"Qarabag" Lost to "Benfica": 1-2

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. 

Like in 2017, "Qarabag", one of the giants of Europe, will be a 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 "Galloping Horses" 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) 2:1 (Second half)

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

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. Georgiy Sudakov, 21. Andreas Schjelderup, 8. Fredrik Aursnes, 14. Vangelis Pavlidis

Head coach: Bruno Lage

"Qarabag": 99. Matej Kovar, 44. Elvin Jafarquliyev, 13. Bahlul Mustafazade, 81. Kevin Medina, 2. Mateus Silva, 35. Pedro Bicallo, 8. Marko Jankovic, Kadi Borges, 10. Abdellah Zoubir (c), 15. Leandro Andrade, 17. Camilo Duran

Head coach: Gurban Gurbanov