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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS (First leg: 0-1) Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica - Lisbon Thursday 14 March 2019 SL Benfica 21.00CET (20.00 local time) GNK Dinamo Zagreb Round of 16, Second leg Last updated 19/04/2019 23:22CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Team facts 7 Squad list 9 Fixtures and results 12 Match-by-match lineups 16 Match officials 20 Legend 21 1 SL Benfica - GNK Dinamo Zagreb Thursday 14 March 2019 - 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 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - SL 07/03/2019 R16 1-0 Zagreb Petković 38 (P) Benfica UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers SL Benfica - GNK Dinamo Šokota 11, Simão 29 25/11/2004 GS 2-0 Lisbon Zagreb (P) UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers SL Benfica - GNK Dinamo 2-0 01/10/1980 R1 Lisbon Nené 18, César 58 Zagreb agg: 2-0 17/09/1980 R1 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - SL Benfica 0-0 Zagreb Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA SL Benfica 2 2 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 4 2 1 1 4 1 GNK Dinamo Zagreb 2 1 1 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 4 1 1 2 1 4 SL Benfica - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Isaías 32, João Pinto 23/11/1994 GS SL Benfica - HNK Hajduk Split 2-1 Lisbon 75; Andrijasevic 69 14/09/1994 GS HNK Hajduk Split - SL Benfica 0-0 Split GNK Dinamo Zagreb - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Lucho González 20, 21/11/2012 GS FC Porto - GNK Dinamo Zagreb 3-0 Porto João Moutinho 67, Varela 85 Lucho González 41, 18/09/2012 GS GNK Dinamo Zagreb - FC Porto 0-2 Zagreb Defour 90+2 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Mikić 7, Rukavina 37, 04/11/1998 GS GNK Dinamo Zagreb - FC Porto 3-1 Zagreb Mujčin 61; Jardel 39 Doriva 33, Zahovič 21/10/1998 GS FC Porto - GNK Dinamo Zagreb 3-0 Porto 42, 75 2 SL Benfica - GNK Dinamo Zagreb Thursday 14 March 2019 - 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 1-0 28/09/1983 R1 FC Porto - GNK Dinamo Zagreb Porto Fernando Gomes 87 agg: 2-2 ag Kranjčar 25, 75; 14/09/1983 R1 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - FC Porto 2-1 Zagreb Fernando Gomes 65 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Sporting Clube de Portugal - 3-0 29/09/1982 R1 Lisbon Toni 29, 36, 65 GNK Dinamo Zagreb agg: 3-1 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - Sporting 15/09/1982 R1 1-0 Zagreb Cerin 71 Clube de Portugal Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA SL Benfica 3 3 0 0 3 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 6 3 2 1 6 2 GNK Dinamo Zagreb 6 4 1 1 6 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 12 4 1 7 7 18 3 SL Benfica - GNK Dinamo Zagreb Thursday 14 March 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica, Lisbon Match background Benfica, who have played more UEFA Europa League knockout matches than any other club, must bounce back from a 1-0 reverse in Croatia if they are to maintain their perfect qualifying record in the competition's round of 16. Should Dinamo Zagreb avoid defeat in Portugal for the first time in seven visits, they will be through to their first European quarter-final in almost half a century. • Benfica crossed over to the UEFA Europa League having finished third in their UEFA Champions League group, behind Bayern München and Ajax, with seven points. They overcame another autumn UEFA Champions League participant in the round of 32, eliminating Galatasaray 2-1 on aggregate. • Dinamo came through a European group stage for the first time this term, going unbeaten through UEFA Europa League Group D with four wins and two draws, before extending their involvement with a round of 32 comeback success against Viktoria Plzeň. Previous meetings • A 38th-minute penalty from Bruno Petković was the difference between the two sides at the Stadion Maksimir. It was the first goal scored by a Dinamo player in four meetings with Benfica and brought about the Lisbon club's first defeat in six matches against Croatian clubs. • The clubs' paths have crossed twice previously in UEFA competition, Benfica beating Dinamo 2-0 on aggregate (0-0 away, 2-0 home) in the 