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Match report
Football Elite
Division 1: Round 10 (setup 3, season 8)
Benfica
v.
Celtic
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
3
Overall form:
Home form:
EDUARDO dos Reis Carvalho61Artur BORUC
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
15
Overall form:
Home form:
Victorio 'Maximiliano' PEREIRA Páez726José Ángel Valdés Díaz, COTE
ELISEU Pereira dos Santos3Emilio Arturo IZAGUIRRE Girón
Yoann GOURCUFF4Steven DEFOUR
MAICON Pereira Roque5Kostas KATSOURANIS
RICARDO Alberto Silveira CARVALHO666Thomas ROGNE
Rodrigo Ferrante TADDEI76KI Sung-yueng
CLEITON Ribeiro XAVIER87Aiden McGEADY
Óscar René CARDOZO Marín9Papiss CISSÉ
Francisco Javier García Fernández, JAVI GARCÍA106Tim CAHILL
Christian BENTEKE7116Peniel MLAPA
Manager
Rafael López Gómez, RAFA12Djibril CISSÉ
Luiz FELIPE Ventura dos Santos13Jussi JÄÄSKELÄINEN
RUBEN Filipe Marques AMORIM14Juan Manuel ITURBE Arévalos
José BOSINGWA da Silva15Anders KURE
Daniel Sánchez AYALA16Scott BROWN

Benfica 2 Celtic 2
(Half-time: 2-2, Attendance: 39,512, Stadium: Estad. do Sport Lisboa e Benfica, Referee: Dan CRACIUN 7½)
23og Defour, 32 Cleiton XavierScorers14 Cahill, 34 McGeady
Substitutions
Sendings off
Bookings64 Cissé
1Corners1
2Fouls8
0Offsides0
6Shots on3
13Shots off7
19Total shots10
4Shots saved0
57%Possession43%
Man of the match: Yoann GOURCUFF
6A poor shot from IZAGUIRRE bounced agonisingly wide.
7COTE poked an easy chance past the righthand post.
9A lovely effort from CLEITON XAVIER scraped the outside of the righthand post.
10A looping shot from CISSÉ was forced wide by EDUARDO.
11CLEITON XAVIER was put clear by MAICON and he stepped inside the 'keeper but drilled his shot over the bar.
14GOAL!! A great dummy from DEFOUR allowed KI to lay a perfect ball off to CAHILL who thrust the ball into the back of the net. (1-0 Celtic)
23GOAL!! A shot from JAVI GARCÍA deflected off the shins of DEFOUR and bobbled past the helpless Celtic 'keeper and into the net.
28A free-kick from CARDOZO raced over.
32GOAL!! A free-kick was pushed away by the Celtic 'keeper, JAVI GARCÍA was first to the loose ball and played the ball to CLEITON XAVIER to fire home. (2-1 Benfica)
34GOAL!! A long range effort was deflected into the path of MCGEADY who tapped the ball past the helpless Benfica 'keeper. (2-2)
44A corner fell to CLEITON XAVIER who flicked an effort just beyond the near post.
 
51CISSÉ ran onto a great ball from KI but fumbled his shot wide.
55A cross from GOURCUFF left ELISEU in lots of space but he snapped at his shot.
63A pin-point pass found CARDOZO and his right foot effort raced narrowly over.
64CISSÉ cautioned by the ref for a bad challenge.
65MAICON beat a number of Celtic players and blasted a golden opportunity over the bar.
70An outswinging corner was fired into the arms of BORUC by CARDOZO.
73CISSÉ beat MAICON and blasted the ball to MCGEADY who blasted his shot wide.
78KI made space on the left and touched the ball to DEFOUR who rasped the ball wide.
82MAICON dribbled past KI and rattled a weak shot past the post.
84A penalty box scramble resulted in CAHILL knocking the ball over.
90+1CAHILL fired a looping shot over from twenty-five yards out.