Rafa Silva goal worth price of admission

Benfica's Rafa Silva scored a goal that has the world of football talking today after he sprinted end to end to open the scoring for Benfica in their Week 27 encounter against Estoril.

The goal itself was worth the price of admission to yesterday's game and to witness the astonishing feat live by the 28 year old winger was a sight to be hold. Rafa wisely intercepted a short corner attempt by Estoril's Andre Franco and ran three quarters of field down to the Estoril goal through the visiting players before placing the ball past their keeper Daniel Figueira.

Rafa goal saw him sprint over 80 meters in just 11 seconds, while making 11 touches to the ball in between and going an average speed of 27.1 km per hour. All that was missing was an exuberant goal celebration by Rafa after scoring in what should be a shoo in to be announced UEFA's goal of the year.

Benfica's name linked with Shakhtar winger

ESPN Brasil is reporting that 22 year old winger Tete who is currently signed with Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk is set to open talks for a move to Benfica for the upcoming season. Atalanta, Monaco and Bayern Munich are other clubs said to be interested in the services of the winger but due to a debt that Shakhtar owes Benfica for the acquisition of Pedrinho this summer, this places Benfica at the forefront of negotiations.

Tete joined Shakhtar in the winter of 2019 from Gremio for €15M and has appeared in 108 games across all competitions for the club, scoring 31 goals while setting up an additional 18. Tete currently sits third in the race for the league's golden boot with just under half the season to go but the season has currently been placed on hold with the invasion of the Ukraine by Russia.

Benfica shock and awe Ajax in Amsterdam

Benfica traveled to Amsterdam for their second leg against their heavily favoured Dutch opponents and escaped Amsterdam with a 1-0 victory stunning the Dutch league leaders, many pundits around the globe and their fans, myself included. Benfica entered the game with a plan to sit back and defend hoping that the club would get an opportunity and be able to capitalize on it after a first leg draw at home.

They got that opportunity in the 77th minute of the game off a set piece as striker Darwin Nunez headed home the goal from an Alex Grimaldo cross, silencing a large home crowd minus their own traveling fans and sending the football world into a frenzy around the globe, it was Benfica's only shot on net in the entire game.

Benfica now advance to the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the fifth time and their first since 2016 when they were knocked out by Bayern Munich. Benfica also pocket an additional €10.6M for reaching the final eight and have earned over €55M in the competition this season and will await to find out their opponents Friday from a remaining group of clubs that will be foaming at the mouth hoping to land the Portuguese side in the next round.