Leandro Barreiro scored in the 76th and 78th minutes while Benfica withdrew to a 6-0 victory in the city of Semi-Proland in a meeting of group C Friday, a long half-time.
Angel Di María converted twice from the penalty place for his second and third goals of the tournament, once in stopping each half. Vangelis Pavlidis and Renato Sanches added goals at the start of the second half after the game finally restarted.
The Portuguese winners were pressure until the end, knowing that the goal differential could determine who is progressing in the KO phase of the FIFA club World Cup, and Di María won a second penalty shot with a last slaloming taking place in the box.
Benfica (1-0-1, 4 points) will close group C against Bayern Munich, who beat Auckland 10-0 in their first game. Officially eliminated, Auckland (0-2-0, 0 points) will play match 3 on Tuesday.
Boca and Benfica drew 2-2 on Monday.
After Nathan Garrow d’Auckland made seven stops in the first half, Di Maria finally put Benfica in front of the eighth minute of the time of first half.
Gianluca Prestianni won the opportunity, moving into the boxing corner of the box and integrating Haris Zeb’s slip challenge.
Di Maria has calmly converted, allowing Garrow to guess in the wrong direction before sending her lateral efforts.
This attenuated a certain frustration on the part of Portuguese favorites after a succession of missed chances and 18 total attempts at first half.
In the middle of this section, Alvaro Carreras took his second caution from the tournament, which means that he will be suspended for the third Benfica match against River Plate on Tuesday.
Auckland started the second half vigorously after the game delay about 2 hours and 9 minutes due to bad weather.
But Benfica doubled his advantage in the 53rd minute thanks to Pavlidis, who received the pass from Orkun Kokcu inside the repair surface with the back to the goal, turned, carefully eluded a challenge that relaxes and finished low to the left post.
In the 63rd minute, the replacement Sanches made only 3-0 a few moments after his introduction in the second half. His shot beyond the area made a strong deviation from Matthew Ellis d’Auckland on the way in the lower right corner.
– field level media