The second half begins at the Estádio da Luz! Benfica leads Celtic 3-0 and has a comfortable advantage to manage in the final stage.

Celtic returned with two changes: Callum Osmand replaced Sebastian Tounekti, while Haissem Hassan replaced Kasper Høgh.

Martin O'Neill, Celtic's coach, highlighted Benfica's quality and the confidence gained by the Portuguese team after their victory over Milan in their Europa League debut. The Scottish manager acknowledged the challenge ahead, but stressed that his squad also has quality players and intends to create difficulties for the home team.

"Benfica has many good players and also gained a lot of confidence after starting the competition with a victory in Milan. That's not easy, so they have very good players, but we do too and we want to try to create some problems for them."

Benfica coach Marco Silva stressed the importance of gaining points and maintaining the positive streak in the European competition. The Portuguese coach also warned of the need to correct some aspects of the team, highlighting that Celtic will enter the field motivated to react after a poor start in the Europa League.

"It will be very important to gain points. After winning a difficult game away from home, we need to maintain the rhythm. Celtic did not start this competition well and will want to correct things, so it is up to us to give our best."

The substitute players for the Celtic team for this match are as follows:

Johnstone, Jordan Lotomba, Liam Scales, Benjamin Nygren, Luke McCowan, Osmand, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Hassan, James Forrest, Anthony Ralston, Kennedy and Clearie.

These are the substitute players for the Benfica team for this match:

Samuel Soares, Circati, Vangelis Pavlidis, Manu Silva, Leandro Barreiro, Andreas Schjelderup, Rafa Silva, Claudio Echeverri, Gabriel Índio, El Karouani, Anísio Cabral and Tiago Freitas.

The Celtic lineup has been released, the bhoys are coming with this team:

Viljami Sinisalo, Colby Donovan, Auston Trusty, Baur, Kieran Tierney, Oliver Sørensen, Callum McGregor, Murray, Sebastian Tounekti, Kasper Høgh and Durán.

The Benfica lineup has been released; The Eagles will field this team:

Anatoliy Trubin, Alexander Bah, Tomás Araújo, Clément Lenglet, Samuel Dahl, João Palhinha, Fredrik Aursnes, Heorhii Sudakov, Gianluca Prestianni, Dodi Lukébakio and Jhon Durán.