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Match report
Football Elite
Division 2: Round 17 (setup 2, season 31)
Benfica
v.
Newcastle United
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
21
Overall form:
Home form:
Andriy PYATOV16Freddie WOODMAN
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
20
Overall form:
Home form:
DIOGO António Cupido GONÇALVES727Nélson Cabral SEMEDO
Cristiano BIRAGHI63Dan BURN
Alex IWOBI74Sean LONGSTAFF
Nicolás Hernán OTAMENDI757Victor LINDELÖF
Francisco Reis Ferreira, FERRO667Matteo LOVATO
Paul POGBA7Miguel Ángel ALMIRON Rejala
PEDRO Lomba NETO87MALCOM Filipe Silva de Oliveira
Carlos VINICIUS Alves Morais69Chris WOOD
Adel TAARABT610Joe WILLOCK
Josip ILICIC611DANILO Pereira da Silva
Manager
Nemanja RADONJIC12MATHEUS Henrique de Souza
HELTON Brant Aleixo LEITE13Karl DARLOW
Souahilo MEITÉ14ROBERTO LÓPEZ Alcaide
Raúl DE TOMÁS Gómez15Jacob MURPHY
Felipe Rodrigues da Silva, MORATO16Miralem PJANIC

Benfica 1 Newcastle United 2
(Half-time: 1-2, Attendance: 30,159, Stadium: Estádio da Luz, Referee: Steve TANNER 7½)
15 Pedro NetoScorers37 Burn, 39 Longstaff
Substitutions
Sendings off
33 BiraghiBookings23 Danilo
6Corners6
18Fouls8
2Offsides8
4Shots on4
6Shots off6
10Total shots10
3Shots saved2
43%Possession57%
Man of the match: Sean LONGSTAFF
3SEMEDO headed just beyond the far post.
6A left foot effort from WOOD was pushed over by the Benfica 'keeper.
9A twenty yard shot from PEDRO NETO caused WOODMAN no problem.
11LOVATO rifled a simple chance past the near post.
15GOAL!! A wonderful run from VINICIUS gave BIRAGHI space on the right and PEDRO NETO rattled in his pin-point pass. (1-0 Benfica)
17MALCOM ran onto a delightful ball from WILLOCK but hit his shot wide.
23DANILO receives a yellow card by the ref for a clinical tackle.
28POGBA made space on the right and touched the ball to VINICIUS who touched the ball wide.
32A cross from POGBA left OTAMENDI in lots of space but he fluffed his shot.
33The ref books BIRAGHI for dangerous play against LOVATO.
35The motionless PYATOV was a mere bystander as a backpass from DIOGO GONÇALVES dropped just over.
37GOAL!! On the left wing WOOD collected a defender's clearance and hit it through the penalty area for BURN to drive it into the net. (1-1)
39GOAL!! A neat one-two left LONGSTAFF clear and he made no mistake by flicking the ball past the oncoming 'keeper. (2-1 Newcastle United)
43A pin-point pass bobbled toward PEDRO NETO and his right foot effort floated narrowly wide.
 
46WILLOCK played the ball to WOOD who nodded it just beyond the near post.
57A great save prevented BURN from scoring an exceptional goal.
61A good effort from VINICIUS scraped the woodwork.
62VINICIUS waltzed past LONGSTAFF and stabbed a tame shot well wide.
70A fine run was ended by a good save by the advancing 'keeper.
72BIRAGHI beat three Newcastle United players and fired a great chance inches over.
78IWOBI's shot was well saved by WOODMAN.
79A corner was collected by WILLOCK who flicked the ball just beyond the near post.