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Match report
Football Elite
Division 1: Round 13 (setup 3, season 8)
Benfica
v.
Tottenham Hotspur
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
6
Overall form:
Home form:
Luiz FELIPE Ventura dos Santos17Bernd LENO
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
7
Overall form:
Home form:
Victorio 'Maximiliano' PEREIRA Páez27José 'Martín' CÁCERES Silva
ELISEU Pereira dos Santos37Ashley COLE
Francisco Javier García Fernández, JAVI GARCÍA48Roman SHIROKOV
MAICON Pereira Roque757Rio FERDINAND
RICARDO Alberto Silveira CARVALHO66Adil RAMI
Rodrigo Ferrante TADDEI7Navarone FOOR
CLEITON Ribeiro XAVIER787Luís Carlos Almeida da Cunha, NANI
Óscar René CARDOZO Marín79Connor WICKHAM
Yoann GOURCUFF610Erick Estefano TORRES Padilla
WELLITON Soares de Morais116Manolo GABBIADINI
Manager
Rafael López Gómez, RAFA12Jetro WILLEMS
EDUARDO dos Reis Carvalho13Brad FRIEDEL
AIRTON Ribeiro Santos14Édison Michael FLORES Peralta
RUBEN Filipe Marques AMORIM615Carlos Eduardo FIERRO Guerrero
Marcello TROTTA166Kristian Omar ÁLVAREZ Nuño

Benfica 3 Tottenham Hotspur 0
(Half-time: 3-0, Attendance: 35,406, Stadium: Estad. do Sport Lisboa e Benfica, Referee: Dick JOL 6½)
20 Gourcuff, 25 Welliton, 44 Cleiton XavierScorers
75 Eliseu <=> Ruben AmorimSubstitutions72 Ferdinand <=> Fierro, 73 Nani <=> Álvarez
Sendings off
Bookings88 Foor
1Corners3
5Fouls25
2Offsides1
5Shots on1
9Shots off7
14Total shots8
2Shots saved1
56%Possession44%
Man of the match: Victorio 'Maximiliano' PEREIRA Páez
1A penalty box meleé resulted in CARDOZO knocking the ball wide.
1A fine ball from CARDOZO on the left fell to GOURCUFF who scuffed his shot over the bar.
3A shot from TADDEI seemed a certain goal but the Tottenham Hotspur 'keeper managed to palm the ball clear.
7COLE shot wide.
19CLEITON XAVIER waltzed away from NANI and stroked a poor shot well wide.
20GOAL!! A twenty yard free-kick was cleverly blasted into the net by GOURCUFF. (1-0 Benfica)
22An outswinging corner was fired into the arms of the 'keeper by WICKHAM.
25GOAL!! A quick-witted WELLITON pounced on a loose ball on the right and made no mistake. (2-0 Benfica)
36CARDOZO rasped the ball through a crowd of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right.
37The bemused FELIPE was all agog as a backpass from ELISEU fell just over.
39WELLITON beat four Tottenham Hotspur players and blasted a shot over.
44GOAL!! With his back to goal CLEITON XAVIER wrong-footed the defence and stabbed the ball past the Tottenham Hotspur 'keeper. (3-0 Benfica)
 
47A pin-point pass found WELLITON and his left foot shot went narrowly wide.
50A free-kick from GABBIADINI floated over the bar.
50GOURCUFF ran onto a great ball from CLEITON XAVIER but fumbled his shot wide.
56COLE headed just wide.
59A lovely effort from CARDOZO scraped the top of the crossbar.
63A corner found NANI who touched the ball just beyond the far post.
71JAVI GARCÍA stabbed a simple chance past the lefthand post.
79CÁCERES drove a left foot shot over the bar from long range.
84SHIROKOV beat JAVI GARCÍA and drove the ball to ÁLVAREZ who hit his shot wide.
88A poor tackle gets FOOR a yellow card.
90+1WELLITON was put clear by TADDEI and he pulled away from the 'keeper but glanced his shot over.