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Commentary
2¹BONAVENTURA nodded the ball wide from the edge of the box.
5¹CHIQUINHO's shot was well held by SKORUPSKI.
12¹PAULO OLIVEIRA given a yellow card by SANDRA.
18¹ILICIC ran onto a wonderful ball from CHIQUINHO but fumbled his shot wide.
19¹GOAL!! A tackle from DIOGO GONÇALVES gave Fiorentina a free-kick just outside the area which SCHOUTEN drove past the Benfica 'keeper. (1-0 Fiorentina)
25¹GOAL!! An inswinging corner was headed clear only for VINICIUS to thump the ball into the back of the net. (1-1)
26¹Uncertainty in the Benfica defence enabled SOLANKE to hit the ball wide.
30¹BONAVENTURA brought the ball away from BIRAGHI and flicked a tame shot over.
34¹VINICIUS snapped at an easy chance.
41¹VINICIUS beat two Fiorentina players and fired a golden opportunity just beyond the near post.
42¹SOLANKE flicked an easy chance past the lefthand post.
2²GOAL!! An energetic PEDRO NETO ran down the wing and dragged the ball back for POGBA to hammer home. (2-1 Benfica)
3²A header by VINICIUS at the far post was comfortably collected by SKORUPSKI.
6²A twenty-five yard drive from ILICIC caused the Fiorentina 'keeper little difficulty.
9²PEDRO NETO booked.
18²A delightful strike from RANIERI was dealt with by a fine parry from the Benfica 'keeper.
19²The referee cautions ILICIC for an off-the-ball incident against NZOLA.
23²A penalty box meleé resulted in MEITÉ knocking the ball over.
26²A accurate pass found POGBA and his deadly effort went narrowly over.
29²SANDRA books OTAMENDI.
30²A lovely effort from ZANOTTI scraped the outside of the righthand post.
33²SVANBERG's shot beat HELTON LEITE but rebounded off the Benfica post.

 
Benfica
 
League position: 9
Home league form: WWXL
Overall league form: WWWWLLXL
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
HELTON Brant LEITE6½16½Lukasz SKORUPSKI
DIOGO António GONÇALVES7½26½Mattia ZANOTTI
Cristiano BIRAGHI7 37½Arthur THEATE
Paul POGBA7 47½Jerdy SCHOUTEN
(c)Nicolás OTAMENDI6½57½Luca RANIERI
PAULO André OLIVEIRA6½65½Caleb OKOLI
Souahilo MEITÉ6½76½Niccolò PIEROZZI
PEDRO Lomba NETO6½87 Giacomo BONAVENTURA(c)
(p)Carlos VINICIUS6½97 Dominic SOLANKE(p)
(f)CHIQUINHO6 107 Mattias SVANBERG(f)
Josip ILICIC5 116½Mbala NZOLA
Manager
Raúl DE TOMÁS  12  Daan ROTS
Nemanja RADONJIC  13  Pietro TERRACCIANO
FERRO  14  Aaron HICKEY
GABRIEL Appelt  15  Gino INFANTINO
PAULO Guilherme BERNARDO  16  Alfred DUNCAN
 
Fiorentina
 
League position: 5
Away league form: WLXO
Overall league form: WWLWXOLW
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Benfica 2 Fiorentina 1
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 51,138, Stadium: Estádio da Luz, Referee: Marnix Sandra 6)

Vinicius 25¹, Pogba 2²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Schouten 19¹
  
  
Paulo Oliveira 12¹, Pedro Neto 9², Ilicic 19², Otamendi 29² 
56
219
108
74
77
1411
52
46%54%
Man of the match: Luca Ranieri