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Record champion among themselves. But the start of the group stage of the Champions League could not be more different. While Manchester United won both opening games, Benfica could not get a single point. After a disappointing 1: 2 in the home game against CSKA Moscow, the away side in Basel was even thicker. With five goals, the Portuguese were shot down and the laughter of the week. Manchester has been completely convincing in the royal class. Both victories were extremely confident and could be won with three goals. Can Benfica return once again, or do the Portuguese have to be in third place after this match, with which they are still in the Europa League? At 19:45 the Estadio da Luz will be kick-off.
Benfica :
Barely another country is known as a better diving board for young aspiring players, who want to switch to a top club in Europe. Each year, the top clubs use the Portuguese team, especially the record leader Benfica Lisbon. Almost invariably, the club produces a juicy transferplus every year. This summer as well, including Ederson, Nelson Semedo, Konstantinos Mitroglou or Victor Lindelöf, who switched to the upcoming opponents from Manchester, left the club. Equivalent substitutes are sought in vain. Most young players are paid for little money and they are hoping to train them so well that they can be sold again.
This season, however, this philosophy does not yet seem to start from the beginning. Apart from the partly foul Champions League appearances, the league is not all round. Although the season with five wins, two draws and only one defeat is not necessarily considered bad, the backlog to the top scorer FC Porto is already five points. Recently, the eagles at Maritimo Funchal played only 1: 1. A narrow 1-0 win at third-league Olhanense was won in the weekend’s cup. A special feature of the Portuguese record champion is surely the enormous home strength. In the league, Benfica has been without loss 27 home games and won 24 of them. The last game without goal achievement of the Heimmannschaft, including international competitions, took place almost two years ago.
Manchester United :
After an “acclimatization season” Jose Mourinho seems to have brought back the success to the Red Devils. With the departure of Sir Alex Ferguson also went the dominance in the Premier League flute. In the last four seasons, United never came above fourth. In the last season it was only sixth place and missed the qualification for the Champions League over the league qualification, but could secure a ticket for the royal class with the win of the Europa League. In the final against Ajax Amsterdam the much-experienced team of “The Special One” beat the young Dutch with 2-0. The goals were scored by Paul Pogba and Henrik Mkhitaryan.
In the Champions League the Red Devils started perfectly. A 3-0 home win against FC Basel followed a 4: 1 away success in Moscow with CSKA. Also in the league there is no reason to complain. With six wins and two draws, ManU is still without defeat and only Cityrivale City put an even better start. Trumpf at Mourinho is little surprising again the defensive. Only two contenders from the first eight games had to be taken. In the last game at Liverpool 0-0, the defensive and destructive orientation of the Portuguese was probably best seen. This was also the cause of displeasure with Jürgen Klopp, who criticized the way of playing. Jose Mourinho said after the match: “I was waiting for some of the teams to move forward, but I could not act because I did not have a single midfielder on the bench. The second half was like a chess game, but my opponent did not give up and offered me no chance to win the game. ”
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