"Qarabag" Lost to "Benfica" in the Champions League

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

Like in 2017, "Qarabag", among 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 "White Horses" will face "Athletic" (Spain), "Napoli" (Italy) and "Liverpool" (England) away. They will face "Copenhagen" (Denmark), "Chelsea" (England), "Ajax" (Netherlands) and "Eintracht" (Germany) in Baku. 

Champions League

League Stage, 1st Round

23:00. "Benfica" (Portugal) - "Qarabag" (Azerbaijan) 3:2 (Second half)

Goals: Enzo Barrenechea, 6, Vangelis Pavlidis, 16, Leandro Andrade, 30, Kamilo Duran, 48, Aleksey Kashchuk, 86

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. Enzo Barrenechea, 10. Georgi Sudakov, 21. Andreas Schjelderup, 8. Fredrik Aursnes, 14. Vangelis Pavlidis

Head coach: Bruno Lage

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

Head coach: Gurban Gurbanov