Benfica – Real Madrid. Forecast and announcement for the Champions League match

On January 28, the Estadio da Luz will host the match of the 8th round of the main round of the Champions League, in which Benfica will meet with Real Madrid. The match will start at 22:00 Kyiv time.

Benfica

The team would seem to have learned their lessons from last season. She ended the summer extremely optimistically: they beat Sporting in the Super Cup, started with victories in the domestic arena, and confidently knocked out Nice from Fenerbahce in the Champions League qualifiers. The team was also strengthened by the signing of Sudakov. But a couple of mishaps in September, with Santa Clara and, above all, Qarabag, were enough for Mourinho to return to Lisbon.

The savior does not come out of Jose so much that last week the fans already besieged the base with protests. With him, they were relegated from both cups, and Sporting and, especially, Porto are now higher in the Premier League. In the Champions League, after four defeats, it was possible to finish in 2025 with victories over Ajax and even Napoli. But 0:2 in Turin with Juventus actually became a sentence here as well.

Real Madrid

The club is somewhat in a similar situation. Only here at the end of last season, before the Club World Cup, Ancelotti was removed. But in the end, not much happened in the new tournament in the summer, and then they fell behind Barcelona by four points until January, and then lost to them in the Super Cup. This led to a change of coach – but Arbeloa was remembered for his debut in the defeat of Albacete. However, now in the Premier League, the gap with the Catalans has narrowed to a minimum.

In the Champions League, the Spanish giant does not shine, but he collected his points. Yes, it didn’t work out with the English, Liverpool and Manchester City, but they managed to win all the other matches without exception. Including, 6:1, with Monaco – and Mbappe lost his soul with his native team, although he apologized after scoring.

Statistics of personal meetings

It is even surprising that the neighbors played only once, and that was in a friendly format – then, in 2012, the Portuguese won confidently.

Forecast

Bookmakers GGBET evaluate the chances of the teams with very decent coefficients: 4.33 for Benfica and 1.70 for Real. And which forecast to choose is up to you. Play with the best odds, get instant payouts and support your favorite team with us.

Bookmakers do not believe in the owners of the arena. Now let’s agree – the guests, even without tournament motivation, will win here (coefficient – 1.75).