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Match report
Football Elite
Division 1: Round 35 (setup 3, season 10)
FC Basel
v.
Benfica
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
8
Overall form:
Home form:
DIEGO Alves Carreira17EDUARDO dos Reis Carvalho
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
16
Overall form:
Home form:
Daniel Alves da Silva, DANI ALVES82Victorio 'Maximiliano' PEREIRA Páez
Juan BERNAT Velasco737ELISEU Pereira dos Santos
WILLIAN Borges da Silva74Francisco Javier García Fernández, JAVI GARCÍA
DANTE Bonfim Costa Santos756MAICON Pereira Roque
Juan Francisco Torres Belén, JUANFRAN6RICARDO Alberto Silveira CARVALHO
Alessandro FLORENZI77Yoann GOURCUFF
James David RODRÍGUEZ Rubio78Paulo CÉSAR da Silva PEIXOTO
Zlatan IBRAHIMOVIC896Óscar René CARDOZO Marín
Andrea PIRLO106CLEITON Ribeiro XAVIER
Domenico BERARDI7116WELLITON Soares de Morais
Manager
Blaise MATUIDI12José BOSINGWA da Silva
Roman WEIDENFELLER13Luiz FELIPE Ventura dos Santos
Bertrand TRAORÉ14Marcello TROTTA
Francisco Román Alarcón Suárez, ISCO15ALAN Patrick Lourenço
Jürgen LOCADIA16CARLOS Jorge Neto MARTINS

FC Basel 3 Benfica 0
(Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 38,447, Stadium: St. Jakob-Park, Referee: Dimitris KEFALAS 6½)
16 Rodríguez, 25 Dani Alves, 53 BerardiScorers
Substitutions
Sendings off
Bookings
8Corners2
13Fouls10
8Offsides6
5Shots on5
16Shots off2
21Total shots7
1Shots saved4
59%Possession41%
Man of the match: Zlatan IBRAHIMOVIC
3A shot from GOURCUFF seemed a certain goal but DIEGO managed to force the ball away.
16GOAL!! A cross from BERNAT was nodded away by MAICON only for BERARDI to tap the ball back into the box for RODRÍGUEZ to force into the net. (1-0 FC Basel)
18The 'keeper was able to claw away an amazing shot.
25GOAL!! A long ball from JUANFRAN had the Benfica defence back-pedalling and DANI ALVES made the most of the opportunity with an exceptional goal. (2-0 FC Basel)
28WELLITON dribbled away from DANI ALVES and flicked a weak shot into the crowd.
33RODRÍGUEZ flicked a simple chance past the righthand post.
39A weak strike from RODRÍGUEZ trickled agonisingly wide.
39WELLITON hoofed the ball wide from the edge of the box.
45+1IBRAHIMOVIC ran onto a wonderful ball from FLORENZI but fired his shot wide.
 
49PIRLO made space on the right and knocked the ball to RODRÍGUEZ who clipped the ball wide.
53GOAL!! A poor drive from BERARDI seemed to hold little difficulty for the Benfica 'keeper but the ball somehow bobbled into the net. (3-0 FC Basel)
54RODRÍGUEZ played the ball to BERARDI who forced it just wide.
61RICARDO CARVALHO's shot was well saved by the FC Basel 'keeper.
65A fine ball from FLORENZI on the left was collected by IBRAHIMOVIC who scuffed his shot just beyond the far post.
66A free-kick from RODRÍGUEZ went wide.
70A header by JAVI GARCÍA at the near post was comfortably collected by the FC Basel 'keeper.
71PIRLO beat MAICON and hit the ball to BERARDI who fumbled his shot wide.
73A corner found DANI ALVES who turned the ball just beyond the near post.
74PIRLO beat three Benfica players and stroked a great chance wide.
79DANI ALVES was put clear by WILLIAN and he dummied the 'keeper but rammed his shot over.
83PEREIRA's shot was well held by the 'keeper.
86A penalty box meleé resulted in DANTE cracking the ball over.