Bruno Lage’s Benfica, meanwhile, had limited efforts on the Chelsea goal, with Robert Sanchez hardly tested. There was one cross-shot from Frederik Aursnes in the second half that the Spaniard misjudged, expecting a simple delivery from the makeshift right-back, which he had stepped off his line for. The former Brighton ‘keeper had to scramble back to claw the ball off his line, but that was as close as the Liga Portugal side came to notching a goal before the weather warning.
