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Commentary
1¹TROTTA kicked the ball wide from the edge of the box.
4¹GOAL!! A neatly crafted set-piece enabled LÓPEZ to slip the ball into the back of the net. (1-0 River Plate)
6¹TROTTA's header was well saved by MARCHESÍN.
12¹BUONANOTTE headed over.
16¹A poor foul on LÓPEZ by TROTTA results in a booking.
19¹GOAL!! AMRABAT made space for BASANTA who, after an interchange of passes thirty yards out, rammed the ball past LOPES. (2-0 River Plate)
21¹A pin-point pass was collected by TROTTA and his right foot shot floated narrowly over.
28¹A weak shot from BASANTA rolled agonisingly wide.
29¹CABRAL rifled a simple chance past the near post.
30¹GOAL!! CASTILLEJOS drove a wicked shot against the post with AMRABAT driving in the rebound. (3-0 River Plate)
32¹TROTTA waltzed round LÓPEZ and stabbed a weak shot well wide.
42¹GOAL!! An outswinging corner was hoofed clear only for TROTTA to volley the ball into the net. (3-1 River Plate)
1²A free-kick from ALEX floated just beyond the far post.
3²A looping effort from TROTTA was stopped by MARCHESÍN.
4²A cross from CASTILLEJOS left BASANTA in plenty of space but he snapped at his shot.
10²An outswinging corner was fired into the arms of the 'keeper by TROTTA.
10²BASANTA snapped at a simple chance.
11²FORMICA ran onto a great ball from CASTILLEJOS but hit his shot wide of the lefthand post.
12²CASTILLEJOS's shot was well held by LOPES.
14²GOAL!! With his back to goal TROTTA swivelled and stroked the ball past MARCHESÍN. (3-2 River Plate)
28²WELLITON blasted a right foot shot over from just outside the area.
34²Uncertainty in the Benfica defence enabled LÓPEZ to fire an effort over.
36²CASTILLEJOS knocked the ball to MERCADO who touched it wide.
41²GOAL!! A long ball from GOURCUFF had the River Plate defence back-pedalling and DROGBA made the most of the opportunity with a lovely goal. (3-3)
42²VILLALVA beat DROGBA and drilled the ball to LÓPEZ who fumbled his shot wide.

 
River Plate
 
League position: 22
Home league form: LLWL
Overall league form: LLLLLXWL
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Agustin MARCHESÍN6 16 Anthony LOPES
Gabriel MERCADO5½26½Maximiliano PEREIRA
José BASANTA8 38 ANDRÉ Gomes ALMEIDA
Diego BUONANOTTE8 48 JAVI GARCÍA
(c)Gustavo CABRAL8 56½RICARDO Alberto CARVALHO
Lisandro LÓPEZ6½66 Daniel AYALA
Mauro FORMICA6 76 Yoann GOURCUFF
Nordin AMRABAT7½86½ALEX
(p)Maximiliano LÓPEZ7 96½Marcello TROTTA(p)
(f)Gonzalo CASTILLEJOS6 106½Didier DROGBA(c,f)
Daniel VILLALVA6 116 WELLITON Soares
Manager
Lucas ORBAN  12  RAFA
Wilfredo CABALLERO  13  EDUARDO dos Reis
Facundo AFFRANCHINO6 14  ALAN Patrick
Paulo FERRARI  156 CLEITON Ribeiro XAVIER
Matías ABELAIRAS  16  José BOSINGWA
 
Benfica
 
League position: 4
Away league form: OOWL
Overall league form: WOWXOWWL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
River Plate 3 Benfica 3
(Half-time: 3-1, Attendance: 29,965, Stadium: Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Referee: Armand Ancion 8)

López 4¹, Basanta 19¹, Amrabat 30¹
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Trotta 42¹, Trotta 14², Drogba 41²
MercadoóAffranchino 39²AlexóCleiton Xavier 41²
  
 Trotta 16¹
11
215
24
46
95
1311
13
64%36%
Man of the match: Javi García