Benfica 1 - 2 httugas (349383484)

Fairly good weather for football had drawn a crowd of 9007 to Ninho da Águia. Nikola Golem was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Milan Koubek and Fabian Essers. Benfica started off with a 3-4-3 lineup. The following players had been chosen: Pernambuco - Pessoa, Balogh, Bosklopper - Al-Sulayman, Crespo, Jutte, Rato - Gkekas, Poecheim, Verhoeven.

httugas decided to use a 4-4-2 set up. They fielded: Zeitoun - Schluneger, Torres, Len', Costa - Foran, Salzkotten, Eroğlu, Panajotov - Fučík, Vigil.

httugas were mostly trying to use their skill at attacking on the flanks. The referee showed httugas's K. Foran the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. httugas's N. Zeitoun left the field after 27 minutes because of a nasty blow to the shin. His replacement was J. Bastiaansen. 29 minutes into the game, Benfica seemed a little tentative in their play as their organization fell to inadequate. 34 minutes in, Benfica appeared unsure on how to play and their organisation was only poor. httugas's R. Vigil managed to lose the defenders as he advanced down the right wing and scored, putting the visitors ahead after 36 minutes. 0 - 1. The teams went for the halftime break at 0 - 1. httugas had most of the ball, with 63 percent of possession.

The coach gave his players an extra tactical briefing during the break, and after that Benfica had passable organisation. With a shot curled in from just outside the middle of the penalty area after 70 minutes played, M. Al-Sulayman of Benfica made the score 1 - 1. Some good play on the left wing created an opportunity for the visitors 76 minutes into the match, and A. Eroğlu wasn't about to let it go by. He got past the defenders and fired a shot that the keeper just missed. 1 - 2 for the visitors. A defender managed to keep the ball from crossing the goal-line after a curling shot coming in from the right from A. Panajotov after 83 minutes, and prevented httugas from going up another goal. httugas claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 59 percent.

The most dominating Benfica player was without a doubt W. Poecheim. However, L. Rato made a disastrous appearance. Most important httugas player was O. Torres. P. Costa was a disappointment, however. The match ends 1 - 2.