Liverpool to play Benfica in Champions League quarter-finals
Liverpool will play Portuguese flank Benfica in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, with Jurgen Klopp‘s side missing for the first leg on April 5. The Reds will gross on The Eagles in the last eight of this season’s tournament, having so far dazed Atletico Madrid, AC Milan, Porto, and Inter Milan. Fans can buy Tickets for Champions League Final from our website.
With Benfica pinched at home for the first leg, Liverpool will therefore have the Anfield benefit for a conclusive second leg on April 13. It symbols the fourth time Liverpool have been in the quarter-finals under Klopp, and this season they are pursuing a seventh trophy as they remain on course for a significant augment.
The draw was held in Nyon on Friday dawn, with Chelsea, Man City, Bayern Munich, Atletico, Real Madrid, and Villarreal also intricate. Benfica touched the quarter-finals with a 3-2 collective win over Ajax.
Liverpool will evade English
clubs in the semi-finals too if they evolve, with a potential Chelsea Vs Man
City fixture. The Reds would face the victor of Bayern Munich Vs
Villarreal before Champions League Final 2022.
Full Champions League semi-final draw
Man City/Atletico Madrid Vs Chelsea/Real
Madrid and Benfica/LIVERPOOL Vs Villarreal/Bayern Munich.
The inducement for the semi-finals
of this season’s Champions League was shown in Nyon on Friday. The draw was gushed
live via UEFA’s official. The Champions League semi-final first and second leg
fittings will take place on April 26, 27, and on May 3, 4.
However, this season’s Champions League Final will take dwelling on May 28 at the Stade de France in Paris. Liverpool would be at home for the chief leg of the semi-final on April 26/27, with the second limb away from home in May.
The last time Liverpool
confronted Benfica was in the Europa League quarter-final in Rafa
Benitez’s final season in charge in 2009/10, which the Reds won 5-3 on
combined. Fernando Torres counted twice in the second leg at Anfield for a 4-1
win, after a 2-1 defeat in Lisbon in the first leg before Champions League
Final.
Benfica is one of Portugal’s best
clubs, winning the league title for four successive seasons from 2014 to 2017,
and again in 2019. Last spell’s third-place varnish was their lowest finish
since 2009. They’ve been achieved by Nelson Verissimo since last December, and
play at the inspiring 64,642-capacity Estadio da Luz in Lisbon.
Their top-goalscorer this spell
is the very highly-rated Darwin Nunez, with 26 goals in 33 arrivals. The
Uruguayan has been linked with a swarm of Premier League, counting
Liverpool, Man City, Chelsea, and Man United.
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