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5¹ FURUHASHI waltzed round PAULO OLIVEIRA and stroked a tame shot over the bar. 7¹ McGREGOR made space on the right and pulled the ball to HATATE who clipped the ball wide. 10¹ The 'keeper was able to claw away a poor shot from DE TOMÁS. 15¹ The 'keeper saved a lovely shot from RODRIGO PINHO. 17¹ GOAL!! A short clearance fell to FURUHASHI who mishit a shot goalward, luckily JOTA was on hand to fire the ball in off the post. (1-0 Celtic) 20¹ JOTA drove a right foot shot just wide from long range. 22¹ A corner found RADONJIC who forced the ball wide. 30¹ GOAL!! JOTA hit a swerving twenty yard shot past the hapless Benfica 'keeper. (2-0 Celtic) 31¹ JOTA snapped at an easy chance. 41¹ GOAL!! After DE TOMÁS was tripped the ref waved play-on and RADONJIC went on to easily score. (2-1 Celtic) 43¹ A accurate pass fell to JOTA and his right foot shot floated narrowly over. 45¹ A twenty-five yard drive from ABADA caused PYATOV no problem. 46¹ GOAL!! A long goal-kick from BIRAGHI caught the Celtic defence square and RADONJIC nipped in to round the 'keeper and score. (2-2) 9² HATATE headed inches over. 10² AJETI beat POGBA and hit the ball to HATATE who fumbled his effort wide. 23² FURUHASHI rifled a simple chance past the righthand post. 26² GOAL!! A Benfica counter-attack allowed RADONJIC to setup DE TOMÁS with a simple goal. (3-2 Benfica) 33² OTAMENDI was put clear by TAARABT and he turned GORDON but glanced his shot inches wide. 35² AJETI ran onto a wonderful ball from HATATE but pulled his effort wide. 42² A lovely effort from IWOBI scraped the outside of the righthand post. 44² A lovely pass from HATATE was tapped goalbound by AJETI only for the 'keeper to palm clear. 46² A free-kick from FORREST raced wide.

Celtic   League position: 7 Home league form: WWWO Overall league form: XWWWWLOW Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups (c)Craig GORDON 5½ 1 6  Andriy PYATOV Tony RALSTON 7  2 7½ DIOGO António GONÇALVES Mattia DE SCIGLIO 7½ 3 7  Cristiano BIRAGHI Callum McGREGOR 7½ 4 7  Paul POGBA Simon KJÆR 7  5 7½ Nicolás OTAMENDI(c) Jozo SIMUNOVIC 6½ 6 6½ PAULO André OLIVEIRA Liel ABADA 6  7 5½ Adel TAARABT JOTA 6½ 8 6  Nemanja RADONJIC (p)Albian AJETI 7½ 9 7  Raúl DE TOMÁS(p) (f)Reo HATATE 6  10 6½ MORATO(f) Kyogo FURUHASHI 6½ 11 7  RODRIGO Cunha PINHO Manager Konstantin KUCHAEV    12    FERRO Gianluigi BUFFON    13    HELTON Brant LEITE Kwadwo ASAMOAH    14    Borna SOSA Ismaila SORO    15 6  Alex IWOBI James FORREST 7  16    RAFAEL Alexandre BRITO

Benfica   League position: 6 Away league form: XLWW Overall league form: WXXWLWLW Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Celtic 2 Benfica 3 (Half-time: 2-2, Attendance: 54,386, Stadium: Celtic Park, Referee: William Young 6) Jota 17¹, Jota 30¹ Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Radonjic 41¹, Radonjic 46¹, de Tomás 26² AbadaóForrest 18² de TomásóIwobi 36²         1 4 9 3 2 1 4 6 13 5 17 11 2 3 52% 48% ¶ Man of the match: Nicolás Otamendi ¶