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Benfica 1-0 Zenit - February 16, 2016 / Ligue des Champions 2015/2016

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Ligue des Champions 2015/2016 - 1/8 de finale

Estadio da Luz - Lisbonne - Portugal

February 16, 2016 - 20:45

48 615

Benfica

Portugal

1 - 0

Zenit

Russia

Assist by Nicolás Gaitán (header) Jonas

90+1'

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16' - Yellow card André Almeida16

32' - Yellow card Axel Witsel

35' - Yellow card Jardel35

43' - Yellow card Pizzi43

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59' - Yellow card Javi García

63' - Substitution Konstantinos Mitroglouis substituted by Raúl Jiménez63

67' - Yellow card Domenico Criscito

71' - Substitution Pizziis substituted by Mehdi Carcela González71

74' - Substitution Artem Dzyubais substituted by Aleksandr Kokorin

81' - Substitution Oleg Shatovis substituted by Yuriy Zhirkov

87' - Substitution Dannyis substituted by José Junior Maurício

90' - Red card Domenico Criscito

91' - Goal Jonas91

92' - Yellow card Jonas92

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Benfica

1 - 0

Zenit

Benfica Zenit

Team line-ups

Benfica

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

11Mitroglou63

Konstantinos Mitroglou

Greece

B.date12/03/1988

Age27 years

H1m88

positionCentre forward

10Gaitán

Nicolás Gaitán

Argentina

B.date23/02/1988

Age27 years

H1m73

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

17Jonas9192

Jonas

Brazil

B.date01/04/1984

Age31 years

H1m83

positionSecond striker

21Pizzi7143

Pizzi

Portugal

B.date06/10/1989

Age26 years

H1m72

positionCentre Midfield

85Sanches

Renato Sanches

Portugal

B.date18/08/1997

Age18 years

H1m76

positionLeft central midfielder

7Samaris

Andreas Samaris

Greece

B.date13/06/1989

Age26 years

H1m89

positionDefensive Midfielder

19Eliseu

Eliseu

Portugal

B.date01/10/1983

Age32 years

H1m77

positionLeft full-back

33Jardel35

Jardel

Brazil

B.date29/03/1986

Age29 years

H1m92

positionLeft central defender

14Lindelöf

Victor Lindelöf

Sweden

B.date17/07/1994

Age21 years

H1m86

positionRight central defender

34Almeida16

André Almeida

Portugal

B.date13/09/1990

Age25 years

H1m86

positionRight full-back

12Júlio César

Júlio César

Brazil

B.date03/09/1979

Age36 years

H1m87

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
12	G	Júlio César		36	62	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
33	D	Jardel	35	29	155	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	D	Victor Lindelöf		21	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	D	Eliseu		32	64	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
34	D	André Almeida	16	25	120	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Andreas Samaris		26	62	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	M	Pizzi	7143	26	61	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
85	M	Renato Sanches		18	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	M	Nicolás Gaitán		27	241	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	F	Konstantinos Mitroglou	63	27	31	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	M	Jonas	9192	31	67	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.1 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Zenit

