Chelsea welcome the visit of Portugal club Benfica at Stamford Bridge Stadium for the 2nd leg quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League on 4 April 2012 at 19:45 CET. The home team have a good chance to go to the semi-finals round as they have defeated Benfica 1-0 in the 1st leg which was held at Benfica Stadium last week. Salomon Kalou became a hero at that match following his score after having delivery ball from Fernando Torres who also played well in his recent matches. The new Chelsea manager Roberto Di Matteo is really suitable to handle Chelsea because Chelsea have impressive forms under Di Matteo control. They only lost once from the last seven matches. Now Chelsea are ready to beat once again the Portugal Club Benfica to qualify to the next round.
Benfica will travel to London with a tough task since they need to win at least 2-0 to go to the next stage. Moreover, they will be playing without several of their main players such as Ezequiel Garay, Jardel and Miguel Vitor who are having injury problems and ruled out for this crucial match. Benfica side promise that they will play all out this time and their players named Gaitan and Cardozo could make Chelsea defensive players busy to stop their ability.
Chelsea vs Benfica
UEFA Champions League [2nd leg quarter-finals]
4 April 2012 - 19:45 CET
Stamford Bridge - London
Referee: D. Skomina
Possible Starting XI:
Chelsea: Cech, Ivanovic, Terry, Cahill, Cole, Lampard, Essien, Ramires, Mata, Torres, Sturridge
Benfica: Artur, Maxi Pereira, Luisao, Javi Garcia, Emerson, Matic, Bruno Cesar, Aimar, Gaitan, Cardozo, Rodrigo
Match Results and Highlights
[Chelsea 2-1 Benfica]
21' [1 - 0] F. Lampard (pen.)85' [1 - 1] J. Garcia
90' [2 - 1] R. Meireles
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