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Commentary
A thirty yard shot from SMOLAREK caused HILDEBRAND little difficulty.
A weak shot from MATHIEU trickled agonisingly wide.
The 'keeper did well to hold onto a wicked strike from OLEGUER.
MEVLÜT stabbed a simple chance past the righthand post.
15¹The Benfica 'keeper was able to claw away a poor header from MEVLÜT.
16¹GOAL!! After MICCOLI was bundled over the ref waved play-on and SMOLAREK went on to comfortably score. (1-0 Benfica)
20¹SOW worked the ball to BELLION, MEVLÜT gathered his pass and nodded the ball within easy reach of QUIM.
21¹A cross from BELLION left CHANTÔME in lots of space but he fluffed his shot.
25¹GOAL!! A cross from ANDRÉ BAHIA was flicked away by CHANTÔME only for MARCEL to fire the ball back into the box for GEOVANNI to force over the line. (2-0 Benfica)
34¹A shot from MICCOLI was hoofed off the line by OLEGUER.
41¹The 'keeper was able to palm clear a fierce shot.
46¹A lovely effort from ERNST scraped the woodwork.
OLEGUER ran onto a great ball from SISSOKO but hit his effort wide of the goal.
12²SOW beat BRUNO PEREIRINHA and placed the ball to MEVLÜT who hit his shot wide.
14²AMALFITANO fluffed a simple chance.
19²A left foot effort from GEOVANNI was tipped over by the 'keeper.
21²AMALFITANO's shot beat the Benfica 'keeper but rebounded off the Benfica woodwork.
21²GOAL!! A wonderful shot from CHANTÔME was pushed away by QUIM only as far as SOW who shot the ball past the stranded QUIM. (2-1 Benfica)
22²SMOLAREK headed over the bar.
23²A good ball from GEOVANNI on the right fell to ERNST who mishit his effort inches wide.
28²A penalty box meleé resulted in OLEGUER tapping the ball wide.
37²CHANTÔME blasted a deadly shot over from close range.
40²An outswinging corner was forced into the arms of the Benfica 'keeper by CHANTÔME.

 
Benfica
 
League position: 7
Home league form: LLLW
Overall league form: WLOLLXLW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
(c)QUIM1Timo HILDEBRAND(c)
Roberto HILBERT2OLEGUER Presas
Alcides EDUARDO3Jérémy MATHIEU
Fabian ERNST4Moussa SISSOKO
ANDRÉ Luiz BAHIA5Jean-Pascal MIGNOT
Eric ADDO6Grégory BOURILLON
BRUNO Alexandre PEREIRINHA7Morgan AMALFITANO
GEOVANNI Deiberson8Clément CHANTÔME
(p)Ebi SMOLAREK9MEVLÜT Erdinç(p)
(f)MARCEL Augusto10David BELLION(f)
Fabrizio MICCOLI11Moussa SOW
Manager
Jason CULINA  12  Bryan BERGOUGNOUX
MARCELO MORETTO de Souza  13Cédric MONGONGU
DaMarcus BEASLEY  14Loris ARNAUD
Tal BEN HAIM  15  Marc PLANUS
Mimoun AZAOUAGH  16  Vincent MURATORI
 
Auxerre
 
League position: 20
Away league form: LLLL
Overall league form: WLXWLXXL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Benfica 2 Auxerre 1
(Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 32,435, Stadium: Estad. do Sport Lisboa e Benfica, Referee: Vladimar Pyanikh 6)

Smolarek 16¹, Geovanni 25¹
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Sow 21²
 MignotóArnaud 27², BellionóMongongu 34²
  
  
32
42
01
57
38
815
26
42%58%
Man of the match: Moussa Sissoko