Benfica Face Omonia, Hoping to Repeat Recent Form
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Benfica will play against Omonia Nicosia.
Benfica is a football team from Portugal.
Omonia is a football team from Cyprus.
The two teams will play a match.
Benfica wants to play well again.
They want the same good result as before.
This is called a repetition.
A young player from Argentina will play for Benfica.
He is on loan from Manchester City.
A loan means a player plays for another team for a short time.
People call him a promising player.
This means he can be very good in the future.
He will be a starter in the match.
A starter plays from the beginning of the game.
Fans want to know the kick-off time.
Kick-off is when the match starts.
Fans also want to know the lineup.
A lineup is the list of players who will play.
Vocabulary8 words
- team
- a group of players
- match
- a game between two teams
- repetition
- doing the same thing again
- loan
- playing for another team for a short time
- promising
- likely to be very good later
- starter
- a player who plays from the start
- kick-off
- the start of a match
- lineup
- the list of players who will play
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1. Benfica and Omonia 2. Manchester City 3. A player who plays from the beginning
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Benfica will play against _____ Nicosia.
Benfica is a football team from _____.
Omonia is a football team from _____.
Benfica wants to play well _____.
A young player from _____ will play for Benfica.
He is on _____ from Manchester City.
People call him a _____ player.
He will be a _____ in the match.
Fans want to know the _____ time.
Fans also want to know the _____.
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