BOLOGNA, ITALY – FEBRUARY 23: Giovanni Fabbian of Bologna FC celebrates during the Serie A TIM match between Bologna FC and Hellas Verona FC – Serie A TIM at Stadio Renato Dall’Ara on February 23, 2024 in Bologna, Italy. (Photo by Alessandro Sabattini/Getty Images)

Samuel Iling-Junior, Giovanni Fabbian and Thijs Dallinga start their Champions League trip to Angel Di Marias Benfica for Bologna.

It starts at 8pm GMT at the Estadio da Luz.

You can follow all the build-up and action from this Milan-Crvena Zvezda and Juventus-Manchester City game in the live blog.

Bologna has effectively been eliminated from the Champions League after a draw at the start and then four defeats in a row.

Riccardo Orsolini will be out for at least three weeks, along with Charalampos Lykogiannis, Juan Miranda, Michel Aebischer, Oussama El Azzouzi and Niccolò Cambiaghi on the treatment table.

Iling-Junior therefore steps in with Fabbian in a more advanced role, supporting Dallinga, but strangely Kacper Urbanski is preferred to Dan Ndoye.

Benfica have nine points from five Champions League games, but Renato Sanches and Tiago Gouveia are out of action.

Former Juventus star Angel Di Maria is still providing goals and assists at the age of 36, and ex-Fiorentina striker Arthur Cabral is also in the squad.

Vangelis Pavlidis is their attacking threat and Benfica have already secured a 4-0 win over Atlético Madrid and a 3-2 away win at AS Monaco in European competition this season.

It’s an unconditional victory for them as they face Barcelona and Juventus in January to complete this phase.

Lineups Benfica vs. Bologna

Benfica: Trubin; Bah, Otamendi, Araujo., Carreras; Kokcu, Florentino, Aursnes; Di Maria, Pavlidis, Kerem Akturkoglu

Bologna: Skorupski; Posch, Beukema, Casale, Holm; Ferguson, Moro; Urbanski, Fabbian, Iling Junior; Dallinga

Ref: Petrescu (ROU)

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