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Commentary
VITINHA beat three Espanyol players and drove a shot over.
BECKER dummied NUNO MENDES but blasted the ball into the arms of the Benfica 'keeper.
11¹DAVID rasped the ball through a crowd of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right.
13¹GOAL!! A great bit of skill enabled DAVID to dribble through the Espanyol defence and score. (1-0 Benfica)
15¹A pin-point pass was collected by JAVI PUADO and his right foot shot raced narrowly over.
20¹GOAL!! A mishit goal-kick was intercepted by VITINHA who setup SAMU with an easy chance. (2-0 Benfica)
21¹A penalty box meleé resulted in VITINHA driving the ball over.
30¹A corner fell to SAMU who nodded the ball inches wide.
34¹A lovely effort from DAVID scraped the outside of the lefthand post.
36¹A bad tackle gets CAICEDO a yellow card.
38¹MAMARDASHVILI did well to hold onto a wicked strike from JOSELU.
40¹A header by JAVI PUADO at the near post was easily collected by MAMARDASHVILI.
43¹PALMER waltzed round CAICEDO and flicked a poor shot wide.
GOAL!! A block from the Benfica 'keeper enabled KOLEOSHO to volley the ball into the empty net. (2-1 Benfica)
JOSELU was put clear by ADRIÀ PEDROSA and he beat the 'keeper but glanced his shot wide.
A neatly crafted cross from LARSSON was shot goalbound by VITINHA only for ÁLVARO to palm clear.
A shot from CAICEDO was smothered by MAMARDASHVILI.
21²A shot from VITINHA was booted off the line by ROCO.
32²DAVID booked for a bad challenge on KOLEOSHO.
36²DAVID headed just beyond the near post.
41²An exceptional shot from VAN DE VEN was dealt with by a fine parry from ÁLVARO.
45²VIVIAN scuffed a simple chance.

 
Espanyol
 
League position: 14
Home league form: XWWL
Overall league form: LXWXWLLW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
ÁLVARO Fernández1Giorgi MAMARDASHVILI
(c)LUCAS Vázquez2Joshua KIMMICH
ADRIÀ Giner PEDROSA3NUNO Alexandre MENDES
VINICIUS de SOUZA Costa4Hugo LARSSON
AITOR PAREDES Casamichana5ANTÓNIO João SILVA
Enzo ROCO6RÚBEN Santos DIAS(c)
Luca KOLEOSHO7Cole PALMER
Sheraldo BECKER8PEDRO Lomba NETO
(p)JOSELU9SAMU(p)
(f)Felipe CAICEDO10VITINHA(f)
JAVI PUADO11Jonathan DAVID
ManagerSteven Gibson
KEDDARI SIMO  12Mickey VAN DE VEN
Freddie WOODMAN  13  Marco CARNESECCHI
DANI GÓMEZ  14Daniel VIVIAN
Omar EL HILALI  15  Mathys TEL
Hernán PÉREZ  16  Désiré DOUÉ
 
Benfica
 
League position: 11
Away league form: XWOL
Overall league form: LWXLWXWO
Formation: 4-4-2

Statistics
Espanyol 1 Benfica 2
(Half-time: 0-2, Attendance: 40,472, Stadium: Cornellà-El Prat, Referee: Johannes Reijgwart 8)

Koleosho 1²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
David 13¹, Samu 20¹
 Davidóvan de Ven 37², SamuóVivian 42²
  
Caicedo 36¹David 32²
22
177
49
67
48
1015
44
51%49%
Man of the match: Hugo Larsson