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Commentary
VITINHA beat four Aston Villa players and blasted a great chance just wide.
10¹DAVID shot wide.
12¹A neatly crafted pass from PEDRO NETO was shot goalbound by SAMU only for the Aston Villa 'keeper to block.
13¹A lovely effort from PALMER scraped the top of the crossbar.
25¹GOAL!! A goalmouth meleé culminated with PEREIRA blasting the ball into the net. (1-0 Aston Villa)
27¹GOAL!! A glorious inswinging corner was headed in at the far post by DAVID. (1-1)
31¹PEREIRA made space on the right and pulled the ball to BAILEY who rasped the ball over.
36¹McGINN floated the ball to BAILEY who fired it wide.
40¹A free-kick from PEREIRA went over.
43¹SAMBA did well to hold onto an amazing shot from VITINHA.
45¹PEDRO NETO beat BAILEY and whacked the ball to DAVID who fumbled his shot wide.
45¹A useful ball from KELLYMAN on the left bobbled toward PEREIRA who sliced his shot wide.
BAILEY brought the ball round LARSSON and rifled a weak shot over the bar.
13²SAMBA dived to his right to stop an accurate shot from Benfica's DAVID.
22²BAILEY ran onto a delightful ball from BUENDIA but blasted his effort wide of the lefthand post.
28²A tame strike from PALMER rolled agonisingly wide.
32²GOAL!! A great thirty yard shot from SAMU rebounded off the the upright and in the ensuing scramble the ball was booted into the net by PALMER. (2-1 Benfica)
36²PALMER stabbed an easy chance past the righthand post.
37²A accurate pass fell to FÜLLKRUG and his right foot shot raced narrowly over.
43²A corner fell to BAILEY who fired the ball over.
46²The hapless 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from ORBAN dropped just wide.
47²GOAL!! A quick free-kick allowed VITINHA to knock the ball to MOLEIRO who whacked a deadly shot into the net. (3-1 Benfica)

 
Benfica
 
League position: 8
Home league form: LWXW
Overall league form: XLWXWOLW
Formation: 4-4-2
Line-ups
Giorgi MAMARDASHVILI1Brice SAMBA
Joshua KIMMICH2Dara O'SHEA
NUNO Alexandre MENDES3Ian MAATSEN
Hugo LARSSON4John McGINN
ANTÓNIO João SILVA5Willi ORBAN(c)
(c)RÚBEN Santos DIAS6Clément LENGLET
Cole PALMER7Emiliano BUENDIA
PEDRO Lomba NETO8Leon BAILEY
(p)SAMU9Niclas FÜLLKRUG(p)
(f)VITINHA10Andreas PEREIRA(f)
Jonathan DAVID11Omari KELLYMAN
Steven GibsonManager
Mickey VAN DE VEN  12  PEDRO António GONÇALVES
Marco CARNESECCHI  13  DJordje PETROVIC
Daniel VIVIAN  14  Stanley N'SOKI
Alberto MOLEIRO15Tyrone MINGS
Elye WAHI16  Emil KRAFTH
 
Aston Villa
 
League position: 2
Away league form: LWLW
Overall league form: WLWWLXWW
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Benfica 3 Aston Villa 1
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 59,743, Stadium: Estádio da Luz, Referee: Bo Karlsson 5½)

David 27¹, Palmer 32², Moleiro 47²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Pereira 25¹
LarssonóMoleiro 15², António SilvaóWahi 25²KellymanóMings 31²
  
  
1012
83
60
81
810
1611
50
44%56%
Man of the match: Joshua Kimmich