Benfica visits Stade Louis II for the second time this season when she competes against Monaco in the first leg of her play-off her play-off of her champion.
The release of Wilfried Singo before the hour ultimately played a decisive role in Benfica’s victory during the league, even if Monaco took the lead 2-1 to ten men. Arthur Cabral and Zeki Amdouni met in the last minutes of the competition to steal all three points for visitors.
The two sides had mixed league in large and entire phase campaigns and both ended with 13 points before they were paired against each other with a place in the 16th round.
Monaco begins to suffer in Germany after a promising start to the season and only hopes for the qualification for this competition in the next season, while Benfica are four points behind the Sporting CP to win back the Primera title.
Here is 90 minutes Guide to the play-off of the Champions League on Wednesday.
Monaco against Benfica H2H results (all games)
Current form (all competitions)
Monaco | Benfica |
|---|---|
PSG 4-1 Monaco – 07/02/25 | Benfica 3-2 Morianense – 08/02/25 |
Monaco 4-2 auxerre – 01/02/25 | Estrela Amadora 2-3 Benfica – 02/02/25 |
Inter 3-0 Monaco – 29/01/25 | Juventus 0-2 Benfica – 29/01/25 |
Monaco 3-2 Rennes – 25/01/25 | Casa Pia 3-1 Benfica – 25/01/25 |
Monaco 1-0 Aston Villa – 21/01/25 | Benfica 4-5 Barcelona – 01/21/25 |
country | TV channel/live stream |
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United Kingdom | Discovery+, Discovery+ App, TNT Sports 4 |
United States | Paramount+ |
Canada | Dazn Canada |
The hosts will be on Wednesday without an impressive young midfielder Lamine Camara, so SOUNGOUTOU Magassa, who achieved his first senior goal against Benfica in the league phase, could be recorded in Hutter’s XI.
The Monaco boss has many concerns in defense, and Christian Mawissa has red against Inter. Singo and Jordan Teze are branches of injury.
Mika Biereth has run the ground in winter since his arrival from Sturm Graz and has his new club at his first Champions League. Fololin Balogun and George Ilenikhena are probably not available.
Monaco predicted the line-up against Benfica (4-2-3-1): Majecki; Vanderson, Kehrer, Salisu, Henrique; Zakaria, Magassa; Akliouche, Golovin, Ben Seghir; Biereth.
Angel di Maria is a concern in the first leg on Wednesday after he missed Benfica’s victory at the weekend. However, the veteran winger only deals with a small knock and is expected to be available. Arthur Cabral should also be involved, but the striker is probably not that the start Xi in view of the form of Vangelis Pavlidis.
Alexander Bah and Manu Silva suffered both long -term knee injuries against Morianense and will be out of operation in the coming months.
It is unlikely that Renato Sananchs has a thigh injury.
Benfica predicted the line-up against Monaco (4-3-3): Trubin; Araujo, Silva, Otamendi, Fernandez; Luis, Aursnes, Kokcu; Di Maria, Pavlidis, Schjeldup
While these two sides met in November, we shouldn’t read too much about Benficas 3-2 victory, which was ultimately made possible by sending Singo.
Monaco is loaded with talent and can be wonderfully observed, but the big stage has proven to be too bright for Adi Hutter’s side this semester. They were beaten by a red-Heißer-PSG at the weekend.
However, you should enjoy a Benfica outfit affected by Benfica with injuries that suffered defensively last month. The effects of the arrival of Bruno Lage begin to fade, but they could use Monaco’s inexperience to achieve a draw that would make them progress as favorites.