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Commentary
4¹A header by FÜHRICH at the near post was comfortably collected by the Benfica 'keeper.
6¹ENDO shot over.
13¹BURGSTALLER booked.
16¹A great shot from GUIRASSY was dealt with by a good stop from the 'keeper.
18¹The 'keeper did well to hold onto a powerful shot from PEDRO NETO.
24¹A shot from FÜHRICH was smothered by the 'keeper.
24¹A right foot effort from VINICIUS was stopped by the VfB Stuttgart 'keeper.
26¹A free-kick from MAVROPANOS raced just wide.
28¹A penalty box meleé resulted in GUIRASSY driving a low shot wide.
29¹GOAL!! After ENDO was pulled to the ground the referee waved play-on and FÜHRICH went on to comfortably score. (1-0 VfB Stuttgart)
30¹VINICIUS galloped through the VfB Stuttgart defence but shot straight at the 'keeper.
36¹A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the oncoming VfB Stuttgart 'keeper.
39¹FÜHRICH's shot beat the 'keeper but rebounded off the Benfica woodwork.
4²GOAL!! A quick free-kick allowed GUIRASSY to play the ball to ENDO who whacked a right foot shot into the net. (2-0 VfB Stuttgart)
9²The hapless Benfica 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from BURGSTALLER dropped just wide.
12²GOAL!! A patient Benfica side were rewarded with a lovely strike from PEDRO NETO. (2-1 VfB Stuttgart)
16²GOAL!! A goalmouth meleé culminated with PEDRO NETO blasting the ball into the net. (2-2)
23²A accurate pass bobbled toward ILICIC and his looping shot flew narrowly over.
24²MANGALA beat PEDRO NETO and placed the ball to GUIRASSY who fumbled his effort wide.
26²PEDRO NETO snapped at a simple chance.
31²A poor strike from PEREA trickled agonisingly wide.
44²Uncertainty in the Benfica defence enabled CHOUPO-MOTING to thump an effort over.

 
Benfica
 
League position: 20
Home league form: LLXW
Overall league form: LLLLXLWW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
HELTON Brant LEITE7 16½Moritz NICOLAS
DIOGO António GONÇALVES7 28 Pablo MAFFEO
(c)Cristiano BIRAGHI8 37 Konstantinos MAVROPANOS
Alex IWOBI8 46½Wataru ENDO
PAULO André OLIVEIRA6½57½KIM Min-jae
MORATO6½66 Marc-Oliver KEMPF
CHIQUINHO6 77 Orel MANGALA
PEDRO Lomba NETO7 87 Chris FÜHRICH
(p)Carlos VINICIUS7½97 Serhou GUIRASSY(p)
(f)Guido BURGSTALLER6 106 Marko ARNAUTOVIC(c,f)
Josip ILICIC7 116 Eric CHOUPO-MOTING
Manager
Paul POGBA  12  Steven ZUBER
RODRIGO Cunha PINHO  13  Ron-Robert ZIELER
Nemanja RADONJIC  14  Zakaria LABYAD
RAFAEL Alexandre BRITO  156½Juan PEREA
Raúl DE TOMÁS  16  BERKAY Özcan
 
VfB Stuttgart
 
League position: 10
Away league form: LXLX
Overall league form: WLXLXWXO
Formation: 4-3-3
VfB Stuttgart go through to the next round, 6-3 on aggregate
Statistics
Benfica 2 VfB Stuttgart 2
(Half-time: 0-1, Attendance: 26,798, Stadium: Estádio da Luz, Referee: Paolo Dondarini 6)

Pedro Neto 12², Pedro Neto 16²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Führich 29¹, Endo 4²
 MavropanosóPerea 17²
  
Burgstaller 13¹ 
64
919
32
109
29
1218
86
44%56%
Man of the match: Alex Iwobi