Georgy Sudakov, Getty Images October 27, 2025, 11:00 p.m

Benfica won a convincing 5-0 victory over Aroka in the match of the ninth round of the Portuguese championship.

After the game, the head coach of the Lisbon team, Jose Mourinho, shared his impressions of the meeting, mentioning the Ukrainian playmaker Heorhiy Sudakov.

“I think it was a victory that was felt from the first minute, at least I felt it that way. The team started the match strongly. The opponent, who is playing well, could not show it. We took away a lot of balls in the opponent’s half of the field.

They had one shot on goal, which was a result of Sudakov losing the ball in the build-up area, but we dominated the match in every aspect. The players were ambitious: after the first goal they wanted to score the second, after the second – the third. With the score 3-0 at the break, they wanted to score a fourth.

I think it’s a well-deserved win that doesn’t make me celebrate anything other than a good game and three points, but it was a good game from us and we deserved the 3 points,” Mourinho was quoted as saying official website of Benfica.

We will remind, since his summer transfer from Shakhtar Donetsk, Georgy Sudakov played 10 matches for Benfica, scoring 2 goals and providing 2 assists.