Champions League 2015-2016,Benfica 1-0 Zenit

Benfica have a slender 1-0 advantage over Zenit St Petersburg after Oliveira Jonas' injury-time goal at the Estadio da Luz.


Neither team really ever got going in Portugal and it looked destined to finish goalless until Jonas popped up with his 25th goal of the season, shortly after Zenit left-back Domenico Criscito was sent off for a second yellow card.

Benfica were the better side in the second half against a Zenit team that had not played for 10 weeks.

Zenit's last competitive fixture was their final group game in the competition on 9 December and Andre Villas-Boas' side looked short of their best following the winter break.



Zenit St-Petersburg coach Andre Villas-Boas: "We were solid and wanted to keep the result as it was. We looked to be on track for the second leg. Unfortunately from the set-play we conceded.



"It's going to be a different game now. We will have to attack more and create more chances because we didn't create as much as we wanted.