Salzburg-Benfica is a match valid for the sixth day of the group stage of the Champions League and is played Tuesday at 9 p.m.: TV, lineups, predictions.
In Inter Milan’s group, which will play for first place in the match against Real Sociedad at San Siro, the other two teams, Salzburg and Benfica, will instead play for a chance to play in the Europa League. And for what the standings say there is, of course, a favored lineup.
Salzburg is third and has at this moment 4 points. Benfica, in a somewhat unbelievable way, on the other hand, closes the grouping with only one point, the one won in the last round after the 3-3 draw against Inter Milan. In the first leg it ended 2-0 for the team that, on Tuesday night, will play at home. So, math in hand, Benfica not only has to win but also has to do so with at least a 3-goal difference to be able to take an impossible (at this point) Europa League qualification. Not even mentally does the Portuguese troop believe this, it is clear. Also because after the 3-0 at the end of the first half against Inter nobody expected such a major comeback by the Nerazzurri. In short, one thinks only about the championship and objectively it fits, too, after such a bad path, even, to be true.
Salzburg as it is obvious plays with the possibility even to lose. But it will not be so: the hosts want to close this round well, and a victory would also allow them to look with greater awareness in their own means at the play-offs scheduled in 2024 to go ahead, in the knockout phase, of the Europa League. Benfica will take the field by making a major turnover. Here’s that 1 seems to be almost written.
The prediction
Game of one: maybe even with one goal per team. But in the end, Salzburg should win, thus gaining access to the Europa League knockout stage.
The probable lineups of Salzburg-Benfica
SALISBURG (5-4-1): Schlager; Dedic, Piatkowski, Pavlovic, Ulmer; Gourna-Douath; Capaldo, Sucic; Gloukh; Simic, Konate.
BENFICA (4-4-2): Trubin; Aursnes, Victor, Otamendi, Morato; Neves, Kocku; Di Maria, Silva, Mario; Musa.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 2-1
