Benfica has a negative balance against Bayern Munich and Barcelona, ​​two rivals that the Eagles have thrown into Group E of the Champions League, despite having already snatched a European title against the Catalans.

The Reds won the 1960/61 European Champions Cup, the first of two successive cups, against Barcelona, ​​with a 3-2 victory in Bern, with goals by Jose Aguas, Ramalets, and Mario Colonna. More than 30 years later, he met Catalan giants Benfica, the five-time European champion, in the group stage of the main continental club championship in 1991/1992, in a group that also included Dynamo Kiev.

In Barcelona’s journey to the title, the confrontations ended in a 0-0 draw in Lisbon and a 2-1 defeat at the Camp Nou. After that, the two teams met in the quarter-finals of the 2005/2006 version of the European Champions League, in another version won by the Blaugrana team, with a new score of zero in the Portuguese capital and a 2-0 loss in Barcelona. Under Jorge Jesus, Benfica faced Goofs in the 2012/13 Champions League, losing 2-0 at Luz Stadium and drawing 0-0 at Estadio Catalunya.

The heaviest is their record against Bayern Munich, with whom Benfica, in 10 games, did not achieve more than three draws, all at home (0-0, in 1975/76 and 1981/82, and 2-2, in 2015/16. ) . The German giants, who lifted the continental title in 1973/74, 1974/75, 1975/76, 2000/2001, 2012/13 and 2019/20, won five matches held in Munich, four of them by a big goal difference, (5- 1, in 1975/76 and 2018/19, 4-1, in 1981/82 and 1995/96) and also added two wins in Lisbon (0-2, in 2018/19, and 1-3, in 1995/1996).

Destinto is the historical history against Ukrainian Dynamo Kyiv, with whom Benfica scored three victories and one defeat. The Reds, at that time led by Rui Vitoria, faced the Ukrainian capital team in the 2016/17 group stage of the Champions, winning 2-0 in Kiev, with goals from Salvio and Servi, and 1 in Lisbon. – He blocked Salvio’s shot from the penalty spot.

Before that, at the same stage of the competition, but in 1991/1992, Benfica, led by Sven-Goran Eriksson, lost to Dinamo 1-0 thanks to the goal of Russian Oleg Salenko, but they replaced themselves at home. 5-0 defeat, in which the authors of the goals were Cesar Brito and Juran, two each, and Isaias.

The group stage of the 2021/22 UEFA Champions League will take place from 14-15 September and 7-8 December. The Champions League final is scheduled to take place on May 28 at the Krestovsky Stadium in St Petersburg, Russia.