UEFA Champions League: Benfica defeat Juventus 2-1

The match result was a 2-1 win from Benfica, sending Juventus to their second loss in as many games to begin the group stage.

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With Juve already six points behind both PSG and Benfica and at the bottom of Group H, Juventus needs to win both games against Maccabi Haifa.

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For Juventus, no matter how well they started, it just went bad in a hurry.

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First it was the penalty call on Fabio Miretti that allowed Benfica to tie things up.

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They went into their typical desperation mode in the closing minutes but even that didn’t really result in all that much of anything.

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