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Commentary
0¹VINICIUS clipped the ball through a ruck of players but TURK was a match for it as he dived to his left.
5¹ASENSIO headed over the bar.
5¹GOAL!! 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.
3²GOAL!! 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)
6²A 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 LEITE6 16 Martin TURK
DIOGO António GONÇALVES7 27 Matty CASH
Cristiano BIRAGHI7½36 LIMA
Alex IWOBI7 47 Ruben LOFTUS-CHEEK
(c)Nicolás OTAMENDI5½56½Jean-Clair TODIBO
PAULO André OLIVEIRA6 66 Jonathan GRADIT
Maximiliano ARAÚJO6 76 Steven FORTÉS
Marco ASENSIO6½86½Jonathan IKONÉ
(p)Carlos VINICIUS7 97 Amine EL OUAZZANI(p)
(f)Paul POGBA6½106 Pierre-Emerick AUBAMEYANG(c,f)
Josip ILICIC7½116½Florian SOTOCA
Manager
Raúl DE TOMÁS  12  Billel OMRANI
Nemanja RADONJIC  13  DAVID Pereira COSTA
MORATO6 14  Pablo CHAVARRÍA
RAFAEL Alexandre BRITO  15  Georges-Kévin NKOUDOU
Souahilo MEITÉ6 16  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