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1¹ A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the advancing 'keeper. 1¹ FERGUSON brought the ball past BECKER and stroked a poor shot wide. 6¹ VINICIUS SOUZA's header was well saved by the Benfica 'keeper. 9¹ GOAL!! A free-kick was pushed away by WOODMAN, PALMER was first to the loose ball and played the ball to FERGUSON to tuck in. (1-0 Benfica) 12¹ EL HILALI beat four Benfica players and drove an effort just beyond the near post. 15¹ A great save prevented CAICEDO from scoring a lovely goal. 20¹ A accurate pass fell to WAHI and his left foot shot floated narrowly over. 23¹ WOODMAN did well to hold onto a fierce strike from FERGUSON. 23¹ A delightful strike from JOSELU was dealt with by a good stop from the 'keeper. 25¹ A corner found FERGUSON who fired the ball just wide. 26¹ GOAL!! A long clearance by the Benfica 'keeper beat the Espanyol defence and PALMER fired the ball past the advancing WOODMAN. (2-0 Benfica) 27¹ GOAL!! A short corner was knocked out to JOSELU who nudged the ball into the net. (2-1 Benfica) 33¹ BECKER rushed an easy chance. 35¹ A shot from FERGUSON was booted off the line by EL HILALI. 15² A header by FERGUSON at the near post was comfortably collected by the Espanyol 'keeper. 16² PALMER receives a yellow card by the ref for a late challenge. 20² VITINHA rifled a simple chance past the righthand post. 25² A poor strike from WAHI bounced agonisingly wide. 32² The referee yellow cards WAHI for a high challenge. 43² A cross from KOLEOSHO left JOSELU in lots of space but he snapped at his shot. 46² The Espanyol 'keeper was able to block a fierce effort.

Espanyol   League position: 11 Home league form: LWLX Overall league form: WLLWLXWL Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Freddie WOODMAN 6½ 1 6½ Giorgi MAMARDASHVILI Omar EL HILALI 7  2 7  Nahuel MOLINA BRIAN OLIVÁN Herrero 6½ 3 7  Mickey VAN DE VEN VINICIUS de SOUZA Costa 7  4 8  Oihan SANCET ÁLVARO González 6½ 5 7½ ANTÓNIO João SILVA AITOR PAREDES Casamichana 6½ 6 7  RÚBEN Santos DIAS(c) Luca KOLEOSHO 7  7 8  Cole PALMER Sheraldo BECKER 6½ 8 7½ PEDRO Lomba NETO (c,p)JOSELU 7  9 7  Elye WAHI(p) (f)Felipe CAICEDO 6  10 7  VITINHA(f) JAVI PUADO 6  11 6½ Evan FERGUSON Manager Steven Gibson Hernán PÉREZ    12 6  Isak HIEN ÁLVARO Fernández    13    Marco CARNESECCHI DANI GÓMEZ    14 6  Daniel VIVIAN Bram NUYTINCK    15    SAVINHO Keidi BARE    16    Mathys TEL

Benfica   League position: 2 Away league form: XWWW Overall league form: WXXWWWXW Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Espanyol 1 Benfica 2 (Half-time: 1-2, Attendance: 40,389, Stadium: Cornellà-El Prat, Referee: Oguz Sarvan 7½) Joselu 27¹ Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Ferguson 9¹, Palmer 26¹   FergusonóHien 37², WahióVivian 42²       Palmer 16², Wahi 32² 2 7 3 8 4 11 4 7 3 5 7 12 3 4 42% 58% ¶ Man of the match: Cole Palmer ¶