summit Bayern Munich Against Portuguese Benfica at the Allianz Arena in the fourth round of the league stage of the European Champions League for the current season 2024-25.
And he announced Vincent Company The Bavarian coach’s lineup for Bayern’s match against Benfica was as follows…
Goalkeeper: Neuer.
Defense: Laimer, Min-Jae, Upamecano, Davies.
Midfield: Kimmich, Balenha, Jamal Musiala.
Attack: Gnabry, Harry Kane, Oliseh.
Bayern formation against Benfica
Bayern vs Benfica
He enters Bayern vs Benfica In today’s match, looking for the three points to regain health again in the Champions League after losing to Aston Villa with a clean goal, and Barcelona by four in the last round, at a time when the journey began with a more than wonderful result against Dinamo Zagreb with a score of 9-2.
The historic champion of the German League is counting on English star Harry Kane to lead the machine attack to destroy Benfica’s defenses, especially since the England captain is the top scorer in the Champions League with 5 goals.
Before the start of the match, Bayern Munich is ranked 25th in the table Champions League standings In the group stage, with only 3 points, collected from winning one match and losing two matches, scoring 10 goals and conceding 7.
While Benfica is in 16th place in the Champions League table with 6 points collected from winning two matches and losing one match, scoring 7 goals and conceding 4.
Benfica began its Champions League campaign by defeating Red Star with two goals to one, and Atletico Madrid 4-0, while it was defeated at home and among its fans by the Dutch Feyenoord 3-1.
Bayern vs Benfica
History of Bayern’s matches against Benfica Going back to 12 matches before today’s confrontation, he managed to win 9 matches and draw 3, but the Portuguese team was unable to achieve any victory.
Robert Lewandowski is the top scorer in Bayern’s matches against Benfica with 7 goals, followed by Jurgen Kilinsmann with 6 goals, and Leroy Sane with 3 as well.
Bayern Munich has previously won the Champions League title 6 times, 3 of them consecutively (1973-74, 1974-75, 1975-76) at the expense of Atletico Madrid, Leeds United, and Saint-Etienne.
The fourth time was at the expense of Valencia in the 2000-2001 season on penalties, the fifth was at the expense of Borussia Dortmund in the 2012-2013 season by two goals to one, and the sixth and final time was at the expense of Paris Saint-Germain in 2020.
What is the new Champions League system?
The current version of the Italian European League is held with a new system, where the group stage has been replaced by the league system, where each team plays 8 matches, and the first 8 teams advance to the round of 16, while the teams that occupy positions from ninth to 24th enter the play-off to qualify for the round of 16. The eight winning teams advance from the playoff to the final stage.