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Match report
Football Elite
Division 1: Round 36 (setup 3, season 7)
Benfica
v.
Liverpool
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
16
Overall form:
Home form:
Luiz FELIPE Ventura dos Santos17Andriy PYATOV
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
17
Overall form:
Home form:
Victorio 'Maximiliano' PEREIRA Páez27Pablo Javier ZABALETA
ELISEU Pereira dos Santos83Emiliano Adrián INSÚA
Yoann GOURCUFF4Gnégnéri 'Yaya' TOURÉ
MAICON Pereira Roque57ALEX Rodrigo Dias da Costa
RICARDO Alberto Silveira CARVALHO66Steven TAYLOR
Rodrigo Ferrante TADDEI7Milan BADELJ
CLEITON Ribeiro XAVIER88Nikola SARIC
Óscar René CARDOZO Marín97Klaas-Jan HUNTELAAR
Francisco Javier García Fernández, JAVI GARCÍA7106Kevin NOLAN
Christian BENTEKE11Danijel ALEKSIC
Manager
WELLITON Soares de Morais12Sime VRSALJKO
EDUARDO dos Reis Carvalho13Michel VORM
CARLOS Jorge Neto MARTINS714James WARD-PROWSE
Alexandre Henrique Gonçalves de Freitas, ALEX156Thomas SØRUM
RUBEN Filipe Marques AMORIM16Andy CARROLL

Benfica 1 Liverpool 1
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 44,396, Stadium: Estad. do Sport Lisboa e Benfica, Referee: Stefano BRASCHI 7½)
8 PereiraScorers89 Zabaleta
52 Cardozo <=> Carlos MartinsSubstitutions89 Huntelaar <=> Sørum
Sendings off
Bookings58 Alex
1Corners5
10Fouls8
7Offsides1
5Shots on6
10Shots off2
15Total shots8
4Shots saved4
62%Possession38%
Man of the match: CLEITON Ribeiro XAVIER
3CARDOZO headed inches wide.
7The stunned Liverpool 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from SARIC dropped just wide.
8GOAL!! A short clearance dropped to CLEITON XAVIER who sliced a shot goalward, luckily PEREIRA was on hand to crack the ball into the net. (1-0 Benfica)
17A shot from CARDOZO was smothered by PYATOV.
18TOURÉ flicked a deadly shot over from long range.
19The 'keeper did well to hold onto a fierce strike from BADELJ.
21PYATOV saved a beautiful effort from BENTEKE.
22BENTEKE headed the ball wide from just outside the area.
27A pin-point pass found ALEKSIC and his deadly effort floated narrowly over.
29A mix up in the Liverpool defence enabled CARDOZO to thump the ball wide.
40A fine ball from RICARDO CARVALHO on the right found TADDEI who sliced his effort inches over.
43A free-kick from CLEITON XAVIER floated wide.
45+1A deadly shot from NOLAN was saved by FELIPE.
 
49A shot from CLEITON XAVIER seemed a certain goal but the 'keeper managed to parry the ball clear.
49HUNTELAAR galloped through the Benfica defence but shot straight at FELIPE.
53JAVI GARCÍA shot wide.
58BRASCHI books ALEX for a poor challenge.
61JAVI GARCÍA floated the ball to RICARDO CARVALHO who turned it just beyond the far post.
70HUNTELAAR's shot was well held by FELIPE.
72A penalty box meleé resulted in CLEITON XAVIER tapping the ball over.
75A good effort from CLEITON XAVIER scraped the woodwork.
79BADELJ rasped the ball through a ruck of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his left.
84A twenty-five yard shot from CARLOS MARTINS caused the 'keeper little difficulty.
89GOAL!! A cross from the left was flicked down by TAYLOR for ZABALETA to score. (1-1)