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Match report
Football Elite
Division 1: Round 7 (setup 3, season 8)
Marseille
v.
Benfica
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
12
Overall form:
Home form:
Rudy RIOU15EDUARDO dos Reis Carvalho
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
6
Overall form:
Home form:
Antoine REVEILLÈRE2Victorio 'Maximiliano' PEREIRA Páez
Timothée KOLODZIEJCZAK36ELISEU Pereira dos Santos
Miralem PJANIC74Yoann GOURCUFF
Eric ABIDAL5MAICON Pereira Roque
ALEX Sandro da SILVA66RICARDO Alberto Silveira CARVALHO
Luis Oscar GONZÁLEZ7Rodrigo Ferrante TADDEI
Hatem BEN ARFA8CLEITON Ribeiro XAVIER
Evaeverson Lemos da Silva, BRANDÃO79Óscar René CARDOZO Marín
Charles KABORÉ6106Francisco Javier García Fernández, JAVI GARCÍA
Karim BENZEMA711Christian BENTEKE
Manager
Laurent BONNART12Rafael López Gómez, RAFA
Erik Manuel LAMELA13Luiz FELIPE Ventura dos Santos
RICHARLYSON Barbosa Felisbino14RUBEN Filipe Marques AMORIM
Anthony MARTIAL15José BOSINGWA da Silva
Franck TABANOU16Daniel Sánchez AYALA

Marseille 3 Benfica 5
(Half-time: 3-2, Attendance: 51,450, Stadium: Vélodrome, Referee: Tom Henning ØVREBØ 6)
12 Ben Arfa, 21 González, 44 Ben ArfaScorers6 Cardozo, 38 Cleiton Xavier, 51 Cardozo, 55 Taddei, 88 Cardozo
46 Abidal <=> TabanouSubstitutions
Sendings off
Bookings
3Corners0
2Fouls3
1Offsides6
10Shots on5
3Shots off2
13Total shots7
7Shots saved0
45%Possession55%
Man of the match: Óscar René CARDOZO Marín
1The 'keeper did well to hold onto a fierce strike from BRANDÃO.
5A corner was collected by BENZEMA who forced an effort just beyond the far post.
6GOAL!! A great thirty yard shot from BENTEKE struck the upright and in the ensuing scramble the ball was nodded into the net by CARDOZO. (1-0 Benfica)
8A refined pass from BEN ARFA, was fired goalbound by KOLODZIEJCZAK only for the 'keeper to palm clear.
12GOAL!! A long clearance by the Marseille 'keeper beat the Benfica defence and BEN ARFA fired the ball past the oncoming 'keeper. (1-1)
18BENZEMA's shot was well held by EDUARDO.
21GOAL!! A quick free-kick allowed BEN ARFA to knock the ball to GONZÁLEZ who fired a right foot shot into the back of the net. (2-1 Marseille)
28A mix up in the Marseille defence enabled BENTEKE to fire an effort just beyond the far post.
29PJANIC nodded the ball wide of the righthand post from the edge of the box.
30PJANIC whacked a right foot shot just beyond the near post from twenty-five yards out.
38GOAL!! A short backpass by ALEX SILVA enabled CLEITON XAVIER to run in and nudge the ball past RIOU. (2-2)
40KOLODZIEJCZAK fired the ball through a ruck of players but the Benfica 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right.
44GOAL!! A great drive from ABIDAL was palmed away by the 'keeper only as far as BEN ARFA who lashed the ball past the stranded EDUARDO. (3-2 Marseille)
 
51GOAL!! A sliced RICARDO CARVALHO shot found CARDOZO who made no mistake from just inside the area. (3-3)
55GOAL!! A long ball from CLEITON XAVIER down the middle bobbled toward the lurking TADDEI who drove a left foot shot into the top corner. (4-3 Benfica)
58A accurate pass found CLEITON XAVIER and his deadly effort floated narrowly over.
74KABORÉ stormed through the Benfica defence but shot straight at EDUARDO.
82A twenty-five yard shot from BENZEMA caused the Benfica 'keeper no problem.
88GOAL!! A wonderful run from MAICON gave JAVI GARCÍA space on the left and CARDOZO stabbed in his accurate pass. (5-3 Benfica)
90A header by KOLODZIEJCZAK at the far post was comfortably collected by EDUARDO.