And that’s exactly why we can’t get enough of the Champions League. What a show.
By beating Benfica, Barcelona are all but guaranteed a place in the last 16, with more exciting football likely to come with it.
Did they deserve to win this game? Honestly, no. Benfica were the better team for most of the match, and Bruno Lage came up with a game plan that had the Blaugrana rattled.
But this is a reminder that European football is often chaotic, and anything can happen if you keep battling until the end.
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At around the 75th minute mark, I was so ready to go off on this team because of the way they showed up.