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Match report
Football Elite
Division 1: Round 36 (setup 3, season 9)
Borussia Dortmund
v.
Benfica
Formation:
3-4-3
League position:
3
Overall form:
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Igor AKINFEEV1EDUARDO dos Reis Carvalho
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
9
Overall form:
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Neven SUBOTIC2Victorio 'Maximiliano' PEREIRA Páez
Per MERTESACKER637ELISEU Pereira dos Santos
Emre CAN46Francisco Javier García Fernández, JAVI GARCÍA
Vasili BEREZUTSKY57MAICON Pereira Roque
Eden HAZARD86Rafael López Gómez, RAFA
Kevin GROSSKREUTZ7RUBEN Filipe Marques AMORIM
RAMIRES Santos do Nascimento86CLEITON Ribeiro XAVIER
Robert LEWANDOWSKI796Didier DROGBA
Lukas PODOLSKI106Óscar René CARDOZO Marín
Ezequiel Iván LAVEZZI7116Alexandre Henrique Gonçalves de Freitas, ALEX
Ryan FowlerManager
Matthias GINTER612Paulo CÉSAR da Silva PEIXOTO
Ron-Robert ZIELER13Luiz FELIPE Ventura dos Santos
SAÚL Ñíguez Esclápez14José BOSINGWA da Silva
Nabil FEKIR15Yoann GOURCUFF
BERNARD Anício Caldeira Duarte16AIRTON Ribeiro Santos

Borussia Dortmund 1 Benfica 2
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 64,115, Stadium: Westfalenstadion, Referee: Alfredo TRENTALANGE 7, TV: live)
36 PodolskiScorers59 Cleiton Xavier, 90+3 Cleiton Xavier
84 Berezutsky <=> GinterSubstitutions
Sendings off
Bookings47 Cleiton Xavier, 62 Maicon
5Corners7
5Fouls19
8Offsides2
6Shots on5
11Shots off6
17Total shots11
5Shots saved3
52%Possession48%
Man of the match: Eden HAZARD
6A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the advancing Benfica 'keeper.
24RUBEN AMORIM headed wide.
25CARDOZO was put clear by CLEITON XAVIER and he turned the Borussia Dortmund 'keeper but drilled his shot wide.
31PODOLSKI ran onto a great ball from RAMIRES but fumbled his shot wide of the righthand post.
32GROSSKREUTZ dribbled round RAFA and stabbed a weak shot well wide.
36GOAL!! PODOLSKI hit a glorious twenty-five yard shot past the hapless Benfica 'keeper. (1-0 Borussia Dortmund)
37Uncertainty in the Borussia Dortmund defence enabled DROGBA to hammer the ball wide.
45A poor shot from PODOLSKI rolled agonisingly wide.
 
47A high foul gets CLEITON XAVIER a yellow card.
49PODOLSKI nodded the ball wide from just outside the area.
51A penalty box meleé resulted in PODOLSKI tapping a low shot over.
52A deadly effort from CARDOZO was pushed over by AKINFEEV.
59GOAL!! A beautiful inswinging corner was headed in at the near post by CLEITON XAVIER. (1-1)
62The referee yellow cards MAICON.
65PODOLSKI shot over.
73The 'keeper stopped a neatly crafted strike from CLEITON XAVIER.
75JAVI GARCÍA floated the ball to DROGBA who fired it wide.
78LAVEZZI snapped at a simple chance.
80A header by PODOLSKI at the far post was comfortably collected by the Benfica 'keeper.
84A lovely effort from RUBEN AMORIM scraped the outside of the lefthand post.
90+1A shot from PODOLSKI was smothered by the 'keeper.
90+3GOAL!! JAVI GARCÍA made space for CLEITON XAVIER who, after an interchange of passes thirty yards out, thrust the ball past the 'keeper. (2-1 Benfica)