1980/81 European Cup Winners' Cup first round and 2-0 at home again in a 2004/05 UEFA Cup group stage encounter. • Benfica's only other encounters with Croatian opposition came in the 1994/95 UEFA Champions League group stage, when they drew 0-0 away to Hajduk Split and beat them 2-1 at home en route to qualifying for the quarter- finals. • Dinamo have been defeated without scoring on all six of their visits to Portugal, most recently going down 3-0 to Porto in the 2012/13 UEFA Champions League group stage. Their three previous two-legged ties have all been lost after a second-leg defeat in Portugal. Form guide Benfica • Portuguese Liga runners-up in 2017/18 after a club-record four successive league titles, Benfica kicked off their European season in the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League with a 2-1 aggregate win against Fenerbahçe before PAOK were defeated in the play-offs (1-1 home, 4-1 away) to send the Lisbon club into the group stage for the ninth season in a row – and 14th in all. • Having finished bottom of their group with zero points in 2017/18, this time round the Eagles won home and away against AEK Athens to claim third place in Group E, their only other point coming in a 1-1 draw at home to Ajax. Galatasaray were overcome in Benfica's first UEFA Europa League encounters since the 2014 final, a 2-1 win in Istanbul preceding a 0-0 Lisbon draw. • Benfica are in the UEFA Europa League round of 16 for a record-equalling fifth time (along with Valencia and Zenit), their four previous ties having all been successful – against Marseille in 2009/10 (1-1 home, 2-1 away), Paris Saint- Germain in 2010/11 (2-1 home, 1-1 away), Bordeaux in 2012/13 (1-0 home, 3-2 away) and Tottenham in 2013/14 (3-1 away, 2-2 home). They were therefore unbeaten in their first eight round of 16 matches before losing in Zagreb. • Benfica have been defeated in 11 of their last 20 European fixtures, but the five wins and four draws have all been this season. They have not scored more than one goal in any of their last 13 European games in Lisbon, managing just nine in total. However, they have never lost at home in any phase of the UEFA Europa League, registering 17 wins and three draws. • Benfica have lost the first leg away from home 34 times in UEFA competition and have recovered to win the tie on 11 occasions. Of the 11 instances where they have gone down 1-0 they have won five ties, most recently against Fenerbahçe in the 2012/13 UEFA Europa League semi-finals (3-1 home). On the last such occasion, however, in the 2015/16 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals, they were eliminated after a 2-2 draw against Bayern München. Dinamo • Dinamo made amends for a rare trophy-less 2016/17 campaign by winning the Croatian league and cup double in 2017/18 – their third in four seasons. They also appeared to be heading for a third UEFA Champions League group stage in four years when they eliminated Hapoel Beer Sheva and Astana then drew 1-1 in the first leg of their play-off away to Young Boys, but a 1-2 defeat in Zagreb sent them into the UEFA Europa League instead. • Dinamo won their first four group games – 4-1 at home to Fenerbahçe, 2-0 at Anderlecht and twice against Spartak Trnava (2-1 away, 3-1 home) to secure qualification with two games to spare – both of which ended goalless. A first 4 SL Benfica - GNK Dinamo Zagreb Thursday 14 March 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica, Lisbon defeat of the campaign, 1-2 in Plzen, put Dinamo up against it in the round of 32 but they recovered with a 3-0 win in Zagreb. • This season is the first time Dinamo have qualified from a European group stage, at the 14th attempt, having never previously stretched their involvement into the spring under the flag of Croatia. The last time they were active in the latter stages of a UEFA competition was as a Yugoslav club in the 1969/70 European Cup Winners' Cup quarter- finals. • Dinamo's defeat at Plzen in the round of 32 first leg ended the Croatian champions' eight-match unbeaten run on the road in Europe (W3 D5), the matchday two win in Brussels having finally ended a sequence of 19 successive away defeats in UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League group games that had lasted almost eight years.