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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2019/20 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS (First leg: 1-2) Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica - Lisbon Thursday 27 February 2020 SL Benfica 21.00CET (20.00 local time) FC Shakhtar Donetsk Round of 32, Second leg Last updated 18/08/2020 17:43CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 5 Team facts 8 Squad list 10 Fixtures and results 13 Match-by-match lineups 16 Match officials 18 Legend 20 1 SL Benfica - FC Shakhtar Donetsk Thursday 27 February 2020 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica, Lisbon Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Alan Patrick 56, FC Shakhtar Donetsk - SL 20/02/2020 R32 2-1 Kharkiv Kovalenko 72; Pizzi Benfica 67 (P) UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Shakhtar Donetsk - SL Lucarelli 30 (P); 04/12/2007 GS 1-2 Donetsk Benfica Cardozo 6, 22 SL Benfica - FC Shakhtar 03/10/2007 GS 0-1 Lisbon Jádson 42 Donetsk Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA SL Benfica 1 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 2 3 4 FC Shakhtar Donetsk 2 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 1 4 3 SL Benfica - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 01/11/2016 GS SL Benfica - FC Dynamo Kyiv 1-0 Lisbon Salvio 45+2 (P) 19/10/2016 GS FC Dynamo Kyiv - SL Benfica 0-2 Kyiv Salvio 9 (P), Cervi 55 UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-1 Sachko 48, Yesin 74; 27/08/2009 PO FC Vorskla Poltava - SL Benfica Poltava agg: 2-5 Saviola 59 Di María 31, Cardozo 20/08/2009 PO SL Benfica - FC Vorskla Poltava 4-0 Lisbon 55 (P), Saviola 57, Weldon 77 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 18/12/2008 GS SL Benfica - FC Metalist Kharkiv 0-1 Lisbon Rykun 84 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Brito 25, 62, Isaías 01/04/1992 R3 (GS) SL Benfica - FC Dynamo Kyiv 5-0 Lisbon 70, Yuran 82, 86 27/11/1991 R3 (GS) FC Dynamo Kyiv - SL Benfica 1-0 Kyiv Salenko 31 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-3 Lima 55, 60, Ricardo 21/03/1990 QF FC Dnipro - SL Benfica Dnipropetrovsk agg: 0-4 86 2 SL Benfica - FC Shakhtar Donetsk Thursday 27 February 2020 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica, Lisbon European Champions Clubs' Cup 07/03/1990 QF SL Benfica - FC Dnipro 1-0 Lisbon Magnusson 8 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Stoiljković 43, N. SC Braga - FC Shakhtar 08/12/2016 GS 2-4 Braga Vukčević 89; Kryvtsov Donetsk 22, 62, Taison 39, 66 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - SC Stepanenko 5, 29/09/2016 GS 2-0 Lviv Braga Kovalenko 56 UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Srna 25 (P), Ricardo FC Shakhtar Donetsk - SC 4-0 14/04/2016 QF Lviv Ferreira 43 (og), 73 Braga agg: 6-1 (og), Kovalenko 50 Wilson Eduardo 89; SC Braga - FC Shakhtar 07/04/2016 QF 1-2 Braga Rakits'kyy 45, Donetsk Ferreyra 75 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Aboubakar 87; 10/12/2014 GS FC Porto - FC Shakhtar Donetsk 1-1 Porto Stepanenko 50 Alex Teixeira 52, Luiz 30/09/2014 GS FC Shakhtar Donetsk - FC Porto 2-2 Lviv Adriano 85; Martínez 89 (P), 90+4 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 23/11/2011 GS FC Shakhtar Donetsk - FC Porto 0-2 Donetsk Hulk 79, Raţ 90 (og) Hulk 28, Kléber 51; 13/09/2011 GS FC Porto - FC Shakhtar Donetsk 2-1 Porto Luiz Adriano 12 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Shakhtar Donetsk - SC Raţ 78, Luiz Adriano 08/12/2010 GS 2-0 Donetsk Braga 83 Luiz Adriano 56, 72, SC Braga - FC Shakhtar 28/09/2010 GS 0-3 Braga Douglas Costa 90+2 Donetsk (P) UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Sporting Clube de Portugal - FC 04/11/2008 GS 1-0 Lisbon Derlei 73 Shakhtar Donetsk FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Sporting 22/10/2008 GS 0-1 Donetsk Liedson 76 Clube de Portugal 3 SL Benfica - FC Shakhtar Donetsk Thursday 27 February 2020 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica, Lisbon UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Boavista 1-1 Potskhveria 79; 