Benfica let lead slip, crash out at home to Qarabag in Champions League 🦅 | OneFootball

Benfica lost this Monday, September 16, to Qarabag, by 3-2. On an unfortunate night for Bruno Lage's team, the eagles started better and achieved a comfortable advantage, but ended up suffering a turnaround near the end of the match. See HERE how the match went.

Bruno Lage chose to start the match with Anatoliy Trubin, Amar Dedic, Nicolás Otamendi, António Silva, Samuel Dahl, Enzo Barrenechea, Richard Ríos, Fredrik Aursnes, Georgiy Sudakov, Andreas Schjelderup, Vangelis Pavlidis, and Ivanovic, Prestianni, Araújo and Barreiro entered during the game.

In a somewhat complicated game for Benfica, the first half even started favorably for the eagles. In control of operations, they reached 1-0 after a goal from Enzo Barrenechea, from a corner kick. Shortly after, Pavlidis scored, with the second assist of the night for Sudakov. But Qarabag still reacted in the first half, and reduced to 2-1, by Andrade. The second half was a nightmare: at 48', Duran tied the match, and, at 86', Kashchuk confirmed the Azerbaijani turnaround.

With this defeat - the first of the current season -, Benfica starts in the worst way its participation in the Champions League, and continues with the same zero points with which it started the competition, this after facing one of the theoretically easiest teams in its schedule.

The Benfica team will be back on the field next Saturday, September 20, at 6:00 pm, in Vila das Aves, against AVS. SAD. The match is part of the sixth round of the regular phase of the Liga Portugal Betclic. They will play again for the Champions League on the next September 30, against Chelsea, in London.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇵🇹 here.