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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, among the giants of Europe, will be hosted by 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 "Aghdam 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
Goal: Entso 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. 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 Mustafazade, 81. Kevin Medina, 2. Mateus Silva, 35. Pedro Bicallo, 8. Marko Jankovic, Kady Borges, 10. Abdellah Zoubir (c), 15. Leandro Andrade, 17. Juninho
Head coach: Gurban Gurbanov
