Benfica are having a terrible interim season, internationally are now in the top 8 teams of Champions League but very undeserved in my opinion. In the league they lost already the League Cup in the final against Sporting, were eliminated by Porto on the Portuguese Cup with a clear defeat by 3-0 and in the league are already 9 points behind the 2nd place Sporting CP after the last defeat by 3-2 against Braga. In the Champions League it's true that they started the season really well with the win against Barcelona by 3-0 but it was with Jorge Jesus. Since the new coach arrived, Nelson Verissimo, when everyone thought that Benfica couldn't get worse the true is that they are much worse than before. They eliminated Ajax in the 16-finals, but that Ajax was not the same Ajax that made 18 points in the groups, that dominated Sporting by 5-1 in Alvalade. The best centre-back of the team got injured in the beginning of the season and will miss this rest of season - Lucas Verissimo. They defend really bad as a team and were saved a lot of times by Odysseas in their european games and the true is that they could not be here as against PSV Eindhoven they were completely dominated with Odysseas being the man of the match in both legs and Zahavi missed a very easy chance in the 2nd leg. They do not have any absence for this game, but I can't see Benfica not losing easily against this strong Liverpool that are in the best shape of the season after a conturbated start.

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

Liverpool had not an easy start of this 2021/2022 season with a lot of injuries - the same that happened with them in the last season and that cost them the season. I think that the key game of the season was again Chelsea in Stamford Bridge where they drew 2-2 but played without Alisson Becker, Robertson, Matip and Thiago Alcantara, after that game and if we exclude their defeat against Internazionale Milano as they won in both legs, they are in a run of 16 wins in a row (let's try to equal their record!) the best record of any team from the top 5 leagues this season so far. Everyone expected that Alexander-Arnold would miss this game due to injury, but he was already on the bench against Watford. They are the best team of the world in this moment and I cannot see Benfica handling the pace of Liverpool's attack. They will create so many goal chances per game and I am pretty sure that this time Odysseas will not save them as he always did.

Probable line-up: Alisson; Trent Alexander-Arnold - Matip - Van Dijk - Robertson; Henderson - Fabinho - Thiago; Luis Diaz - Mane and Salah.

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本菲卡有一个糟糕的过渡赛季，现在国际上是欧洲冠军联赛的前8名，但在我看来，这是非常不应该的。在联赛中，他们已经在联赛杯决赛中输给了竞技队，在葡萄牙杯上被波尔图3-0淘汰，在联赛中已经落后第二名竞技队9分，在上一场比赛中被布拉加3-2击败。在欧冠联赛中，他们在3-0战胜巴塞罗那的比赛中开局非常好，但那是豪尔赫·赫苏斯的功劳。自从新教练Nelson Verissimo来了，当每个人都认为本菲卡已经糟糕到不能再糟的时候，事实是他们比以前糟得多。他们在16强的决赛中淘汰了阿贾克斯，但阿贾克斯不再是那个在阿尔瓦拉德以5-1的比分主导体育的阿贾克斯了。球队中最好的中后卫在赛季初受伤，将缺席本赛季余下的比赛——卢卡斯。韦尔西莫。他们防守非常糟糕的作为一个团队,节省很多时候Odysseas在欧洲游戏和真实的是,他们不能在这里对埃因霍温他们完全主导Odysseas比赛的人的双腿和哈维错过了一个非常简单的机会在第二条腿。他们在这场比赛中没有缺席，但我认为本菲卡不会轻易输给强大的利物浦，他们在经历了一个不稳定的开局后，正处于本赛季最佳状态。

利物浦在这个21 - 2022赛季的开始并不容易，有很多伤病——上个赛季也发生过同样的事情，让他们失去了这个赛季。我认为本赛季的关键比赛还是切尔西在斯坦福桥的比赛，他们2-2打平，但在那场比赛后，他们没有了埃利森·贝克尔、罗伯逊、马蒂普和蒂亚戈·阿尔坎塔拉，如果我们排除他们输给国际米兰的那场比赛，因为他们两回合都赢了，他们已经取得了16连胜(让我们试着追平他们的记录吧!)，这是本赛季前5强球队中最好的战绩。每个人都认为亚历山大-阿诺德会因伤缺席这场比赛，但他已经在对沃特福德的比赛中坐在了板凳上。他们现在是世界上最好的球队，我不认为本菲卡能够控制利物浦的进攻速度。他们每场比赛都会创造很多进球机会，我敢肯定这次奥德西不会像以前那样救下他们。