**Barcelona managed to grind out a narrow but crucial first leg win in their Champions League last 16 tie against Benfica at a hostile Estadio da Luz on Wednesday night.**
Hansi Flick's team will take a 1-0 aggregate lead back to Catalonia next week, earned through a solitary second half goal from Raphinha in the Portuguese capital.
It needed to be a disciplined defensive from Barcelona, who played three quarters of the game with ten players after Pau Cubarsi was shown a red card for a last-man challenge in the first half.
Benfica will see this as an opportunity missed to give themselves a lead to defend in the second leg.
Kerem Akturkoglu had chances for Benfica / Eurasia Sport Images/GettyImages
[_**\*Ratings provided by Fotmob\***_](https://www.fotmob.com/matches/barcelona-vs-benfica/2sv14h#4737555)
**Player**
**Rating**
GK: Anatoliy Trubin
7.4/10
RB: Tomas Araujo
6.7/10
CB: Antonio Silva
5.8/10
CB: Nicolas Otamendi (c)
7.3/10
LB: Alvaro Carreras
7.0/10
CM: Fredrik Aursnes
7.0/10
CM: Leandro Barreiro
6.4/10
CM: Orkun Kokcu
6.7/10
RW: Kerem Akturkoglu
7.5/10
ST: Vangelis Pavlidis
6.1/10
LW: Andreas Schjelderup
6.2/10
SUB: Samuel Dahl (57' for Araujo)
6.9/10
SUB: Joao Rego (70' for Schjelderup)
5.9/10
SUB: Andrea Belotti (70' for Barreiro)
5.9/10
SUB: Arthur Cabral (84' for Pavlidis)
N/A
SUB: Renato Sanches (84' for Kokcu)
N/A
_Subs not used: Samuel Soares (GK), Adrian Bajrami, Leandro Santos, Diogo Prioste, Gianluca Prestianni, Hugo Felix, Nuno Felix._
Pau Cubarsi was sent off in the first half / FILIPE AMORIM/GettyImages
[_**\*Ratings provided by Fotmob\***_](https://www.fotmob.com/matches/barcelona-vs-benfica/2sv14h#4737555)
**Player**
**Rating**
GK: Wojciech Szczesny
8.9/10
RB: Jules Kounde
7.6/10
CB: Pau Cubarsi
5.4/10
CB: Inigo Martinez
7.4/10
LB: Alejandro Balde
7.3/10
CM: Frenkie de Jong (c)
7.2/10
CM: Pedri
8.1/10
RM: Lamine Yamal
6.9/10
AM: Dani Olmo
6.7/10
LM: Raphinha
8.0/10
ST: Robert Lewandowski
6.4/10
SUB: Ronald Araujo (28' for Olmo)
7.0/10
SUB: Ferran Torres (56' for Yamal)
6.4/10
SUB: Gerard Martin (78' for Lewandowski)
6.0/10
SUB: Marc Casado (79' for De Jong)
6.7/10
_Subs not used: Inaki Pena (GK), Diego Kochen (GK), Eric Garcia, Hector Fort, Fermin Lopez, Pablo Torre, Ansu Fati, Pau Victor._