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Wednesday, 3 May 2017

Monaco vs Juventus Match in UEFA Champions League

10:20

If there is a tournament suitable for football spectacle, it is without a doubt the Champions League. Monaco will face Juventus in the first leg of the semifinals of the UEFA Champions League.

Monaco has had spectacular growth in the last year, becoming one of the best teams in France. At the moment they are leaders of the Ligue 1 with 83 points, to 3 of distance of the PSG that is the second classified. Monaco is a totally offensive team. In the league they have scored a whopping 95 goals. Radamel Falcao is the star of this combo, and this season has managed to handle very good numbers. In Monaco Champions have surprised everyone, not only to pass as Group E leader, but also has managed to eliminate Manchester City in the eighth and Borussia Dortmund in the quarter-finals.

Juventus is the favorite to win the competition.Juventus is today one of the most solid and balanced combinations in the world of football. They are Serie A leaders with 84 points, 9 away from second-placed Roma, so you can practically say they are League champions. The Massimiliano Allegri distribute the ball well and are practically impenetrable. In the Champions League they passed as leaders of Group H with 14 points, after 4 victories and 2 ties. In the eighth they measured to Porto, that beat by 0-2 in the first leg and 2-0 in the return. In quarters they faced one of the great favorites, the Barcelona, to which they beat 3-0 in the first leg and with that tied to 0 in the return.

Monaco is a team with more potential offensive than Juventus, but less balanced. Juventus, meanwhile, commits little or no error and in fact has only conceded 2 goals in all that goes Champions.

Tuesday, 2 May 2017

Real Madrid vs Atletico Madrid Match in UEFA Champions League

09:47

Real Madrid vs Atletico Madrid Champions is here. There are only hours left for Merengues and Colchoneros to measure their strength at the Santiago Bernabeu in the semi-final of UEFA Champions League, and both teams arrive to the match with victories in the League. Those of Zinedine Zidane are favorites. Not only in his stadium, but in the tie and even to conquer the title.

Match At a Glance:
Real Madrid – Atletico Madrid
UEFA Champions League Semifinal
Date: 02 May 1^st Leg & 10 May 2^nd Leg
1^st Leg at Santiago Bernabeu

Are Diego Simeone's capable of eliminating Real Madrid from the Champions League? The Atleti has never been able to with his eternal rival in the Glass of Europe. Here you can see the Champions history of the Madrid derby.

Ronaldo comes into the game after scoring against Valencia. After his biggest streak without scoring the rojiblancos, he ended his drought by making a hat-trick in the league match at Calderon. So watch out for the goals of the Portuguese in the derby!

We also warn of the danger that Real Madrid has in the last minutes of the matches. And Atletico well know, having suffered as in the final of Lisbon. And there the great danger of the Zizou is undoubtedly Sergio Ramos, author of the miraculous goal of Madrid in that remembered final.

Atletico Madrid visit the Santiago Bernabéu with the main objective that the tie is alive and facing options with the return at the Vicente Calderon:

Simeone's players know how to react and an interesting bet is that Real Madrid come to advantage at halftime but Atleti tie the game in the second half. Atletico not only entrusts its star, but it is obvious that the success of Antoine Griezmann can be decisive in the tie.

Wednesday, 15 February 2017

Real Madrid vs Napoli Match in UEFA Champions League Feb 15

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Real Madrid receives the visit of SSC Napoli at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, this Wednesday, in a match corresponding to the first leg of the last 16 of the Champions League.

Match at a Glance:
Napoli - Real Madrid
UEFA Champions League 1^st Leg of last 16
Venue: Santiago Bernabeu Stadium
Date: 15 February 2017, Wednesday
Time: 07:45 PM (GMT)

The Spanish team comes after winning on their visit to Osasuna and with the obligation to repeat as champions of the competition, after the previous tournament was crowned winner of the Champions League for the eleventh time.

The Zidane team is currently one of the best teams in the world and are leaders of the Spanish league, with 49 points from 20 games. In the Champions League, Real Madrid have also looked good, finishing second in Group F with a record of three wins and three draws, and in total, 10 consecutive matches without knowing the defeat in the Champions League.

