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Commentary
3¹GOAL!! A great drive from ILICIC was pushed away by LÖSSL only as far as MEITÉ who placed the ball past the stranded 'keeper. (1-0 Benfica)
7¹VINICIUS was put clear by PAULO OLIVEIRA and he stepped inside the Everton 'keeper but struck his shot inches over.
11¹GOAL!! HOLGATE made space for CENK who, after an interchange of passes on the edge of the area, glanced the ball past the 'keeper. (1-1)
12¹A penalty box scramble resulted in VINICIUS driving the ball over.
15¹A shot from MEITÉ was booted off the line by HOLGATE.
20¹GOAL!! Unlucky ILICIC hit the crossbar before PEDRO NETO rifled the ball into the net as KOLEOSHO failed to clear. (2-1 Benfica)
37¹MEITÉ rattled an easy chance past the righthand post.
39¹VINICIUS beat TRAORÉ and blasted the ball to PEDRO NETO who hit his shot wide.
43¹An inswinging corner was nodded into the arms of the 'keeper by RODRÍGUEZ.
44¹A poor shot from ANDRÉ GOMES rolled agonisingly wide.
3²Uncertainty in the Everton defence enabled MEITÉ to crack the ball just beyond the far post.
6²KOLEOSHO knocked the ball to HOLGATE who nodded it over the bar.
8²GOAL!! A short clearance fell to IWOBI who sliced a shot goalward, luckily ILICIC was on hand to fire the ball into the net. (3-1 Benfica)
15²LIVRAMENTO beat two Benfica players and drove a great chance inches wide.
16²The Everton 'keeper dived to his left to save a lovely drive from Benfica's PEDRO NETO.
20²MEITÉ scuffed an easy chance.
21²IWOBI made space on the right and pulled the ball to VINICIUS who fired the ball over.
26²A pin-point pass was collected by RODRÍGUEZ and his deadly effort flew narrowly wide.
27²VINICIUS shot wide.
30²A corner found PEDRO NETO who flicked an effort inches wide.
34²PEDRO NETO headed over the bar.
38²GOAL!! A delightful bit of skill enabled VINICIUS to waltz through the Everton defence and score. (4-1 Benfica)
42²KOLEOSHO flicked a left foot shot just wide from twenty-five yards out.
45²A lovely effort from PEDRO NETO scraped the upright.

 
Benfica
 
League position: 15
Home league form: LWWX
Overall league form: WLXWWXXW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
HELTON Brant LEITE7 17 Jonas LÖSSL
DIOGO António GONÇALVES7 25½Mason HOLGATE
Cristiano BIRAGHI6½37 Tino LIVRAMENTO
Alex IWOBI7½47½ANDRÉ Filipe GOMES
(c)Nicolás OTAMENDI8 56½Yerry MINA
PAULO André OLIVEIRA5½65½Marc BARTRA
MORATO6 77 Bertrand TRAORÉ
PEDRO Lomba NETO7 86½James RODRÍGUEZ
(p)Carlos VINICIUS6½97½CENK Tosun(c,p)
(f)Souahilo MEITÉ7 105½Luca KOLEOSHO(f)
Josip ILICIC6½116 Luis VÁZQUEZ
Manager
FERRO  12  Mathias KJØLØ
Borna SOSA  13  Quilindschy HARTMAN
Nemanja RADONJIC  14  BERNARD Anício
RAFAEL Alexandre BRITO  15  Alfie GILCHRIST
Adel TAARABT  16  Jean-Philippe GBAMIN
 
Everton
 
League position: 9
Away league form: LXOO
Overall league form: LWXOXOXX
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Benfica 4 Everton 1
(Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 43,997, Stadium: Estádio da Luz, Referee: Miguel Mercado 9½)

Meité 3¹, Pedro Neto 20¹, Ilicic 8², Vinicius 38²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Cenk 11¹
  
  
  
81
119
57
62
115
177
21
53%47%
Man of the match: Nicolás Otamendi