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In the slides of Estadio of Luz
- Before its displacement in Portugal, the PSG was unconquered outside Cups UEFA from there. After three null and virgin matches with Derry City (1st turn), on Rapid Bucharest and at Mladá Boleslav (hen phase), Paris had been essential 2-0 on the lawn of the AEK Athens on the preceding turn.
- Benfica was to do without three frameworks for the meeting. Wounded with the knee three weeks ago, Rui Costa hardly has just taken again the drive. Also touched with the knee a few front days, the Quim guard was missing, just like the Brazilian defender Luisão, touched at the same place at the time it match outward journey with the Park of the Princes.
- Pedro Miguel Pauleta found this evening Estadio of Luz, a stage in which it lived only good moments. It is indeed on this lawn that the Portuguese had played and lost the final of the Euro 2004 against Greece (0-1). The scenario of the evening will not have done anything to improve its relationship to the stage lisboète.
Facts of the match
2nd minute
Rothen shifts Pauleta in the penalty area of Benfica. The Portuguese attacker has time to arm its recovery but Moretto diverts the balloon, which took the way of the attic window.
12th minute (1-0)
With 35 meters of his goal, Sammy Traoré badly controls a balloon which lands in the feet of Nuño Gomes. The attacker Lusitanian is used Simao for the limit of the off-side. The captain of Benfica finds himself only vis-a-vis Landreau and opens the score of a cross striking which passes between the legs of the Parisian guard.
14th minute
Two minutes after the goal, the Portuguese get a double occasion. On a center come from the left, Nuño Gums given in withdrawal for Katsouranis whose resumption of flight runs up against the bar of the Parisian guard. In the continuity of the action, Karagounis places a striking of the right that Landreau deviates of the end of the fingers on its left post.
27th minute (2-0)
On a balloon recovered in the 40 Parisian meters, Petit advances and at the entry of the penalty area, a wonder of striking in rupture places which lobbe Landreau and finishes at the bottom of the nets
32eme minute (2-1)
On the left side, Dramé transmits the balloon to Rothen which delivers a perfect center with the first post for Pauleta. The Parisian captain cups head. Moretto slows down the balloon but to prevent it little from returning with an aim.
39eme minute
On a new opening of Rothen on the left, Pauleta is only found with the second post. Of half-round, it takes again the ball which passes very close to the left post.
42eme minute
In the middle of the ground, Pauleta alerts Diane of a talonnade. The old Of Strasbourg one only leaves but is made hustle in surface by Nelson. The balloon leaves then in the direction the goal but passes from little to side. Mr Meyer then forgets to revarnish with the fault made before. Always also not very lucky, the Parisian ones are very close marking on the corner which follows, but Moretto deviates of accuracy the good head of Traoré.
81eme
Katsouranis shifts Derleï on the right side of the penalty area. Brésilen overflows and gives the balloon towards the Greek who places a striking of the dish of the foot. The balloon is diverted by Traoré of a slipped tacle.
87eme minute (3-1)
Leo overflows on the left-hand side. Mulumbu misses its intervention in front of the side one by Benfica, which butts against the Parisian one and collapses. Mr. Meyer indicates the point of penalty and addresses a second yellow paperboard to Mulumbu, synonymous with explusion. Simao takes Landreau with opposite course and offers the qualification to its team.
Play, players and referee
Play
One will have needed a blow dealt by fate for two minutes of the end to complete the Parisian course Cups UEFA from there: a fault of Mulumbu which offers the penalty of the 3-1 to Simao whereas the two teams were with equality on all two meeting. Paris will however have shown much courage in Estadio Luz. In spite of their thin advantage of a goal, the Parisian ones worried Lisboètes until the end. Not demoralized by the two goals of Simao and Petit in first half an hour of play, the Parisian ones retorted by a victorious head of their Pauleta captain. After this reduction of the score, they dominated even until the half-time, missing three occasions to equalize. Including one on an action which should have granted a penalty to them, on a coarse fault of Nelson on Diane. Less removed, the second half-time saw the debates balancing, until the cruel outcome of the 89eme minute.
Lisboètes
Substitute of excellent Quim, wounded with a knee, guard MORETTO showed a great febrility in his interventions but saves all the same some hot situations at the end of the first half. Deprived of its tower of Luisao control, central defense ANDERSON-DAVID LUIZ missed serenity, in particular in the airs. On the sides, NELSON was satisfied with the defensive tasks whereas LEO showed himself more active, obtaining even the penalty decisive at the end of the match. Double striker, captain SIMAO distributed well the play in company of SMALL, author of a splendid lob on the goal of 2-0. In front of, MICCOLI was transparent whereas NUNO GUMS was shown very dangerous 30 minutes before dying out gradually, then to find a second breath at the end of the meeting.
The Parisian ones
If it cannot large-thing on the two achievements of Simao, it seems that LANDREAU could better have made on the lob of Small, that it érafle under providing to divert it. But with the credit of old Nantes, it avoided a shipwreck with his while preventing by twice Lisboètes from registering the goal of 3-0. Author of a service more than honest, TRAORE is all the same at the origin of the first goal of Benfica on a bad control. At its sides, ROZEHNAL made a success of some beautiful interventions but was not sufficiently precise with the revival. For its first European match, international hopes MABIALA closed its right side well, making DRAMA in the same way on the left. Invaluable in the revival, ROTHEN touched many balloons, its openings being for the majority at the origin of the Parisian occasions. Less in legs, GALLARDO did not bring large-thing whereas MULUMBU is the large unhappy one of the evening. The young medium of ground, informed as of the first minute, causes the penalty final on an awkwardness exploited well by Leo. Not more in success, DIANE at the time of equalizing before the half-time and does not obtain a penalty however deserved. As for captain PAULETA, it gets three large occasions in first period, including one converted. More discrete thereafter.
The referee of the match: Mr. Meyer (Al)
Each one will form its opinion about the final action but the penalty granted by Mr Meyer, who seals the fate of the meeting, seems quite severe. And it is all the more frustrating for the Parisian ones that they should themselves have obtained one in first half from them. Decisions which accentuate the feeling that, definitely, nothing succeeds with the PSG this season.