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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS (First leg: 2-1) Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica - Lisbon Thursday 21 February 2019 SL Benfica 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Galatasaray AŞ Round of 32, Second leg Last updated 09/09/2019 13:52CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Team facts 6 Squad list 8 Fixtures and results 11 Match-by-match lineups 15 Match officials 18 Legend 20 1 SL Benfica - Galatasaray AŞ Thursday 21 February 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 Luyindama 54; Salvio 14/02/2019 R32 Galatasaray AŞ - SL Benfica 1-2 Istanbul 27 (P), Seferović 64 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Jonas 52, Luisão 67; 03/11/2015 GS SL Benfica - Galatasaray AŞ 2-1 Lisbon Podolski 58 Selçuk İnan 19 (P), 21/10/2015 GS Galatasaray AŞ - SL Benfica 2-1 Istanbul Podolski 33; Gaitán 2 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Emre Aşık 51, Ümit 06/11/2008 GS SL Benfica - Galatasaray AŞ 0-2 Lisbon Karan 69 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 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 4 2 0 2 5 6 Galatasaray AŞ 2 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 4 2 0 2 6 5 SL Benfica - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 Alper Potuk 45+1; 14/08/2018 QR3 Fenerbahçe SK - SL Benfica Istanbul agg: 1-2 Gedson Fernandes 26 07/08/2018 QR3 SL Benfica - Fenerbahçe SK 1-0 Lisbon Cervi 69 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Cenk Tosun 58, Quaresma 83 (P), 23/11/2016 GS Beşiktaş JK - SL Benfica 3-3 Istanbul Aboubakar 89; Gonçalo Guedes 10, Semedo 25, Fejsa 31 Cervi 12; Talisca 13/09/2016 GS SL Benfica - Beşiktaş JK 1-1 Lisbon 90+3 UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 3-1 Gaitán 9, Cardozo 35, 02/05/2013 SF SL Benfica - Fenerbahçe SK Lisbon agg: 3-2 66; Kuyt 23 (P) 25/04/2013 SF Fenerbahçe SK - SL Benfica 1-0 Istanbul Egemen Korkmaz 72 2 SL Benfica - Galatasaray AŞ Thursday 21 February 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica, Lisbon UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 Paulo Henrique 32; 03/08/2011 QR3 Trabzonspor AŞ - SL Benfica Istanbul agg: 1-3 Nolito 19 27/07/2011 QR3 SL Benfica - Trabzonspor AŞ 2-0 Lisbon Nolito 71, Gaitán 88 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Chalana 22, Jesus 4-0 03/09/1980 PR SL Benfica - Altay GK Lisbon Coelho 44, Nené 57, agg: 4-0 César 61 20/08/1980 PR Altay GK - SL Benfica 0-0 Izmir European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-0 01/10/1975 R1 Fenerbahçe SK - SL Benfica Izmir Verel 75 agg: 1-7 Shéu 22, Nené 33, 17/09/1975 R1 SL Benfica - Fenerbahçe SK 7-0 Lisbon 43, 72, Rui Jordão 60, 75, 84 Galatasaray AŞ - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Feghouli 45+1 (P), Derdiyok 65; Felipe 11/12/2018 GS Galatasaray AŞ - FC Porto 2-3 Istanbul 17, Marega 42 (P), Sérgio Oliveira 57 03/10/2018 GS FC Porto - Galatasaray AŞ 1-0 Porto Marega 49 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Mossoró 32; Burak 05/12/2012 GS SC Braga - Galatasaray AŞ 1-2 Braga Yılmaz 58, Aydın Yılmaz 78 Rúben Micael 27, 02/10/2012 GS Galatasaray AŞ - SC Braga 0-2 Istanbul Alan 90+4 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA SL Benfica 8 6 1 1 8 1 4 3 0 0 0 0 16 7 5 4 28 15 Galatasaray AŞ 4 1 0 3 4 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 8 3 0 5 10 12 3 SL Benfica - Galatasaray AŞ Thursday 21 February 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica, Lisbon Match background This is the only UEFA Europa League round of 32 tie to feature two teams who spent the autumn in the UEFA Champions League, and Benfica, the record champions of Portugal, have the edge over their Turkish counterparts Galatasaray as they return to Lisbon with a 2-1 victory from the first leg in Istanbul. • Both clubs finished third in their UEFA Champions League group, Benfica behind Bayern München and Ajax in Group E with seven points and Galatasaray below Porto and Schalke in Group D with four. Previous meetings • Benfica's in-form Swiss international striker Haris Seferović was the match-winner in Istanbul, scoring the winning goal ten minutes after Galatasaray's Christian Luyindama had equalised Eduardo Salvio's first-half penalty. • The clubs had met on three occasions before this tie, Galatasaray beating Benfica 2-0 away in the 2008/09 UEFA Cup group stage before both teams won their home fixture 2-1 in the 2015/16 UEFA Champions League group stage; Selçuk İnan scored in Istanbul and Jonas did likewise in Lisbon. • Benfica's record in 16 matches against Turkish opponents is W7 D5 L4, with a home record of W6 D1 L1, that 2008/09 defeat by Galatasaray being the only time the Eagles have been beaten in front of their own fans. The Lisbon club have already won at home to Turkish opposition this season, overcoming Fenerbahçe 1-0 (and 2-1 on aggregate) in the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round, Franco Cervi scoring the decisive goal. • Galatasaray had likewise already met Portuguese opposition this term before the first leg, losing twice against Porto in the UEFA Champions League group stage, the first defeat a 1-0 reverse at the Estádio do Dragão on matchday two. Their overall record in Portugal is W2 L2. 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 that 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, 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. • Benfica are in the UEFA Europa League knockout phase for the fifth time, their four previous round of 32 ties having all featured victories in both legs – against BATE Borisov in 2009/10 (2-0 home, 2-1 away), Stuttgart in 2010/11 (2-1 home, 2-0 away), Bayer Leverkusen in 2012/13 (1-0 away, 2-1 home) and PAOK in 2013/14 (1-0 home, 3-0 away). • Benfica have been defeated in ten of their last 18 European fixtures (W5 D3) and they have not scored more than one goal in any of their last 12 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 two draws. • Benfica have lost only one of 18 UEFA competition ties after winning the first leg away – fifty years ago against Ajax in the European Champion Clubs' Cup quarter-finals, when they followed a 3-1 win in Amsterdam with a home defeat by the same scoreline and subsequently lost a Paris play-off 3-0. On the last of the four occasions that they won the first leg 2-1 on the road, against PAOK in the second round of the 1999/2000 UEFA Cup, they required a penalty shoot-out win in Lisbon to progress. Galatasaray • Turkish champions in 2017/18 for a record 21st time, Galatasaray qualified for a 15th appearance in the UEFA Champions League group stage – the same number as all other Turkish teams combined. • After opening Group D with an impressive 3-0 home win against Lokomotiv, the Istanbul side picked up only one further point from their last five games, failing to score in three away defeats. • Galatasaray are in the UEFA Europa League round of 32 for the third time. Their previous two ties at this stage both ended in elimination – by eventual winners Atlético Madrid in the inaugural 2009/10 season (1-1 away, 1-2 home) and Lazio in 2015/16 (1-1 home, 1-3 away). • The Istanbul club have lost all of their last seven European away fixtures, failing to score in five of them. That sequence started with the 2-1 defeat at Benfica in 2015/16. They have not won a European match outside Turkey since a 3-2 victory at Schalke in the second leg of the 2012/13 UEFA Champions League round of 16; their record on the road since then is D2 L14. • Galatasaray have been defeated at home in the first leg of a UEFA competition tie on five previous occasions.