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Commentary
0¹A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the advancing Fiorentina 'keeper.
1¹TORRES was put clear by ANTÓNIO SILVA and he stepped inside the 'keeper but rammed his shot just wide.
4¹TORRES ran onto a great ball from SANCET but fired his effort wide.
9¹A shot from DAVID held little difficulty for the 'keeper.
12¹REBIC snapped at a simple chance.
18¹PEDRO NETO shot wide.
22¹GOAL!! Benfica's TORRES beat two defenders before firing just inside the 'keeper's righthand post. (1-0 Benfica)
26¹GOAL!! An outswinging corner was booted clear only for DOLBERG to thump the ball into the net. (1-1)
30¹GOAL!! An imaginative PEDRO NETO played a delightful ball down the middle to TORRES who seemingly in an offside position went on to comfortably score. (2-1 Benfica)
45¹RODRÍGUEZ beat NUNO MENDES but nudged the ball into the arms of the Benfica 'keeper.
0²A corner fell to DOLBERG who headed an effort just beyond the far post.
2²A shot from KIMMICH was hoofed off the line by BOSCAGLI.
6²GOAL!! A great ball from ANTÓNIO SILVA left PALMER in the clear, he made the Fiorentina 'keeper commit himself before nudging the ball to PEDRO NETO to score. (3-1 Benfica)
11²SANCET hoofed the ball wide of the lefthand post from just outside the area.
12²PALMER played the ball to PEDRO NETO who nodded it wide.
13²GOAL!! The creative SENESI neatly headed on a cross for MALEH to fire the ball in. (3-2 Benfica)
15²The bemused 'keeper was all agog as a backpass from KIMMICH dropped just over.
18²ZAKARIA beat MOLINA and whacked the ball to IKONÉ who hit his shot wide.
28²GOAL!! A neatly crafted set-piece enabled PEDRO NETO to slide the ball home. (4-2 Benfica)
30²A free-kick from PEDRO NETO raced over.
35²A fine ball from NUNO MENDES on the left bobbled toward DAVID who scuffed his shot inches over.
43²A late tackle gets REBIC a yellow card.

 
Benfica
 
League position: 7
Home league form: WW--
Overall league form: OLWXWW--
Formation: 4-4-2
Line-ups
Giorgi MAMARDASHVILI6½17 Mattia PERIN
Nahuel MOLINA7 27½DODÔ
NUNO Alexandre MENDES7½37½Adam MARUSIC(c)
Joshua KIMMICH8 47 Guido RODRÍGUEZ
ANTÓNIO João SILVA6½56½Olivier BOSCAGLI
(c)RÚBEN Santos DIAS5½67 Marcos SENESI
Cole PALMER7 76 Denis ZAKARIA
PEDRO Lomba NETO7 87½Jonathan IKONÉ
(p)Jonathan DAVID7 97 Kasper DOLBERG(p)
(f)Oihan SANCET7 106 Youssef MALEH(f)
Ferrán TORRES5 116 Ante REBIC
Steven GibsonManager
Mickey VAN DE VEN6 12  Gaetano CASTROVILLI
Marco CARNESECCHI  13  Michele CEROFOLINI
Daniel VIVIAN6 14  Timothée PEMBÉLÉ
JOÃO PEDRO Junqueira  15  ARTHUR Mendonça
Elye WAHI  16  SÉRGIO Miguel OLIVEIRA
 
Fiorentina
 
League position: 7
Away league form: WLL-
Overall league form: WWLXWL--
Formation: 4-3-3
Benfica go through to the next round
Statistics
Benfica 4 Fiorentina 2
(Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 54,143, Stadium: Estádio da Luz, Referee: Claudio Circhetta 6)

Torres 22¹, Torres 30¹, Pedro Neto 6², Pedro Neto 28²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Dolberg 26¹, Maleh 13²
Torresóvan de Ven 37², DavidóVivian 42² 
  
 Rebic 43²
24
49
72
87
115
1912
45
49%51%
Man of the match: Joshua Kimmich