Red Star Belgrade v Benfica

Red Star Belgrade are one of most physical playing sides. Their matches tend to be fiery and highly charged. 

Their final qualifier for the group stage against Bodo/Glimt saw them receive 2 yellows in both legs. They were also involved in last season's Champions League where they were in the same group as Manchester City, RB Leipzig and Young Boys.

Their 3 home matches were busy nights for the referees as their first match against young Boys saw 9 yellow cards issued with 6 going to Red Star players. 

Next match against Leipzig produced 8 cards with 5 going to the home players and they had 3 players booked against Manchester City which was the final match of the group and Red Stars fate had already been sealed.

With a trip to Inter Milan next, I do expect Red Star trying hard to get something at home from this match and I feel that we should see a flurry of cards tonight and should be of no surprise if the hosts get more than 3 cards.