Champions League winners and losers: Jose Mourinho's Benfica come up clutch; Real Madrid waste golden chance

Here's who came away happy and who didn't on UCL Matchday 8

What a day, what a day. A topsy-turvy Champions League league phase wrapped up in epic fashion, as 61 goals were scored, teams went back and forth to push for winners, and we even got a goal from a goalkeeper. Matchday 8 had something for everyone, and while we'll mourn the loss of the Americans who won't be making it to the knockouts as well as Antonio Conte's Napoli and Roberto De Zerbi's Marseille, this was an ending for the ages, so let's take a look at some winners and losers from the final day of the league phase:

From being confronted by Benfica supporters during the weekend because of them not being happy with the team's results lately, to taking down Real Madrid to push for an unlikely knockout stage berth. When Mourinho took over Benfica, they had already dropped two matches in the league phase, and it would take two more Champions League matches for Benfica to pick up their first points. They won three of their last four matches, but even then, it took a stoppage-time goal from keeper Anatoliy Trubin to make it happen. Not only is he the fifth keeper to score a goal in UCL play, but Mourinho didn't even realize that it was needed after going ahead 3-2 when chaos was ensuing. 

"When I made the last changes, [Franjo] Ivanovic and Antonio Silva, I was told [that] is enough, so let's close the door. When I made the changes a few seconds later, they tell me we need one more goal, but I cannot make more changes, so that was the lucky point to get a free kick that allows us to go there with the big guy," Jose Mourinho said after the game. What a night under the lights in Europe."

It's a wild moment in a game that had a bit of everything, and while it was a poor loss for Real Madrid, Champions League play always needs more Mourinho, and that's just what we're getting. 

While on one hand, you'd like to put Conte here, the Italian manager has been excellent at making it out of chaos unscathed. I mean, the man went from floundering at Tottenham to winning a Scudetto at Napoli. But they were unable to get the win they needed over Chelsea to move to the knockout stage. It has been the story of Napoli's season where they're so close to competing while also being so far from where they need to be. Some of this can be chalked up to not having a healthy Romelu Lukaku, who Conte was able to get a lot out of last season, but they're now nine points off Inter's pace for the Scudetto. It's hard to win a league title bin back to back campaigns, but a loss could see Napoli slip all the way to sixth behind Como. They are in the Coppa Italia for a chance at silverware this season but even that won't be enough to call the campaign a success. Watch out for the next poor result that Napoli have, because that could be when we get the biennial event of Conte walking away from a club.