CSKA Moskva need home alleviation for Benfica visit
PFC CSKA Moskva will need to urge their home form as SL Benfica come to Russia on a penultimate day of movement in Group A.
• CSKA were 2-1 winners divided to Benfica on matchday one and are turn with FC Basel 1893 on 6 points – 6 above their Portuguese opponents and 6 behind territory leaders Manchester United FC.
• Benfica contingency win and wish Basel remove to stay in row for a top-two place. If they destroy to win they will be reliable in fourth.
Previous meetings
• The teams were interconnected in a 2004/05 UEFA Cup turn of 32, CSKA winning 3-1 on total and going on to lift a trophy with feat opposite Sporting Clube de Portugal in a Lisbon final.
• CSKA were 2-0 first-leg victors in a diversion played in Krasnodar, interjection to goals from Vasili Berezutski (12) and Vágner Love (60). Sergei Ignashevich put CSKA in finish authority with a 49th-minute idea in Lisbon, nonetheless surrogate Azar Karadas ensured Benfica avoided better on a night.
• The line-ups during a Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica on 24 Feb 2005 were:
Benfica: Quim, Luisão, Petit, Geovanni (Miguel 64), Alcides, Fyssas, Nuno Assis (Karadas 54), Manuel Fernandes, João Pereira, Simão, Nuno Gomes (Mantorras 61).
CSKA: Akinfeev, Ignashveich, A Berezutski, V Berezutski, Zhirkov, Rahimić, Odiah (Shershun 72), Aldonin, Daniel Carvalho (Gusev 90+1), Krasić, Vágner Love (Olić 84).
• That stays Benfica’s usually two-legged better opposite Russian antithesis in UEFA foe – they have won all 5 of a other ties, many recently opposite FC Zenit dual years ago. They have mislaid 4 of their 5 organisation meetings with Russian sides though.
Match background
CSKA Moskva
• CSKA have mislaid both home games in Group A, going down 4-1 during home to Manchester United on matchday one and 2-0 opposite Basel in a third turn of fixtures.Â
• CSKA won their initial 5 European fixtures this term, a initial 4 but surrender a goal, including triumphing 2-1 during Benfica on matchday one; however, a Manchester United outcome was their heaviest home better in European competition.Â
• Their 2-0 first-leg feat during AEK Athens FC in a third subordinate turn finished CSKA’s run of 10 European matches but a win (D4 L6).
• The feat during Benfica was their initial in a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre given a 3-2 home win opposite PSV Eindhoven on 30 Sep 2015; subsequently their record had been D4 L6.
• Victories opposite AEK (1-0) and BSC Young Boys (2-0) in this season’s subordinate rounds are CSKA’s usually successes in their final 9 home European matches (D3 L4).
• CSKA have mislaid all 3 games opposite Portuguese visitors in Moscow. Their usually home wins opposite a bar from that nation was a 3-1 win opposite Sporting CP in a 2015/16 UEFA Champions League play-offs, and that 2005 delight over Benfica in Krasnodar.
• CSKA claimed their solitary European prize in Portugal opposite a Portuguese side, however, beating Sporting CP 3-1 in a 2005 UEFA Cup final in Lisbon.
• The Russian club’s altogether record opposite teams from a Portuguese Liga is W4 D3 L5.
• Russian Premier League runners-up in 2016/17, CSKA are in a organisation theatre for an 11th time, and fifth true season.
• CSKA have come bottom of their organisation in their final 4 UEFA Champions League campaigns. In 2016/17, carrying competent automatically for a organisation phase, they finished behind AS Monaco FC, Bayer 04 Leverkusen and Tottenham Hotspur FC in their section.
Benfica
• Benfica have mislaid all 4 games in Group A and have been degraded in their final 5 European fixtures stretching behind to final deteriorate – a misfortune run in their history.
• The Eagles suffered their biggest UEFA Champions League better on matchday two, going down 5-0 during Basel. Their other divided diversion was a 2-0 detriment during Manchester United final time out.
• Benfica have won usually 3 of their final 15 divided fixtures in Europe, losing eight. They picked adult 4 points on their travels in final season’s organisation stage.
• Benfica have won usually one of their final 8 European matches, home and away – a 1-0 feat opposite Borussia Dortmund in final season’s turn of 16 initial leg.
• Matchday 3 noted a initial time Benfica have mislaid 4 unbroken European games; they had suffered 3 true defeats on 4 prior occasions.
• Prior to matchday one, a Portuguese side’s final ambience of Russian antithesis came in a 2015/16 turn of 16, when they overcame Zenit 1-0 home and 2-1 away.
• Benfica have mislaid on 4 of their final 5 visits to Russia, where their record is W2 D2 L4.
• Portuguese double winners in 2016/17, Benfica are in a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre for a 13th time – and a eighth deteriorate running. The Lisbon outfit got to a quarter-finals in 2015/16 and again progressed from a organisation theatre final year, losing to Dortmund in a turn of 16.
Coach and actor links
• Viktor Goncharenko was in assign of FC BATE Borisov when they faced Benfica in a 2009/10 UEFA Europa League organisation stage, losing 2-0 away and 2-1 during home.
• Jonas scored in Valencia CF’s 4-2 organisation theatre win opposite Goncharenko’s BATE on 7 Nov 2012.
• Eliseu was a second-half surrogate and Pizzi an new deputy as Portugal kick hosts Russia 1-0 during a FIFA Confederations Cup in Moscow on 21 June. Igor Akinfeev, Viktor Vasin and Aleksandr Golovin were in Russia’s line-up.
• Jonas and Mário Fernandes were team-mates during Grêmio FBPA from 2009 to 2011.
• Alan Dzagoev scored past Júlio César when CSKA crashed 3-2 during home to FC Internazionale Milano in a 2011/12 UEFA Champions League organisation stage.
• Diogo Gonçalves scored past Pavel Ovchinnikov when Benfica won 2-0 during CSKA in final season’s UEFA Youth League quarter-finals.