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Match report
Football Elite
Division 1: Round 24 (setup 3, season 9)
Benfica
v.
Newcastle United
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
4
Overall form:
Home form:
EDUARDO dos Reis Carvalho1Petr CECH
Formation:
3-4-1-2
League position:
2
Overall form:
Home form:
Victorio 'Maximiliano' PEREIRA Páez28Daniel Alves da Silva, DANI ALVES
Paulo CÉSAR da Silva PEIXOTO37Jérôme BOATENG
Francisco Javier García Fernández, JAVI GARCÍA748Arturo Erasmo VIDAL Pardo
RICARDO Alberto Silveira CARVALHO5Mats HUMMELS
MAICON Pereira Roque667David ALABA
RUBEN Filipe Marques AMORIM77Gareth BALE
CLEITON Ribeiro XAVIER78Thomas MÜLLER
Didier DROGBA9Zlatan IBRAHIMOVIC
Óscar René CARDOZO Marín107Edinson Roberto CAVANI Gómez
Alexandre Henrique Gonçalves de Freitas, ALEX11Arjen ROBBEN
ManagerRikki Faulkner
Rafael López Gómez, RAFA12Marco VERRATTI
Luiz FELIPE Ventura dos Santos13Samir HANDANOVIC
WELLITON Soares de Morais14Alexis Alejandro SÁNCHEZ Barbé
Yoann GOURCUFF15Pablo Javier ZABALETA
Daniel Sánchez AYALA16Mario GÖTZE

Benfica 0 Newcastle United 3
(Half-time: 0-1, Attendance: 61,451, Stadium: Estad. do Sport Lisboa e Benfica, Referee: Daniele MATTIELIG 6½, TV: live)
Scorers5 Ibrahimovic, 49 Müller, 86 Ibrahimovic
70 Cleiton Xavier <=> AyalaSubstitutions
Sendings off
Bookings
2Corners9
14Fouls7
2Offsides2
4Shots on8
3Shots off13
7Total shots21
3Shots saved5
38%Possession62%
Man of the match: Mats HUMMELS
1ALEX made space on the left and pulled the ball to DROGBA who touched the ball wide.
5GOAL!! The creative MÜLLER neatly touched on a cross for IBRAHIMOVIC to thump the ball in. (1-0 Newcastle United)
8MÜLLER was put clear by BALE and he dummied the Benfica 'keeper but thrust his shot wide.
11IBRAHIMOVIC stepped inside JAVI GARCÍA but fired the ball into the arms of the 'keeper.
11The Newcastle United 'keeper dived to his right to stop a lovely shot from Benfica's CARDOZO.
27A great effort from CAVANI scraped the outside of the lefthand post.
28IBRAHIMOVIC beat MAICON and fired the ball to ALABA who pulled his shot wide.
29MÜLLER headed just beyond the far post.
33DROGBA flicked a simple chance past the far post.
34A clever cross from RUBEN AMORIM, was shot goalbound by CLEITON XAVIER only for the 'keeper to palm clear.
36A header by RICARDO CARVALHO at the far post was comfortably collected by the Newcastle United 'keeper.
39A right foot effort from CAVANI was pushed over by EDUARDO.
41A pin-point pass fell to CAVANI and his looping effort floated narrowly wide.
43CAVANI brought the ball round JAVI GARCÍA and stabbed a poor shot well wide.
 
49GOAL!! A tackle from CÉSAR PEIXOTO gave Newcastle United a free-kick just outside the area which MÜLLER thundered past EDUARDO. (2-0 Newcastle United)
52The hapless Benfica 'keeper was all agog as a backpass from CARDOZO fell just wide.
57MÜLLER ran onto a wonderful ball from BALE but pulled his shot wide of the lefthand post.
58A poor shot from CLEITON XAVIER trickled agonisingly wide.
68EDUARDO did well to hold onto a wicked shot from ROBBEN.
76ALABA beat a number of Benfica players and thundered a great chance over.
80A useful ball from ROBBEN on the right fell to CAVANI who mishit his shot over.
86GOAL!! The Benfica 'keeper got into a muddle with a backpass from MAICON and IBRAHIMOVIC was able to roll the ball into the back of the net. (3-0 Newcastle United)