{"id":105993,"date":"2026-01-30T18:23:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/real-madrid-vs-benfica-mourinho-faces-his-ex-in-ucl-playoffs\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T18:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:23:21","slug":"real-madrid-vs-benfica-mourinho-faces-his-ex-in-ucl-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/real-madrid-vs-benfica-mourinho-faces-his-ex-in-ucl-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid vs Benfica: Mourinho faces his ex in UCL Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"Real Madrid will face Benfica of Jos\u00e9 Mourinho in the Champions League playoffs. For its part, Paris Saint-Germain, the current champion, will face AS Monaco in a duel between French teams.\n\nThe fate of Madrid and Benfica in the playoffs was sealed after an exciting final group stage match, which included a last-minute goal by goalkeeper Anatoliy Trubin. This goal secured a place for Benfica in the 16-team playoffs, while the defeat relegated Madrid outside the top eight places, which qualify directly.\n\nBenfica have won three of the previous four European encounters between the two clubs, including the 1962 European Cup final. The two-legged tie in February will be another opportunity for former Real Madrid coach Jos\u00e9 Mourinho to prevail over his former club, the team that has won the European title 15 times.\n\nThe winners will advance to the round of 16, where Madrid could face Manchester City.\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/story\/_\/id\/47777088\/champions-league-knockout-phase-playoff-predictions-reaction-real-madrid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Champions League playoff picks: Can Mourinho shock Madrid again?<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/story\/_\/id\/47740631\/best-champions-league-tifos-bob-marley-beatles-erling-great\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Best Champions League tifos: Bob Marley, Beatles, &#8216;Erling the Great&#8217;<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/story\/_\/id\/47777614\/the-groundhog-day-derby-how-2-teams-clash-5-s-europe-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Groundhog Day Derby: 2 teams will clash 5 times in Europe this season<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\nIn other matches, PSG will face Monaco, who are nine positions and 21 points below in the league.\n\nThe Norwegian Bodo\/Glimt, who beat City 3-1 in the penultimate matchday of the group stage, will face Inter Milan.\n\nJuventus will face Galatasaray in another outstanding match, while Atletico Madrid will face Club Brugge.\n\nThe first and second leg matches will be played on February 17th and 18th, and February 24th and 25th.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F0130%2Fr1607814_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Jose Mourinho&#8217;s Benfica beat Real Madrid in the final game of the league phase.\nJose Manuel Alvarez Rey\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<h2>Champions League Playoffs Full Draw<\/h2>\n\n<ul><li>Borussia Dortmund vs. Atalanta<\/li><li>Olympiacos vs. Bayer Leverkusen<\/li><li>Galatasaray vs. Juventus<\/li><li>Club Brugge vs. Atl\u00e9tico Madrid<\/li><li>Monaco vs. Paris Saint-Germain<\/li><li>Benfica vs. Real Madrid<\/li><li>Qarabag vs. Newcastle United<\/li><li>Bodo\/Glimt vs. Inter de Milan<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid will face Benfica of Jos\u00e9 Mourinho in the Champions League playoffs. For its part, Paris Saint-Germain, the current champion, will face AS Monaco in a duel between French teams. The fate of Madrid and Benfica in the playoffs was sealed after an exciting final group stage match, which included a last-minute goal by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2444,270,8023,254],"class_list":{"0":"post-105993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-benfica","9":"tag-champions-league","10":"tag-mourinho","11":"tag-real-madrid"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}