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Commentary
A corner found SAMU who headed the ball just wide.
A strike from BARNES held no problem for CHEVALIER.
GOAL!! SAMU flicked a penalty past the Leicester City 'keeper after BUENO had handled just inside the area. (1-0 Benfica)
10¹GOAL!! Benfica's SAMU beat two defenders before firing just inside the 'keeper's righthand post. (2-0 Benfica)
13¹GOAL!! DAVID dribbled forward, looked up and thundered a shot into the Leicester City net. (3-0 Benfica)
14¹GOAL!! An imaginative DOHERTY played a wonderful ball down the left to CALVERT-LEWIN who seemingly in an offside position went on to easily score. (3-1 Benfica)
21¹An exceptional effort from DAVID scraped the woodwork.
25¹GOAL!! A foul on PEDRO NETO inside the area gave Benfica a penalty which SAMU scored. (4-1 Benfica)
38¹SAMU nodded the ball wide from just outside the area.
PALMER knocked the ball to SAMU who headed it over the bar.
A penalty box scramble resulted in KIMMICH cracking the ball over.
A weak shot from DAVID rolled agonisingly wide.
SAMU raced past GUEYE but placed the ball into the arms of WARD.
13²A accurate pass bobbled toward VITINHA and his right foot shot raced narrowly over.
14²DAVID dribbled away from BARNES and stroked a poor shot well wide.
21²A bad tackle on BUENO by SAMU results in a booking.
37²KIMMICH rushed an easy chance.
38²A useful ball from MOLINA on the left was collected by ANTÓNIO SILVA who mishit his shot just wide.
39²The bemused Leicester City 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from AÏT-NOURI dropped just over.
40²ANTÓNIO SILVA beat three Leicester City players and drove an effort just beyond the near post.
41²CALVERT-LEWIN galloped through the Benfica defence but shot straight at CHEVALIER.
43²A mix up in the Benfica defence enabled PRAET to fire the ball wide.
44²GOAL!! A nice run by VITINHA on the right was capped by a wonderful cross which VIVIAN nodded in at the far post. (5-1 Benfica)
46²DOHERTY whacked a right foot shot just beyond the near post from close range.

 
Benfica
 
League position: 4
Home league form: XWWX
Overall league form: XOWLWWWX
Formation: 4-4-2
Line-ups
Lucas CHEVALIER1Danny WARD
Nahuel MOLINA2Matt DOHERTY
Patrick DORGU3Rayan AÏT-NOURI
Joshua KIMMICH4Idrissa GUEYE(c)
RÚBEN Santos DIAS5Santiago BUENO
(c)Mickey VAN DE VEN6Daniel AMARTEY
Cole PALMER7HUGO SOTELO Gómez
PEDRO Lomba NETO8Harvey BARNES
(p)SAMU9Dom CALVERT-LEWIN(p)
(f)VITINHA10Dennis PRAET(f)
Jonathan DAVID11AYOZE Pérez
Steven GibsonManager
ANTÓNIO João SILVA12  Nathaniel PHILLIPS
Guillaume RESTES  13  Daniel IVERSEN
Daniel VIVIAN14  Nampalys MENDY
Désiré DOUÉ  15  Timothy CASTAGNE
Ferrán TORRES  16  Fábio CARVALHO
 
Leicester City
 
League position: 17
Away league form: WXLL
Overall league form: WXLXLXWL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Benfica 5 Leicester City 1
(Half-time: 4-1, Attendance: 64,229, Stadium: Estádio da Luz, Referee: Zygmunt Ziober 6)

Samu 7¹ (pen), Samu 10¹, David 13¹, Samu 25¹ (pen), Vivian 44²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Calvert-Lewin 14¹
DavidóAntónio Silva 37², SamuóVivian 42² 
  
Samu 21² 
61
1119
42
63
122
185
12
51%49%
Man of the match: Lucas Chevalier