Benfica is doing their best season so far in the last years. They made the best start ever with 7 wins in 7 matches. The coach Jorge Jesus after the season with the biggest investment in the history of the club, decided to change the formation from 4-4-2 to 3-4-3. They decided to let Waldschmidt leave and bought Yaremchuk, Joao Mario from the biggest rival Sporting and their best centre-back of the moment Lucas Verissimo. For Champions League they have 1 point with the draw in Kiev against Dinamo, but they were the best team and dominated the whole game, or atleast until the 90th minute as in the injury time Dinamo had many chances with one disallowed goal by Shaparenko. But the true is that in that game they were without Lucas Verissimo, I know he is a defender, but he is very good with the ball and in a team that plays with 3 defenders the system needs that 2 of those 3 is good in progression with the ball and with the passes inside the block. This is not the Barcelona that we are all used to, they lost the star Leo Messi, Griezmann, Pjanic, Coutinho, Ansu Fati coming from injury, bought now Luuk de Jong that the coach Koeman said that he can be more dangerous than Neymar. The coach Koeman is being very contested as they cannot create chances and against Granada they made more than 50 crosses, it means that the players don't have any ideas to what should to with the ball.

Probable line-up: Odysseas; Gilberto - Lucas Verissimo - Otamendi - Vertonghen - Grimaldo; Joao Mario - Weigl; Rafa - Yaremchuk and Pizzi.

Barcelona is not the same team than we are all used to see, with a lot of stars like Eto'o, Messi, Iniesta, Xavi, Griezmann, Deco.. They don't have now any big name, only Busquets that keeps in the team. After seeing the last 2 matches of Barcelona I cannot see this Barcelona being better than Benfica. They have 0 ideas to do with the ball and without the ball is very weird seeing them pressing the other teams, very uncoordinated team. Ansu Fati is still recovering from injury and is expected to start in the bench. Coutinho without rhythm and so I don't think that he can be a problem to Benfica in this game. Playing outside from home against a team with a lot of supporters in a big stadium with 64k attendance.

Probable line-up: Ter Stegen; Mingueza - Araujo - Pique - Dest; Busquets - De Jong - Gavi - Coutinho - Depay; De Jong.

本菲卡在过去几年中表现非常好。他们在 7 场比赛中取得了 7 场胜利，这是有史以来最好的开局。主教练热苏斯在俱乐部历史上投入最大的赛季结束后，决定将阵型从 4-4-2 改为 3-4-3。他们决定让瓦尔德施密特离开，并从最大的竞争对手葡萄牙体育手中买下了亚列姆丘克、若昂·马里奥以及他们当时最好的中后卫卢卡斯·维里西莫。在欧洲冠军联赛中，他们在基辅对阵迪纳摩的比赛中获得 1 分，但他们是最好的球队，并且统治了整场比赛，或者至少在第 90 分钟之前，迪纳摩在伤停补时阶段有很多机会，因为沙帕连科的一个进球无效。但事实是在那场比赛中他们没缺少了卢卡斯·维里西莫，我知道他是一名后卫，但他控球非常好，在一支有 3 名后卫的球队中，球队的系统需要这 3 人中的 2人。这不是我们现在的巴塞罗那都过去了，他们失去了球星梅西、格列兹曼、皮亚尼奇、库蒂尼奥、安苏法蒂，现在买下了卢克德容，教练科曼说他可以比内马尔更危险。主教练科曼非常有争议，因为他们无法创造机会，而在对阵格拉纳达的比赛中，他们传中超过 50 次，这意味着球员们对如何处理球没有任何想法。

巴塞罗那和我们过去看到的不是同一支球队，有很多球星，比如埃托奥、梅西、伊涅斯塔、哈维、格列兹曼、德科……他们现在没有什么大牌，只有布斯克茨留下来团队。在看了巴塞罗那的最后两场比赛后，我不认为巴塞罗那比本菲卡更好。他们对球的想法为零，没有球的情况下看到他们压迫其他球队非常奇怪，非常不协调的球队。安苏·法蒂还在伤病中恢复，预计将在替补席上。库蒂尼奥没有状态，所以我认为他在这场比赛中不会成为本菲卡的问题。在一个拥有 64,000 名上座率的大型体育场内，我不认为本场巴萨会取胜。