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7¹ The 'keeper managed to block an amazing effort. 8¹ A cross from BÜLTER left KAMINSKI in plenty of space but he snapped at his shot. 9¹ GOAL!! An imaginative CLINTON played a great ball down the middle to SKOV OLSEN who seemingly in an offside position went on to easily score. (1-0 1.FC Köln) 11¹ MARTEL shot over. 16¹ A late challenge on HEINTZ by PAULO OLIVEIRA results in a booking. 17¹ MORATO beat MARTEL and fired the ball to ARAÚJO who fumbled his shot wide. 19¹ A penalty box scramble resulted in ILICIC tapping a low shot over. 22¹ DIOGO GONÇALVES was put clear by ILICIC and he dummied the 1.FC Köln 'keeper but rammed his shot just beyond the near post. 28¹ A clumsy challenge gets KAMINSKI a yellow card. 31¹ GOAL!! 1.FC Köln's KAMINSKI beat two defenders before firing just inside the 'keeper's far post. (2-0 1.FC Köln) 36¹ A great effort from MARTEL scraped the top of the crossbar. 38¹ A drive from ILICIC seemed a certain goal but the 1.FC Köln 'keeper managed to fist the ball away. 44¹ MECHELE booked for gamesmanship. 0² ACHE receives a yellow card by the ref. 4² A corner fell to ARAÚJO who forced an effort over. 7² A fine run was ended by a good save by the oncoming 'keeper. 9² GOAL!! A shot from ASENSIO which MIGNOLET was able to claw away was deemed over the line by the linesman and the referee gave the goal. (2-1 1.FC Köln) 13² MECHELE snapped at an easy chance. 17² The 1.FC Köln 'keeper was able to block a tame header from VINICIUS. 23² A header by ASENSIO at the far post was comfortably collected by MIGNOLET. 29² The hapless Benfica 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from DIOGO GONÇALVES fell just wide. 31² GOAL!! A VINICIUS run down the right resulted in a exceptional cross for ILICIC to volley in. (2-2) 31² KAMINSKI played the ball to ADAMYAN who touched it just wide. 37² HEINTZ booted the ball wide of the lefthand post from just outside the area. 45² ASENSIO's shot beat the 1.FC Köln 'keeper but rebounded off the 1.FC Köln upright.

1.FC Köln   League position: 8 Home league form: WWW- Overall league form: XXWLWLWL Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups (c)Simon MIGNOLET 6½ 1 6½ HELTON Brant LEITE Amir MURILLO 7  2 6½ DIOGO António GONÇALVES Dominique HEINTZ 6½ 3 6  Maximiliano ARAÚJO Eric MARTEL 8  4 8  MORATO Brandon MECHELE 6½ 5 6½ Nicolás OTAMENDI(c) CLINTON Mata 6½ 6 6  PAULO André OLIVEIRA Andreas SKOV OLSEN 6  7 7  Paul POGBA Jakub KAMINSKI 6½ 8 7½ Marco ASENSIO (p)Sargis ADAMYAN 5½ 9 6½ Carlos VINICIUS(p) (f)Marius BÜLTER 5½ 10 7½ CHIQUINHO(f) Ragnar ACHE 5½ 11 5½ Josip ILICIC Manager Alessio CASTRO-MONTES    12    Cristiano BIRAGHI Dénes DIBUSZ    13    RAFAEL Alexandre BRITO Timo HÜBERS 6  14    Raúl DE TOMÁS Ísak JÓHANNESSON    15    RODRIGO Cunha PINHO Kristoffer LUND    16    Souahilo MEITÉ

Benfica   League position: 9 Away league form: LLL- Overall league form: XLWLWWL- Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

1.FC Köln 2 Benfica 2 (Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 46,354, Stadium: RheinEnergie, Referee: Valeri Onufer 7½) Skov Olsen 9¹, Kaminski 31¹ Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Asensio 9², Ilicic 31² Skov OlsenóHübers 26²       Kaminski 28¹, Mechele 44¹, Ache 0² Paulo Oliveira 16¹ 2 4 22 12 4 4 3 7 7 4 10 11 1 5 47% 53% ¶ Man of the match: Eric Martel ¶