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5¹ SIKAN made space on the left and dragged the ball to OBLYAKOV who rasped the ball wide. 8¹ SOLOMON ran onto a great ball from TETÊ but pulled his shot wide. 23¹ LARSEN books MORATO. 29¹ ARAÚJO scuffed a simple chance. 35¹ LARSEN yellow cards VINICIUS for dangerous play against COLLEY. 37¹ GOAL!! A long drive from RÚBEN VINAGRE deflected off the head of MORATO and into his own net. (1-0 Shakhtar) 42¹ ILICIC pulled away from PACHECO but drove the ball into the arms of the 'keeper. 3² A header by ILICIC at the near post was comfortably collected by the Shakhtar 'keeper. 6² GOAL!! An imaginative POGBA played a great ball down the middle to ILICIC who seemingly in an offside position went on to easily score. (1-1) 9² TETÊ rifled a simple chance past the near post. 10² The Benfica 'keeper dived to his right to save a lovely shot from Shakhtar's TETÊ. 14² A corner found ILICIC who touched the ball wide. 16² PAULO OLIVEIRA cautioned by LARSEN. 17² JOÃO MÁRIO kicked the ball wide from just outside the area. 18² ILICIC beat RÚBEN VINAGRE and drove the ball to VINICIUS who blasted his shot wide. 22² GOAL!! A wonderful piece of skill from CHIQUINHO gave ILICIC space on the right and MORATO stabbed in his pin-point pass. (2-1 Benfica) 31² SOLOMON stormed through the Benfica defence but shot straight at HELTON LEITE. 33² A fine run was ended by a good save by the oncoming HELTON LEITE. 36² SOLOMON shot over. 37² RAFAEL BRITO booked for violent conduct. 41² HELTON LEITE did well to hold onto a powerful strike from SIKAN. 44² SOLOMON headed over.

Shakhtar   League position: 6 Home league form: OLWX Overall league form: OLWWLWXX Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Diego CONDE 6½ 1 6½ HELTON Brant LEITE JOÃO MÁRIO Neto 7  2 7  DIOGO António GONÇALVES RÚBEN Gonçalo VINAGRE 6½ 3 7  Maximiliano ARAÚJO FLORENTINO Ibrain LUÍS 7½ 4 7½ MORATO (c)James TARKOWSKI 7½ 5 6½ Nicolás OTAMENDI(c) Jon PACHECO 6  6 6  PAULO André OLIVEIRA TETÊ 7  7 7  Paul POGBA Manor SOLOMON 7  8 6½ Marco ASENSIO (p)Danylo SIKAN 7  9 6  Carlos VINICIUS(p) (f)Ivan OBLYAKOV 7½ 10 7  CHIQUINHO(f) Ebrima COLLEY 5½ 11 6½ Josip ILICIC Manager Alex KRÁL    12    Cristiano BIRAGHI Vitezslav JAROS    13 6  RAFAEL Alexandre BRITO Arne MAIER    14    Raúl DE TOMÁS Dmitri BARINOV    15    RODRIGO Cunha PINHO TAISON Barcellos    16    Souahilo MEITÉ

Benfica   League position: 15 Away league form: LXXL Overall league form: LXXXXLWL Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Shakhtar 1 Benfica 2 (Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 32,722, Stadium: Olimpiyskiy, Referee: Claus Larsen 6) Morato 37¹ (og) Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Ilicic 6², Morato 22²   ChiquinhoóRafael Brito 34²       Morato 23¹, Vinicius 35¹, Paulo Oliveira 16², Rafael Brito 37² 2 9 12 14 0 2 8 4 7 5 15 9 6 1 44% 56% ¶ Man of the match: Morato ¶