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Match report
Football Elite
Division 1: Round 30 (setup 3, season 11)
Newcastle United
v.
Benfica
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
9
Overall form:
Home form:
Samir HANDANOVIC71Anthony LOPES
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
18
Overall form:
Home form:
Jérôme BOATENG62Victorio 'Maximiliano' PEREIRA Páez
David ALABA37ELISEU Pereira dos Santos
Arturo Erasmo VIDAL Pardo4Francisco Javier García Fernández, JAVI GARCÍA
Diego Roberto GODÍN Leal75MAICON Pereira Roque
Mats HUMMELS66RICARDO Alberto Silveira CARVALHO
Mario GÖTZE76Yoann GOURCUFF
Mesut ÖZIL88Alexandre Henrique Gonçalves de Freitas, ALEX
Aleksandar MITROVIC96Óscar René CARDOZO Marín
David Jiménez SILVA106SÉRGIO Miguel Rivas de OLIVEIRA
AYOZE Pérez Gutiérrez6116WELLITON Soares de Morais
Manager
Pablo Javier ZABALETA12Miguel Arturo LAYÚN Prado
Thibaut COURTOIS13EDUARDO dos Reis Carvalho
Joël MATIP14ALAN Patrick Lourenço
Kevin DE BRUYNE15José BOSINGWA da Silva
Georginio WIJNALDUM16Paulo CÉSAR da Silva PEIXOTO

Newcastle United 4 Benfica 0
(Half-time: 3-0, Attendance: 51,505, Stadium: St.James' Park, Referee: John BLANKENSTEIN 6)
7 Alaba, 10og Eliseu, 14 Özil, 62 SilvaScorers
Substitutions
Sendings off
Bookings4 Ricardo Carvalho, 86 Alex
5Corners1
7Fouls13
7Offsides4
7Shots on3
20Shots off6
27Total shots9
3Shots saved3
60%Possession40%
Man of the match: Mesut ÖZIL
2The bemused Benfica 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from MAICON fell just over.
4RICARDO CARVALHO receives a yellow card for a late tackle.
7GOAL!! As PEREIRA was trying to hold back SILVA the ball dropped to ALABA who tapped the ball into the net. (1-0 Newcastle United)
10GOAL!! A corner shot through the penalty area and ELISEU fumbled the ball into his own net.
14GOAL!! A cross from the left was nodded down by HUMMELS for ÖZIL to score. (3-0 Newcastle United)
23BOATENG beat four Benfica players and slammed a great chance over.
30AYOZE waltzed away from ELISEU and stabbed a poor shot well wide.
33MITROVIC clipped the ball through a ruck of players but LOPES was a match for it as he dived to his left.
39A poor shot from MITROVIC trickled agonisingly wide.
42ALABA booted the ball wide from just outside the area.
45+1An outswinging corner was headed into the arms of the Newcastle United 'keeper by WELLITON.
 
49A lovely effort from MITROVIC scraped the woodwork.
51A shot from ALEX held little difficulty for HANDANOVIC.
62GOAL!! A AYOZE run down the right resulted in an exceptional cross for SILVA to crack in. (4-0 Newcastle United)
64A header from CARDOZO was booted off the line by BOATENG.
69LOPES saved a clever strike from HUMMELS.
71A penalty box meleé resulted in MITROVIC knocking the ball wide.
76A header by ÖZIL at the far post was comfortably collected by the Benfica 'keeper.
86ALEX cautioned for a poor challenge on GÖTZE.
89ALEX made space on the right and knocked the ball to PEREIRA who touched the ball over.
90+2A useful ball from GÖTZE on the left found GODÍN who scuffed his shot just beyond the far post.
90+2A pin-point pass was collected by CARDOZO and his right foot effort floated narrowly wide.