Today, August 17, the first match of the play-off round of the 2022/23 Champions League qualifying stage will take place between Dynamo and Benfica (Lisbon, Portugal). The duel is nominally home for the people of Kiev, but due to the war it will take place in Polish Lodz. The meeting starts at 21:00.
Dynamo - Benfica: where to watch, online broadcastThe live TV broadcast of Dynamo - Benfica will be held on the Megogogo online television streaming platform.
Dynamo.kiev.ua will traditionally host a text online broadcast of the Dynamo-Benfica match, which will also contain online statistics of the game. Expect the starting lineups for the upcoming match on the pages of our website and its social networks about an hour and a half before the start of the game. At the final whistle, as usual, we will provide the fans with an operational report on the match.
As for Dynamo's rival in today's match, Benfica finished the last Portuguese championship in third place, losing 11 points to Sporting, who finished second, and 17 points to the country's champion represented by Porto. In 34 matches of the tournament, the Eagles won 23 wins, drew 5 times and lost 6 times. The difference between goals scored and goals conceded was 78:30.
Benfica is the 37-time champion of Portugal, and this is the country's absolute record. The second indicator in terms of the number of championships is 30 titles for Porto, the third for Sporting is 19. In addition, Lisbon won the Portuguese Cup 26 times, and here Dynamo's rival has no equal either (Porto - 18 wins in the tournament , "Sporting" - 17).
Benfica also has significant achievements in the international arena: the club won the Champions Cup twice (in the 1960/61 and 1961/62 seasons).
This season, Benfica has already played four official matches - two in the Portuguese championship (victories over Aroca - 4:0 and Casa Pia - 1:0), and two in the third qualifying round of the Champions League with the Danish "Midtjylland" (victories 4:1 at home and 3:1 away).
The last time Dynamo and Benfica met at the official level was last season, when they ended up in the same Champions League group. In Kyiv, the rivals tied 0:0, and the match in Lisbon ended in a 2:0 victory for the hosts.
Recall that the first match of the playoffs of the Champions League qualification round Dynamo - Benfica will be held on Wednesday, August 17, in Lodz, Poland at the Vladislav Krul LKS municipal stadium (beginning at 21:00). Where to watch: Megogogo online platform. Online text broadcast, report - on Dynamo.kiev.ua.
