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Commentary
10¹A accurate pass was collected by MOLINA and his left foot shot went narrowly over.
11¹Uncertainty in the Celtic defence enabled TORRES to fire an effort over the bar.
13¹PEDRO NETO ran onto a delightful ball from PALMER but fired his effort wide of the righthand post.
18¹A cross from PALMER left TORRES in lots of space but he fluffed his shot.
22¹GOAL!! An outswinging corner headed out by PALMER was slammed into the net by EMBOLO. (1-0 Celtic)
25¹EMBOLO beat NUNO MENDES and drilled the ball to BAUMGARTNER who fired his shot wide.
26¹VITINHA made space on the left and knocked the ball to TORRES who touched the ball wide.
30¹SANCET waltzed past MILNER and poked a tame shot over.
32¹A corner was collected by ANTÓNIO SILVA who forced the ball over.
36¹TORRES hoofed the ball wide from just inside the area.
37¹DAVID hit a looping shot over the bar from twenty yards out.
41¹SCHLAGER booked by BRAAMHAAR for a late foul.
NKUNKU rifled a simple chance past the far post.
A thirty yard drive from PEDRO NETO caused the Celtic 'keeper no problem.
11²SANCET worked the ball to TORRES, PALMER controlled his cross and nodded the ball within easy reach of RUI PATRÍCIO.
14²GOAL!! A long ball from SANCET had the Celtic defence back-pedalling and TORRES made the most of the opportunity with a good goal. (1-1)
28²An exceptional effort from TORRES scraped the woodwork.
29²A shot from JOÃO PEDRO was smothered by the 'keeper.
30²GOAL!! PALMER made space for TORRES who, after an interchange of passes thirty yards out, struck the ball past RUI PATRÍCIO. (2-1 Benfica)
37²The bemused RUI PATRÍCIO stared in disbelief as a backpass from MAZRAOUI dropped just wide.
40²SCHLAGER fluffed a simple chance.
43²JOÃO PEDRO beat three Celtic players and slammed an effort over the bar.

 
Benfica
 
League position: -
Home league form: WW--
Overall league form: WXWW----
Formation: 4-4-2
Line-ups
Giorgi MAMARDASHVILI1RUI Pedro PATRÍCIO
Nahuel MOLINA2Noussair MAZRAOUI
NUNO Alexandre MENDES3James MILNER
VITINHA4Scott McTOMINAY
ANTÓNIO João SILVA5Axel WITSEL(c)
(c)RÚBEN Santos DIAS6Chancel MBEMBA
Cole PALMER7Liel ABADA
PEDRO Lomba NETO8Christoph BAUMGARTNER
(p)Jonathan DAVID9Breel-Donald EMBOLO(p)
(f)Oihan SANCET10Xaver SCHLAGER(f)
Ferrán TORRES11Christopher NKUNKU
Steven GibsonManager
Mickey VAN DE VEN  12  Odsonne ÉDOUARD
Marco CARNESECCHI  13  Salvatore SIRIGU
Daniel VIVIAN  14Thorgan HAZARD
JOÃO PEDRO Junqueira15  Donny VAN DE BEEK
Elye WAHI16  Jonny EVANS
 
Celtic
 
League position: -
Away league form: LL--
Overall league form: LLL-----
Formation: 4-3-3
Benfica go through to the next round
Statistics
Benfica 2 Celtic 1
(Half-time: 0-1, Attendance: 63,290, Stadium: Estádio da Luz, Referee: Eric Braamhaar 6)

Torres 14², Torres 30²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Embolo 22¹
VitinhaóJoão Pedro 15², António SilvaóWahi 25²MbembaóHazard 37²
  
 Schlager 41¹
111
721
22
72
215
287
41
56%44%
Man of the match: Nahuel Molina