fk Crvena Zvezda vs Benfica

fk Crvena Zvezda vs Benfica: Preview, Team News and more

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Portuguese Club Benfica will begin their 2024-25 Champions League campaign with a match against Serbian club fk Crvena Zvezda on Thursday.

The two teams will meet after 40 years when Benfica won a European Cup first-round match with the score of 4-3 in 1984.

Crvena Zvezda vs Benfica

fk Crvena Zvezda vs Benfica Match Preview

fk Crvena Zvezda was knocked out in the group stage of last season’s Champions League, and they are here this time by beating Bodo/Glimt in the playoff round.

fk Crvena Zvezda had won all of their last 7 SuperLiga titles and have made a good start to the new campaign, by winning 6 and drawing 1 of their first 7 games.

But if we talk about Champions League they have lost 14 of their last 18 matches in the competition.

On the other side Benfica are competing in the Champions League for the 4th successive time and they will be hoping to avoid another early exit, as they was out after the group stage of last season’s campaign, but they had advanced in the quarter-finals in 2022-23.

They finished 2nd in the Primeira Liga last season, 10 points behind the champions Sporting.

Benfica will hope to make a positive start to their Champions League, as they had won just 1 of their opening game in 7 appearances in the competition and they have won just 1 of their last 8 Champions League matches overall.

fk Crvena Zvezda form including all competitions:

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Benfica form including all competitions:

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Crvena Zvezda vs Benfica

fk Crvena Zvezda vs Benfica Team News

  • fk Crvena Zvezda goalkeeper Omri Glazer will continue, as he is returning after a long absence due to adductor injury.
  • Nasser Djiga may be called at centre-back to partner with Uros Spajic and Rade KrunicTimi Elsnik and Mirko Ivanic will be in midfield.
  • Bruno Duarte will play as a forward again, with the support of Silas and Peter Olayinka.
  • Whereas for Benfica, Renato Sanches (thigh injury), Fredrik Aursnes (muscle injury) and Tiago Gouveia (shoulder injury) are out due to injury.
  • Antonio SilvaFlorentino LuisKerem Akturkoglu and Angel Di Maria are almost confirmed in starting XI.

fk Crvena Zvezda possible starting lineup:

Glazer; Mimovic, Djiga, Spajic, Seol; Krunic, Elsnik; Silas, Ivanic, Olayinka; Duarte


Benfica possible starting lineup:

Trubin; Bah, Silva, Otamendi, Carreras; Florentino, Kokcu; Di Maria, Rollheiser, Akturkoglu; Pavlidis


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