Liverpool vs Benfica LIVE: Champions League result, final score and reaction tonight as Red into semi-finals

Liverpool goalkeeper, Alisson Becker, says that the team are aiming win every competition they are still involved in as Jurgen Klopp’s men continue to hunt down an unprecedented quadruple this season.

“We are a big club and a big club wants to do great things, wants to achieve great goals,” Alisson said. “The targets are high and our main focus is to win any title that is in front of us, every challenge that is in front of us, so that is something which is already in our minds.”

Joël Matip will make his 50th appearance in the Champions League this evening. The centre-back played every minute of Liverpool’s first five group games but has been an unused substitute in three of the Reds’ last four matches in the competition.

Benfica boss, Nelson, Veríssimo on Darwin Núñez’s performances: "We are realising that he is undergoing a very big evolution.

“He has innate quality ... At the end of the season, if he has to go, you have to accept it, but it’s the law of the market. Obviously, with players like Darwin, and the best players, the idea would be to keep them all, but we are in a competitive market."

Jurgen Klopp swaps out seven players from the team that started the first leg against Benfica.

Ibrahima Konate is the only defender to keep his place in the back line as Joe Gomez, Joel Matip and Kostas Tsimikas come in to replace Trent Alexander-Arnold, Virgil van Dijk and Andy Robertson.

In midfield Naby Keita is joined by James Milner and Jordan Henderson and Luis Diaz is parterned up top with Roberto Firmino and Diogo Jota.

Benfica only make one change as Diogo Goncalves replaces the injured Rafa Silva.

Liverpool XI: Alisson, Gomez, Konate, Matip, Tsimikas, Milner, Keita, Henderson, Jota, Firmino, Diaz

Benfica XI: Vlachodimos, Gilberto, Otamendi, Vertonghen, Grimaldo, Weigl, Taarabt, Diogo Goncalves, Everton, Nunez, Goncalo Ramos

Last time these two teams met Liverpool strolled to a 3-1 victory away from home and will be hoping to extend their advantage over Benfica with another clinical performance at Anfield. Here’s a look at how the game in Lisbon went down:

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has taken another shot at television broadcasters after stating no other league in the world would schedule matches like they do in England.

If they get through their Champions League quarter-final against Benfica, over whom they have a 3-1 lead, Klopp’s side face a last-four tie against either Bayern Munich or Villarreal.

However, what irks him more is following that potential semi-final Liverpool then have to travel to Newcastle for a Saturday lunchtime kick-off.

Veríssimo says his team need to stop conceding goals having last kept a clean sheet nearly a month ago. They have been working on defending in practice and will hope to keep Liverpool quiet tonight.

"We always have to be concerned when we concede goals.” said the Benfica boss. “We need to understand how these goals come about and work so that the mistake doesn’t happen again.

“That’s what we’ve been working on. We know that against the offensive quality of these [Liverpool] players, there are things we must avoid, in the sense of closing the lines and paying attention to their width and depth."

Liverpool boss, Jürgen Klopp, says that his team have only completed half the job and will find themselves under pressure if Benfica open the scoring tonight.

“It’s 3-1 at half-time, it’s as tricky as 2-0.” he said, “A good basis, but if they score one, like we felt against Inter, the game changes. We felt it when they scored last week. We really need to make them feel this is a place they don’t want to go.”

Nelson Verissimo, Benfica’s coach, spoke in the build-up to tonight’s second leg about how his team are going to take on Liverpool. He said: 

"We have a two-goal deficit and we can’t openly play the game since we’ll create spaces for them to take advantage of. We have to have the ability and consistency to hold on.

“We believe they’ll want to sew it up within the first few minutes. It’s important to ride out the initial wave and our moment will come. Then we have to ensure balance and consistency. We go in with this ambition and the belief that it’s possible."