However, against Napoli, Real Madrid will be facing possibly the most entertaining team in all of Europe. Napoli has not lost since October last year and has won 11 of his last 13 matches in all competitions.

The Italian box also has translated its good action to the Champions League, where finished in the first place of Group B and remains undefeated away from home this season. In fact, the last game of Napoli as a visitor was a 7-1 win over Bologna, although of course you can expect a much tougher match against defending champion Real Madrid.

Match Results & Goals:

Real Madrid 3-1 Napoli (FT)
Goals: Real Madrid- Benzema at 18' minutes, Kroos at 49' minutes, Casemiro at 54' minutes.
Napoli - Insigne at 8' minutes.

Tuesday, 14 February 2017

Paris Saint Germain vs Barcelona Match in UEFA Champions League

06:16

Paris Saint Germain and Barcelona play in the first leg of the last 16 of the Champions League today from 08:45 at Parc des Princes, Paris .Barcelona is obliged to obtain a good result in Paris, with the objective of fulfilling their favorite team label to win the contest.

Paris Saint Germain comes from beating Bordeaux 3-0 in the Ligue 1, where the French team places in second place with 55 points. PSG arrives at the clash with 10 victories in their last 11 matches in all competitions.

Although the commitment will not be easy for PSG, those led by Unai Emery ended the group stage of the Champions League without knowing defeat, with a record of 13 points to place in the second place of Group A.

Barcelona, meanwhile, arrives with 11 matches in all competitions without losing. The Catalan team occupy the second place in the table of the Spanish league with 48 points, one point behind the leader Real Madrid.

Barcelona played as the team to win in this event and came to finish in the first place of Group C with 15 points.This will be the second time in three years that PSG and Barcelona face in the knockout phase of the Champions League. In the 2014/2015 season, Barcelona eliminated PSG in the Quarterfinals by a global 5-1.

Match Results & Goals:
Champions League last 16, first leg
PSG vs Barcelona 4-0
Alngel di Maria scored 2 Goals at 18 & 55 minutes
Julian Draxler scored 1 at 40 minutes
Edinson Cavani scored 1 goal at 71 minutes

Wednesday, 17 February 2016

Champions League: Gent vs Wolfsburg

05:23

The Gent receives Wolfsburg in a matchup of rookies in the knockout stages of the Champions League Football, in which the Germans, as a template, are favorites, although the Belgians want to keep dreaming.

The Gent and was the biggest surprise of the group stage, leaving out of the eighth to Lyon and Valencia, when started as the Cinderella of the group and no one was betting on them. The Vanhaezebrouck Hein, on the sly, and its multitude of tactics varieties (4-4-2, 4-3-3 and sometimes even 3-5-2) managed to sneak into the knockout rounds in their first Champions, making history after doing in the domestic championship achieving their first league title.

And it appears that the Gent fight for the second, and leading the Belgian league with Club Brugge, thanks to goals from Depoitre and Kums, numbering between 20 goals between league and Champions.

Meanwhile Wolfsburg also opens in the knockout stages of the Champions League Football, leaving in the lurch two historical of these rounds as Manchester United and CSKA. The Dieter Hecking showed remarkable performance in the group stage with a great deal of goals scored in the group stage, having scored 9 goals, being the Brazilian defender Naldo's top scorer with two goals.

All contribute in this Wolfsburg with his classic 4-2-3-1 and the top four (Vieirinha, Caligiuri, Draxler and Kruse) in a great form, start with some favoritism in this tie. Therefore, Wolfsburg hopes to pass the quarter-finals and maybe hopefully in the next crossroads, trying to repeat the story of the Borussia Dormtund 2013, that against all odds he got into the final of the Champions.

UEFA Football Match: Real Madrid vs Roma

05:20

The new Roma Luciano Spalletti, who comes from adding four straight wins in Serie A Football, discussed in the knockout stages of the Champions League Football challenge Real Madrid Zinedine Zidane, the conquest of the Eleventh, which should start breaking poor dynamics in ties against Italian sides in this release of the French technician.

