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However, in 117 years of history, sometimes the Eagles don’t fly as high as they want to. This season has been one of those times. Benfica is in third place with three games left, 12 points behind the leader Sporting. On top of that, the Glorious is trailing for a direct spot in the group stage of the Champions League. But what’s behind this season unsuccess? The European dream. For the past 6 years, it’s been a dream for Benfica to restore its European hegemony. As a matter of fact, Luis Felipe Vieira (LFV), Benfica’s current president, promised this European project to the fans several times throughout his last four-years term. His idea consisted of investing in the young talent coming from the academy and making them key players on the first team. In the short term, the objective was to build a squad capable of consistently competing in the Champions League’s knock-out stages. In the long term, the mission was to win the Champions League again and put an end to the Bélla Guttmann curse. This also implied that instead of selling those players to bigger clubs, Benfica would have to retain them instead. The beginning. It all started in 2015. left the club after 6 years to join the Reds’ rival, Sporting Clube de Portugal. He rejected all the proposals to renew his contract and obliged LFV to look for a substitute. The president saw this conjecture as an opportunity to change the club’s plan. As a result, he looked for a coach that would bet more on the academy players. Therefore, the Eagles hired Rui Vitória who, at the time, was Vitória Guimarães’s manager. In the three years and a half Rui Vitória spent in Lisbon, he helped the club become three-times champion (2015/2016) for the first time in 39 years and four-times champions for the first time in its history (2016/2017). With him on board, Benfica also won one League Cup (2015/2016), one Portuguese Cup (2016/2017), and one Portuguese Super Cup (2017/2018). As far as the international competitions are concerned, in Rui Vitória’s first season the Eagles made it to the Champions League’s quarter-finals, only to be beaten by Bayern (3-2 on aggregate). Nevertheless, in the following seasons, the performances were worse each year. In 2016/2017, Dortmund eliminated the Portuguese club (4-1 on aggregate) and in 2017/2018 Benfica lost all group stage’s games. In his last six months at the club, he led the Glorious to third place in the same phase of the competition. During this period, several players coming from the B team became regulars in Benfica’s starting eleven. For example, Victor Lindelöf , Ederson , Nélson Semedo , Renato Sanches or Rúben Dias . However, most of them left the club two years after to play in a European giant. Should the dream continue? When Rui Vitória left the club in January 2019, Benfica was in 4th place, 7 points behind FC Porto who was in front. Bruno Lage, the B team’s coach, assumed temporarily the position. The good results led him to become the permanent manager. With him, the two-times European champions won 17 games and draw 1 game in the league, winning it for the 37th time. Furthermore, Bruno Lage’s move to the first team brought several young talents to the first team. Florentino Luís , Francisco Reis Ferreira (Ferro), and João Félix were the most important ones. At the international level, the Portuguese coach took Benfica to the quarter-finals of the Europa League. After beating Galatasaray and Dinamo Zagreb, knocked out the Eagles on away goals (4-4 on aggregate). Bruno Lage would stay one more season at the club. Nonetheless, he wouldn’t be as successful as in the first one. Although Benfica started the season by winning the Super Cup, things went south. With 17 league games gone the Reds had a 7 points advantage over Porto and looked set to win another title. However, three games after the Eagles lost for the second time in the championship against the Dragons away (3-2). A 13 games streak without winning followed that defeat. As a consequence, Bruno Lage was sacked with four league games left. In the end, the Blues were crowned champions. Benfica finished in 2nd. In the Champions League, the results weren’t as good as expected. The Glorious finished 3rd and went to the Europa League where Shakhtar Donetsk knocked out the Portuguese team (5-4 on aggregate). The new DNA. For the past years, the European dream has been haunting most Benfica fans. LFV’s promises of a stronger team in the international context didn’t go beyond that. Even though the Portuguese club enjoyed some success domestically, outside of Portugal the same hasn’t been true. Besides that, the retention rate of young players wasn’t as high as it could be. The elections and the hundreds. In contrast, at the start of this season, LFV’s approach changed. With the presidential elections in October and the criticism increasing due to judicial cases and much more, Benfica’s president wanted to regain the fans’ trust. Therefore, the Reds brought back Jorge Jesus and invested over 100 M € in new players. The objective was to win again the and be more competitive in the Champions League. This meant clear disinvestment in the in-house young talents, as Jorge Jesus usually doesn’t bet on young players. Regarding the elections themselves, LFV controversial won with 62,59% of the votes. However, the unhappy fans found representation in João Noronha Lopes, who had already been one of Benfica’s vice-presidents between 2000 and 2003. He received 34,71% of the votes in the most participated elections in the history of the club. From around 184.264 club members, 38.102 voted. Benfica on the pitch. Even after the elections, the criticism towards LFV continued and increased even more during the season, as Benfica’s sportive performances weren’t good enough. In September, the Eagles missed the first objective of the season. PAOK (2-1) defeated them in the Champions League’s 3rd qualification round. Thus, they were relegated to the Europa League’s group stage. In this competition, the two-times European champions finished 2nd in a group in which they were favorites to win. Thereafter, Arsenal kicked out Benfica in the round of 36 (3-4 on aggregate). Failing to qualify for the group stage obliged Benfica to sell Rúben Dias for 68 M € to Manchester City, as they lost 40 M € in the process. In exchange, the Glorious bought Nicolás Otamendi for 15 M €. Nationally, the performances haven’t been good enough most season. In the league, the Eagles have 20 wins, 7 draws, and 4 defeats. These four defeats include two against relegation fighters Boavista (0-3) and Gil Vicente (2-1). Furthermore, last Thursday the reds and whites draw at home (1-1) against Porto in a controversial referred game. Thereupon, they might have to go through qualification rounds to get to the Champions League’s group stage. Covid-19 also affected severely the team, as in January Benfica had 17 active cases between players, staff, and the technical team. Regarding other competitions, Benfica lost the Super Cup against Porto (2-0) and the semi-final of the League Cup’s final four (first game of the competition this season) against Braga (2-1). The only trophy Benfica players can lift this season is the Portuguese Cup, in which they will face, one more time, Braga in the final. Borussia Dortmund v Benfica Match Report, 08/03/2017. