Benfica 1-3 Liverpool Highlights And Stats From Eventful Match For Ibrahima Konate

Recap Benfica 1-3 Liverpool with video highlights and match stats from Tuesday's Champions League quarter-final first leg in Lisbon.
Benfica 1-3 Liverpool Highlights And Stats From Eventful Match For Ibrahima Konate
Benfica 1-3 Liverpool Highlights And Stats From Eventful Match For Ibrahima Konate /

Ibrahima Konate was at the center of most of the key action as Liverpool beat Benfica 3-1 in Tuesday's first leg of their Champions League quarter-final in Lisbon.

The £36m defender, making his 20th appearance for Liverpool, scored his team's opening goal and played a role in their second, before making an error to give Benfica a glimmer of hope going into the second leg on April 13.

Liverpool were the much better side, as illustrated by the match stats below, and they took a deserved lead on 17 minutes.

An Andy Robertson corner was met emphatically by the head of Konate, who powered in his first goal for the Reds.

Liverpool doubled their lead before half-time and Konate was involved in the build-up.

Konate played a forward pass to Trent Alexander-Arnold, who clipped a delicious 30-yard through pass into the path of Luis Diaz. Diaz headed the ball square to Sadio Mane and the Senegal star tapped home his 15th goal of the season.

Benfica pulled a goal back early in the second half and Konate was at fault.

Konate got himself into a good position to intercept Rafa Silva's low cross, but the Liverpool defender performed an air-kick as he attempted to clear.

That error allowed the ball to run to Darwin Nunez, who made no mistake from close range.

But Liverpool scored again late on to reestablish their two-goal lead after Diaz collected a Naby Keita through pass before dribbling around the keeper.

As Diaz celebrated his goal, a fan sat in the front row threw a large stick towards him.

But unlike Diaz, the fan missed his target.

Ibrahima Konate pictured heading the ball to score his first ever Liverpool goal in a Champions League quarter-final against Benfica
Ibrahima Konate pictured heading the ball to score his first ever Liverpool goal in a Champions League quarter-final against Benfica :: IMAGO/PA Images/Adam Davy

Match Stats

Benfica

Liverpool

7

Fouls

13

1

Yellow cards

1

0

Red cards

0

4

Offsides

1

2

Corners

5

33%

Possession

67%

9

Shots

16

3

Shots on target

7

Ibrahima Konate Stats

Touches

103

Aerials won

4

Tackles

2

Interceptions

1

Fouls

3

Passes

94

Pass completion

90.4

Goals

1

Match Highlights


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Robert Summerscales launched FanNation Futbol in February 2022. Rob is a British journalist who previously spent two years on the sports desk at the Daily Mail in London, having earlier served as editor of CaughtOffside.com. He has been to the last two FIFA Men's World Cups, in Russia and Qatar, and is looking forward to completing his hat-trick in North America in 2026.