Chelsea 2-1 Benfica (Video) Match Highlights 04-04-2012

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Chelsea took a step toward the Champions League semifinals after wining 2-1 at home through Frank Lampard penalty in the first-half and Meireles goal in the 90 minute of the match.

Chelsea is going into the semifinals of UEFA Champions League facing Barcelona and the two other teams that are going to play in the semifinals are Real Madrid with Bayern Munich.

Before this game started, everyone knew that Benfica needed a minor miracle. Even those who believe Benfica was the much better team in the first leg had to admit before the match started that a comeback was unlikely.

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Benfica 0-1 Chelsea (Video) Match Highlights 27-03-2012

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Benfica on Tuesday staged a "tragedy in two acts" to be beaten by Chelsea in the Light (0-1) in the first leg of quarter-final of the Champions League. Kalou spoiled the party of 'embodied' with a solitary goal in the second part.

The first half was marked by a peer review of the strategies of the teams, with Benfica to show some offensive dominance and Chelsea betting on the counterattack.

After a goalless first half everything seemed open.

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Benfica 3-2 FC Porto (Video) Match Highlights 20-03-2012

Benfica qualified today for the fourth consecutive final of the League Cup in football after beating FC Porto 3-2 at the Stadium of Light.

Maxi Pereira opened the scoring for the "incarnate" for 04 minutes, but the sportsmen turned the result with goals from Lucho Gonzalez (08) and Mangala (17).

Three minutes before the break, Nolito reinstated equality for the people of Lisbon, who returned to the leadership of the marker and closed the result at 77 minutes, by Oscar Cardozo.

1-0 Maxi Pereira 4'

1-1 Lucho 8'

1-2 Mangala 17'

2-2 Nolito 42'

3-2 Cardozo 77'

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Benfica 3-1 Beira-Mar (Video) Match Highlights 16-03-2012

Benfica won the Beira-Mar, tonight, 3-1 at the Estadio da Luz in the starting 23. Matchday, and isolated second in the league. The Eagles remain a point behind champions FC Porto.

The Benfica opened the scoring after 26 minutes, by Paraguayan Oscar Cardozo, managing to extend the advantage to the edge of the range (44 m), through Gaitán.

1-0 Cardozo 25'

2-0 Gaitan 43'

3-0 Cardoso 47'

3-1 Cássio 90'

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Paços de Ferreira 1-2 Benfica (Video) Match Highlights 11-03-2012

Benfica won this Sunday in the grounds of Pacos Ferreira 1-2, and was thus a point of first place in the Portuguese League. It was a triumph of belief and the quality of football Benfica.

Intensity, a lot of intensity. That's what we saw from the Benfica team from the first whistle against the Pacos Ferreira.

In a match that Capdevila, Nolito and Saviola were the novelties presented by the coach Jorge Jesus, Benfica began to arrive along with the danger of network Cassio to three minutes.

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Benfica 2-0 Zenit Petersburg (Video) Match Highlights 06-03-2012

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Benfica went over leg defeat to Zenit St Petersburg and has qualified for the Champions League quarter finals after winning 2-0 on Da Luz.

After 2-3 in the match tour of Russia and appalling as shown in the last month, Benfica managed to reinvent itself in front of a stadium in delirium. Lusitania needed at least a limited success to go to knockout round, what they did at the end of a match and intricate.

1-0 Pereira M. 45'

2-0 Oliveira 90'

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Benfica 2-3 FC Porto (Video) Match Highlights 02-03-2012

FC Porto won the Portuguese league Clasico by winning on the field of Benfica (2-3) at the 21st day. The win allows the fund to take three points ahead of his rival in Lisbon's lead.

Porto opened the scoring by Hulk (6th). Benfica turned things around with a brace from Cardozo (41st, 48th) before being joined to score on a goal by James (64th).

Maicon (87th) gave the victory to the fund on a disputed goal. Benfica finished with ten men after the expulsion of the former Lille Emerson (77th).

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0-1 Hulk 6'

1-1 Cardozo 41'

2-1 Cardozo 47'

2-2 James 64'

2-3 Maicon 87'

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Academica 0-0 Benfica (Video) Match Highlights 25-02-2012

Benfica added the third consecutive game without a win and was at the mercy of FC Porto, who now only need to win this Sunday the Feirense to regain leadership of the League.

The losses in St. Petersburg and Guimarães had echoes in Coimbra, where the eagles were not below zero.

