Benfica demeanour to rebound behind opposite Manchester United
SL Benfica and Manchester United FC are long-standing European rivals but, while a visitors are looking to make it 3 Group A wins in as many games, a Portuguese side contingency regroup quickly after a complicated better final time out.
Previous meetings
• United have prevailed in 6 of a clubs’ 9 encounters, starting with a quarter-final delight in a 1965/66 European Champion Clubs’ Cup and stability with their 1967/68 final success during Wembley as a English side prisoner a prize for a initial time.
• Benfica’s solitary win came when a organisation including Luisão beat United 2-1 in Lisbon in Dec 2005, expelling Sir Alex Ferguson’s organisation during a organisation theatre for a initial time given 1994.
• United avenged that better when Louis Saha cumulative a 1-0 win in Lisbon in Sep 2006. They subsequently came from behind to beat Benfica 3-1 behind during Old Trafford and entrust their opponents to an early exit.
• The teams were also interconnected in a 2011/12 organisation stage, drawing 1-1 in Lisbon with Ryan Giggs (42) cancelling out Óscar Cardozo’s 24th-minute opener for Benfica.
• The line-ups during a Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica on 14 Sep 2011 were:
Benfica: Artur, Emerson, Luisão, Garay, Maxi Pereira, Witsel, Javi GarcÃa, Rúben Amorim (Nolito 56), Aimar (Matić 75), Gaitán (Bruno César 90+1), Cardozo.
United: Lindegaard, Fabio (Jones 78), Evans, Smalling, Evra, Park, Carrick, Fletcher (Hernández 69), Valencia (Nani 69), Giggs, Rooney.
• It was also all block in their many new tie in Manchester, a Phil Jones possess idea and a Pablo Aimar finish giving Benfica a 2-2 matchday 5 pull during Old Trafford on 22 Nov 2011. United’s goals came from Dimitar Berbatov and Darren Fletcher.
• Benfica, afterwards coached by Jorge Jesus, came initial in Group C in 2011/12; United finished third, behind FC Basel 1893.
Match background
Benfica
• The Eagles suffered their biggest UEFA Champions League better in going down 5-0 during Basel on matchday two.
• Benfica have played 34 games opposite English clubs in UEFA competition; their record is W11 D5 L17 (W7 D4 L5 in Lisbon). In further to their 1968 European Cup final better opposite United, they also mislaid a 2013 UEFA Europa League final in Amsterdam, 2-1 to Chelsea FC.
• Portuguese double winners in 2016/17, Benfica are in a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre for a 13th time – and a eighth deteriorate running.
• The Lisbon bar got to a quarter-finals in 2015/16 and again progressed from a organisation theatre final year, losing 4-1 on total to Borussia Dortmund in a turn of 16.
• Beaten 2-1 during home by PFC CSKA Moskva on matchday one, Benfica have won usually one of their final 6 European matches, home and away – a 1-0 feat opposite Dortmund in final season’s turn of 16 initial leg – and mislaid a final three.
• On home dirt in a 2016/17 organisation stage, Benfica drew 1-1 with Beşiktaş JK and kick FC Dynamo Kyiv 1-0. They also went down 2-1 to SSC Napoli though a CSKA Moskva better was still usually their third detriment in their final 12 European home games.
Manchester United
• United’s record in Portugal is W6 D2 L4. They are dominant in 5 visits dating behind to Dec 2005 and that detriment during Benfica.
• On their final visit, Sir Alex Ferguson’s side won 3-1 during SC Braga in a 2012/13 organisation stage, United’s third unbroken win in Portugal.
• United were 4-1 winners during CSKA Moskva on matchday two, carrying overcome Basel 3-0 during Old Trafford in their initial Group A fixture.
• This is United’s fourth European compare this term, their debate carrying started with the 2-1 detriment to Real Madrid CF in a UEFA Super Cup in Skopje on 8 August. That finished United’s 11-match dominant run (W8 D3) given a 2-1 retreat during Fenerbahçe SK on matchday 4 of final season’s UEFA Europa League. The better in Istanbul had been their fifth in 9 European games.
• The Madrid better is United’s usually retreat in their final 14 European matches, home and divided (W10 D3). They are now seeking to extend a six-match dominant European divided record (W4 D2) given that reversal during Fenerbahçe.
• This is United’s 21st debate in a UEFA Champions League organisation stage, and usually 4 times have they unsuccessful to make a subsequent round. Two of those eliminations came in their final 4 participations; a English bar finished third in their territory in both 2011/12 and 2015/16, their final appearance.
• United finished a clean brush of European trophies with feat in final season’s UEFA Europa League. The win opposite AFC Ajax in Stockholm combined to their European Cup triumphs in 1968, 1999 and 2008 and their 1991 European Cup Winners’ Cup success.
Coach and actor links
• Mourinho started his coaching career during Benfica in Sep 2000, though lasted small some-more than dual months in charge. In a subsequent 3 seasons, with UD Leiria and FC Porto, he faced a Eagles 7 times (W4 D2 L1). The solitary better came in a 2003/04 Portuguese Cup final.
• Victor Lindelöf assimilated United from Benfica this summer, carrying done 48 first-team joining appearances over 5 years with a Portuguese club.
• Nemanja Matić was during Benfica from 2011 to 2014, scoring 7 goals in 56 joining outings.
• Rui Vitória’s UD Vilafranquense were beaten 4-0 divided by Mourinho’s Porto in a 2003/04 Portuguese Cup final 16.
• During his time with Sporting Clube de Portugal between 2012 and 2014, Marcos Rojo played 5 games opposite Benfica (D1 L4). In a 2013/14 Portuguese Liga, he scored a usually idea in a delight over a Vitória FC organisation managed by Rui Vitória.
• Luisão scored a wilful idea in Benfica’s 4-3 win over Sporting in a fourth turn of a 2013/14 Portuguese Cup, a diversion in that Rojo was sent off.
• Zlatan Ibrahimović scored twice in Paris Saint-Germain’s 3-0 win opposite Benfica in a 2013/14 UEFA Champions League organisation stage.
• Haris Seferovic was sent off in Switzerland’s 2-1 accessible better by Belgium in May 2016, Romelu Lukaku scoring twice.
• Daley Blind scored past Júlio César as a Netherlands kick Brazil 3-0 in a third place play-off during a 2014 FIFA World Cup.
• Have played together:
Júlio César Zlatan Ibrahimović (FC Internazionale Milano, 2006–09)
Eduardo Salvio David De Gea (Club Atlético de Madrid, 2009/10)
Jonas Juan Mata (Valencia CF, 2010/11)
• International team-mates:
Ljubomir Fejsa, Andrija Živković Nemanja Matić (Serbia)
Eduardo Salvio, Sergio Romero Marcos Rojo (Argentina)
• Mourinho was Júlio César’s manager during Internazionale between 2008 and 2010, winning a three-way including a UEFA Champions League in 2009/10.