Alejandro Moreno

Lukaku will probably be on the bench.

He's basically been out all season.

It's David Neres.

I mean, top to bottom, they have so many guys out, and he's had to play the same 11.

He's had to play kids like Vergara.

You know, the things holding this team together is basically Scott McTominay and nothing else.

That's the reality of what Conte is facing right now.

So even if you don't like him, and many don't,

you should have a tiny shred of sympathy and maybe agree that this season shouldn't be lumped in with his past Champions League shortcomings.

Look, this one's obviously far-fetched.

It would be incredible.

But we've seen the guy do his voodoo, black magic, black arts before.

Jose Mourinho takes over a Benfica side that had lost every match, goes into it.

And as Mourinho might have reminded us once or twice, he has already won the Champions League twice.

kind of turns it around not really you look at them they're way down there in the table what is it 29th but guess what through the magic of the Swiss model which Ali doesn't like if they win their home game against Real Madrid and a number of other results and I actually went through this and it's really not totally implausible a number of the results go Benfica's way

Jose Mourinho will stay alive to fight another day in the Champions League and with him Benfica and the Eagles flying over the Estadio Lutz, all that magic.

And look, this is special.

We can look at this and scoff and say, oh no, they're not a big team.

Give me Barcelona, Arsenal, whatever.

But you look at Benfica's history, you look at the size of the club, you look at the character that Mourinho is.