This season's Champions League, has entered the quarter-elimination stage, in the draw stage of the Premier League giants Reds Liverpool, will be in the first leg of portugal to challenge Benfica, the latter is the only team in the Champions League eight this season, not the five major leagues in Europe, which is also after the results of the draw grouping, the outside world thinks that Liverpool almost booked a place in the final four, but Benfica is not afraid of Liverpool, the two teams in the last three European matches, Benfica maintained a record of total victories at home against Liverpool.
And reds coach Klopp after entering the Anfield Stadium, six times led the team to face Portugal's team to maintain an unbeaten record of 5 wins and 1 draw, and was jokingly called a tooth extraction expert by many fans, so whether Klopp can lead the team to end the away curse of the european war against Benfica's three consecutive defeats has become the most concerned topic for fans! Personally, I think that from the state of the two teams, Liverpool is obviously better, and in the last round of the league, Klopp also gave the core players plenty of rest time, in order to be able to have a good performance in this Champions League knockout match, on the whole, the probability of Liverpool's away triumph is very large!
In fact, the overall performance of Benfica this season is not very good, in the Portuguese Premier League, they have withdrawn from the league title battle early, after twenty-eight rounds of competition, they only ranked third in the standings, the gap between Porto and Portuguese sports reached 15 points and 9 points respectively, the lack of defensive dominance is their biggest weakness, in the overall competitiveness of the Portuguese Super League average conceded a goal, enough to explain the problem, the reason why they can reach the Champions League quarterfinals as a dark horse, The main reason is good luck.
In the quarter-finals, Benfica faced Liverpool, the strongest offensive firepower in European football, in the powerful Premier League, the Reds have scored 77 goals after the end of thirty rounds of the league, such offensive firepower is difficult to stop Benfica's backline, plus this game Benfica home, even if you want to save a draw, you will not completely disregard the face of the dead, as long as you dare to attack, Liverpool has a very high probability of scoring.
In order to be able to win in this game and grasp the initiative of promotion, Klopp in the last round of Liverpool and Watford match, but also let the core players get plenty of rest time, just participated in the World Cup European qualifiers Salah and Mane did not play the full game, in the 68th minute Klopp replaced Salah with Mane, not only to ensure that the two of them have a full physical fitness, but also let them maintain a good competitive state, as long as the two of them can play together, It's bound to have a very big impact on Benfica's backline!
In addition, there is also a clear gap between the recent status of the two teams, Liverpool has achieved a wave of four consecutive wins in all competitions, and all the clean sheets against the opponent, while Benfica has only achieved a record of 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss in the last four games, and has conceded a total of 5 goals in four games, and it is very difficult to keep the four consecutive victories at home to Liverpool in Europe in this state!