"Qarabag" draws away with "Benfica"

Today, the main stage of the UEFA Champions League kicks off. Sport24.az reports that after 8 years, the Azerbaijani representative will also compete in this round of the prestigious tournament.

As in 2017, "Qarabag", one of the giants of Europe, will be the guest of "Benfica" in Lisbon today.

The starting whistle of the match will sound at 23:00 Baku time.

It should be noted that "Qarabag" will play 8 matches in the main stage of the Champions League, 4 of which will be at home and 4 away. The "Stallions" will face "Athletic" (Spain), "Napoli" (Italy) and "Liverpool" (England) away. "Copenhagen" (Denmark), "Chelsea" (England), "Ajax" (Netherlands) and "Eintracht" (Germany) will face each other in Baku.

Champions League

League stage, 1st round

23:00. "Benfica" (Portugal) - "Qarabag" (Azerbaijan) 2:2 (Second half)

Goal: Entso Barrenechea, 6, Vangelis Pavlidis, 16, Leandro Andrade, 30, Kamilo Duran, 48

Referees: Erik Lambrechts, Jo De Weirdt and Kevin Monteny (Belgium)

Lisbon. "Estadio da Luz"

"Benfica": 1. Anatoli Trubin, 26. Samuel Dal, 4. Antonio Silva, 30. Nicolas Otamendi (c), 17. Amar Dedic, 20. Richard Rios, 5. Entso Barrenechea, 10. Georgi Sudakov, 21. Andreas Schjelderup, 8. Fredrik Aursnes, 14. Vangelis Pavlidis

Head coach: Bruno Lage

"Qarabag": 99. Matej Kovar, 44. Elvin Jafarguliyev, 13. Bahlul Mustafazadeh, 81. Kevin Medina, 2. Matheus Silva, 35. Pedro Bicallo, 8. Marko Jankovic, Kady Borges, 10. Abdellah Zoubir (c), 15. Leandro Andrade, 17. Kamilo Duran

Head coach: Gurban Gurbanov