Two-time winners Benfica edged nearer to the Champions League play-off spherical on Wednesday with a 2-0 win at Spartak Moscow within the first leg of their third qualifying spherical.
Second-half targets from Rafa Silva (51st minute) and Gilberto (74) secured victory within the Russian capital for the Portuguese giants who had been European champions in 1961 and 1962.
Slavia Prague, who made the Europa League quarter-finals final season, had been defeated 2-0 at Ferencvaros of Hungary.
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Dynamo Zagreb conceded an 82nd-minute equaliser at house to Legia Warsaw in a 1-1 draw at hand the initiative to the Poles in subsequent week’s return leg.
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