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang put his first-leg horror show behind him, netting a hat-trick as Borussia Dortmund secured a 4-0 win over Benfica to progress to the quarter-finals of the Champions League. The Gabon international missed a penalty and two more gilt-edged chances as 's side lost 1-0 in Portugal three weeks prior, but they made light work of Wednesday's return back on home turf. Editors' Picks. Euro 2020 Power Rankings: Portugal plummet ahead of knockout stage gauntlet How England and the FA are building the next generation of Lionesses The Ballon d'Or or 'working as a bin man!' - What's next for Liverpool's newest cult hero Nat Phillips? Suarez, Cavani and the sad end to Uruguay's golden era. Visiting coach Rui Vitoria had expected an onslaught and that was exactly what Dortmund provided, despite the absence of Marco Reus through injury, as Aubameyang nodded an early opener. While Benfica stood firm for the remainder of the first half, Christian Pulisic, having assisted the first goal, doubled Dortmund's lead to take control of the tie with just over half an hour remaining. And Aubameyang, who had never previously scored in the tournament's knockout stages, added his second of the game just two minutes later, before completing his treble five minutes from the end. Dortmund can now look ahead to the last eight of the competition and the writing was seemingly on the wall after it took Aubameyang just four minutes to banish memories of a nightmare first leg and draw Dortmund level. Ousmane Dembele delivered a corner from the right for Pulisic to flick a header towards the far post, where Aubameyang was left unmarked to nod into the net. The hosts were clearly in the mood as Dembele bent a shot wide from an Aubameyang-powered counter-attack, but Benfica responded with Franco Cervi striking low into the arms of Roman Burki. Luisao then nodded straight at the Dortmund goalkeeper, before Pulisic tested Ederson with a header of his own at the other end. Cervi had another opportunity to score shortly after half-time, but Lukasz Piszczek recovered to make a magnificent block after slicing a clearance straight to the visiting winger. Dortmund's best moments, meanwhile, were coming from set-pieces, with Aubameyang twice meeting Gonzalo Castro free-kicks to volley wide and then, from an offside position, straight at the sprawling Ederson. Those efforts started to pile the pressure on the away defence, though, and their resistance was soon broken. Ederson blocked brilliantly from Aubameyang, but, with Benfica unable to fully get the ball clear, an excellent Piszczek pass into the box found Pulisic, who lifted a phenomenal finish over the advancing keeper for his first Champions League goal. And, with Vitoria's men still rocking, Aubameyang then steered Marcel Schmelzer's cross past the helpless Ederson from the next attack. Castro volleyed wide and Marc Bartra nodded narrowly off target as Dortmund kept pushing, with a fourth goal putting the icing on the cake, Aubameyang converting Erik Durm's low centre to complete a deserved hat-trick. The dream that Guedes fulfilled with Benfica at Luz. In an interview with the Official Site, the former number 20 shirt from the eagles relived the period where he trained in a artificial grass field next to the Cathedral and was confident that on day he would step on the most desired stage. On January 14 th , 2015, Gonçalo Guedes stepped for the first time, in competition, the pitch of Estádio da Luz as a member of Benfica's first team. He did that in the starting XI, playing the first 45 minutes of the eagles' triumph over Arouca (4-0) in the group stage of the League Cup. The following step was affirmation, under Rui Vitória, in the 2015/16 season , living a series of unforgettable events and journeys in the New Cathedral. On of those events happened on September 26 th, 2015, in a 3-nil win over Paços de Ferreira, in the Liga NOS. “I spent a considerable part of my life here next to Estádio da Luz , training and playing in the artificial turf field. To be able to play in the stadium with Benfica's jersey was a dream come true. To score a goal, my first goal [video], against Paços de Ferreira was a special moment for me”, remembered the player in an exclusive interview with the Official Site. If the first goal was good, the celebration of the third consecutive league title was icing on the cake in 2015/16. “When we won the third consecutive league title was a special moment at Estádio da Luz , because it was the first time I was champion at Benfica [2014/15] I was playing for the B team on the day of the celebration and was not able to be there”, explain the forward. American Keaton Parks training with Benfica first team. While several young American stars take the field in Portugal with the U.S. Men’s National Team, another young midfielder is making moves with one of the country’s biggest teams. 20-year-old American midfielder Keaton Parks has been working with Benfica’s senior team throughout the international break. With several first team regulars out on international duty, manager Rui Vitória sees the international break as a good time to get a closer look at Parks and his development. Parks, who was raised in Texas before heading to Portugal when he turned 19, has been a standout with the team’s second team. The midfielder has scored twice in 751 minutes while with Benfica G. The midfielder joined Benfica in July after initially featuring for lower league side Varzim. His move away from Varzim was held up by a lengthy contract dispute that was cleared up in July.