The coming-of Zidane in the Champions League Football arrives in Italy, which witnessed its explosion as a player at Juventus between 1996 and 2001, before one of the players with more class that has gone through the Santiago Bernabeu triumph at Real Madrid.

With the conquest of the Eleventh as a major objective of the course, by the irregularity in the league and Copa del Rey incident that cost the elimination at the first hurdle by improper alignment, Real Madrid arrives in Rome with the aim of improving its performance home. Your safety and good game at the Bernabeu so far not been reflected with Zidane outside his home. The draw against Betis and Granada suffered victory reflected an aspect to improve if the white team wants to aspire to a title.

The meeting comes slope of the Brazilian Marcelo and Pepe Portuguese without Welsh Gareth Bale or Zidane. The absence of a natural substitute for Marcelo becomes utmost necessity that is recovered from his injured shoulder and force to play in the Olympic Stadium in Rome. It is a decision that will not take the coach until the last minute. If you decide not to risk, or Nacho Fernandez Danilo would be candidates.

Meanwhile, Spalletti can count on Rome with Daniele De Rossi, who recovered from the ankle problem. The skilled midfielder returned to training at full pace in the previous session after the appointment rest in the last game against Capri. It is ready to regain ownership.

The Roman FC box arrives to meet with confidence after the return of coach Luciano Spalletti, who returned enthusiastically to a group that in recent months the management of the French Rudi Garcia had lost motivation and continuity of results.

The Italian made a very intensive work to mental and physical level, increasing the pace of training and changing the tactical system, alternating 4-5-1 and 3-4-2-1. The defense of three has been used with good results, betting on De Rossi as a center next to the Greek Kostas Manolas and Ervin Zukanović and is the solution that gives more guarantees in view of the match against Madrid.

In midfield, the Roma can expect individual technique and great physical strength, with the Belgian Radja Nainggolan, the Malian Seydou Keita and Bosnian Miralem Pjanic. The latter, a specialist in free kicks, is starring in a great season and is the top scorer of the Romans, with eight goals.

Tuesday, 20 October 2015

Champions League Tonight: Malmo FF vs Shaktar Donetsk

21:29

The tent is erected, the ring is raked. Send in the clowns, acrobats and tightrope walking area. Champions League circus is back in town.That it is in matches against Shaktar Donetsk the largest number of straws for Malmo FF to arrest was clear right after the group draw ended. In comparison with Real Madrid and PSG appeared Ukrainians as relatively affordable. These would be this year's Olympiakos.

Now's not the Donetsk which a dozen gangs whatsoever. It is well only in group A can be counted as something pale. Regularly represented in this mästarcup, with a budget that gets Malmö piggy bank smelling marzipan and with sheer player that shows up far more than the so-called shining in their respective national teams.

We do not have old acquaintance Taison due to injury, he was replaced by Brazilian landslagsmannen Bernard on the left. But it is his countryman Alex Teixeira is the big danger. The offensive midfielder has so far been responsible for 16 of Shaktars 28 league goals.

The home team lacks notoriously suspended Yotun reimbursed by Pa Konate. Carvalhho has not recovered from the injury he suffered against Kalmar later and is out of the squad. No international strategic 5-3-2 formation is thus nothing to expect this time.

You can choose to talk up the team Malmö FF, the gains against teams such as Salzburg, Celtic and Olympiakos or fuel the legend of our Hexenkessel. Or one chooses instead to cushion hybrisen, take the dog position and allow the favorites be weighted in the Skåne soil of their own status.

It does not matter how you charge, just to do it. Loading. This is it.This could be the year's match. Again. This can be as magical as the dethronement of the Scottish and Austrian masters. Again. This may give points, perhaps even three. Again.

This is not the year's Allsvenskan, this year's Champions League. A tournament that has so far not only contained disappointments and defeats for our part. Here we still have a lot to gain. We're actually not even last in the group. Should anyone change his shirt, so it will be against visiting Bob Houghton's shirt. No one else outside the locker room sky is impressive enough.

Today Big Match: PSG vs Real Madrid

21:25

Paris Saint-Germain is the first test of Rafa Benitez Real Madrid in Europe, a team that seeks to give the definitive jump between large and claim the title, and that the lead time is played in the group stage as perfect yardstick of the evolution of a project undermined by lower major players.

