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Marseille's hard effort work deserves appreciation, they were able to reach the quarter-finals by beating Villareal and now they have to face the next challenge against Benfiqa. I think Marseille is in high self-confidence at the moment so he will probably get rid of Benfiqa even though it's not easy for Marseille he will try his best may do their best in the European league to reach the semi-finals. Sometimes ordinary teams like Marseille can give a surprise in the European League even though they are not the favorites.
We don't know yet who will advance to the semi-finals but what is clear is that one of them will face Liverpool, which is a strong team in the EPL. Currently, it is a big challenge for any team that faces Liverpool or Leverkusen in this competition because they are in a good trend. in the domestic league.
Benfica has a better chance of advancing to the semifinals because they are a little more consistent than Marseille, that is if we refer to their position in their respective domestic leagues. On the other hand, Liverpool and Leverkusen will certainly be a threat to any team in the semi-finals, because these two teams are strong candidates for winning the Europa League trophy.
Don't underestimate Marseille, they've sent some strong clubs back to their league before. It's proving how capable marseille to beat another club in the europa league this season. marseille was also winning the game easily against villareal in the previous game which is also sending us a message if this club is very capable to beat the big club even though people being so skeptical cused by marseille came from farmer league.
Benfica is expected to win against Marseille, but they've ever played once against each other a decade ago, so who knows what will happen in the upcoming game. Benfica may struggle to beat marseille or it losses against it. Leverkusen and Liverpool are the most favored teams, but you never know what might happen in the future since the small clubs are having same chances to win the competition this season. .
We've seen big clubs lose against mediocre ones before and we shall take it as a very important lesson for us. The last time Marseille and Benfica played each other was over a decade ago, so you can't really use that to predict what's going to happen in the upcoming match considering the fact that if they are all strong. so they're both likely to score, but Benfica may just win by a narrow margin. Marseille could still win, though, so it's going to be a close game between those clubs.