This Monday, Benfica lost 3-2 to Boavista in a game that marked the debut of the national champions in the 2023/24 Portuguese Football League season. The goal was decided on 90+13 minutes.
The Incarnations, who had been shorthanded since the 50th minute due to Mousa’s dismissal, scored through Di Maria (22) and Rafa (75), but Boavista won thanks to Boavista (55 and 90+13) and Bruno Lawrence (90, from the penalty spot), which was sent off at 90+11.
In the last meeting, Boavista became the ninth team to win in the first round without a draw.
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End of the game
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90′Robert Boevic (Boavista) has received a yellow card!
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90′Target! Boavista 3-2 Benfica. Robert the Divine scores a goal and spills a brave bucket of cold water on Bessa. The Panthers’ lightning-fast counterattack, when the attacker fired low, with no chance of Vlachomos’s defense.
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90′Red card shown to Bruno Lawrence after capturing Florentino
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90′What a shot! After a corner the ball went to the entrance to the penalty area and, without asking permission, Neres hit the crossbar of Boavista. It was a goal scored by Benfica!
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90′Yellow card shown to Berne by the Boavista team!
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90′The match was interrupted due to an injury to David Jurasek, who had to be substituted.
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90′David Jurasek
LeavesMikhail Ristic
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90′Referee António Nobre instructed to play another 10 minutes.
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90′Target!!! Boavista 2-2 Benfica. Ball one way, goalkeeper the other. The penalty was played very well by Bruno Lawrence, who did not celebrate having played for Benfica before juniors.
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88′Vlachodimos was at the center of the action, De Sanctis arrived first and António Silva brought down the Boavista striker on a cart.
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85′Rafa
LeavesDavid Neres
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85′O. Kokchu
LeavesChiquinho
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84′Joao Pedro Goncalves Neves
LeavesFlorentine
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82′A yellow card is shown to Alexander Bach for taking too long a throw-in.
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80′Salvador Jose Milhazes Agra
LeavesJ. De Santis
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80′Thiago Fontura da Fonseca Morais
LeavesBernardo Silva Conceicao
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75′Target! Boavista 1-2 Benfica. Rafa starts off by passing the ball to Yuraseku, who crosses Kokchu’s shot and Joao Gonçalves’ first save.
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69′What a danger!! Rafa manages to get ahead of Filipe Ferreira and … hits the post. Benfica are very close to scoring.
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67′Bruno Onyemaechi shown yellow card after Bach tackle
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65′Yellow card is shown to Rafa Silva from Benfica!
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63′Rodrigo Abascal
LeavesFilipe Ferreira
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63′Guy Makuta
LeavesIlya Vukotich
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55′Target! Boavista 1-1 Benfica. A side kick from a free kick and Jurasek looked very bad in the picture, failing to clear the ball and leaving Bozenik to take advantage to equalize.
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54′A yellow card is shown to Angel Di Maria from Benfica!
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54′Angel Di Maria
LeavesFelipe Rodriguez da Silva
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50′Musa’s very aggressive tackle on Abascal brought the Benfica striker a direct red card, and he didn’t mind. The Croatian apologized to the Boavista defender for almost breaking his leg.
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Beginning of part 2
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IntervalMiguel Reicinho
LeavesBruno Laurence
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44′A bad decision by Pedro Maleiro, who had Seba Pérez alone and inside the court, resulted in Salvador Agra being in the wrong position.
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36′Offside at David Jurasek, who was already preparing to set up Di Maria
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27′The moment was missed by Angel Di Maria, who tried to send the ball through Joao Gonçalves. It was well thought out, but poorly implemented.
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22′Target! Boavista 0-1 Benfica. Who else? Di Maria opened the scoring after being served by Rafa, who bounced off Abascal and ran solo from midfield.
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14′And that’s all… The yellow card is shown to Perez. Boavista’s three midfielders – Makuta, Seba Perez and Reicinho – are yellowish. Petit’s midfielders have a hard life.
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eleven’Makuta stepped on and received a yellow card. Of the Boavista midfield trio, only Seba Perez is not yellow.
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9′The first sign of danger for Benfica! Nice collective move with Kokchu, Ba and Di Maria. The Argentine raised his head, filed Orsnes, but the Norwegian saw João Gonçalves deprive him of a goal.
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6′After a miss, Kokchu Bojenik shot, but António Silva blocked it.
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3′The first corner of the match belongs to Boavista, served by Fredrik Orsnes.
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Less than a minute later… Miguel Reycinho tripped Rafa and António Nobre yellowed him. The midfielder was late, did not touch the ball and “carried” Rafa.
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Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal

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