Fernandez, who had also scored a goal in the 4-1 first leg, opened the account after 23 minutes of the first half.
Henrique Araujo and Diogo Gonçalves they completed the scoring for the Portuguese team, in which defender Nicolás Otamendi also started. He discounted for the local Pione Sisto.
In the playoffs (last qualifying round before entering the Champions League group stage), benfica will face Dinamo kyiv (Ukraine), who today beat Sturm Graz (Austria) 2-1. In the first leg the Ukrainian team had also won but 1-0.
For its part, PSV (Netherlands), with the goalkeeper Walter Benitez as a starter, they beat Monaco 3-2 in extra time (they had tied 1-1 in the first leg) and also settled in the next round, in which they will face Rangers (Scotland), who eliminated Union Saint Gilloise ( Belgium), 3-2 in the first match and 3-0 in today’s rematch.
The other playoff matchups will be as follows:
Bodo Glimt from Norway (5-0 and 1-1 to Zalgiris from Lithuania) vs. Dinamo Zagreb from Croatia (2-1 and 4-2 against Ludogorets from Bulgaria).
Qarabag of Azerbaijan (1-1 and 3-1 to Ferencvaros of Hungary) vs. Viktoria Plsen from the Czech Republic (2-1 and 2-1 to Sheriff Moldova).
Maccabi Haifa from Israel (4-0 and 0-2 with Apollon from Cyprus) vs. Red Star Belgrade from Serbia (5-0 and 2-0 to Pyunik from Armenia).
Denmark’s Copenhagen vs. Trabzonspor from Turkey (both entered the playoffs directly).
Source: Ambito
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