After the tumble in the Minho, which claimed the first points the Eagles from the 10th day, the trip to Braga, and the consequent shortening of the benefit over FC Porto to two points, a visit to Coimbra clothed is of particular importance.

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Vitoria Guimaraes 1-0 Benfica (Video) Match Highlights 20-02-2012

The Vitoria Guimaraes beat Benfica 1-0 in the match that ended at 19 round of the championship.

The defeat incarnate (the first in the championship) means that the fight for the title is rereleased as FC Porto is just two points off the lead.

First part very balanced and intensely disputed, at least up to 37 minutes, in which the team Guimarães opened the scoring through Toscano.

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Zenit St. Petersburg 3-2 Benfica (Video) Match Highlights 15-02-2012

Zenit St. Petersburg on Wednesday, the first knockout round first leg of Champions League football at home against Benfica won 0-1 behind to 3:2 (1:1).

For the Russians arrived at minus ten degrees Celsius and limited space in the Petrovsky Stadium Roman Shirokov (27, 88) and Sergei Semak (71), the guests were from Portugal through Maxi Pereira (20) and Oscar Cardozo (87 .) successfully.

The goal of the day that was a 2-1 by Semak, a beautiful combination of the greatly weakened replacement home side with the perfect heel.

0-1 Maxi Pereira 20'

1-1 Roman Shirokov 27'

2-1 Sergey Semak 71'

2-2 Oscar Cardozo 87'

3-2 Roman Shirokov 88'

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Feirense 1-2 Benfica (Video) Match Highlights 28-01-2012

Benfica beat Feirense 1-2 at home today thanks to the Feirense penalty goal by Paraguayan Oscar Cardozo, who saved a tie achieved by both Cape Verde and Fernando Varela own goal.

After a balanced first half, the Cape Verdean Central opened the scoring for his team to head to fit in 51 minutes a corner.

1-0 Varela 50'

1-1 Varela (Own goal) 54'

1-2 Cardozo (Penalty) 73'

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Benfica 3-1 Gil Vicente (Video) Match Highlights 22-01-2012

It was leadership that Benfica finished the first round and is in the lead which starts the second.

The victory over Gil Vicente seems easy judging by the numbers but it was not. The "phantom" Barcelos frightened the Light, but Aimar came off the bench to amaze.

After three consecutive SCORES in the league, Benfica was hard for a win but not lacking in light applause at the end.

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Benfica 2-0 Santa Clara (Video) Match Highlights 18-01-2012

Benfica won today in Santa Clara home, the League of Honour, 2-0, with two goals in the second part, at a meeting of the second round of Group B League Cup in soccer.

Benfica had to today's "help" of their regulars to reverse a bad first half and beat Santa Clara 2-0, meet in the second round of Group B League Cup football.

Without one of the regulars in the defensive axis, Benfica presented at Light with a totally revamped defense, composed by André Almeida, Capdevila, Miguel Vitor and Jardel, confidence and who knows what there is to win six consecutive games and not know the taste of defeat with the Santa Clara home.

1-0 Nélson Oliveira 67'


2-0 Witsel 75'

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U. Leiria 0-4 Benfica (Video) Match Highlights 08-01-2012

Benfica thrashed today the U. Leiria 4-0 and secluded himself in the leadership of the League, the null capitalizing on the "classical" between Sporting Lisbon and FC Porto of 14.

Matchday. Brazilian Bruno Cesar opened the scoring on nine minutes, while the Paraguayan Cardozo, 48, and the Spaniard Rodrigo, 73 and 76, sealed the rout in Marinha Grande, leaving the "embodied" in the lead alone.

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Vitoria Guimaraes 1-4 Benfica (Video) Match Highlights 03-01-2012

Benfica won today at home to Vitória de Guimaraes (1-4) with goals from Belgian Axel Witsel (min.11), Paraguayan Oscar Cardozo (min.65, min.78) and the Spanish-Brazilian Rodrigo (min.87 ) and tuck your ticket to the semifinals of the League Cup, considered the third tournament Luso in importance.

The embodied, framed also in group B with the Maritime Funchal and Santa Clara, collect three valuable points that will launch to finish first and seal his move to the semifinals of the tournament.

0-1 Witsel 11'

1-1 Sergio 48'

1-2 Cardozo 65'

1-3 Cardozo 78'

1-4 Rodrigo 88'

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