP 5-1 Paços de Ferreira18/01/2009

DNacional Madeira 1-1 Sporting CP24/01/2009

DTrofense 0-0 Sporting CP31/01/2009

VSporting CP 4-1 FC Porto04/02/2009

LSporting CP 2-3 Braga08/02/2009

VOs Belenenses 1-2 Sporting CP14/02/2009

Current form

Away

VMaritimo Funchal 0-6 Benfica07/12/2008

DLeixões 0-0 Benfica13/12/2008

LTrofense 2-0 Benfica04/01/2009

VVitória Guimarães 0-2 Benfica07/01/2009

DOs Belenenses 0-0 Benfica23/01/2009

DFC Porto 1-1 Benfica08/02/2009

Overall

VBenfica 1-0 Os Belenenses17/01/2009

DOs Belenenses 0-0 Benfica23/01/2009

VBenfica 1-0 Rio Ave31/01/2009

VBenfica 2-1 Vitória Guimarães04/02/2009

DFC Porto 1-1 Benfica08/02/2009

VBenfica 3-2 Paços de Ferreira15/02/2009

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Loosing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	0	1
Winless streak	1	0
Drawless streak	4	3
Scoring streak	4	3
Conceding streak	3	3

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Drawing streak	2	0
Unbeaten streak	3	9
Winless streak	2	0
Drawless streak	0	1
Scoring streak	1	4
Conceding streak	1	3

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

4	General ranking (Competition total)	2
9	General ranking (Home / Away)	4
27	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	66
2	FBDB index ranking (National)	3

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

18	Number of games (Competition total)	18
8	Number of games (Home / Away)	9
10	Victories (Competition total)	10
4	Victories (Home / Away)	4
4	Draws (Competition total)	7
1	Draws (Home / Away)	4
4	Losses (Competition total)	1
3	Losses (Home / Away)	1

Goals

23	Goals scored (Competition total)	30
12	Goals scored (Home / Away)	17
12	Goals conceded (Competition total)	15
7	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	9
1.28	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.67
1.5	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1.89
0.67	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0.83
0.88	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1

Betting aid

5	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	6
3	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	3
10	Clean sheets (Competition total)	8
4	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	3
5	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	3
2	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	2
6	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	9
3	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	5
2-0 (3 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	1-1 (3 times)

Bookings

41	Yellow cards (Competition total)	44
18	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	33
5	Red cards (Competition total)	5
1	Red cards (Home / Away)	3

Key players

Liédson	6 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	6 goals	Óscar Cardozo
Hélder Postiga	2 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	4 goals	Nuno Gomes
João Moutinho	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	2 penalties	Óscar Cardozo
João Moutinho	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	2 penalties	Óscar Cardozo
Simon Vukcevic	4 goals during the last 8 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Óscar Cardozo

Historical head to head

Home

64 matches

28 v

15 d

21 l

92 gf

78 ga

Away

64 matches

10 v

19 d

35 l

71 gf

120 ga

Neutral ground

3 matches

0 v

0 d

3 l

2 gf

8 ga

Total

131 matches

38 v

34 d

59 l

165 gf

206 ga

Historical head to head

Home

64 matches

35 v

19 d

10 l

120 gf

71 ga

Away

64 matches

21 v

15 d

28 l

78 gf

92 ga

Neutral ground

3 matches

3 v

0 d

0 l

8 gf

2 ga

Total

131 matches

59 v

34 d

38 l

206 gf

165 ga

Largest victory

Overall	7 - 1	December 14, 1986
Home	7 - 1	December 14, 1986

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	March 12, 1986
Away	4 - 1	February 21, 1998

Latest head to head

September 27, 2008 - Liga Sagres 2008/2009

Benfica

2 - 0

Sporting CP logo Sporting CP

April 16, 2008 - Taça de Portugal 2007/2008

Sporting CP

5 - 3

Benfica

March 02, 2008 - SuperLiga 2007/2008

Sporting CP

1 - 1

Benfica

September 29, 2007 - SuperLiga 2007/2008

Benfica

0 - 0

Sporting CP logo Sporting CP

April 29, 2007 - SuperLiga 2006/2007

Benfica

1 - 1

Sporting CP logo Sporting CP

Best historical scorers against Benfica

Jordão	13 goals	1979 - 1984
Manuel Fernandes	12 goals	1976 - 1986
Liédson	8 goals	2005 - 2008
Hector Yazalde	5 goals	1972 - 1974
Ivaylo Yordanov	4 goals	1992 - 1999
Mário Jardel	3 goals	2001 - 2002

