Mourinho’s Benfica drag Real Madrid with them to Champions League playoffs

Benfica bushed Real 4-2 which sends some teams into Champions League playoffs, arsenic Madrid miss retired connected apical eight.

Goalkeeper Anatoliy Trubin scored an astonishing 98th-minute header arsenic Benfica bushed Real Madrid 4-2 to support themselves successful the Champions League and contradict their illustrious opponents an automatic spot successful the past 16.

In an bonzer finale connected Wednesday, the Portuguese broadside were ⁠heading retired contempt starring 3-2 with seconds of stoppage clip remaining earlier Trubin came guardant for a escaped ​kick to people the extremity needed to sneak into the playoff circular connected extremity ‍difference.

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That sparked chaotic celebrations from Benfica players, fans and their charismatic manager Jose Mourinho – a erstwhile manager of Real Madrid – astatine the Stadium of Light successful Lisbon.

The Spaniards had hoped to decorativeness successful the apical 8 and spell consecutive into the ‍last 16, but ⁠their 15 points from 8 games were not enough, and they finished the lucifer with 9 men arsenic Raul Asencio and Rodrygo were sent off.

Andreas Schjelderup scored 2 goals for Benfica and Vangelis Pavlidis netted from the punishment spot, portion Kylian Mbappe netted doubly for Real successful a hugely entertaining, end-to-end contest.

Benfica beforehand astatine the disbursal of Marseille, who mislaid 3-0 astatine Club Brugge. The elephantine surface successful the stadium successful Belgium congratulated some teams for advancing to the ​next stage, but that proved premature arsenic Trubin turned the tables.

Both Benfica ‌and Real needed a extremity for antithetic reasons going into the last minutes, and it is simply a vindication of the competition’s format that a azygous extremity could person specified a melodramatic effect connected the table.

Goalkeeper Anatoliy Trubin of Benfica scores his team’s 4th extremity with a header [Jose Manuel Alvarez Rey/Getty Images]

Benfica were denied 2 beardown aboriginal punishment shots, ‌and Real took the pb connected 30 minutes against the tally of play erstwhile Asencio’s transverse to the backmost station was headed successful by Mbappe.

The location ‌side drew level six minutes aboriginal erstwhile Asencio’s gaffe successful the ⁠wet conditions allowed Pavlidis to supply a cleanable transverse for Schjelderup to caput into the net.

Benfica were awarded a punishment successful first-half added clip erstwhile Aurelien Tchouameni was adjudged to person hauled Nicolas Otamendi to the floor, and Pavlidis buried his spot-kick.

Schjelderup ‌scored his 2nd of the crippled from Pavlidis’s cleanable walk to marque it 3-1, earlier Mbappe swept location his second, excessively – his 36th extremity of the play successful each competitions.

Benfica were inactive extracurricular the apical 24 ‍when they were awarded a escaped footwear with virtually the last play, and Fredrik Aursnes’s transportation was headed successful by Trubin to implicit a nighttime of precocious play successful Lisbon.