Benfica have plenty of faces familiar to Premier League fans, not least ex-Wolves head coach Bruno Lage.

Lage shares his hometown of Setubal with José Mourinho and a mutual love of solid defending. He is a pragmatist with a flexible approach to his game plans, and may implement a low or middle block to stifle and counter Chelsea as they did Vincent Kompany’s much-changed Reds.

His two league games against the Blues in 20121/22 finished 0-0 and 2-2, and the Old Gold finished with the lowest goals and xG of any Premier League team.

Yet last season, despite the sale of creative and dangerous players such as Joao Neves, Benfica fans witnessed 84 strikes, with powerful new signing Vangelis Pavlidis adapting quickly to top-score on 19.

The Eagles were also second highest scorers across the group stage of this tournament with nine.

Ukrainian goalkeeper Anatolii Trubin was very impressive on Tuesday, and generally saves 75 per cent of what is thrown at him, meeting crosses and showing variety in his distribution.

Combative defender Nicolás Otamendi, who plied his trade across Manchester at City, has been the Eagles’ key destroyer, winning more than 80 per cent of his duels in the tournament.

The midfield pivot features two feisty tacklers in box-to-boxer Leandro Barreiro and Renato Sanches. It remains to be seen whether the late injury sustained by the one-time Swansea man will keep him out of Saturday’s game.

This is a farewell tournament for Man United’s 2014 record signing Angel Di Maria, soon to rejoin Rosario Central in Argentina at the age of 37. His ten shots in the USA have produced three goals and his whipped corners remain a threat.

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