FC Barcelona are living the worst year that I remember since I born. This season started in the worst way possible with the leave of the best player of the history of Barcelona and probably the best player in the history of football, the president Laporta needed to make very tough decisions as he faced a terrible management by the last president Jose Maria Bartomeu that he is still trying to solve, with a lot of players earning big salaries and not playing. Barcelona have 6 points in the group of Champions League, 2 more than Benfica but they will need to win this game as if they draw they will need to beat Bayern Munich as Benfica for sure will beat Dynamo Kiev at home. They are really breathing a new oxygen with the return of Xavi Hernandez as coach this time, he was one of the best midfielders in the history of Barcelona. He brought new confidence to Catalunha and brought his partner in field Dani Alves in a free transfer, he will be very important inside the locker room and a great help for Xavi. Xavi already made his debut against Espanyol and in the first 60 minutes they showed big differences comparing to what they were doing with Ronald Koeman, seems that Xavi is only working the offensive aspects and the movements that he wants the team do when they have the ball. This game for Barcelona is like a kind of final for Barcelona and this game was a reason for the president to sack Koeman as soon as possible to have Xavi doing this "final". The right defender Sergio Dest and the machine Ousmane Dembele already trained yesterday as Sergio Roberto and can be an option for tomorrow. I think that this Barcelona very motivated with the new coach and icon of the club, with a big must win with full crowd will beat this Benfica that is decreasing the performance.

Probable line-up: Ter Stegen; Mingueza - Ronald Araujo - Pique - Jordi Alba; Busquets - Gavi - Frenkie de Jong; Coutinho - Demir and Depay.

SL Benfica started this season amazingly with 7 games for the league and eliminating Spartak Moscow and the strong PSV Eindhoven. After those games they started decreasing their performances. Recently, the news in Portugal are saying that the players from Benfica are really tired from the coach Jorge Jesus as he is always screaming with every player and they are really tired of him after 1 season and a half, specially Gilberto and Lucas Verissimo who were captured by the cameras arguing with the coach. Benfica are missing 2 important positions, right-defender as Diogo Gonçalves is still injured and so Gilberto will start in the XI who is having problems with the coach and is very bad offensively because of his low technique. In the centre-backs their best player will miss this game, the international for Brazil Lucas Verissimo who was bought to Santos and has been preponderant in the improvement of the team. He will be replaced by Morato, a young player who has few minutes in the main team and the team will miss the experience of Lucas Verissimo and can shake with the environment of the stadium, the quality of Barcelona. The results of Benfica are so much better than what they really are. The coach Jorge Jesus said that they are only thinking in winning the team and won't play for the draw, but as I know Jorge Jesus from the last seasons on Benfica and on Sporting he will put the team very compact and not pressing high to only try to explore the counters by Rafa and Darwin.

Probable line-up: Odysseas; Gilberto - Otamendi - Morato - Vertonghen - Grimaldo; Weigl - Joao Mario; Rafa - Everton and Darwin Nuñez.

巴塞罗那正在经历最糟糕的赛季。巴塞罗那历史上最好的球员，也可能是足球史上最好的球员赛季初离开，主席拉波尔塔需要做出非常艰难的决定，许多球员的薪水很高，却没有参加比赛。巴塞罗那在欧冠小组赛中积6分，比本菲卡多2分，但他们需要赢得这场比赛，如果打平，他们需要在最后一轮击败拜仁慕尼黑，因为本菲卡很可能会在主场击败基辅迪纳摩。哈维回归执教，他是巴萨历史上最好的中场球员之一。他给加泰罗尼亚带来了新的信心，并在自由转会中带来了他的场上搭档丹尼阿尔维斯，他将在更衣室对哈维有很大帮助。哈维已经在对阵西班牙人的比赛中上演了他的处子秀，在前 60 分钟他们表现出与罗纳德科曼相比的巨大差异。巴塞罗那的这场比赛就像是一场决赛。右后卫塞尔吉奥·德斯特和机器奥斯曼·登贝莱昨天已经训练，明天可以作为选择。我认为这支巴塞罗那队在新教练和俱乐部偶像的带领下非常有动力，必须在主场击败这支状态正在下滑的本菲卡。

本菲卡本赛季踢了7场淘汰赛，淘汰了莫斯科斯巴达和强大的埃因霍温。在那些比赛之后，他们的表现开始下滑。最近，葡萄牙有消息称，本菲卡的球员们厌倦了主教练豪尔赫·耶稣，因为他总是对每个球员尖叫，一个半赛季后球员真的厌倦了他，尤其是吉尔伯托和卢卡斯·维里西莫，被摄像机拍到与教练争吵。本菲卡缺少两个重要位置，右后卫，因为迪奥戈·贡萨尔维斯仍然受伤，所以吉尔伯托将首发，他也与教练有问题，并且由于技术有限而在进攻端非常糟糕。在中后卫方面，他们最好的球员将缺席这场比赛，巴西国脚卢卡斯·维里西莫（Lucas Verissimo）被桑托斯（Santos）收购并在球队的防守中占主导地位。他将被年轻球员莫拉托取代，可能会随着球场环境、巴塞罗那的实力出现松动。本菲卡的结果比过程要好得多。主教练豪尔赫·耶稣说他们只考虑赢球，不会满足平局，但据我所知，豪尔赫·耶稣从上个赛季在球队的比赛中得到的信息，他会让球队非常紧凑，不会高位逼迫，只会尝试让索拉法和达尔文打反击。预测巴萨胜。