Gutless and directionless, rock-bottom Porto face the end of an empire

As Benfica players arrived back at Lisbon's Portela airport where their flight from Munich had just landed, they were shuttled as usual to the nearby Estádio da Luz to pick up their cars from the cavernous underground car park at the stadium.

It was something past 2am as the cars began one by one to exit its bowels and make their way home. It had been a long day, but Benfica had survived the test of the Allianz Arena to come away with a workable 0-1 first-leg defeat.

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