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Benfica 3-1 FC Twente - August 24, 2011 / Champions League 2011/2012

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Champions League 2011/2012 - Decision Matches

Estadio da Luz - Lisbon - Portugal

August 24, 2011

Benfica

Portugal

3 - 1

FC Twente

Netherlands

Axel Witsel

46'

(header) Luisão

59'

(right foot) Axel Witsel

66'

85'

Bryan Ruiz (header) Assist by Ola John

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46' - Goal Axel Witsel46

59' - Goal Luisão59

60' - Substitution Willem Janssenis substituted by Ola John photo Emir Bajrami

60' - Substitution Steven Berghuisis substituted by Emir Bajrami

66' - Goal Axel Witsel66

74' - Substitution Nicolás Gaitánis substituted by Nemanja Matic photo Bruno César

74' - Substitution Nolitois substituted by Bruno César74

76' - Substitution Wout Bramais substituted by Denny Landzaat

84' - Substitution Óscar Cardozois substituted by Javier Saviola84

85' - Goal Bryan Ruiz

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Benfica

3 - 1

FC Twente

Benfica FC Twente

Team line-ups

Benfica

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

10Aimar

Pablo Aimar

Argentina

B.date03/11/1979

Age31 years

H1m70

positionPlaymaker

7Cardozo84

Óscar Cardozo

Paraguay

B.date20/05/1983

Age28 years

H1m93

positionStriker

28Witsel4666

Axel Witsel

Belgium

B.date12/01/1989

Age22 years

H1m83

positionCentre Midfield

9Nolito74

Nolito

Spain

B.date15/10/1986

Age24 years

H1m75

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

20Gaitán74

Nicolás Gaitán

Argentina

B.date23/02/1988

Age23 years

H1m73

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

6Javi García

Javi García

Spain

B.date08/02/1987

Age24 years

H1m86

positionDefensive Midfielder

3Emerson Conçeiçao

Emerson Conçeiçao

Brazil

B.date23/02/1986

Age25 years

H1m82

positionLeft full-back

24Garay

Ezequiel Garay

Argentina

B.date10/10/1986

Age24 years

H1m89

positionRight central defender

4Luisão59

Luisão

Brazil

B.date13/02/1981

Age30 years

H1m92

positionRight central defender

14Pereira

Maxi Pereira

Uruguay

B.date08/06/1984

Age27 years

H1m73

positionRight full-back

1Artur Moraes

Artur Moraes

Brazil

B.date25/01/1981

Age30 years

H1m92

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Artur Moraes		30	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Luisão	59	30	299	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
24	D	Ezequiel Garay		24	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Emerson Conçeiçao		25	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	D	Maxi Pereira		27	168	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	M	Javi García		24	97	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
28	M	Axel Witsel	4666	22	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	M	Nolito	74	24	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	M	Nicolás Gaitán	74	23	54	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	F	Pablo Aimar		31	122	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	F	Óscar Cardozo	84	28	173	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.2 years

Average number of matches played for the team

FC Twente

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

Berghuis60

Steven Berghuis

Netherlands

B.date19/12/1991

Age19 years

H1m66

positionRight Winger

Janko

Marc Janko

Austria

B.date25/06/1983

Age28 years

H1m96

positionStriker

Ruiz85

Bryan Ruiz

Costa Rica

B.date18/08/1985

Age26 years

H1m86

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

Janssen60

Willem Janssen

Netherlands

B.date04/07/1984

Age27 years

H1m86

positionCentral defender

Brama76

Wout Brama

Netherlands

B.date21/08/1986

Age25 years

H1m76

positionCentre Midfield

de Jong

Luuk de Jong

Netherlands

B.date27/08/1990

Age20 years

H1m88

positionStriker

Tiendalli

Dwight Tiendalli

Netherlands

B.date21/10/1985

Age25 years

H1m77

positionRight full-back

Wisgerhof

Peter Wisgerhof

Netherlands

B.date19/11/1979

Age31 years

H1m81

positionCentral defender

Douglas

Brazil

B.date12/01/1988

Age23 years

H1m92

positionLeft central defender

Cornelisse

Tim Cornelisse

Netherlands

B.date03/04/1978

Age33 years

H1m84

positionRight full-back

Mihaylov

Nikolai Mihaylov

Bulgaria

B.date28/06/1988

Age23 years

H1m94

positionGoalkeeper

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Nikolai Mihaylov		23	60	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Willem Janssen	60	27	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Peter Wisgerhof		31	127	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Douglas		23	159	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Dwight Tiendalli		25	68	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Tim Cornelisse		33	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Wout Brama	76	25	243	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Bryan Ruiz	85	26	96	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Steven Berghuis	60	19	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Luuk de Jong		20	78	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Marc Janko		28	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
21	M	Nemanja Matic	74	23	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Bruno César	74	22	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
30	F	Javier Saviola	84	29	97	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
M	Denny Landzaat	76	35	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ola John	60	19	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Emir Bajrami	60	23	37	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Emerson Conçeiçao