The top of Group A is at stake in a double clash between PSG and Real Madrid, with first chapter in the Parc des Princes. There, where the 'Quinta del Vulture' rout fell in another era, comes a team depleted by casualties key players like James Rodriguez, Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema, in a moment that should enable a group of players stepped front.

The plague of low Madrid relieved in part by the return of Sergio Ramos, who will risk even without being a hundred percent of his left shoulder, and the Croatian Luka Modric, recovered late on muscle mishap with your selection.

In defense alongside the absence of Pepe Carvajal Dani and Alvaro Arbeloa, leaving a short Danilo so the only option on the right side are added. Against Levante showed that lacks physical tone and will have to prove he's ready for battle with complicated grief. Argentina's Angel Di Maria will be a tough test in his encounter with Real Madrid and the desire to shine before the team decided to give up feeling in the background.

Casemiro continuity in midfield despite the return of Modric is emerging as the bet Benitez pulse for first place in the group. Real Madrid started the competition at the Bernabeu goleando Shakhtar (4-0) and beating at home to Malmoe (0-2). He is unbeaten in their last seven games, five of which resulted in the victories. One of the two draws came in the Vicente Calderon with a defensive change that left criticism of the Madrid coach. It could use a win in a big house.

The test will last before a PSG full of great players who are facing a season that should be key to the aspirations of the club, for the period that their owners had to win European glory is met.

The team has never managed to win the Champions League, the major objective of the investment fund Qatar Sport Investment, which in 2011 took control of PSG took five seasons to achieve the prized cup, a deadline of the end of this season.

Although this is a game of the group stage, the match against Real Madrid will allow the French to know what continental level are at this point of the season. If lacerating injuries to the squad of Real Madrid, PSG also get touched by sick leave, although it has eased the disabled list on what seemed would be an overcrowded nursing.

All indications are that the Brazilian center David Luiz will miss the match against Real Madrid, but it seems to be recovered goalkeeper Kevin Trapp German and Italian midfielder Marco Verratti. "We have high hopes to win back players on the field. Not only will you recover them, but also to be competitive," said PSG coach Laurent Blanc before the meeting.

Monday, 14 September 2015

Match Today: Manchester City vs Juventus

23:39

The Argentine Sergio Aguero will miss Manchester City debut this season Champions League against Juventus by a knee injury, said coach Manuel Pellegrini.

Aguero limped off the field on Saturday in the first half of the 1-0 win over Crystal Palace in the Premier League, a result that kept the coach of the Chilean team with a perfect campaign this season.

David Silva, who recovered from an ankle injury, and Raheem Sterling, who had a hamstring problem, are able to start Tuesday's game against Italian champions after missing the match against Palace. Samir Nasri and Fernandinho could also return.

Aguero suffered an injury in December ligaments in a knee that sidelined him for seven games, but came back with a flurry of goals at the end of the season to finish as top scorer in the Premier League with 26 goals.

However, Argentina's only scored one goal this season, when he scored in a 3-0 win over Chelsea a month ago.

The City will also be without the injured Fabian Delph (hamstring), Pablo Zabaleta (knee) and Gael Clichy (ankle).

Chile could start the match against Juventus with Wilfried Bony as one man in attack. The Ivory Coast is the only available striker who has the City, as Kelechi Iheanacho, the 18 Nigerian scored the winning goal against Palace, is not registered for the Champions League. (Reporting by Simon Jennings in Bangalore. Published in Spanish by Rodrigo Charme)

The Italian side, a finalist last season, also announced that Marchisio will be out for a month a hamstring injury in his right thigh.

The midfielder returned the weekend against Chievo Verona after a three week break with a knee injury, but could not complete another goal after injuring his hamstring.

Marchisio will miss the Champions League encounter against City and Sevilla, four games in Serie A and two in the Italian team.

Champions League: Manchester United vs PSV

23:35

Manchester teams focus attention on the first day of competition of the Champions League on Tuesday, with the star match between Manchester City City and Juventus and return to the continental tournament after a year's absence Manchester United in the field of PSV Eindhoven.

