A 2:0 victory ended Mourinho s 6-year wait! He won the life-and-death battle in the Champions League, giving away 4 crowns and 8 consecutive defeats.

After parting ways with Fenerbahce this summer, Mourinho accepted the invitation of his old club Benfica to return to Portugal to coach Benfica; after ranking third in the Portuguese Super League and advancing to the Portuguese Cup, Mourinho still needs to take Benfica to the Champions League play-offs in the European competition. In the early morning of November 26, in the fifth round of the Champions League, Benfica came to the Cruyff Arena to face Ajax; Samuel Dahl and Barreiro each scored a goal, and Benfica defeated their opponent 2-0; Mourinho finally won the Champions League after 6 years.

In the first 4 rounds of the Champions League, Ajax and Benfica were in the same state. The two teams had won 6 Champions League titles together. However, they both suffered an embarrassing 4-game losing streak at the start of the season. Heitinga, who had just coached from Liverpool this summer, has also been fired by Ajax. After Mourinho took over Benfica, they lost to Chelsea, Newcastle and Leverkusen in the Champions League; the Magic Birds suffered an embarrassing three-game losing streak. Counting the record at Tottenham, it was a six-game losing streak in the Champions League.

Both sides want to end their losing streak, but Benfica is better in terms of form; after all, Ajax is also in a slump in the domestic arena, and Ajax is even 14 points behind PSV Eindhoven at the top of the list. Only 6 minutes into the game between the two sides, Benfica attacked from a corner kick and Samuel Dahl broke the deadlock with a two-point volley; this was also the team's first Champions League goal after Mourinho took office. Ajax only had 64% of the ball in the game, and the main threatening offense did not create much; Benfica made a quick counterattack in the 90th minute, and Barreiro single-handedly sealed the victory with a low shot.

In this way, Benfica took the lead in ending its four-game losing streak in the Champions League. For Mourinho, the last time he led a coaching team to win in the Champions League main game was back on November 26, 2019, when he led Tottenham to defeat Olympiakos 4-2; six years later, Magic Bird led the team to win in the Champions League main game again. However, Benfica's opponents in the remaining three rounds are Naples, Juventus and Real Madrid; it is really difficult for Mourinho to lead the team into the play-offs.

As for Ajax, after this battle, they suffered a complete defeat in the first five rounds of the Champions League. In the five games, they only scored 1 goal but conceded 16 goals, with a net loss of 15 goals. This made them the team with the worst performance in the Champions League so far this season. To make matters worse, Ajax has suffered an eight-game losing streak in the European competition, setting a record for the longest losing streak in European competition in team history. The most successful team in the Netherlands is currently at a low point in the club.