Joan Capdevila

OUT

Axel Witsel

Javier Saviola

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Nikolai Mihaylov

Sander Boschker

OUT

Steven Berghuis

Ola John

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Jorge Jesus

113

Success rate in this team:

69 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

45 %

Jesus vs FC Twente

1 victory

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on August 24, 2011

Jesus vs Adriaanse

1 victory

1 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on August 24, 2011

Manager

Age

Match num

Co Adriaanse

Success rate in this team:

63 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

49 %

Adriaanse vs Benfica

0 victory

1 draw

3 losses

Latest figure on August 24, 2011

Adriaanse vs Jesus

2 victories

1 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on August 24, 2011

Referee

Felix Brych

3 victories	2 draws	1 loss	Benfica6 matches	General total	FC Twente2 matches	0 victory	1 draw	1 loss
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Benfica1 match	Season total	FC Twente1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on August 18, 2021					Latest figure on August 24, 2011

Videos

November 14, 2011

Comments

Key figures

Marc Janko played his game number 50 in his professional career with FC Twente

Benfica keeps its 8 consecutive matches without a loss running (since 08/05/2011). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 12/12/2010-02/03/2011 time period (18 matches).

It's the first time Luisão scores 1 goal vs FC Twente in his professional career

Read the next 18 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VBenfica 2-1 Beira Mar17/04/2011

LBenfica 1-3 FC Porto20/04/2011

VBenfica 2-1 Braga28/04/2011

DBenfica 3-3 Leiria14/05/2011

VBenfica 2-0 Trabzonspor27/07/2011

VBenfica 3-1 Feirense20/08/2011

Overall

DBenfica 3-3 Leiria14/05/2011

VBenfica 2-0 Trabzonspor27/07/2011

DTrabzonspor 1-1 Benfica03/08/2011

DGil Vicente 2-2 Benfica12/08/2011

DFC Twente 2-2 Benfica16/08/2011

VBenfica 3-1 Feirense20/08/2011

Current form

Away

VADO Den Haag 1-2 FC Twente22/04/2011

LAjax Amsterdam 3-1 FC Twente15/05/2011

VAjax Amsterdam 1-2 FC Twente30/07/2011

DVaslui 0-0 FC Twente03/08/2011

VNAC Breda 0-1 FC Twente07/08/2011

VHeerenveen 1-5 FC Twente20/08/2011

Overall

VAjax Amsterdam 1-2 FC Twente30/07/2011

DVaslui 0-0 FC Twente03/08/2011

VNAC Breda 0-1 FC Twente07/08/2011

VFC Twente 2-0 AZ Alkmaar13/08/2011

DFC Twente 2-2 Benfica16/08/2011

VHeerenveen 1-5 FC Twente20/08/2011

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	2	1
Unbeaten streak	4	7
Drawless streak	2	1
Scoring streak	46	7
Conceding streak	1	4

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	2	1
Unbeaten streak	4	7
Drawless streak	2	1
Scoring streak	2	4
Conceding streak	1	2

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

19	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	11
2	FBDB index ranking (National)	1

Results

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

Goals

5	Goals scored (Competition total)	4
2	Goals scored (Home / Away)	0
3	Goals conceded (Competition total)	2
0	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	0
1.67	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.33
2	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0
1	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0.67
0	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	0

Betting aid

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

Bookings

8	Yellow cards (Competition total)	2
3	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	1
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Nolito	3 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	2 goals	Marc Janko
Nicolás Gaitán	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)		-
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Marc Janko
Pablo Aimar	2 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)	1 assist	Ola John
Pablo Aimar	1 assist	Player with most assists (Home / Away)		-
Nolito	3 goals during the last 3 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Bryan Ruiz

Historical head to head

Away

1 match

0 v

1 d

0 l

2 gf

2 ga

Total

1 match

0 v

1 d

0 l

2 gf

2 ga

Historical head to head

Home

1 match

0 v

1 d

0 l

2 gf

2 ga

Total

1 match

0 v

1 d

0 l

2 gf

2 ga

Latest head to head

August 16, 2011 - Ligue des Champions 2011/2012

FC Twente

2 - 2

Benfica

Best historical scorers against FC Twente

	Nolito	1 goal	2011 - 2011
	Óscar Cardozo	1 goal	2011 - 2011

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 16/08/2011. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Benfica

	Bryan Ruiz	1 goal	2011 - 2011
	Luuk de Jong	1 goal	2011 - 2011

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 16/08/2011. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs FC Twente

Javier Saviola	1 match	2011 - 2011
Artur Moraes	1 match	2011 - 2011
Luisão	1 match	2011 - 2011
Óscar Cardozo	1 match	2011 - 2011
Pablo Aimar	1 match	2011 - 2011
Nicolás Gaitán	1 match	2011 - 2011

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 16/08/2011. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Benfica

Bart Buysse	1 match	2011 - 2011
Tim Cornelisse	1 match	2011 - 2011
Wout Brama	1 match	2011 - 2011
Luuk de Jong	1 match	2011 - 2011
Emir Bajrami	1 match	2011 - 2011
Douglas	1 match	2011 - 2011