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Commentary
3¹MAEDA shot over.
4¹HELTON LEITE dived to his right to save an accurate shot from Celtic's DIEGO COSTA.
8¹A penalty box meleé resulted in FURUHASHI cracking the ball over.
10¹GOAL!! After a fine build-up DE TOMÁS drove the ball past the Celtic 'keeper. (1-0 Benfica)
11¹A twenty yard shot from DIEGO COSTA caused the Benfica 'keeper little difficulty.
15¹A accurate pass bobbled toward RALSTON and his right foot shot raced narrowly over.
19¹A header by DIEGO COSTA at the far post was easily collected by the 'keeper.
23¹MAEDA fluffed an easy chance.
27¹MAEDA ran onto a great ball from CHRISTIE but dragged his effort wide of the goal.
30¹MAEDA touched the ball through a crowd of players but HELTON LEITE was a match for it as he dived to his left.
32¹GOAL!! A long shot from BIRAGHI deflected off the shins of DE SCIGLIO and into his own net. (2-0 Benfica)
34¹A free-kick from RADONJIC raced over the bar.
35¹McGREGOR beat DIOGO GONÇALVES and whacked the ball to FURUHASHI who dragged his effort wide.
36¹Uncertainty in the Benfica defence enabled FURUHASHI to crack an effort inches wide.
40¹A lovely effort from MAEDA scraped the outside of the lefthand post.
42¹A refined pass from McGREGOR was shot goalbound by DIEGO COSTA only for the 'keeper to block.
11²GOAL!! As DE SCIGLIO was trying to hold back BIRAGHI the ball dropped to OTAMENDI who placed the ball into the back of the net. (3-0 Benfica)
15²PAULO OLIVEIRA drilled a deadly shot just beyond the far post from just outside the area.
17²BIRAGHI waltzed past RALSTON and stroked a poor shot well wide.
26²The stunned 'keeper was all agog as a backpass from BIRAGHI fell just over.
39²A weak strike from MEITÉ rolled agonisingly wide.
40²DIEGO COSTA booted the ball wide of the lefthand post from just outside the area.
43²MEITÉ chipped the ball to ILICIC who touched it wide.
45²MAEDA charged through the Benfica defence but shot straight at the Benfica 'keeper.

 
Benfica
 
League position: 11
Home league form: WXLX
Overall league form: WWLLXLLX
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
HELTON Brant LEITE8 16½Evgeni LATYSHONOK
DIOGO António GONÇALVES6½28 Tony RALSTON
Cristiano BIRAGHI5½36 Mattia DE SCIGLIO
Adel TAARABT7½47 Callum McGREGOR
(c)Nicolás OTAMENDI7 56½Simon KJÆR(c)
PAULO André OLIVEIRA6 67 Robin PRÖPPER
Souahilo MEITÉ6½77 Liel ABADA
Nemanja RADONJIC7 86½Daizen MAEDA
(p)Raúl DE TOMÁS7 97½DIEGO da Silva COSTA(p)
(f)Carlos VINICIUS6 106½Ryan CHRISTIE(f)
Josip ILICIC6½116½Kyogo FURUHASHI
Manager
Borna SOSA  12  Reo HATATE
Paul POGBA  13  Craig GORDON
CHIQUINHO6 14  Jozo SIMUNOVIC
GABRIEL Appelt  156 Albian AJETI
FERRO  16  JOTA
 
Celtic
 
League position: 12
Away league form: LXLW
Overall league form: WLXWWLLW
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Benfica 3 Celtic 0
(Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 38,130, Stadium: Estádio da Luz, Referee: Barry Knight 7½)

de Tomás 10¹, de Sciglio 32¹ (og), Otamendi 11²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
 
BiraghióChiquinho 27²KjæróAjeti 33²
  
  
00
723
46
36
510
816
05
53%47%
Man of the match: Tony Ralston