Pre-Season
Goal Scorers
SL Benfica
- Nuno GomesP.K.(49')
Empoli
- Palumbo(55')
Opening Squads & Match Events
SL Benfica
- 12Sergei Ovchinnikov
- 13Ronaldo (52')
- 14José Sousa
- 19Bruno Basto (15')
- 2Tahar El-Khalej (71')
- 5Paulo Madeira (C)
- 17Serhiy Kandaurov
- 23Hugo Porfírio (57') (60')
- 26Luís Carlos
- 21Nuno Gomes (P.K. 49') (60')
- 9Nandinho (71')
Empoli
- Matteo Sereni
- Cribari (59') (89')
- 2Pietro Fusco
- 5Daniele Baldini (C) (80')
- Giorgio Lucenti (67')
- 15Max Tonetto
- 18Massimiliano Cappellini (52')
- 20Claudio Bonomi
- 4Alessandro Pane
- Marco Carparelli (52')
- 9Fabio Artico (45')
Substitutes - SL Benfica
- 22Calado (60')
- 4Michael Thomas (71')
- 7Karel Poborsky (71')
- 11Martin Pringle (60')
Substitutes - Empoli
- Tommaso Dei (67')
- Chiappara (89')
- Gianluca Porro (45') (89')
- 11Carmine Esposito (52')
- Vincenzo Palumbo (52') (55')
Manager - SL Benfica
Manager - Empoli
Luigi Delneri
Match Facts
3 players made their first-team debuts: Michael Thomas (30), Hugo Porfírio (24) and Nandinho (25).
Our first ever meeting with Empoli.
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