VIDEO SHOWS: STILL PHOTOS FROM CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP PHASE MATCH BETWEEN BENFICA & BAYER LEVERKUSEN WHICH LEVERKUSEN WON 1-0 / POST-MATCH COMMENTS FROM BAYER LEVERKUSEN COACH KASPER HJULMAND & BENFICA COACH JOSE MOURINHO SHOWS: LISBON, PORTUGAL (NOVEMBER 5, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) 1. STILL PHOTO OF BAYER LEVERKUSEN’S PATRIK SCHICK IN ACTION AGAINST BENFICA’S TOMAS ARAUJO DURING THEIR CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP PHASE MATCH (MUTE) 2. STILL PHOTO OF SCHICK CELEBRATING HIS GOAL (MUTE) 3. STILL PHOTO OF BENFICA’S ENZO BARRENECHEA LOOKING DEJECTED FOLLOWING THEIR 1-0 LOSS (MUTE) 4. BAYER LEVERKUSEN COACH KASPER HJULMAND ARRIVING FOR PRESS CONFERENCE & TAKING SEAT 5. (SOUNDBITE) (English) BAYER LEVERKUSEN COACH, KASPER HJULMAND, SAYING: “I think it was very crucial for us in this tournament to, if we should be able to progress, to have a win tonight. We knew that it was the same for Benfica. It was a tough game. It was our third away game in seven days, but big respect for the group, for the team effort. We were fighting. Could we play better? Yes, we will also play better in the future, but this one was very, very important. Difficult place to play an away game in Champions League. Clean sheet, three points, big respect for the guys.” 6. PRESS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS 7. (SOUNDBITE) (English) BAYER LEVERKUSEN COACH, KASPER HJULMAND, SAYING: “Tonight is a fight. It was a very important win also for the moral, and for the team spirit of Bayer Leverkusen. We showed that we together can go far, we have big potential, we can be better, we can play better but this is fuel for growth and I think we did very well.” 8. HJULMAND LEAVING 9. JOURNALIST WORKING ON LAPTOP 10. BENFICA COACH JOSE MOURINHO ARRIVING FOR PRESS CONFERENCE & TAKING SEAT 11. (SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) BENFICA COACH, JOSE MOURINHO, SAYING: “Nobody is going to convince me that we're out. The maths is very straightforward. There are 12 points left to play for, and we need nine, or, I don't know, around nine. So, the maths tells me it's possible, but not just the maths, this game convinces me that we can win the points we still need in order to qualify.” 12. PRESS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS 13. (SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) BENFICA COACH, JOSE MOURINHO, SAYING: “It was an opponent that demanded a lot from us, and we gave everything the game asked of us. By halftime we should have been up by two or three. At the start of the second half, we needed to be the ones to score, but we didn't. Football is sometimes cruel, and sometimes this happens. I think our turn will come. We'll get the luck to win a game we don't deserve. It hasn't happened yet, but I'm convinced one day it will. Today it didn't happen for us.” 14. PRESS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS 15. MOURINHO LEAVING STORY: Bayer Leverkusen's Patrik Schick came off the bench to grab the only goal of the game in a 1-0 away win over Benfica on Wednesday (November 5) that condemned Jose Mourinho's side to their fourth straight defeat in this season's Champions League group stage. The Portuguese hosts dominated the first half, hitting the woodwork twice through Dodi Lukebakio and Nicolas Ottamendi as they racked up chance after chance, and they came to rue their wasteful finishing in the 65th minute. Benfica thought they had averted the danger when keeper Anatoliy Trubin parried Schick’s initial shot, but defender Samuel Dahl inexplicably headed the ball back across the goal to the Leverkusen substitute striker who broke the deadlock with a looping header. The defensive error provoked an angry response from Mourinho, and three minutes later he made a triple substitution to shake things up, with Dahl replaced by Norwegian winger Andreas Schjelderup. The switch gave a much-needed boost to the left side of the Benfica attack and Schjelderup teed up Lukebakio for another excellent chance in the 86th minute, but the Belgian completely mistimed his effort and it was easily saved. A first win of the campaign for the Bundesliga side lifted Leverkusen to 21st in the table on five points, while Benfica are second from bottom having failed to earn a point, with only goal difference keeping them above Dutch side Ajax Amsterdam. (Production: Miguel Pereira, Pedro Nunes, Stefan Haskins) (The article has been published through a syndicated feed. Except for the headline, the content has been published verbatim. Liability lies with original publisher.)
