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Commentary

1¹ CAMARA made space on the right and dragged the ball to HATO who rasped the ball over. 18¹ A bad challenge gets MORATO a yellow card. 18¹ An inswinging corner was turned into the arms of HELTON LEITE by BRUMA. 20¹ GOAL!! MORATO drove a powerful shot against the upright with ASENSIO tapping in the rebound. (1-0 Benfica) 21¹ HELTON LEITE did well to hold onto a powerful strike from BAKAMBU. 26¹ The hapless 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from CAMARA dropped just wide. 28¹ An exceptional effort from RANDJELOVIC scraped the top of the crossbar. 33¹ A header from VINICIUS was nodded off the line by EMIRHAN. 37¹ Uncertainty in the Benfica defence enabled SESKO to fire an effort just beyond the near post. 41¹ GOAL!! A mishit goal-kick was intercepted by BAKAMBU who setup HATO with an easy chance. (1-1) 1² HATO fluffed a simple chance. 2² BAKAMBU ran onto a wonderful ball from RANDJELOVIC but pulled his effort wide. 7² GOAL!! Showing plenty of skill SESKO dribbled past OTAMENDI and tapped the ball past the 'keeper. (2-1 Olympiakos) 10² A free-kick from TIAGO SILVA went just wide. 13² SESKO headed just wide. 22² A wonderful save prevented ASENSIO from scoring a lovely goal. 30² A useful ball from IWOBI on the left was collected by DIOGO GONÇALVES who mishit his shot just wide. 31² SESKO drove a right foot shot just beyond the far post from thirty yards out. 34² A weak shot from ARAÚJO trickled agonisingly wide. 35² A accurate pass fell to BAKAMBU and his left foot effort flew narrowly wide. 39² A penalty box scramble resulted in HATO driving a low shot over. 42² HATO was put clear by TIAGO SILVA and he raced past HELTON LEITE but struck his shot over.

Olympiakos   League position: - Home league form: ---- Overall league form: -------- Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Kostas TZOLAKIS 7½ 1 6½ HELTON Brant LEITE Omar EL HILALI 6  2 7  DIOGO António GONÇALVES Jorrel HATO 6½ 3 7  Cristiano BIRAGHI Mady CAMARA 7  4 7  Alex IWOBI Rúben SEMEDO 6  5 8  Nicolás OTAMENDI(c) EMIRHAN Topçu 6½ 6 7  PAULO André OLIVEIRA Lazar RANDJELOVIC 6  7 6  Maximiliano ARAÚJO BRUMA 7  8 7  Marco ASENSIO (c,p)Cédric BAKAMBU 6  9 6½ Carlos VINICIUS(p) (f)TIAGO Rafael SILVA 6½ 10 7  MORATO(f) Benjamin SESKO 6½ 11 6  Josip ILICIC Manager Andreas BOUCHALAKIS    12    Paul POGBA Cican STANKOVIC    13    RAFAEL Alexandre BRITO Ousseynou BA    14    RODRIGO Cunha PINHO Pape CISSÉ    15    Borna SOSA Giorgos MASOURAS 7½ 16    CHIQUINHO

Benfica   League position: - Away league form: ---- Overall league form: -------- Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Olympiakos 2 Benfica 1 (Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 33,076, Stadium: Karaiskakis, Referee: Victor Berbecaru 7½) Hato 41¹, Sesko 7² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Asensio 20¹ SemedoóMasouras 10²         Morato 18¹ 5 4 11 11 2 1 4 3 17 5 21 8 2 2 50% 50% ¶ Man of the match: Nicolás Otamendi ¶