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Commentary
3¹GOAL!! After LARSSON was tripped the referee waved play-on and DAVID went on to easily score. (1-0 Benfica)
7¹GOAL!! A twenty yard free-kick was expertly drove into the net by SAMU. (2-0 Benfica)
13¹A shot from DAVID was smothered by GRBIC.
14¹A fine ball from HUTCHINSON on the right found BATSHUAYI who mishit his effort inches over.
18¹ANDRÉ booked.
20¹OSCAR beat NUNO MENDES and drove the ball to BATSHUAYI who fired his shot wide.
22¹GOAL!! A wonderful drive from LARSSON was punched clear by GRBIC only as far as DAVID who hit the ball past the stranded GRBIC. (3-0 Benfica)
28¹The referee yellow cards PEDRO NETO for a high foul.
30¹PALMER made space on the right and touched the ball to VITINHA who fired the ball over.
35¹DAVID ran onto a great ball from PALMER but hit his shot wide.
37¹DAVID shot over.
40¹ANTÓNIO SILVA given a yellow card for a late challenge.
41¹A accurate pass bobbled toward DAVID and his left foot effort went narrowly wide.
1²GOAL!! The creative RÚBEN DIAS neatly nodded on a cross for LARSSON to volley the ball in. (4-0 Benfica)
4²DAVID headed over the bar.
10²A shot from OSCAR seemed a certain goal but MAMARDASHVILI managed to palm the ball away.
13²A penalty box meleé resulted in SAMU tapping the ball over.
17²A cross from LARSSON left VITINHA in plenty of space but he snapped at his shot.
18²A weak strike from PEDRO NETO rolled agonisingly wide.
23²GOAL!! CHALOBAH tried to play the ball out of the Chelsea penalty area but was tackled by LARSSON who headed the ball to SAMU for a simple goal. (5-0 Benfica)
27²PEDRO NETO was put clear by SAMU and he pulled away from the 'keeper but rammed his shot over.
31²A free-kick from NUNO MENDES raced over the bar.
34²OSCAR waltzed away from ANTÓNIO SILVA and poked a poor shot over.
35²A cynical foul on RÚBEN DIAS by RICHARLISON results in a booking.
36²VITINHA scuffed an easy chance.
40²GOAL!! A terrible clearance fell to PALMER who mishit a shot goalward, luckily SAMU was on hand to crack the ball into the back of the net. (6-0 Benfica)

 
Benfica
 
League position: 8
Home league form: WLWL
Overall league form: WWLWXLWX
Formation: 4-4-2
Line-ups
Giorgi MAMARDASHVILI8 17½Ivo GRBIC
Joshua KIMMICH7½27 Trevoh CHALOBAH
NUNO Alexandre MENDES7½37 Dylan WILLIAMS
Hugo LARSSON6½47½Benjamin ANDRÉ(c)
ANTÓNIO João SILVA7 56½ÇAGLAR Söyüncü
(c)RÚBEN Santos DIAS7 66½Jan BEDNAREK
Cole PALMER7 76½Omari HUTCHINSON
PEDRO Lomba NETO7 87 OSCAR dos Santos
(p)SAMU7 97 Michy BATSHUAYI(p)
(f)VITINHA6½106 Ross BARKLEY(f)
Jonathan DAVID4 116½RICHARLISON de Andrade
Steven GibsonManager
Mickey VAN DE VEN6 12  James TAVERNIER
Marco CARNESECCHI  136½Seamus COLEMAN
Daniel VIVIAN6 146 Jaume CUÉLLAR
Mathys TEL  15  James TOMKINS
Désiré DOUÉ  16  Konrad DE LA FUENTE
 
Chelsea
 
League position: 5
Away league form: LXXW
Overall league form: LWXWXLWL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Benfica 6 Chelsea 0
(Half-time: 3-0, Attendance: 59,287, Stadium: Estádio da Luz, Referee: Claude Detruche 7½)

David 3¹, Samu 7¹, David 22¹, Larsson 1², Samu 23², Samu 40²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
 
Davidóvan de Ven 37², SamuóVivian 42²BednarekóColeman 13², BatshuayióCuéllar 26²
  
Pedro Neto 28¹, António Silva 40¹André 18¹, Richarlison 35²
810
811
113
71
113
184
11
49%51%
Man of the match: Giorgi Mamardashvili