Benfica v Bayern facts
Bayern München have story on their side as they flog off their Group E debate divided to Benfica, who are anticipating to put a tough 2017/18 UEFA Champions League debate behind them.
• The German bar are dominant in 8 prior matches opposite their Portuguese opponents, and their new bravery in this foe points to another contrast dusk for a home side – nonetheless clever form in subordinate this deteriorate should give Benfica means for confidence.
Previous meetings
• The teams have met in 4 prior two-legged ties – and Bayern have won all of them, including a quarter-final of their winning 1975/76 European Champion Clubs’ Cup debate and a second turn of a 1981/82 competition. In both instances a goalless initial leg in Lisbon was followed by a large Bayern win in Munich.
• Jürgen Klinsmann was a standout performer in a clubs’ 1995/96 UEFA Cup third turn tie. The striker scored all 4 goals in Bayern’s 4-1 home first-leg victory, afterwards combined dual some-more in a 3-1 Lisbon success. Bayern went on to kick Bordeaux in a final, Klinsmann finishing with a competition-record 15 goals for a season.
• Most recently, Bayern were 3-2 total victors in a 2015/16 UEFA Champions League turn of 16, a 1-0 win in Munich preceding a 2-2 pull in Portugal, Thomas Müller scoring a wilful second goal.
Form guide
Benfica
• Portuguese Liga runners-up in 2017/18, Benfica are in a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre for a 14th time – and a ninth deteriorate in a row.
• The Lisbon giants have reached 7 European Cup finals, winning a prize in 1961 and 1962.
• Benfica kicked off this deteriorate in a third subordinate turn with a 2-1 total win opposite Fenerbahçe (1-0 home, 1-1 away). The initial leg finished a run of 7 unbroken European defeats – a Eagles unwell to measure in 6 of those, including a final five. PAOK were afterwards degraded 5-2 over dual legs in a play-offs (1-1 home, 4-1 away).
• Nevertheless, a Eagles have still won usually 3 of their final 14 continental fixtures (D3 L8).
• Benfica finished bottom of their territory in 2017/18, losing all 6 games – a 20th time a bar has left by a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre though picking adult a point.
• Benfica are dominant in 5 home matches opposite German opposition, many recently violence Borussia Dortmund 1-0 in a 2016/17 UEFA Champions League turn of 16 initial leg, nonetheless they mislaid a lapse 4-0. The final Bundesliga side to kick them in Lisbon were Schalke, 2-1 organisation theatre victors in Dec 2010.
• Their altogether home record opposite German clubs is W11 D8 L2.
Bayern
• Champions of Germany for a record 28th time final deteriorate – with a record sixth unbroken Bundesliga pretension – Bayern are in a organisation theatre for a 22nd time.
• The Munich bar have reached a UEFA Champions League quarter-finals or improved in any of a final 7 seasons. They final unsuccessful to swell from a initial organisation territory in 2002/03, nonetheless they missed out altogether on a UEFA Champions League in 2007/08.
• For a second year in a quarrel Bayern’s debate was finished by Real Madrid in 2017/18, around a 4-3 total semi-final defeat.
• Bayern are dominant in their final 5 divided European games; a 2-2 second-leg pull during Real Madrid finished a four-match winning strain on a road. They have not kept a purify piece on their UEFA Champions League travels, however, in 14 matches.
• Bayern have suffered usually dual defeats by Portuguese clubs, both opposite Porto. In a 2014/15 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals, they went down 3-1 in a initial diversion in Portugal, though incited a tie turn spectacularly with a 6-1 second-leg success in Munich. They also mislaid to Porto in a 1987 European Cup final, 2-1 in Vienna.
Links and trivia
• Renato Sanches done 24 Portuguese Liga appearances for Benfica in 2015/16, his solitary deteriorate in a initial organisation before a pierce to Bayern.
• James RodrÃguez scored 25 goals in 65 joining appearances for Porto between 2010 and 2013, including a chastisement in a 3-1 better of a Vitória SC side afterwards manager by stream Porto trainer Rui Vitória in Jan 2012.
• Luisão scored past Manuel Neuer, afterwards of Schalke, in a 2010/11 UEFA Champions League organisation theatre while Eduardo Salvio kick Stuttgart’s Sven Ulreich in a 2-0 Benfica delight in a 2010/11 UEFA Europa League turn of 16 second leg.
• Have played in Germany:
Odisseas Vlachodimos (Stuttgart, 2011–16)
Haris Seferović (Eintracht Frankfurt, 2014–17)
• Seferović was coached by Niko KovaÄ during Eintracht between 2015 and 2017.
• Vlachodimos’ Stuttgart team-mates during girl turn enclosed Serge Gnabry and Joshua Kimmich, while he stepped adult to a comparison side following Ulreich’s summer 2015 depart for Bayern.
• International team-mates:
Pizzi, Rafa Silva, Rúben Dias Renato Sanches (Portugal)
• Rafa Silva and Renato Sanches were both in Portugal’s winning UEFA EURO 2016 squad.
• Vlachodimos and Serge Gnabry were partial of a Germany patrol that won a 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship.
• Müller’s hat-trick helped Germany to a 4-0 better of a Portugal side including André Almeida in a 2014 FIFA World Cup organisation stage, Matt Hummels scoring a other goal. Neuer, Philipp Lahm, Jérôme Boateng and Götze were all in a Germany side.