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Commentary
A cross from CASTILLEJOS left CABRAL in plenty of space but he snapped at his shot.
DROGBA worked the ball to RUBEN AMORIM, CLEITON XAVIER controlled his pass and headed the ball within easy reach of MARCHESÍN.
11¹PREDIGER given a yellow card for a clumsy tackle on ALEX.
12¹ALEX beat PREDIGER and flicked the ball to DROGBA who blasted his effort wide.
18¹BUONANOTTE was put clear by BASANTA and he nutmegged LOPES but rammed his shot over.
22¹PREDIGER stormed through the Benfica defence but shot straight at the 'keeper.
24¹A accurate pass bobbled toward PEREIRA and his right foot shot floated narrowly wide.
30¹A free-kick from LÓPEZ raced just wide.
30¹CABRAL brought the ball away from RICARDO CARVALHO and poked a poor shot over.
31¹A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the advancing Benfica 'keeper.
35¹A great effort from CABRAL scraped the outside of the post.
37¹TROTTA beat a number of River Plate players and thundered a golden opportunity just beyond the far post.
41¹LÓPEZ's shot was well held by the Benfica 'keeper.
42¹The 'keeper was able to claw away an amazing shot.
44¹GOAL!! A great run from PEREIRA gave JAVI GARCÍA space on the left and TROTTA poked in his accurate pass. (1-0 Benfica)
The 'keeper saved a curling shot from DROGBA.
GOAL!! After VILLALVA was bundled over WADDEL waved play-on and BASANTA went on to comfortably score. (1-1)
A refined cross from VILLALVA was drove goalbound by BUONANOTTE only for the 'keeper to claw away.
21²GOAL!! The creative PEREIRA neatly nodded on a cross for ALEX to fire the ball in. (2-1 Benfica)
24²A useful ball from JAVI GARCÍA on the left bobbled toward ALEX who scuffed his shot over.
35²BUONANOTTE booked for violent conduct.
39²A tame strike from ALEX bounced agonisingly wide.

 
Benfica
 
League position: 7
Home league form: WLLX
Overall league form: WWWLLLXL
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Anthony LOPES1Agustin MARCHESÍN
Maximiliano PEREIRA2Gabriel MERCADO
ELISEU Pereira3José BASANTA
JAVI GARCÍA4Sebastián PREDIGER
MAICON Pereira5Gustavo CABRAL(c)
RICARDO Alberto CARVALHO6Lisandro LÓPEZ
RUBEN Filipe AMORIM7Mauro FORMICA
ALEX8Diego BUONANOTTE
(c,p)Didier DROGBA9Maximiliano LÓPEZ(p)
(f)CLEITON Ribeiro XAVIER10Gonzalo CASTILLEJOS(f)
Marcello TROTTA11Daniel VILLALVA
Manager
Yoann GOURCUFF  12  Lucas ORBAN
EDUARDO dos Reis  13  Wilfredo CABALLERO
ANDRÉ Gomes ALMEIDA  14Paulo FERRARI
Daniel AYALA  15  Pablo MOUCHE
ALAN Patrick  16  CICINHO
 
River Plate
 
League position: 20
Away league form: WLLL
Overall league form: WWLWWWLL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Benfica 2 River Plate 1
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 42,464, Stadium: Estádio da Luz, Referee: Andrew Waddel 7½)

Trotta 44¹, Alex 21²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Basanta 5²
 VillalvaóFerrari 39²
  
 Prediger 11¹, Buonanotte 35²
35
616
87
68
911
1519
27
52%48%
Man of the match: Javi García