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should not make many changes to the team that thrashed Casa Pia 7-0, in the home clash against Aarhus this Thursday, August 20, in the first leg of the Europa League playoff.

, avoiding major changes at a time when Benfica are looking to secure a comfortable advantage in the first leg of the European tie.

Samuel Soares; Alexander Bah, Clément Lenglet, Tomás Araújo, Samuel Dahl; Enzo Barrenechea, Richard Ríos; Andreas Schjelderup, Georgiy Sudakov, Rafa Silva and Vangelis Pavlidis.

Fredrik Aursnes has been included in the squad for the match, but is not expected to be among the starting options. Marco Silva confirmed that the Norway international is still not fit enough to complete the full 90 minutes, so his use is expected to be managed throughout the match.

In this way, the Eagles’ coach is expected to field a team very similar to the one that took to the pitch in the win over Casa Pia, keeping the structure that showed promising signs in the last outing and looking to repeat their attacking efficiency up front.

Information: Thursday – August 20 – 8:00 pm – Estádio da Luz

Broadcast: SIC

Unavailable: Jaden Umeh (injury)

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