Two Benfica players injured in team bus attack

FC Benfica football players during 2019-20 UEFA Champions League. Photo: OlehDubyna/Dreamstime

Two Benfica players have been taken to hospital after their team bus was attacked following their first behind-closed-doors match.

German Julian Weigl and Serbian Andrija
Zivkovic were hit with shrapnel and taken to hospital as a precaution.

Fans had gathered to support the team outside Benfica's Estadio da Luz.

The attack occurred on a major motorway between the stadium and training ground.

"Benfica denounce and lament the criminal stoning the bus of its players was victim to," a Benfica club statement read.

"We guarantee total collaboration with authorities to whom we appeal for the greatest effort to be made in identifying the delinquents responsible for these criminal acts."