The Eagles are in the next round…
Benfica stamped your ticket to Champions League quarterfinals by winning, against all odds, 0-1, global 2-3, at Ajaxmeeting held this Tuesday at the Johan Cruyff Arena in Amsterdam.
🔴⚪ IT’S ALREADY!!! #OUT OF MANY, ONE #SLBAJA #UCL pic.twitter.com/FH0Ofv2Yb3
— SL Benfica (@SLBenfica) March 15, 2022
🔥 QUARTER FINAL HERE WE COME!!! ❤️🦅#Out of many, one #UCL pic.twitter.com/ZFqbec8d1j
— SL Benfica (@SLBenfica) March 15, 2022
The match was a local ensemble monologue that did not have the expected ending, despite looking for victory from the beginning to the end. However, the visitors knew how to withstand their attacks, those who lacked a little more offensive skill, and found a prize as excessive as valuable in a header from the Uruguayan Darwin Nunez at minute 77 to decide to sentence the tie in favor of the Lusitanians who they return to the Quarterfinals 10 years later.
📸 @Darwinn99 is the “Man of the Match”! 😍#AJASLB #UCL #Out of many, one pic.twitter.com/vSoPkZd487
— SL Benfica (@SLBenfica) March 15, 2022
Ajax accused again vertigo in an important appointment in his fiefdom, where they haven’t won a Champions League knockout match since 1996and was left without being among the eight best of the competition.
📸 WE ARE SPORT LISBON AND BENFICA!! ❤️❤️❤️#AJASLB #UCL pic.twitter.com/xdz0RWBtm0
— SL Benfica (@SLBenfica) March 15, 2022
After the 2-2 in Lisbon, a game with goals in Amsterdam, but it was not like that, partly due to the bad night of the two best pieces of those of Erik ten Hag. Ni Sebastian Hallerwho had 11 goals in the competition, nor Antony, they were not even able to test a Vachlodimos that, despite the continuous burden, nor did he have to make meritorious interventions.
😍 𝗖𝗨𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗢𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗦 😍
Bayern ✅
Liverpool ✅
Man. City ✅
Real Madrid ✅
Benfica ✅
athletic ✅#UCL pic.twitter.com/mMmSWoCxOI– Champions League (@LigadeCampeones) March 15, 2022
The meeting only had one direction from the initial whistle. The Eredivisie champion attacked insistently and pressed relentlessly for neutralize a Benfica that barely had the ball and that he was only capable of threatening set pieces.
Antonywith a header that went wide and a shot that was easily stopped by the Greek goalkeeper, a shot of mountain house that went high and a header from Timber that had the same fate were the best options of a local team that better definition was lacking in the final meters.
After the break, nothing changed in the match. Nelson Verissimo retouched his approach in the changing rooms, mainly the defensive because he did not advance his lines, and he had less trouble than he had in the first 45 minutes, while Vertonghen warned that above and set pieces could be the best visiting options.
Without finding the scorer Haller, another header from Antony and a shot of Gravenberch that he ran into a defender on his way to the goal were the arguments to try crack the iron defense of his rival.
🗣️ @Darwinn99: “Delighted with the victory, the team gave everything and we are already thinking about the next game”!
🎙️ As palavras do “Man of the Match”.#UCL #AJASLB #Out of many, one pic.twitter.com/aVgpFQGE9A
— SL Benfica (@SLBenfica) March 15, 2022
When the match entered its final stretch, a lateral foul connected her Darwin Nunez with the head anticipating Onana and your bookmark for silence the Johan Cruyff. The 0-1 brought precipitation in an Ajax, unable to have the mettle needed to find the way to the goal in the 20 minutes he had.
🗣️ The mister’s message after the #AJASLB and an appeal for Sunday! 💪#Out of many, one pic.twitter.com/13usaHNpBW
— SL Benfica (@SLBenfica) March 15, 2022
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Round of 16 / Second leg
Ajax 0-1 Benfica (global 2-3)
Stadium: Johan Cruyff Arena
Referee: Carlos del Cerro Grande (Spain)
goals
0-1 (77′).- Darwin Núñez
lineups
Ajax
Andre Onana
Lisandro Martinez
Jurriën Timber (Yellow, 83′)
(Holy Mohammed, 90+6′)
Daley Blind (Yellow, 90+4′)
Noussair Mazraoui
Steven Berghuis
(Davy Klaassen, 81′)
Edson Alvarez
(Brian Brobbey, 81′)
Ryan Gravenberch (Yellow, 90+4′)
Sebastien Haller
Dusan Tadic
Antony
DT: Erik Ten Hag
Substitutes
Charlie Setford
Zakaria Labyad
Mohamed Daramy
Przemyslaw Tyton
Nicolás Tagliafico
Devyne Rensch
Perr Schuurs
Kenneth Taylor
Danilo
Benfica
Odisseas Vlachodimos
Jan Vertonghen
Nicholas Otamendi
Alexander Grimaldo
Gilberto
(Valentino Lazaro, 90+1′)
Goncalo Ramos (Yellow, 67′)
(Paulo Bernardo, 90+1′)
Julian Weigl
Adel Taarabt
(Souahilo Meite, 45′)
Darwin Nunez
(Diogo Goncalves, 81′)
Everton
(Roman Yaremchuk, 72′)
Rafa
DT: Nélson Verissimo
Substitutes
Felipe Rodrigues
Helton Leite
Henrique Araújo
André Almeida
João Mario
Nemanja Radonjic
Gil Dias
(With information from Europa Press)
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