Benfica-Liverpool, without history on paper

Benfica-Liverpool is on paper the most unbalanced match of the Champions League quarter-finals.

On the one hand, a team that had been missing from the top 8 for 6 years, with a precarious technician (Nelson Verissimo), on the other a team that plays from memory and with the heart and that has already won the Carabao Cup and is in the running above all the fronts, which amuses him and who closed the group stage with full points.

No chance in practice for the Portuguese, but the unpredictability of football makes it the most popular sport, just think of a precedent that makes Lusitanians smile: 2005/06 edition, Benfica eliminates the reigning European champions Liverpool in the round of 16 , an epic match at Anfield, won 2-0 with a masterpiece goal by Fabrizio Miccoli.