Getafe look to seal fairy-tale progress

Getafe CF will look to reach the UEFA Cup quarter-finals in their first season in Europe as they look to build on a 2-1 lead from the first leg against SL Benfica.

• Second-half goals from Rubén De La Red and Pablo Hernández saw the Spanish side take full advantage following Óscar Cardozo's early dismissal in Lisbon. Mantorras pulled one back for Benfica, yet the home team's 300th game in UEFA club competition was to be one they would rather forget.

• Benfica are now without a permanent coach, with José Antonio Camacho resigning in the wake of a 2-2 draw against Portugal's bottom side, UD Leiria, on Sunday. The 52-year-old former Real Madrid CF left-back said: "I cannot do anything more to improve the team's performances."

• In the short term, Camacho has been replaced by Fernando Chalana. The 49-year-old former Portugal and Benfica winger, who also played for FC Girondins de Bordeaux, has been on the club's coaching staff since hanging up his boots in the early 1990s.

• This will be Chalana's first game as a coach in UEFA club competition, but he twice faced Spanish sides as a player. His Portugal side drew 1-1 with Spain at the 1984 UEFA European Championship, while his Benfica team won 2-1 at Real Betis Balompié in the 1982/83 UEFA Cup.

• Getafe coach Michael Laudrup has played against Benfica before during his time as an FC Barcelona player. The teams met in the group stage of the 1991/92 European Champion Clubs' Cup – the final edition before the advent of the UEFA Champions League.

• The Danish star started in both fixtures as Barça drew 0-0 in Lisbon and won 2-1 at Camp Nou. They went on to win the competition, Ronald Koeman scoring the only goal as they beat UC Sampdoria in the final at Wembley.

• Now 43, Laudrup is one of the most celebrated players in Danish history and was part of the Denmark side which won the 1992 UEFA European Championship.

• He started his career at Kjøbenhavns BK, then played for Brøndby IF before heading abroad to play for Juventus, Barça and Real Madrid CF. He won a league title with Juventus in Italy, four in Spain with Barcelona and one more with Madrid and later won a Dutch Cup in a spell at AFC Ajax.

• He moved into coaching with Brøndby, winning the Danish Cup in 2002/03 and a league and cup double in 2004/05 before leaving in 2006. He replaced Bernd Schuster at Getafe last summer after the German was hired to coach Madrid.

• Benfica have now played 19 games against teams from Spain, winning five, drawing six and losing eight.

• Notable victories against Spanish opposition include two successive European Champion Clubs' Cup final triumphs in 1960 and 1961.

• Béla Güttman's Benfica beat Barcelona 3-2 in the 1960 final at the Wankdorf Stadium in Berne, Switzerland. Férenc Puskás scored a hat-trick for Real Madrid CF in the final the following season, but two goals from Eusébio helped Benfica register a 5-3 win at the Olympisch Stadion in Amsterdam.

• In Spain itself, they have won just once – beating Real Betis Balompié 2-1 in the first round of the 1982/83 UEFA Cup – drawing another game and losing six.

• Since that win in Seville, the tide has turned for Benfica, and they have now not won in their last ten games against Spanish opposition, a run which includes a 7-0 loss to RC Celta de Vigo in the third round of the 1999/2000 UEFA Cup – Benfica's heaviest in UEFA club competition.

• Benfica attacking midfielder Rui Costa and Getafe's left-back Cosmin Contra played together in the Romanian international's only season at AC Milan in 2001/02. The pair helped the Serie A side reach the last four of the UEFA Cup, bowing out against losing finalists BV Borussia Dortmund.

• Congolese-born Benfica forward Ariza Makukula may be up against more than one former team-mate. He was a colleague of Getafe midfielder Francisco Sousa during a season-long loan at Real Valladolid in 2003/04 while he played alongside midfielder Javier Casquero and forward Kepa Blanco during his time at Sevilla FC.

• Blanco and Makukula were both in the Sevilla squad that won the 2005/06 UEFA Cup, but neither were on the field as Juande Ramos' men beat Middlesbrough FC 4-0 in the final in Eindhoven.

• Getafe's Albín, Casquero, Esteban Granero and Lucas Licht are within a booking of a one-match ban while Pablo Hernández and Braulio are suspended after being booked in Lisbon. Benfica's Óscar Cardozo and Augustin Binya are suspended, while Maxi Pereira and Luís Filipe remain within a booking of a ban. Petit returns after a one-match suspension.

• Getafe finished top of Group G to qualify for the Round of 32 where they beat AEK Athens FC 4-1 on aggregate. Benfica defeated 1. FC Nürnberg 3-2 on aggregate in the first knockout round having parachuted into the competition after finishing third in their UEFA Champions League group.

•Benfica reached the UEFA Cup Round of 16 last season, beating Paris Saint-Germain FC 4-3 on aggregate before losing out in the last eight to Getafe's Primera División rivals – and eventual losing finalists – RCD Espanyol.

• The draw for the quarter-finals and semi-finals of the UEFA Cup will be held at UEFA HQ in Nyon on Friday 14 March at 14.00CET.