Vangelis Pavlidis scored his sixth goal in this season's Champions League to give Benfica a 1-0 win away to 10-man Monaco in the first leg of their knockout phase play-off tie on Wednesday.

The second leg in Lisbon takes place on Tuesday ... League group stage in 2014-15 and winning last time out, in Monaco in the league phase this season. Monaco have failed to score in two of ...

Pavlidis scored the only goal of the game three minutes into the second half in the principality, with Monaco handicapped ... to finish the job in the return leg in Lisbon next Tuesday, February ...