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Commentary
1¹A twenty yard shot from TORRES caused the Blackburn Rovers 'keeper little difficulty.
7¹A accurate pass was collected by DAVID and his right foot effort went narrowly over.
10¹GOAL!! DAVID waltzed forward, looked up and blasted a shot into the Blackburn Rovers net. (1-0 Benfica)
13¹TADIC chipped the ball to SANTI MINA who forced it over the bar.
14¹TORRES's shot was well saved by the 'keeper.
16¹GOAL!! A wonderful dummy from COLOMBO allowed GINTER to lay a lovely ball off to TADIC who thrust the ball into the back of the net. (1-1)
19¹GOAL!! A Benfica counter-attack allowed VITINHA to setup TORRES with an easy goal. (2-1 Benfica)
23¹VERETOUT beat RÚBEN DIAS and flicked the ball to CAN who pulled his shot wide.
29¹A neatly crafted pass from MOLEIRO was nudged goalbound by TORRES only for the Blackburn Rovers 'keeper to claw away.
31¹A shot from DAVID was smothered by the Blackburn Rovers 'keeper.
34¹GOAL!! Some good work by MOLINA on the left, left TORRES yards clear, and he raced past the 'keeper and stroked the ball home. (3-1 Benfica)
39¹A right foot shot from TADIC was pushed over by MAMARDASHVILI.
43¹A tame strike from DAVID trickled agonisingly wide.
4²TORRES shot over.
9²The hapless Benfica 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from PEDRO NETO fell just wide.
10²GOAL!! An energetic TORRES ran down the right wing and touched the ball back for NUNO MENDES to nudge home. (4-1 Benfica)
14²The 'keeper dived to his left to block a lovely drive from Benfica's TORRES.
16²An outswinging corner was headed into the arms of the Blackburn Rovers 'keeper by TORRES.
17²COLOMBO rattled a simple chance past the near post.
20²A shot from PALMER was nodded off the line by CAN.
24²TORRES rushed through the Blackburn Rovers defence but shot straight at the Blackburn Rovers 'keeper.
26²MOLEIRO fluffed an easy chance.
33²A free-kick from DAVID flew just wide.
37²GOAL!! A tackle from DAVID gave Blackburn Rovers a free-kick on the edge of the area which VERETOUT stroked past MAMARDASHVILI. (4-2 Benfica)
44²A shot from VIVIAN seemed a certain goal but AUDERO managed to palm the ball away.
45²ANTÓNIO SILVA hit a right foot shot over from thirty yards out.

 
Benfica
 
League position: 8
Home league form: ----
Overall league form: W-------
Formation: 4-4-2
Line-ups
Giorgi MAMARDASHVILI7 16½Emil AUDERO
Nahuel MOLINA8 27½Matthias GINTER
NUNO Alexandre MENDES8 37½Elseid HYSAJ
VITINHA7 47 MATHEUS Luiz NUNES
ANTÓNIO João SILVA7 57 Emre CAN
(c)RÚBEN Santos DIAS7½66 FABINHO
Cole PALMER8 77 Calvin STENGS
PEDRO Lomba NETO7 86½Dusan TADIC(c)
(p)Jonathan DAVID7 96 Lorenzo COLOMBO(p)
(f)Alberto MOLEIRO7 107 Jordan VERETOUT(f)
Ferrán TORRES5 116 SANTI MINA
Steven GibsonManager
Mickey VAN DE VEN6 12  Jérôme BOATENG
Marco CARNESECCHI  13  ADRIÁN San
Daniel VIVIAN6 14  RENYER Luan
JOÃO PEDRO Junqueira  15  Leif DAVIS
Elye WAHI  16  Angel GOMES
 
Blackburn Rovers
 
League position: 1
Away league form: ----
Overall league form: W-------
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Benfica 4 Blackburn Rovers 2
(Half-time: 3-1, Attendance: 64,771, Stadium: Estádio da Luz, Referee: Dusan Colic 7½)

David 10¹, Torres 19¹, Torres 34¹, Nuno Mendes 10²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Tadic 16¹, Veretout 37²
Torresóvan de Ven 37², DavidóVivian 42² 
  
  
14
115
73
133
64
197
71
50%50%
Man of the match: Nahuel Molina