Dynamo Kyiv and Benfica signed a 0-0 draw in Ukraine in a match clearly dominated by the Portuguese club, although the match could be won by the local team in discount with a goal from Shaparenko that was annulled in the out-of-court review. play.
Benfica came out 3-4-3, with full-backs Grimaldo and Gilberto as lanes who joined the attack. Jorge Jesús initially placed an old acquaintance with Dynamo Kiev, Ukrainian striker Roman Yaremchuk, who this summer arrived in Lisbon from Ghent.
For their part, the Ukrainians of the experienced Romanian Mircea Lucescu came out with a 4-4-2, with the Uruguayan Carlos de la Pena, who in 2017 passed through Real Oviedo, as an offensive midfielder, and with the Belarusian Shkurin – player on loan from CSAK Moscow – as the main offensive asset.
Benfica came out to control the game and took control of the ball from the start, with special danger every time the ball reached the feet of winger Rafa.
The embodied media João Mário and Julian Weigl imposed their law in the midfield with possession at halftime above seventy percent.
In the 33rd minute, the best chance of the first period, thanks to a steal from the Brazilian Everton, although the shot was cleared by Sydorchuk.
In the last minutes there were also occasions for the “benfiquistas”, who failed to finish neither Rafa nor Yaremchuk.
The second half started unchanged and Benfica, despite their excellent dominance, continued with three centrals.
The first clear came in the 46th minute after an internship by former Barcelona player Alejandro Grimaldo, who reached the bottom and crossed for Everton to finish inside the area, although the ball went soft into the hands of goalkeeper Boyko, who came to play in the Malaga in the 2016-2017 season.
In minute 54 there was one of the clearest occasions. A mess in the area of Dynamo and finally the ball fell almost in the small area to Yaremchuk, who, at pleasure, crashed into the body of the goalkeeper.
And in the absence of 30 minutes, Jorge Jesús decided to move his card with a triple change. The Uruguayan Darwin Núñez, the Serbian Nemanja Radonjic and the Austrian on loan from Inter Milan, Valentino Lazaro. Yaremchuk, Gilberto and Everton were leaving.
For his part, Lucescu removed the offensive reference Shkurin and gave entry to Denys Garmash, an offensive midfielder.
Dynamo was trying to get rid of the Portuguese dominance, but it barely succeeded with some timid occasion, like the one that the Uruguayan Carlos de la Pena had in 66, although the shot went to the body of the Argentine central Otamendi.
However, in the last minutes, the protagonist of the meeting was the young Ukrainian half Shaparenko, international with the absolute of his country.
In 1990, he shot Dynamo’s crossbar, which in the rebound forced Vlachodimos to perform a masterful intervention.
In the back corner, Shaparenko managed to pierce Benfica’s goal, although the goal was canceled for offside.
It was the only local push throughout the match, which ended with a scoreless draw, despite the visiting dominance.
Match sheet:
0 – Dynamo Kiev: Boyko; Kedziora, Zabarniyi, Syrota, Mykolenko; Sydorchuk, Shaparenko, Carlos de la Pena (Verbic, m. 76), Tsygankov (Karavaiev, m. 76); Buyalskiy, Shkurin (Denys Garmash, d. 60).
0 – Benfica: Vlachodimos; Otamendi, Vertonghen, Morato; Gilberto (Valentino Lazaro, m. 59), Weigl, João Mário (Taarabt, m. 85), Grimaldo; Rafa Silva (Pizzi, m. 89), Everton (Nemanja Radonjic, m. 59), Yaremchuk (Darwin Núñez, m. 59).
Referee: Anthony Taylor (English). He admonished Rafa, Yaremchuk and Julian Weigl, from Benfica, and Sydorchuk, Zabarnyi and Denys Garmash, from Dynamo Kiev.
Incidents: First day of Group E of the Champions League, with the presence of the public at the Olympic Stadium in Kiev, in Ukraine. EFE (HN)