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 19/03/1939. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Sporting CP

Eusebio	26 goals	1963 - 1973
Nené	8 goals	1970 - 1976
José Torres	8 goals	1963 - 1970
João Pinto	7 goals	1994 - 1998
Artur Jorge	6 goals	1970 - 1973
Simão	5 goals	2001 - 2006

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 19/03/1939. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Benfica

Manuel Fernandes	30 matches	1976 - 1987
Jordão	21 matches	1977 - 1986
Carlos Xavier	17 matches	1981 - 1995
Vitor Damas	17 matches	1972 - 1987
Oceano	17 matches	1984 - 1998
Beto	17 matches	1996 - 2005

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 15/01/1939. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Sporting CP

António Simões	32 matches	1962 - 1975
Eusebio	29 matches	1962 - 1974
Mario Coluna	21 matches	1960 - 1969
Nuno Gomes	20 matches	1997 - 2008
Jose Augusto	20 matches	1960 - 1969
José Henrique	20 matches	1967 - 1976

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 15/01/1939. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

Jordão

279 matches

126 matches

1971 - 1986

Jorge Paulo Cadete

186 matches

20 matches

1987 - 1999

Joao Laranjeira

169 matches

9 matches

1971 - 1981

Nelson Fernandes

150 matches

41 matches

1965 - 1975

Emílio Peixe

138 matches

2 matches

1990 - 2002

João Pinto

137 matches

300 matches

1992 - 2004

Total : 31 players

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/09/1961. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

João Pinto

137 matches

300 matches

1992 - 2004

Simão

58 matches

226 matches

1997 - 2007

António Pacheco

28 matches

220 matches

1987 - 1995

Artur Correia

83 matches

146 matches

1971 - 1980

Jordão

279 matches

126 matches

1971 - 1986

Paulo Sousa

37 matches

112 matches

1989 - 1994

Total : 31 players

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/09/1961. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Competition info

The other matches

February 20, 2009

Paços

0 2

FC Porto

Line-ups available

February 21, 2009

Rio Ave

1 0

Vitória S.

Line-ups available

February 22, 2009

Line-ups available

Line-ups available

Line-ups available

Line-ups available

February 23, 2009

Leixões

2 2

Os Belenenses

Line-ups available

Post-match general ranking

		pts	m	v	d	l	GF	GA	diff
1	FC Porto	41	19	12	5	2	35	14	+21
2	Benfica	37	19	10	7	2	32	18	+14
+13	Sporting CP	37	19	11	4	4	26	14	+12
-14	Leixões	34	18	9	7	2	20	12	+8
5	Nacional Madeira	32	18	9	5	4	30	19	+11
6	Braga	29	18	8	5	5	19	11	+8
7	Maritimo Funchal	29	18	8	5	5	20	16	+4
8	Vitória Guimarães	24	18	6	6	6	19	21	-2
9	Estrela da Amadora	21	18	5	6	7	14	21	-7
10	Naval 1 de Maio	20	18	5	5	8	16	22	-6
11	Académica	18	18	4	6	8	13	19	-6
+412	Rio Ave	16	19	4	4	11	13	23	-10
-113	Paços de Ferreira	16	19	4	4	11	23	34	-11
-114	Vitória Setúbal	16	19	4	4	11	11	24	-13
-115	Belenenses	15	18	3	6	9	15	28	-13
-116	Trofense	14	18	3	5	10	15	25	-10

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Sporting CP 3-2 Benfica - February 21, 2009 / Liga Sagres 2008/2009

Sporting CP

3 - 2

Benfica

Team line-ups

First 11

First 11

Substitutes

Substitutes

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Manager

Paulo Bento vs Benfica

Paulo Bento vs Sánchez Flores

Manager

Sánchez Flores vs Sporting CP

Sánchez Flores vs Paulo Bento

Referee

Videos

Comments

Key figures

General ranking

General ranking

Pre-match

Current form

Current form

Running streaks

Running streaks

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

Goals

Betting aid

Bookings

Key players

Historical head to head

Historical head to head

Largest victory

Largest victory

Latest head to head

Best historical scorers against Benfica

Best historical scorers against Sporting CP

Players with most games played vs Benfica

Players with most games played vs Sporting CP

They played in both sides

They played in both sides

Competition info

The other matches

Post-match general ranking