02/10/1997 R1 Donetsk FC agg: 4-3 Latapy 89 Lopes 35, Litos 44; Boavista FC - FC Shakhtar 18/09/1997 R1 2-3 Porto Zubov 29, Atelkin 60, Donetsk 63 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 21/03/1984 QF FC Shakhtar Donetsk - FC Porto Donetsk Grachov 63; Walsh 72 agg: 3-4 Pacheco 41 (P), Frasco 48, Pereira 70; 07/03/1984 QF FC Porto - FC Shakhtar Donetsk 3-2 Porto Morozov 6, Sokolovski 38 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA SL Benfica 6 4 0 2 6 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 12 7 0 5 20 8 FC Shakhtar Donetsk 10 4 3 3 9 5 1 3 0 0 0 0 19 9 4 6 32 22 4 SL Benfica - FC Shakhtar Donetsk Thursday 27 February 2020 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica, Lisbon Match background The only round of 32 tie between teams that competed in this season's UEFA Champions League group stage is intriguingly poised as Benfica, unbeaten at home in the UEFA Europa League, bid to reach the last 16 at the expense of a Shakhtar Donetsk side who won an eventful first leg 2-1 in Kharkiv. • Benfica's chances of further UEFA Champions League progress ended with a 2-2 draw at RB Leipzig on Matchday 5 but they rallied to beat Zenit 3-0 in Lisbon and secure third place, whereas Shakhtar's hopes of prolonging their UEFA Champions League campaign into the spring were dashed by a closing 0-3 home defeat by Atalanta. The Ukrainian side ended up with six points, one fewer than their Italian opponents. Previous meetings • After a goalless first half in Kharkiv, Shakhtar went ahead thanks to a spectacular Alan Patrick strike, only for the visitors to equalise through a Pizzi penalty ten minutes later. The final word, however, went to the Ukrainian side as Viktor Kovalenko fired in to inflict a first ever round of 32 defeat on Benfica at the 11th time of asking. • The clubs' only previous pairing was in the 2007/08 UEFA Champions League group stage, when both claimed away wins, Shakhtar 1-0 in Lisbon and Benfica 2-1 in Donetsk, with current Shakhtar goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov playing in both games. Neither club made it through to the knockout phase, Benfica finishing third and Shakhtar fourth behind AC Milan and Celtic. • Benfica have won four and lost two of their six UEFA competition home games against Ukrainian clubs, the four victories all featuring clean sheets, the latest 1-0 against Dynamo Kyiv in the 2016/17 UEFA Champions League group stage. The Lisbon giants have won all three of their two-legged knockout ties against teams from Ukraine. • Shakhtar have an impressive track record in Portugal, winning five of their nine matches in the country (D1 L3), including the two most recent, both against Braga in the UEFA Europa League – 2-1 in the 2015/16 quarter-final and 4-2 in the following season's group stage, with Serhiy Kryvtsov and Taison each scoring a double in the latter fixture. Their record in two-legged knockout ties against Portuguese opponents is W2 L1. Form guide Benfica • Champions of Portugal for a record 37th time last season, Benfica thus qualified for a tenth successive appearance in the UEFA Champions League group stage – and 15th in all. They finished third in their section last season, going on to reach the UEFA Europa League quarter-finals, where they were eliminated on away goals by Eintracht Frankfurt (4-2 h, 0-2 a). • Benfica lost their opening two fixtures in this season's UEFA Champions League group stage – 1-2 at home to RB Leipzig, 1-3 at Zenit – before trading home wins with Lyon and then conceding twice late on at Leipzig to draw 2-2 and drop out of the competition. • Three second-half goals without reply against Zenit on Matchday 6 put Benfica back in the UEFA Europa League, where they will be hoping to protect a perfect record in the round of 32, all of their previous five ties at this stage having ended in victory – against Hertha Berlin in 2009/10 (1-1 a, 4-0 h), VfB Stuttgart in 2010/11 (2-1 h, 2-0 a), Bayer Leverkusen in 2012/13 (1-0 a, 2-1 h), PAOK in 2013/14 (1-0 a, 3-0 h) and Galatasaray in 2018/19 (2-1 a, 0-0 h). They boast four wins and one draw at home in this round.