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0¹ JOÃO MÁRIO booked for a clumsy foul on SANCET. 2¹ GOAL!! The Benfica 'keeper got into difficulty with a backpass from RÚBEN DIAS and TELLA managed to squeeze the ball into the back of the net. (1-0 Bayer Leverkusen) 4¹ GOAL!! A patient Benfica side were rewarded with a lovely shot from PEDRO NETO. (1-1) 8¹ HICKEY touched the ball through a crowd of players but CHEVALIER was a match for it as he dived to his left. 12¹ VITINHA made space on the left and touched the ball to PALMER who rasped the ball over. 17¹ SANCET shot wide. 21¹ DAVID ran onto a great ball from PALMER but blasted his shot wide of the goal. 22¹ ALARIO played the ball to STAGE who forced it just beyond the far post. 23¹ A cross from JOÃO MÁRIO left RODRIGUEZ in plenty of space but he rushed his shot. 25¹ GOAL!! A mix up between PIEPER and the 'keeper allowed SAMU to fire the ball into the empty net. (2-1 Benfica) 29¹ A shot from JOÃO MÁRIO was smothered by CHEVALIER. 30¹ CHEVALIER was able to palm clear a poor header from TELLA. 33¹ A free-kick from DAVID went just beyond the near post. 34¹ A pin-point pass found DAVID and his right foot effort floated narrowly wide. 39¹ SAMU waltzed round HICKEY and flicked a weak shot well wide. 40¹ The motionless GREEN could only watch as a backpass from JOÃO MÁRIO dropped just over. 43¹ A mix up in the Benfica defence enabled HICKEY to volley the ball over. 0² SANCET beat a number of Bayer Leverkusen players and drove an effort over the bar. 11² GOAL!! A cross from the left was nodded down by ALARIO for TELLA to score. (2-2) 27² DAVID headed the ball wide from just inside the area. 28² VITINHA placed a right foot shot wide from twenty-five yards out. 32² TELLA rattled a simple chance past the lefthand post. 33² GOAL!! A poor backpass by PIEPER enabled DAVID to run in and tuck the ball past the Bayer Leverkusen 'keeper. (3-2 Benfica) 37² A tame strike from PALMER bounced agonisingly wide. 42² ALARIO's shot was well saved by the Benfica 'keeper.

Bayer Leverkusen   League position: 10 Home league form: WWWW Overall league form: WWWLWLWL Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Etienne GREEN 5½ 1 7  Lucas CHEVALIER Aaron HICKEY 7½ 2 6½ Joshua KIMMICH (c)Ricardo RODRIGUEZ 7  3 8½ NUNO Alexandre MENDES ALEIX García 7½ 4 7  Oihan SANCET Luca CALDIROLA 6½ 5 7  ANTÓNIO João SILVA Amos PIEPER 6½ 6 6  RÚBEN Santos DIAS(c) JOÃO MÁRIO Naval 7  7 7  Cole PALMER Nathan TELLA 7½ 8 6½ PEDRO Lomba NETO (p)Lucas ALARIO 7½ 9 8  SAMU(p) (f)Jens STAGE 7  10 6  VITINHA(f) Ihlas BEBOU 6  11 5½ Jonathan DAVID Manager Steven Gibson Faouzi GHOULAM    12    Isak HIEN Niklas LOMB    13    Guillaume RESTES Eren DINKÇI    14    Daniel VIVIAN Niklas SCHMIDT 6  15 7  Mathys TEL Gustavo PUERTA 6  16 7  Désiré DOUÉ

Benfica   League position: 9 Away league form: XWXW Overall league form: XWWLWXLW Formation: 4-4-2

Statistics

Bayer Leverkusen 2 Benfica 3 (Half-time: 1-2, Attendance: 30,170, Stadium: BayArena, Referee: Peter Walton 6) Tella 2¹, Tella 11² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Pedro Neto 4¹, Samu 25¹, David 33² BebouóPuerta 34², StageóSchmidt 36² SancetóTel 15², António SilvaóDoué 25²     João Mário 0¹   9 3 3 12 4 9 6 3 4 11 10 14 4 0 49% 51% ¶ Man of the match: Nuno Alexandre Mendes ¶