Already in the sixth minute, the ball bounced out to Samuel Dahl. The 22-year-old left-back fired a half-volley into the far corner behind Ajax goalkeeper Vítezslav Jaros.
Dahl's delicious strike looked like it would be the only goal of the match for a long time, but in the 90th minute Leandro Barreiro made it 2–0, which was also the final score.
It was a real crisis meeting between the two football giants, both of whom were on zero points heading into the meeting in Amsterdam. Ajax is now the only “zero” among the 36 teams in the Champions League group stage, while José Mourinho’s Benfica climbs the table thanks to the three-pointer.
For Samuel Dahl, it was his second goal in a short time in the Benfica shirt. In early November, he netted against Vitoria Guimarães in the Portuguese league, which was the Swede's first goal ever at senior level.
