​The second leg of the Champions League 1/4 final between Inter and Benfica will take place on Wednesday 19 April at 22:00 at the San Siro Stadium in Milan and will be broadcast live on Digi Sport 2. , Orange Sport 3 and Prima Sport 2.

Inter took a step closer to the semi-finals of the Champions League, where it had not been for 13 years, beating Benfica in Lisbon with a score of 2:0 (Barella 51, Lukaku 82p), and only a disaster of this magnitude could prevent it from entering the “ace box” .

Inter are going through a dark period in Serie A, where they have picked up just one point in their last five legs (losing three straight at home) and only reached 5th place, two points off the last Champions League spot. .

Inter lost at home to lowly Monza after their tour match in Lisbon, and only reaching the Champions League semi-finals would keep coach Simone Inzaghi in charge until at least the end of the 2022-2023 season.

Inter reached this stage of the competition after finishing second in a group won by Bayern Munich and also featuring Barcelona and Viktoria Plzen (W3 D1 L2), while then advanced to the Round of 16 against Porto, 1-0 at home and 0-0 away.

Inter have won the Champions League three times, most recently in the 2009-2010 season (2-0 in the last action against Bayern Munich in Madrid), and have lost two more finals.

Benfica are top of the Premier League but are just four points ahead of Porto with six games remaining in the domestic season, having lost each of the last two legs of the league, most recently at the Chavez Stadium (a third consecutive defeat, following those from “Porto” scored 1-2, and with “Inter” – 0-2, both at home).

Roger Schmidt’s side won a group that also included PSG, Juventus and Maccabi Haifa (four wins and two draws) to reach the round of 16, before beating Club Brugge 2-0 away and 5 :1 on home.

Benfica have two Champions League trophies, won in 1961 and 1962, and have lost five other finals, most recently in 1990 (0-1 with AC Milan in Vienna).

The two teams have met three times so far, the first time in the European Cup Final in 1965 in Milan, Inter v Benfica 1-0 (Jair 42).

Benfica and Inter were also opponents in the last 16 of the 2003-04 UEFA Cup, with the two teams drawing 0-0 in Lisbon before the Italians won 4-3 in Milan.

Superbet offers odds of 1.35 on the 1X prediction: a home win or a draw in the regular time of 90 minutes of the match between Inter and Benfica.

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