Recently, the 21/22 Portuguese Super League season was held in the 15th round, and Benfica sat at home to meet madeira Nautical. In this campaign, Rafa Silva scored assists and scored 4 assists in 5 goals, leading the team to a 7-1 win over Madeira Navi. After beating Barca out of the Champions League, Benfica won three straight games, scoring 14 goals and giving the opponent the worst defeat in history.
Benfica has won the Champions League twice and has been linked this season with Bayern, Barca and Dynamo Kiev. After the first five rounds, Benfica had just five points and was pressed by Barca to 3rd in the group!
In the final round, Benfica defeated Dynamo Kiev and miraculously pushed Barca out of the qualifiers. In the quarter-finals, Benfica will meet Ajax, a pair of dark horses. Barca's record of qualifying for the Champions League knockout rounds for 21 consecutive years is the oldest, and Xavi's team can only play the play-offs of the Europa League knockouts.
Qualifying for the Champions League gave Benfica plenty of motivation and returning to the domestic arena can be said to be invincible. First a 4-1 sweep of Famarican, followed by a 3-0 victory over Sporting Covilhão to win the Portuguese League Cup for the first time.
In the face of Madeira's voyage, Benfica created a tragedy. In the first half, Núñez scored twice, Rafa Silva assisted with a double, Junior scored a goal, and Benfica led 3-0.
Easy side to fight again, Rafa Silva continued to erupt, 9 minutes to play a good pass, Benfica extended the point difference to 5-0, quickly beat the opponent. In the 81st minute, Aripur sailed back a city for Madeira, which aroused Benfica's fighting spirit.
In the 86th minute, Gonzalo Ramos scored, Rafa Silva delivered his fourth assist in stoppage time, and Seferović added the icing on the cake to win 7-1.
This 7-1 victory was not only Benfica's biggest victory against Madeira Nautical, but also the biggest scoreless loss in the 111 years since the establishment of the Madeira Nautical team, creating a record of humiliation.
It is worth mentioning that Rafa Silva, who scored 5 goals in a single game, scored 10 points without suspense, and in the last 2 league rounds, he has delivered a total of 7 direct assists, which is crazy.
After qualifying for the Champions League, Benfica won three consecutive games in all competitions and scored a total of 14 goals, averaging nearly five goals per game. The previous Champions League round of 16 draw had a big oolong incident, and Benfica originally met Real Madrid, but it turned out to be Ajax for the second time.
This result made Real Madrid very dissatisfied, they believe that they originally encountered a big package, and finally became a big Paris, and the difficulty of promotion increased geometrically. But in fact, Benfica's strength is not as weak as Real Madrid thinks.
Next, Benfica will face the key battle, away to Porto. Currently, Benfica is no. 3 in the standings, four points behind Porto, a six-point title battle.