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Commentary

2¹ A shot from PEDRO NETO was smothered by the 'keeper. 6¹ KHADRA booked for arguing with the referee. 8¹ KHADRA's shot beat the 'keeper but rebounded off the Benfica crossbar. 10¹ PALMER worked the ball to PEDRO NETO, DAVID controlled his cross and booted the ball within easy reach of the 1.FC Köln 'keeper. 11¹ GOAL!! An outswinging corner kicked out by KATTERBACH was blasted home by MOLINA. (1-0 Benfica) 13¹ A lovely pass from PALMER was lashed goalbound by DAVID only for the 'keeper to palm clear. 17¹ GOAL!! A terrible clearance dropped to DAVID who mishit a shot goalward, luckily SAMU was on hand to blast the ball into the net. (2-0 Benfica) 23¹ GOAL!! An imaginative VAN DE VEN played a wonderful ball down the left to DAVID who seemingly in an offside position went on to easily score. (3-0 Benfica) 31¹ A free-kick from MOLINA went just wide. 35¹ The stunned HORN could only watch as a backpass from HÜBERS dropped just wide. 1² A pin-point pass found LEMPERLE and his right foot shot floated narrowly over. 2² GOAL!! A great solo effort from VITINHA who beat a number of defenders before striking the ball into the roof of the net. (4-0 Benfica) 5² LEMPERLE beat VITINHA and drilled the ball to NEUHAUS who fired his effort wide. 9² DAVID was put clear by VAN DE VEN and he turned the 'keeper but thrust his shot wide. 14² A poor strike from RÚBEN DIAS trickled agonisingly wide. 16² DAVID headed wide. 22² An inswinging corner was fired into the arms of the Benfica 'keeper by KHADRA. 23² PEDRO NETO brought the ball past NEUHAUS and rattled a weak shot over the bar. 26² VITINHA nodded the ball wide of the righthand post from the edge of the box. 40² A header by TIGGES at the far post was comfortably collected by CHEVALIER. 44² VIVIAN poked an easy chance past the lefthand post. 45² VAN DE VEN snapped at a simple chance.

1.FC Köln   League position: 21 Home league form: LLWW Overall league form: LLLLWWOW Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Timo HORN 5  1 5½ Lucas CHEVALIER Marius WOLF 7  2 7½ Nahuel MOLINA Noah KATTERBACH 7  3 7½ Patrick DORGU (c)Ellyes SKHIRI 7½ 4 7½ Joshua KIMMICH Timo HÜBERS 7  5 7  RÚBEN Santos DIAS Flavius DANILIUC 7  6 7  Mickey VAN DE VEN(c) Ondrej DUDA 6½ 7 7  Cole PALMER Reda KHADRA 6½ 8 7½ PEDRO Lomba NETO (p)Tim LEMPERLE 6  9 7  SAMU(p) (f)Florian NEUHAUS 6½ 10 7½ VITINHA(f) Steffen TIGGES 6  11 7  Jonathan DAVID Manager Steven Gibson Nikola SOLDO    12 6  ANTÓNIO João SILVA Vitezslav JAROS    13    Guillaume RESTES Maksim NENAKHOV    14 6  Daniel VIVIAN Denis HUSEINBASIC 5½ 15    Désiré DOUÉ Florian DIETZ    16    Ferrán TORRES

Benfica   League position: 3 Away league form: OLWW Overall league form: WWXOWLWW Formation: 4-4-2

Statistics

1.FC Köln 0 Benfica 4 (Half-time: 0-3, Attendance: 38,463, Stadium: RheinEnergie, Referee: Gerd Grabher 5½)   Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Molina 11¹, Samu 17¹, David 23¹, Vitinha 2² DaniliucóHuseinbasic 2² DavidóAntónio Silva 37², SamuóVivian 42²     Khadra 6¹   7 7 3 4 3 9 4 9 2 13 6 22 2 5 44% 56% ¶ Man of the match: Pedro Lomba Neto ¶