Match Centre: Benfica vs FC Barcelona
Player of the match Wojciech Szczesny 8.8
GolVolt rating 7.8GolVolt rating
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Key stats
Why this rating
Four pillars, each measured against the same league over the last 12 months.
Keeper Szczesny: 8 saves, plenty of chances.
- Dramaweight 50% Red card at 22′.Some excitement, but no big twists. Drama: 4.7 out of 10
- Heroesweight 20% Keeper Szczesny: 8 saves, Szczesny: rated 8.8. Heroes: 9.5 out of 10
- Stakesweight 15% A clash of big clubs. Stakes: 8.7 out of 10
- Quality of playweight 15% Plenty of chances, 36 shots. Quality of play: 8.6 out of 10
Match ECG
A spike = a twist. The shading = how open the result still was.
GolVolt rating 7.8more watchable than 78% of Champions League matches
The GolVolt rating comes from four pillars — drama, heroes, stakes and quality of play — measured against this league's matches of the last 12 months (model nap-v2).
Similar matches
A similar story: twists, the finish, chances. Same league, last 12 months.
How the match went
1 goal6 cards
Counts cover only events captured in the retained timeline.
Timeline
- 22' Pau Cubarsíred card
- 28' SubstitutionAraujo for Olmo
- 45' Leandro Barreiroyellow card
- 45+2' Iñigo Martínezyellow card
- 45+5' António Silvayellow card
- Half-time · 0:0
- 56' SubstitutionTorres for Yamal
- 57' SubstitutionDahl for Araújo
- 61' Goal: RaphinhaFC Barcelona0:1
- 70' 2 substitutionsBelotti for BarreiroRego for Schjelderup
- 73' Álvaro Carrerasyellow card
- 78' SubstitutionMartín for Lewandowski
- 79' SubstitutionCasadó for de Jong
- 84' 2 substitutionsCabral for PavlidisSanches for Kökçü
- 90+1' João Regoyellow card
- Full-time · 0:1
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Lineups and ratings
The highlighted rating is the player of the match.
Starting XIs · provider ratings
Benfica
FC Barcelona
Goalkeepers
Defenders
Midfielders
Forwards
Came on
Bench
Benfica
- 24 Samuel Soares GK —
- 26 Samuel Dahl DEF on
- 71 Leandro Santos DEF —
- 81 Adrian Bajrami DEF —
- 60 Nuno Félix MID —
- 79 Hugo Félix MID —
- 84 João Rego MID on
- 85 Renato Sanches MID on
- 86 Diogo Prioste MID —
- 9 Arthur Cabral ATT on
- 19 Andrea Belotti ATT on
- 25 Gianluca Prestianni ATT —
FC Barcelona
- 13 Iñaki Peña GK —
- 31 Diego Kochen GK —
- 4 Ronald Araujo DEF on
- 24 Eric García DEF —
- 32 Héctor Fort DEF —
- 35 Gerard Martín DEF on
- 14 Pablo Torre MID —
- 16 Fermín López MID —
- 17 Marc Casadó MID on
- 7 Ferran Torres ATT on
- 10 Ansu Fati ATT —
- 18 Pau Víctor ATT —
Match sheet
- Stadium
- Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica, Lisboa
Player ratings
Ratings from the data provider, scale 1–10.
- Player of the match · FC Barcelona Wojciech Szczesny
- 2. place · FC Barcelona Raphinha
- 3. place · FC Barcelona Ronald Araujo
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