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Commentary
DAVID stormed through the Anderlecht defence but shot straight at MERET.
PEDRO NETO beat GUENDOUZI and blasted the ball to SAMU who fired his effort wide.
11¹A pin-point pass bobbled toward OSIMHEN and his left foot shot floated narrowly wide.
15¹GREENWOOD rushed an easy chance.
17¹MERET did well to hold onto a powerful strike from SAMU.
20¹GUENDOUZI beat two Benfica players and stroked a golden opportunity over.
22¹FOFANA given a yellow card for a late foul.
27¹MERET dived to his left to save a lovely drive from Benfica's PALMER.
32¹A great effort from SAMU scraped the outside of the righthand post.
38¹PALMER placed a right foot shot just beyond the far post from twenty-five yards out.
OSIMHEN was put clear by ASENSIO and he turned the Benfica 'keeper but struck his shot just beyond the near post.
GOAL!! A brilliant ball from ANTÓNIO SILVA left LARSSON in the clear, he made MERET commit himself before touching the ball to DAVID to score. (1-0 Benfica)
The hapless 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from CARVAJAL dropped just wide.
10²A mix up in the Anderlecht defence enabled VITINHA to volley an effort inches over.
12²SAMU stroked a simple chance past the lefthand post.
17²A right foot effort from PEDRO NETO was pushed over by MERET.
21²A good ball from SON on the right fell to GUENDOUZI who scuffed his shot inches wide.
27²A tame strike from DAVID bounced agonisingly wide.
31²A corner bobbled toward DAVID who nodded an effort over.
36²PEDRO NETO clipped the ball through a ruck of players but the Anderlecht 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right.
40²An inswinging corner was forced into the arms of MAMARDASHVILI by DEBAST.
43²VITINHA hoofed the ball wide of the lefthand post from the edge of the box.

 
Benfica
 
League position: 9
Home league form: WLWX
Overall league form: WXLWXWOL
Formation: 4-4-2
Line-ups
Giorgi MAMARDASHVILI1Alex MERET
Joshua KIMMICH2Daniel CARVAJAL
NUNO Alexandre MENDES3David RAUM(c,f)
Hugo LARSSON4Mattéo GUENDOUZI
ANTÓNIO João SILVA5Robin LE NORMAND
(c)RÚBEN Santos DIAS6Zeno DEBAST
Cole PALMER7Youssouf FOFANA
PEDRO Lomba NETO8Marco ASENSIO
(p)SAMU9Victor OSIMHEN(p)
(f)VITINHA10SON Heung-min
Jonathan DAVID11Mason GREENWOOD
Steven GibsonManagerJohn Pickford
Mickey VAN DE VEN12  Exequiel PALACIOS
Marco CARNESECCHI  13  Bernd LENO
Daniel VIVIAN14  Lutsharel GEERTRUIDA
Alberto MOLEIRO  15  Georges MIKAUTADZE
Elye WAHI  16  Nicolas JACKSON
 
Anderlecht
 
League position: 6
Away league form: LLOW
Overall league form: LWLWWOWW
Formation: 4-3-3
Benfica go through to the next round
Statistics
Benfica 1 Anderlecht 0
(Half-time: 0-0, Attendance: 64,970, Stadium: Estádio da Luz, Referee: Zygmunt Ziober 5½)

David 5²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
 
Davidóvan de Ven 37², SamuóVivian 42² 
  
 Fofana 22¹
42
414
512
85
96
1711
75
57%43%
Man of the match: Joshua Kimmich