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

22Dzyuba74

Artem Dzyuba

Russia

B.date22/08/1988

Age27 years

H1m94

positionCentre forward

10Danny87

Danny

Portugal

B.date07/08/1983

Age32 years

H1m77

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

7Hulk

Hulk

Brazil

B.date25/07/1986

Age29 years

H1m80

positionStriker

17Shatov81

Oleg Shatov

Russia

B.date29/07/1990

Age25 years

H1m73

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

21Javi García59

Javi García

Spain

B.date08/02/1987

Age29 years

H1m86

positionDefensive Midfielder

28Witsel32

Axel Witsel

Belgium

B.date12/01/1989

Age27 years

H1m83

positionCentre Midfield

4Criscito6790

Domenico Criscito

Italy

B.date30/12/1986

Age29 years

H1m83

positionLeft full-back

6Lombaerts

Nicolas Lombaerts

Belgium

B.date20/03/1985

Age30 years

H1m88

positionLeft central defender

24Garay

Ezequiel Garay

Argentina

B.date10/10/1986

Age29 years

H1m89

positionRight central defender

2Anyukov

Aleksandr Anyukov

Russia

B.date28/09/1982

Age33 years

H1m78

positionRight full-back

1Lodygin

Yuriy Lodygin

Russia

B.date26/05/1990

Age25 years

H1m86

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Yuriy Lodygin		25	108	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
24	D	Ezequiel Garay		29	64	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	D	Nicolas Lombaerts		30	264	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	D	Aleksandr Anyukov		33	353	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Domenico Criscito	6790	29	139	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	M	Javi García	59	29	59	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
28	M	Axel Witsel	32	27	142	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	M	Danny	87	32	234	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	M	Oleg Shatov	81	25	99	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	F	Artem Dzyuba	74	27	28	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Hulk		29	133	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

28.6 years

Average number of matches played for the team

148

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Ederson Moraes		22
50	D	Nélson Semedo		22
28	D	Silvio		28
39	M	Mehdi Carcela González	71	26	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	M	Gonçalo Guedes		19
9	F	Raúl Jiménez	63	24	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
30	F	Anderson Talisca		22

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
41	G	Mikhail Kerzhakov		29
13	D	Luís Neto		27
81	D	Yuriy Zhirkov	81	32	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	José Junior Maurício	87	27	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	M	Artur Yusupov		26
9	F	Aleksandr Kokorin	74	24	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
92	F	Pavel Dolgov		19

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

No changes regarding the previous match for the starting players

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Axel Witsel

Aleksandr Ryazantsev

OUT

Oleg Shatov

Artur Yusupov

OUT

Hulk

Luís Neto

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Rui Vitória

Success rate in this team:

71 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

42 %

Rui Vitória vs Zenit

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on February 16, 2016

Rui Vitória vs Villas-Boãs

1 victory

1 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on February 16, 2016

Manager

Age

Match num

André Villas-Boãs

Success rate in this team:

60 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

58 %

Villas-Boãs vs Benfica

6 victories

0 draw

4 losses

Latest figure on February 16, 2016

Villas-Boãs vs Rui Vitória

1 victory

1 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on February 16, 2016

Referee

Gianluca Rocchi

3 victories	1 draw	1 loss	Benfica5 matches	General total	Zenit3 matches	1 victory	0 draw	2 losses
2 victories	0 draw	0 loss	Benfica2 matches	Season total	Zenit1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on November 07, 2018					Latest figure on March 07, 2019

Videos

March 03, 2016

Comments

Key figures

No Zenit St.Petersburg manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before André Villas-Boãs has reached 1.92 goals scored per game .

Benfica keeps its 5 consecutive matches without a draw vs Zenit running (since 15/02/2012). It's a record streak. The first of history

The last time Zenit has ended with the score 0-1 in Ligue des Champions, It was on the 30/07/2014 (vs )

Read the next 13 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

LBenfica 1-2 Atlético Madrid08/12/2015

VBenfica 3-1 Rio Ave20/12/2015

VBenfica 1-0 Nacional Madeira29/12/2015

VBenfica 6-0 Maritimo Funchal06/01/2016

VBenfica 3-1 Arouca23/01/2016

LBenfica 1-2 FC Porto12/02/2016

Overall

VOriental Lisbonne 0-1 Benfica19/01/2016

VBenfica 3-1 Arouca23/01/2016

VMoreirense 1-6 Benfica26/01/2016

VMoreirense 1-4 Benfica31/01/2016

VOs Belenenses 0-5 Benfica05/02/2016

LBenfica 1-2 FC Porto12/02/2016

Current form

Away

DSpartak Moscow 2-2 Zenit St.Petersburg26/09/2015

DKuban Krasnodar 2-2 Zenit St.Petersburg17/10/2015

VLyon 0-2 Zenit St.Petersburg04/11/2015

LLokomotiv Moscow 2-0 Zenit St.Petersburg08/11/2015

LAkhmat Grozny 4-1 Zenit St.Petersburg28/11/2015

LGent 2-1 Zenit St.Petersburg09/12/2015

Overall

LLokomotiv Moscow 2-0 Zenit St.Petersburg08/11/2015

VZenit St.Petersburg 3-0 Ural Ekaterinburg21/11/2015

VZenit St.Petersburg 2-0 Valencia CF24/11/2015

LAkhmat Grozny 4-1 Zenit St.Petersburg28/11/2015

DZenit St.Petersburg 1-1 Ufa03/12/2015

LGent 2-1 Zenit St.Petersburg09/12/2015

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Loosing streak	1	1
Winless streak	1	1
Drawless streak	17	12
Scoring streak	9	12
Conceding streak	2	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Loosing streak	3	1
Winless streak	3	3
Drawless streak	4	1
Scoring streak	2	5
Conceding streak	3	3

