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Commentary
A header from KARAVAEV was nodded off the line by MORATO.
20¹A shot from OZDOEV seemed a certain goal but the Benfica 'keeper managed to palm the ball clear.
21¹POGBA ran onto a delightful ball from IWOBI but hit his shot wide of the goal.
26¹An exceptional effort from PAULO OLIVEIRA scraped the outside of the post.
37¹PEDRO NETO brought the ball past ROBERT RENAN and flicked a poor shot over the bar.
38¹A penalty box meleé resulted in VINICIUS knocking a low shot wide.
42¹A great save prevented PEDRO NETO from scoring a lovely goal.
43¹GOAL!! An inswinging corner was nodded clear only for VINICIUS to fire the ball into the back of the net. (1-0 Benfica)
44¹GOAL!! An inswinging corner nodded out by ROBERT RENAN was nudged into the net by PAULO OLIVEIRA. (2-0 Benfica)
GOAL!! BARRIOS drove a wicked shot against the woodwork with BONGONDA tapping in the rebound. (2-1 Benfica)
10²The hapless Benfica 'keeper was all agog as a backpass from DIOGO GONÇALVES fell just wide.
13²A accurate pass found TAARABT and his right foot shot flew narrowly wide.
16²DOUGLAS SANTOS beat two Benfica players and stroked a golden opportunity over.
18²GOAL!! A wonderful piece of skill from TAARABT gave BIRAGHI space on the right and MORATO poked in his pin-point pass. (3-1 Benfica)
23²VINICIUS played the ball to ILICIC who touched it over.
25²A delightful strike from TAARABT was dealt with by a fine parry from the Zenit 'keeper.
29²GOAL!! After a good build-up VINICIUS drove the ball past the 'keeper. (4-1 Benfica)
32²A good ball from ILICIC on the right was collected by VINICIUS who mishit his effort over.
35²CASSIERRA drilled a right foot shot wide from long range.
37²BIRAGHI headed just wide.
41²POGBA fluffed a simple chance.
44²BONGONDA was put clear by DRIUSSI and he dummied HELTON LEITE but struck his shot wide.

 
Benfica
 
League position: 12
Home league form: XWLW
Overall league form: LLXLWWWL
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
HELTON Brant LEITE1Andrei LUNEV
DIOGO António GONÇALVES2Vyacheslav KARAVAEV
(c)Cristiano BIRAGHI3DOUGLAS dos SANTOS Justino
Alex IWOBI4Wilmar BARRIOS(c)
MORATO5Nihad MUJAKIC
PAULO André OLIVEIRA6ROBERT RENAN Alves
Paul POGBA7Ajdin HASIC
PEDRO Lomba NETO8Théo BONGONDA
(p)Carlos VINICIUS9Ivan SERGEEV(p)
(f)Adel TAARABT10Magomed OZDOEV(f)
Josip ILICIC11Mateo CASSIERRA
Manager
Souahilo MEITÉ  12  Daler KUZYAEV
FERRO  13Sebastián DRIUSSI
CHIQUINHO  14  Aleksandr EROKHIN
Raúl DE TOMÁS  15  Aleksandr KOKORIN
GABRIEL Appelt  16  Aleksei SUTORMIN
 
Zenit
 
League position: 2
Away league form: WWLX
Overall league form: XWWWLLXX
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Benfica 4 Zenit 1
(Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 37,616, Stadium: Estádio da Luz, Referee: Marcello Cardona 6)

Vinicius 43¹, Paulo Oliveira 44¹, Morato 18², Vinicius 29²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Bongonda 2²
 Douglas SantosóDriussi 28²
  
  
60
1718
32
75
126
1911
34
54%46%
Man of the match: Diogo António Gonçalves