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Match report
Football Elite
Division 1: Round 33 (setup 3, season 11)
Palermo
v.
Benfica
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
2
Overall form:
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Diego BENAGLIO17Anthony LOPES
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
18
Overall form:
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Davide ZAPPACOSTA727Victorio 'Maximiliano' PEREIRA Páez
Domenico CRISCITO63ELISEU Pereira dos Santos
Jorge Luiz Frello Filho, JORGINHO74Francisco Javier García Fernández, JAVI GARCÍA
Davide ASTORI657RICARDO Alberto Silveira CARVALHO
Daniele RUGANI66MAICON Pereira Roque
Accursio BENTIVEGNA76CLEITON Ribeiro XAVIER
Federico BERNARDESCHI78Alexandre Henrique Gonçalves de Freitas, ALEX
Mattia DESTRO79Didier DROGBA
Riccardo MONTOLIVO7106ALAN Patrick Lourenço
ÉDER Citadin Martins11Óscar René CARDOZO Marín
Manager
Marco PAROLO12SÉRGIO Miguel Rivas de OLIVEIRA
Yann SOMMER13EDUARDO dos Reis Carvalho
Emiliano MORETTI14Miguel Arturo LAYÚN Prado
Franco Damián VÁZQUEZ15WELLITON Soares de Morais
Josip DRMIC616Paulo CÉSAR da Silva PEIXOTO

Palermo 2 Benfica 0
(Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 38,984, Stadium: Renzo Barbera, Referee: JORGE Monteiro CORROADO 6½)
32 Montolivo, 35 CriscitoScorers
62 Criscito <=> Vázquez, 78 Jorginho <=> DrmicSubstitutions
Sendings off
Bookings
2Corners1
7Fouls24
1Offsides1
7Shots on3
11Shots off7
18Total shots10
5Shots saved3
46%Possession54%
Man of the match: ELISEU Pereira dos Santos
4A useful ball from JORGINHO on the left bobbled toward MONTOLIVO who sliced his effort inches over.
8LOPES was able to block a poor shot from DESTRO.
16ALEX waltzed round RUGANI and flicked a tame shot over the bar.
20MONTOLIVO made space on the left and dragged the ball to BERNARDESCHI who rasped the ball wide.
24A header by ALEX at the far post was comfortably collected by BENAGLIO.
24MONTOLIVO's shot was well saved by the 'keeper.
25DROGBA stepped inside BERNARDESCHI but shot the ball into the arms of BENAGLIO.
26JAVI GARCÍA played the ball to CARDOZO who fired it inches over.
29A poor strike from JORGINHO bounced agonisingly wide.
32GOAL!! MONTOLIVO hit a curling twenty yard shot past the stunned LOPES. (1-0 Palermo)
33DROGBA headed just beyond the near post.
35GOAL!! A RUGANI run down the middle resulted in a nice cross for CRISCITO to fire in. (2-0 Palermo)
41Uncertainty in the Palermo defence enabled MAICON to hit an effort over the bar.
44A lovely effort from BERNARDESCHI scraped the upright.
 
51BERNARDESCHI hoofed the ball wide of the righthand post from just inside the area.
63A wonderful save prevented DESTRO from scoring a good goal.
72JORGINHO was put clear by DESTRO and he raced past the Benfica 'keeper but thrust his shot over the bar.
76A free-kick from ÉDER floated over.
78ZAPPACOSTA shot wide.
79A shot from CARDOZO was smothered by the 'keeper.
86The bemused LOPES could only watch as a backpass from JAVI GARCÍA fell just over.
89A twenty-five yard shot from BERNARDESCHI caused the 'keeper little difficulty.