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

10	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	49
1	FBDB index ranking (National)	1

Results

6	Number of games (Competition total)	6
3	Number of games (Home / Away)	3
3	Victories (Competition total)	5
2	Victories (Home / Away)	2
1	Draws (Competition total)	0
0	Draws (Home / Away)	0
2	Losses (Competition total)	1
1	Losses (Home / Away)	1

Goals

10	Goals scored (Competition total)	13
5	Goals scored (Home / Away)	6
8	Goals conceded (Competition total)	6
3	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	4
1.67	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	2.17
1.67	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	2
1.33	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1
1	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.33

Betting aid

5	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	4
2	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	2
1	Clean sheets (Competition total)	2
1	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	1
0	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	0
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	0
5	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	4
2	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	2
2-0 (1 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	3-2 (1 times)

Bookings

19	Yellow cards (Competition total)	20
8	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	14
1	Red cards (Competition total)	1
1	Red cards (Home / Away)	1

Key players

Nicolás Gaitán	3 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	6 goals	Artem Dzyuba
Konstantinos Mitroglou	2 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	3 goals	Artem Dzyuba
Jonas	2 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)	4 assists	Hulk
Raúl Jiménez	2 assists	Player with most assists (Home / Away)	2 assists	Hulk
Raúl Jiménez	2 goals, 2 assists during the last 3 matches	The fittest player	6 goals, 2 assists during the last 6 matches	Artem Dzyuba

Historical head to head

Home

2 matches

1 v

0 d

1 l

2 gf

2 ga

Away

2 matches

0 v

0 d

2 l

2 gf

4 ga

Total

4 matches

1 v

0 d

3 l

4 gf

6 ga

Historical head to head

Home

2 matches

2 v

0 d

0 l

4 gf

2 ga

Away

2 matches

1 v

0 d

1 l

2 gf

2 ga

Total

4 matches

3 v

0 d

1 l

6 gf

4 ga

Largest victory

Overall	2 - 0	March 06, 2012
Home	2 - 0	March 06, 2012

Largest victory

Overall	2 - 0	September 16, 2014
Away	2 - 0	September 16, 2014

Latest head to head

November 26, 2014 - Ligue des Champions 2014/2015

Zenit

1 - 0

Benfica

September 16, 2014 - Ligue des Champions 2014/2015

Benfica

0 - 2

Zenit

March 06, 2012 - Ligue des Champions 2011/2012

Benfica

2 - 0

Zenit

February 15, 2012 - Ligue des Champions 2011/2012

Zenit

3 - 2

Benfica

Best historical scorers against Zenit

Maxi Pereira	2 goals	2012 - 2012
Nelson Oliveira	1 goal	2012 - 2012
Óscar Cardozo	1 goal	2012 - 2012

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 15/02/2012. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Benfica

Roman Shirokov	2 goals	2012 - 2012
Axel Witsel	1 goal	2014 - 2014
Sergey Semak	1 goal	2012 - 2012
Hulk	1 goal	2014 - 2014
Danny	1 goal	2014 - 2014

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 15/02/2012. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Zenit

Maxi Pereira	4 matches	2012 - 2014
Luisão	4 matches	2012 - 2014
Nicolás Gaitán	4 matches	2012 - 2014
Artur Moraes	3 matches	2012 - 2014
Jardel	3 matches	2012 - 2014
Emerson Conçeiçao	2 matches	2012 - 2012

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 15/02/2012. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Benfica

Aleksandr Anyukov	4 matches	2012 - 2014
Nicolas Lombaerts	4 matches	2012 - 2014
Domenico Criscito	3 matches	2012 - 2014
Viktor Fayzulin	3 matches	2012 - 2014
Hulk	2 matches	2014 - 2014
Bruno Alves	2 matches	2012 - 2012