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Commentary
4¹A refined cross from VINICIUS was flicked goalbound by PODENCE only for GUILHERME to palm clear.
5¹SYCHEV worked the ball to SMOLOV, MIRANCHUK gathered his pass and headed the ball within easy reach of the 'keeper.
14¹A shot from VINICIUS seemed a certain goal but GUILHERME managed to palm the ball away.
16¹MIRANCHUK stroked an easy chance past the far post.
18¹ROTENBERG beat two Benfica players and thundered a shot wide.
19¹MIRANCHUK fluffed a simple chance.
30¹GOAL!! A terrible clearance dropped to MIRANCHUK who sliced a shot goalward, luckily MIRANCHUK was on hand to blast the ball into the net. (1-0 Lokomotiv)
33¹A lovely effort from VINICIUS scraped the outside of the post.
36¹MIRANCHUK played the ball to LEBEDENKO who turned it wide.
42¹A right foot shot from ANDRÉ ALMEIDA was saved by the Lokomotiv 'keeper.
43¹GOAL!! A shot from JOÃO CANCELO which GUILHERME managed to block was deemed over the line and the referee gave the goal. (1-1)
1²SMOLOV ran onto a wonderful ball from IGNATYEV but dragged his effort wide of the goal.
4²GAITÁN made space on the right and pulled the ball to VINICIUS who fired the ball over.
6²The Benfica 'keeper did well to hold onto an amazing shot from MIRANCHUK.
11²Uncertainty in the Benfica defence enabled ZHIRKOV to hammer the ball over the bar.
15²JARDEL's shot was well held by the 'keeper.
16²ROTENBERG was put clear by ZHIRKOV and he stepped inside the Benfica 'keeper but drilled his shot over the bar.
17²GOAL!! After being forced wide VINICIUS managed to hammer the ball in from the narrowest of angles. (2-1 Benfica)
20²A fine ball from VINICIUS on the left was collected by PODENCE who mishit his shot wide.
22²A header by SMOLOV at the near post was comfortably collected by the Benfica 'keeper.
25²GOAL!! Lokomotiv were awarded a penalty after a foul on SYCHEV and SMOLOV put it past the 'keeper. (2-2)
28²VINICIUS waltzed round MIRANCHUK and stabbed a tame shot well wide.
34²A late tackle on CONTI by ROTENBERG results in a booking.
37²ZHIRKOV shot wide.
40²SHISHKIN booked by the referee for a poor challenge.

 
Benfica
 
League position: 15
Home league form: WXWW
Overall league form: WWXWXXWX
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
ROBERTO Jiménez6½16½GUILHERME Alvim(c)
JOÃO Pedro CANCELO7 27 Benedikt HÖWEDES
ANDRÉ Gomes ALMEIDA6 37½Yuri ZHIRKOV
GABRIEL Appelt6½47 Aleksei MIRANCHUK
(c)JARDEL Nivaldo7½57 Boris ROTENBERG
Germán CONTI6½65 Roman SHISHKIN
PIZZI7 77 Vladislav IGNATYEV
Daniel PODENCE6½87½Anton MIRANCHUK
(p)Carlos VINICIUS7½97½Fedor SMOLOV(p)
(f)Nicolás GAITÁN6 105½Igor LEBEDENKO(f)
Eduardo SALVIO6 116½Dmitri SYCHEV
Manager
Dominic SOLANKE  12  Mikhail LYSOV
Mile SVILAR  13  Alan KASAEV
Enzo PÉREZ7½147 Dmitri KRUGLOV
Cristian BORJA  15  Vitali DENISOV
Mehdi CARCELA GONZÁLEZ  16 
 
Lokomotiv
 
League position: 13
Away league form: WLLX
Overall league form: XWOWLLLW
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Benfica 2 Lokomotiv 2
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 45,580, Stadium: Estádio da Luz, Referee: Wojciech Rudy 7½)

João Cancelo 43¹, Vinicius 17²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Miranchuk 30¹, Smolov 25² (pen)
André AlmeidaóPérez 18²HöwedesóKruglov 28²
  
 Rotenberg 34², Shishkin 40²
33
115
02
65
48
1013
43
46%54%
Man of the match: Jardel Nivaldo