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Barca didn’t play last weekend, with their Saturday match against Osasuna postponed shortly before kick-off following the death of the club’s first-team doctor Carles Minarro Garcia. Benfica meanwhile chalked up a 3-0 home win against Nacional on Saturday, Zeki Amdouni scoring early, Orkun Kökçü and Vangelis Pavlidis following up with a penalty apiece.
The winner of this tie will meet Borussia Dortmund or Lille in the quarter-finals next month. Iñigo Martínez would miss the first leg should he pick up a booking tonight and Barca make it through; Fredrik Aursnes, Orkun Kökçü, Zeki Amdouni and Leandro Barreiro are tottering along a similar administrative tightrope for Benfica.
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