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Commentary
A good effort from VICTOR SÁ scraped the outside of the righthand post.
STRAND LARSEN drove a left foot shot inches wide from just outside the area.
An inswinging corner was touched into the arms of the 'keeper by STRAND LARSEN.
GOAL!! A terrible goal-kick was intercepted by SADIKI who setup STRAND LARSEN with an easy chance. (1-0 VfL Wolfsburg)
13¹A cross from ARAÚJO left ASENSIO in plenty of space but he snapped at his shot.
14¹POGBA scuffed an easy chance.
20¹A corner found STRAND LARSEN who turned an effort over.
27¹A penalty box scramble resulted in VICTOR SÁ cracking the ball over.
31¹ILICIC made space on the left and knocked the ball to ASENSIO who fired the ball wide.
40¹Uncertainty in the Benfica defence enabled VICTOR SÁ to fire the ball just wide.
42¹A weak shot from STRAND LARSEN trickled agonisingly wide.
43¹STEFFEN beat OTAMENDI and blasted the ball to WILLIAM who fired his shot wide.
45¹ASENSIO flicked an easy chance past the lefthand post.
SADIKI nodded the ball wide of the goal from the edge of the box.
PAULO OLIVEIRA headed over the bar.
17²The stunned 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from POGBA fell just wide.
22²A neatly crafted cross from STEFFEN was slammed goalbound by VICTOR SÁ only for the Benfica 'keeper to block.
25²A useful ball from PAULO OLIVEIRA on the right fell to ILICIC who scuffed his shot inches over.
26²A left foot shot from VICTOR SÁ was clawed past the post by HELTON LEITE.
28²WILLIAM ran onto a wonderful ball from SADIKI but fired his effort wide.
29²A twenty yard drive from BIRAGHI caused the 'keeper no problem.
33²A shot from STRAND LARSEN seemed a certain goal but the 'keeper managed to fist the ball away.
40²A pin-point pass found VICTOR SÁ and his right foot shot raced narrowly wide.
43²VICTOR SÁ's shot was well held by the 'keeper.

 
VfL Wolfsburg
 
League position: 2
Home league form: WXX-
Overall league form: WWXXXW--
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Heorhiy BUSHCHAN1HELTON Brant LEITE
Julian RYERSON2DIOGO António GONÇALVES
WILLIAM de Asevedo3Cristiano BIRAGHI
Yannick GERHARDT4Alex IWOBI
Nico SCHLOTTERBECK5Nicolás OTAMENDI(c)
Maxence LACROIX6PAULO André OLIVEIRA
(c)Renato STEFFEN7Maximiliano ARAÚJO
João VICTOR SÁ8Marco ASENSIO
(p)Jørgen STRAND LARSEN9Carlos VINICIUS(p)
(f)Noah SADIKI10Paul POGBA(f)
Rémy LABEAU LASCARY11Josip ILICIC
Manager
Kevin MBABU  12  Raúl DE TOMÁS
Pavao PERVAN  13  Nemanja RADONJIC
Kilian FISCHER  14  MORATO
Alex DOUGLAS15  RAFAEL Alexandre BRITO
Ryan FRASER  16  Souahilo MEITÉ
 
Benfica
 
League position: 7
Away league form: LLL-
Overall league form: LWLWWL--
Formation: 4-3-3
VfL Wolfsburg go through to the next round
Statistics
VfL Wolfsburg 1 Benfica 0
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 29,884, Stadium: Volkswagenarena, Referee: Roberto Bettin 6)

Strand Larsen 8¹
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
 
SadikióDouglas 31² 
  
  
01
1011
21
61
116
177
51
53%47%
Man of the match: Cristiano Biraghi