Liverpool got a very good result on the 1st leg where they won 3-1 in Estadio da Luz against Benfica. They showed to be much better team collectively and individually than Benfica and they were playing like 60-65% of their best as they knew they were going to have probably the most decisive and important game for the league against Manchester City and even without being in their best they beat Benfica so easily. They had an amazing game in Sunday against the strong team of City coached by Pep Guardiola that ended 2-2 and so the fight for the title is still open with City having only 1 more point than Liverpool. For this 2nd leg I expect Liverpool to rotate only 2 players - probably resting Thiago and Sadio Mane comparing to the XI that started the 1st leg. They will have much more space on this game, as Benfica will need to start attacking since the first minutes if they want to turn this eliminatory and go to the semi-finals against Villarreal and I expect Liverpool to create so many chances in counters with a lot of space.

Probable line-up: Alisson; Alexander Arnold - Van Dijk - Konate - Robertson; Fabinho - Curtis Jones - Keita; Luis Diaz - Salah and Roberto Firmino.

Benfica are playing terribly this season due to the big problems that the club is living. In the 1st leg they were completely destroyed, they were just defending to try to postpone as much as possible Liverpool's goal, but in a set piece Konate unlock the game. In the weekend they played against the worst team of the league Belenenses SAD and they started losing 1-0 at home, but then an amazing game by Darwin Nuñez changed everything. The coach Nelson Verissimo is in a bad position as all news are saying that Roger Schimidt is really close to sign for Benfica for the next season and if they want to keep coaching Benfica the only chance is to go to the semi-finals of Champions League and then playing against Villarreal is an amazing chance to any club to fight for the place in the final. I am pretty sure that he will ask every player to try to press Liverpool and to score since the beginning and there are another important thing - the fact that a draw here does not give money to the clubs contrary to what happens in the group phase. But a contraditory thing is happening, the fact that one of the best and most influential player of game will miss this game to leave him ready to play Sunday against Sporting CP, and this is really weird as he could play atleast 70 minutes of this match and it's more than time to create a lot of problems to Liverpool - the player in question is Rafa Silva who apart with Darwin are the 2 most important players of Benfica. I think that the players will try to get a good result but their mentality for this season is extremely bad and affected and I cannot see Benfica not losing by atleast 2 goals here.

Probable line-up: Odysseas; Gilberto - Otamendi - Vertonghen - Grimaldo; Weigl - Taarabt - Joao Mario; Darwin - Everton and Gonçalo Ramos.

利物浦在第一回合的比赛中取得了很好的成绩，他们在大卢斯球场以3-1战胜了本菲卡。他们在集体和个人方面都表现出比本菲卡更好的球队，他们大概用了 60-65%的实力，因为他们知道他们要在对阵曼城的比赛中打出最具决定性和最重要的比赛，即使没有上场比赛他们依然轻松地击败了本菲卡。他们在周日对阵由瓜迪奥拉执教的强大的曼城队进行了一场精彩的比赛，以 2-2 结束，因此争夺冠军的争夺仍在进行，曼城仅比利物浦多 1 分。对于这第二回合，我预计利物浦只轮换两名球员——与第一回合开始的首发十一人相比，可能会休息蒂亚戈和萨迪奥·马内。他们将在这场比赛中有更多的空间，因为本菲卡需要从第一分钟就开始进攻，如果他们想扭转局面并进入半决赛对阵比利亚雷亚尔，这会给利物浦能创造出更大的空间和反击的机会。

本菲卡本赛季的表现非常糟糕。在第一回合他们被彻底摧毁，他们只是防守试图尽可能让利物浦晚一点取得进球，但在定位球中科纳特打破了比赛的僵局。上周末，他们对阵联赛中最差的球队比兰尼，他们在主场以 0-1 落后，但随后 Darwin Nuñez 的精彩比赛改变了一切。主教练尼尔森·维里西莫的处境很糟糕，因为所有新闻都说罗杰·施密特下赛季非常接近执教本菲卡，如果他们想继续执教本菲卡，唯一的机会就是进入欧冠半决赛然后与比利亚雷亚尔来说都是一个争夺决赛席位的绝佳机会。我很确定他会要求每个球员从一开始就尝试向利物浦施压并得分。俱乐部与小组赛阶段发生的事情相反，但是一个矛盾的事情正在发生，事实上，最优秀和最有影响力的球员之一将缺席这场比赛，准备好在周日对阵葡萄牙体育，这真的很奇怪，因为他可以在这场比赛中至少 70 分钟给利物浦制造一些威胁——有问题的球员是拉法席尔瓦，除了达尔文之外，他们本菲卡队最重要的两名球员。我认为球员们会努力取得好成绩，但他们本赛季的心态非常糟糕，受到了影响，我预测本菲卡在本场至少输 2 球。