When Barcelona and Benfica met in the league phase of the Champions League, it became a real goal party in Lisbon. The Spanish big club was finally able to win the meeting against the Portuguese by 5-4.
Now the clubs are facing each other in the eighth finals. There, for example, also awaits a Spanish capital city village when the reigning champion team Real Madrid is allowed to take on Atlético Madrid, who went directly to the eighth final. Real was forced to play the 16th finals to move on and knocked out Manchester City.
In addition, a grand meeting in Germany – Bayer Leverkusen awaits Bayern Munich.
Other eighth finals: Arsenal-PSV Eindhoven, Aston Villa-Club Brygge, Inter-Feyenoord, Lille-Borussia Dortmund and Liverpool-Paris Saint-Germain.