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Commentary
VINICIUS clipped the ball through a ruck of players but TURK was a match for it as he dived to his left.
ASENSIO headed over the bar.
GOAL!! An energetic ARAÚJO ran down the right wing and pulled the ball back for ASENSIO to flick home. (1-0 Benfica)
14¹GOAL!! Benfica's ILICIC beat three defenders before firing just inside the Lens 'keeper's righthand post. (2-0 Benfica)
17¹POGBA made space on the right and knocked the ball to BIRAGHI who rasped the ball over.
20¹BIRAGHI ran onto a delightful ball from ARAÚJO but fired his shot wide.
25¹The hapless Benfica 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from ARAÚJO fell just over.
30¹A corner found IKONÉ who forced an effort over the bar.
31¹A cross from AUBAMEYANG left IKONÉ in plenty of space but he snapped at his shot.
33¹TURK booked by BORRIELLO.
38¹EL OUAZZANI blasted a right foot shot wide from long range.
39¹A cynical tackle gets OTAMENDI a yellow card.
GOAL!! A tame shot from ASENSIO seemed to hold little difficulty for the Lens 'keeper but the ball somehow squirmed into the net. (3-0 Benfica)
A poor shot from ASENSIO trickled agonisingly wide.
11²GOAL!! A great ball from LIMA left LOFTUS-CHEEK in the clear, he made HELTON LEITE commit himself before nudging the ball to SOTOCA to score. (3-1 Benfica)
17²PAULO OLIVEIRA cautioned by the ref for a high tackle.
20²IKONÉ given a yellow card for a bad tackle on IWOBI.
24²A great effort from ASENSIO scraped the upright.
26²AUBAMEYANG beat ASENSIO and hit the ball to EL OUAZZANI who pulled his shot wide.
27²TODIBO was put clear by CASH and he nutmegged the 'keeper but struck his shot over the bar.
29²A penalty box scramble resulted in LIMA cracking the ball over.
29²DIOGO GONÇALVES beat two Lens players and thundered a great chance inches wide.
30²A lovely cross from ILICIC was lashed goalbound by POGBA only for the Lens 'keeper to block.
30²A free-kick from LIMA flew just beyond the near post.
33²GOAL!! A nice run by IKONÉ on the right was capped by a great cross which EL OUAZZANI fired in from inside the penalty box. (3-2 Benfica)
41²SOTOCA headed the ball wide from just outside the area.

 
Benfica
 
League position: 16
Home league form: ----
Overall league form: L-------
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
HELTON Brant LEITE1Martin TURK
DIOGO António GONÇALVES2Matty CASH
Cristiano BIRAGHI3LIMA
Alex IWOBI4Ruben LOFTUS-CHEEK
(c)Nicolás OTAMENDI5Jean-Clair TODIBO
PAULO André OLIVEIRA6Jonathan GRADIT
Maximiliano ARAÚJO7Steven FORTÉS
Marco ASENSIO8Jonathan IKONÉ
(p)Carlos VINICIUS9Amine EL OUAZZANI(p)
(f)Paul POGBA10Pierre-Emerick AUBAMEYANG(c,f)
Josip ILICIC11Florian SOTOCA
Manager
Raúl DE TOMÁS  12  Billel OMRANI
Nemanja RADONJIC  13  DAVID Pereira COSTA
MORATO14  Pablo CHAVARRÍA
RAFAEL Alexandre BRITO  15  Georges-Kévin NKOUDOU
Souahilo MEITÉ16  Jonathan CLAUSS
 
Lens
 
League position: 15
Away league form: ----
Overall league form: L-------
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Benfica 3 Lens 2
(Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 39,780, Stadium: Estádio da Luz, Referee: Gennaro Borriello 7½)

Asensio 5¹, Ilicic 14¹, Asensio 3²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Sotoca 11², El Ouazzani 33²
OtamendióMeité 24², AsensioóMorato 30² 
  
Otamendi 39¹, Paulo Oliveira 17²Turk 33¹, Ikoné 20²
32
614
34
52
69
1111
20
50%50%
Man of the match: Cristiano Biraghi