After the eighth-quarters draw of the Champions League, while envious of Manchester City's good signing, everyone lamented the premature collision between the super-powerful teams such as Bayern, Greater Paris, Real Madrid and Liverpool. Bayern vs. Paris, this is the Champions League final of the 19th to 20th season; Real Madrid and Liverpool have played two Champions League finals in the past four years, and even last season's final is less than a year ago. Although for neutral fans, everyone wants to watch the strong matchup, Mars hit the earth, but the key is that the above 4 teams, in terms of strength and influence, should be Champions League top four level teams, this is good, there are definitely two giants who cannot enter the quarterfinals.
Everything is afraid of comparison. Two such supergiants can't reach the quarter-finals, but at the same time, Napoli, Tottenham, teams that have never won the Champions League, have a certain probability of reaching the quarter-finals. This means that by the quarter-finals, there must be some teams in the quarterfinals that are not so strong.
In fact, the Champions League, as the highest-level stadium in European football, should be performed by the strongest teams in Europe. But every season's Champions League will be unequal due to the unequal luck of the draw, which makes many super-strong teams bid farewell to this stage in advance. For the fans, of course, everyone wants to see Bayern vs Paris, Real Madrid vs Liverpool this kind of super confrontation, but it's better not to be in the quarterfinals – after all, the longer these teams stay in the Champions League, the better.
The difference in signing luck will indeed change the fate of many teams, and will also make some super strong teams eliminated early, and some less strong teams will advance to the later stages. As soon as the draw results were released, everyone's eyes were attracted by the two blockbuster matchups between Bayern and Paris and Real Madrid and Liverpool, and they were not too concerned about other matchups. One of the duels is the most boring of the eight, and to put it tacitly, the two teams may see each other as a big gift package and wake up laughing in their dreams.
This set of matchups is Brugge vs Benfica.
Benfica is just that, after all, he won the Champions League under the leadership of Eusebio, and in terms of heritage, he is also a second-tier giant in Europe. But what about Bruges? This team from the Belgian League has not appeared in the Champions League for too long. Brugge's best result in Champions League history was runners-up, but that was in the 70s.
In fact, as early as the end of the Champions League group stage draw, Benfica and Brugge were regarded as big gifts by the same group of teams. In the case of Benfica, their Group H, Greater Paris and Juve are seen as favourites; But Benfica's performance was astounding, pushing Juve to third in the group and pushing Paris to second place in the group thanks to their overall away goals. However, such performances do not make Benfica look any more terrifying, and they were still coveted opponents of the other seven second teams in the group before the draw of the quarterfinals.
Bruges not to mention. Their group, Atletico Madrid, Bayer Leverkusen, Porto, are all above them, but Brugge played particularly well in the first half and once ranked first in the group; Only in the last three games they showed their original form, were beaten by Porto, and fell to second place in the group.
Obviously, a team like Brugge that has no background and no strength must be the opponent that the first team in the 7 groups is most eager to get.
Benfica and Brugge are the teams that all potential opponents want to meet, but the two teams met directly. We could even say that Benfica is the opponent Brugge most wants to draw; And Brugge is also the opponent Benfica wants to draw the most. In each other's eyes, the two teams are a big gift to each other.
Of course, in terms of strength and heritage, Benfica has a clear greater probability of winning. In the group stage, Benfica did not lose against Paris, which is not something Brugge can do. At that time, let's wait and see; Although, the duel between these two teams will not be of great interest to many neutral fans.