After a crazy match, Benfica beat Juventus (4-3) on Tuesday, reaching the knockout stage of the Champions League. Adrien Rabiot’s teammates have already been excluded from the competition.
Juventus is sinking a little more. This Tuesday, the old lady lost in Benfica Park during the fifth day of the Champions League (4-3). Carelessly, the Turiners seem lost on the ground, as if left to their own devices, without instructions. Juventus is He was eliminated from the biggest European competitions. The first since the 2013-2014 season, eternal.
The end result is still a trompe-l’oeil as the Italians took a soccer lesson from the Portuguese: dynamism, intensity, following the anxious Rafa Silva (see below) and Enzo Fernandez, author of the first assist of the meeting to Antonio Silva (17) with a corner kick he played in two positions. Moise Kean maintained this illusion at the time of the corner kick, after a stampede in front of goalkeeper Flashodemos (21).
Then Benfica let himself be fooled by his executives. Joao Mario, impressive during the transfers, scored the second goal of the Portuguese from a penalty kick after a handball from Cuadrado (28). Rafa Silva scored two goals to keep his people away (35, 50), before being crushed several times (76, 86). Juventus woke up at the end of the match to erase the humiliation they had already undergone, under the impetus of young arrivals, Matthias Sole and Samuel Elling, the pass to Arik Milik (77). Weston McKinney scored the last goal of the match (79). The old lady could have equalized through the Argentine Sulley, who missed the goal (88). Benfica, Draw on points with Paris Saint-GermainHe will play first place on the last day.
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The attacker was omnipresent against the old lady. Hyperactive, dominating during attacking transitions thanks to his pace and pace, the Portuguese scored twice on Tuesday. He could even have finished the match with four goals on the clock, missing a head-to-head shot and a shot six meters away from Wojciech Szczesny’s goal. He won five duels – out of eight – and managed to dodge two – from three attempts.
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