To meet the opponent - Benfica

MUTUAL DUELS

The red and whites have met the vice-champion of Portugal only twice in history. Both times within the first round of the then most elite European football competition - the European Champions Cup. In that double match, which was played in the 1984/1985 season, both teams celebrated the match at home.

The first game is remembered by all star players, when after a 0:2 deficit at halftime, Rajko Janjanin entered the game, who scored a hat-trick in the continuation of the duel and thus brought Red Star a historic turn. That match ended with a score of 3:2, and the Portuguese team won the second leg, at the "da Luz" stadium, with a score of 2:0.

BE WITH THE STAR

Tickets for this duel are available ONLINE , as well as at the box offices of the "Rajko Mitić" stadium.

Ticket prices are as follows:

North and South: 3500 dinars
East: 6000 dinars
West: 7000 dinars
Siniša Mihajlović: 16,000 dinars

Fans who will not be able to support our players at the opening of the league stage of the Champions League, will be able to watch the match through a studio broadcast on YouTube channel Zvezda TV, as well as on Arena Premium 1 from 18:45.

TEAM FORM

Crvena zvezda is first in the table in the Serbian Superliga. After seven played rounds, they have 19 points, six wins, and one draw. The goal difference of our team is 21:4, which speaks volumes about the quality of play provided by our team at the beginning of this season. All previous opponents were defeated in a rudimentary manner, except for Mladosta from Lucca, who "survived" by sheer luck at the "Rajko Mitić" stadium, and took one point from Belgrade. In the last match, the red and whites defeated Napredak, with a score of 2:0, and the scorers were Bruno Duarte and Mirko Ivanić.

The Benfica team is in a slightly weaker form than expected at the beginning of the Portuguese championship. Namely, after five rounds of the competition, they are only in fifth place in the table, with 10 points. They failed already in the first round, against the Famalikaa team, when they were defeated 2:0. However, as expected, a team of such renown will not be in a result crisis for long, and in the last game they recorded a victory over Santa Clara, with a score of 4:1.

OPPOSING PLAYERS

The Portuguese great usually performs in the offensive variant of the 4-3-3 formation. Among the posts is the young Ukrainian goalkeeper - Anatoly Trubin. The pillars of the defense are represented by Antonio Silva, the young representative of Portugal, and the experienced Nicolas Otamendi. Alexander Bach and Alvaro Carreras, a former player of Manchester United, work on the flanks in defense. The midfield is controlled by Florentino Luis in the middle, and Orkan Koccu and Benjamin Rolheiser in width. In the most offensive line, the hardened star of world football - Angel Di Maria, the Turkish national team member - Kerem Akturkoglu and the staunch Greek center forward - Evangelos Pavlidis are playing. Options from the bench for coach Bruno Laz are Samuel Soares, Artur Cabral, Andreas Sjeldrup, Tomas Araujo...

JUDGES

Referee: Michael Oliver.
First Assistant: Stuart Burt.
Second Assistant: Dan Cook.
Fourth official: Tony Herrington.
WARR: Stuart Atwell.
AVAR: Jared Gillet.

OTHER MATCHES :

Tuesday:
18:45 Juventus - PSV
18:45 Young Boys - Aston Villa
21:00 Bayern Munich - Dinamo Zagreb
21:00 Milan - Liverpool
21:00 Real Madrid - Stuttgart
21:00 Sporting - Lille

Wednesday:
18:45 Bologna - Shakhtar
18:45 Sparta Prague - Salzburg
21:00 Club Brugge - Borussia Dortmund
21:00 Celtic - Slovan Bratislava
21:00 Manchester City - Inter
21:00 Paris Saint-Germain - Girona

Thursday
18:45 Feyenoord - Bayer Leverkusen
21:00 Atalanta - Arsenal
21:00 Atletico Madrid - Leipzig
21:00 Monaco - Barcelona
21:00 Brest - Sturm Graz

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