Manchester United will hear the anthem of the Champions League after a year's absence during his visit to Eindhoven to face PSV (1:45 pm), in group B.

Manchester United, which has a large recent past in the Champions League - champion in 2008 and finalist in 2009 and 2011 - will be without their captain Wayne Rooney in what will also be the return of Dutch winger Memphis Depay, protagonist in the run-up to the Bruges (3-1 and 0-4), the Phillips Stadium.

Manchester United is motivated after his great 3-1 win over Liverpool, in the premiere scorer Anthony Martial, for whom almost 90 million were paid, and who could replace Wayne Rooney. The team coached by Louis van Gaal will leave everything for his first win in the group stage, after missing last season. How far will they arrive?

Real Madrid vs Shakhtar Donetsk Champions League Match

22:57

Real Madrid, at its best after overcoming a hesitant start to the season, will start Tuesday against Shakhtar Donetsk on the way to his eleventh European Cup last year disrupted after losing semi-finals against Juventus.

As every year, the premiere in the group stage of the Champions League brings many illusions in a club that always dreams of lifting a trophy won two seasons ago. The elimination of last year in the penultimate round broke the Real Madrid forward to achieve two "eared" followed and face Barcelona in the final.

Now a team led by Rafael Benitez, already with the Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti in memory, try to walk briskly across the continent from the start. Nobody wants to entrust to a theoretically smaller but very dangerous team and, in Group A, will try to surprise and qualify with Real Madrid and Paris Saint Germain as favorites and Malmoe Norwegian as Cinderella.

Shakhtar will be at the Bernabeu a team with the moral by clouds after the last two results. The 5-0 against Betis two days ago confirmed the white scoring recovery after several friendly matches and league debut with few goals (0-0 against Sporting prevented full of victories in the league).

And the 0-6 against Espanyol at the Estadi Cornella-El Prat scoring reaffirmed that the steamroller works and, as the way, calmed the anxiety of Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored five goals after signing seven consecutive meetings without seeing goal.

Precisely the posts there are new winds. After the failed signing of David De Gea, who this week renewed for four seasons with Manchester United, Keylor Navas, who was to be used as currency in the operation, he has managed to keep a clean sheet in the first three days League.

Shakhtar also come to Madrid with the country's instability background. Since May last year played their home games not in Donetsk, the stronghold of the pro-Russian rebel, but in Lvov, in the heart of Western and nationalist Ukraine, which, in many cases, have against the supposedly home crowd .

Shakhtar now dreams of the semifinals. The best result of the Ukrainian team were unable to overcome quarters in 2010/11. Last, he got stuck in eighth after being eliminated by Bayern Munich after suffering a 7-0 in the return. Like Real Madrid, which starts at full speed your way to the "Eleventh" Shakhtar also wants to overcome their own challenges.

Monday, 13 April 2015

UEFA Match Today: Atletico Madrid vs Real Madrid

09:46

The Champions League revive an enormous challenge between Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid, final tournament last season, this time with a semifinal berth at stake, with the start of the tie at the Vicente Calderon and rematches pending in the seventh match of the course between them.

For Atletico, by competition, it lost in the last minute of the game, the first time, and in overtime, then against that opponent in the final of the European Cup in Lisbon last May 24; for Real Madrid by collisions of this campaign, the most recent a crushing 4-0 Atletico field.

He has not beaten the Whites none of the six contested derbies this season. Neither the Supercopa of Spain, won by Atletico with a 1-1 at the Santiago Bernabéu and 1-0 at the Vicente Calderon, nor in the league, with Atletico wins, or the Copa del Rey with the pass of Argentina's Diego Simeone team.

From the technical and the jump that gave Atletico in the last three years, the derby has been transformed back into a duel of high significance in every encounter.In the past two years, have played two finals each other and have disputed the league last year provided between passion, tension and intensity.

A lack of training on Monday at the Vicente Calderon, that is the possible eleven Atlético, winning and unbeaten in their four games at home this season in the Champions League, which has not lost any of their last eight official meetings and has only one goal at home in the last two and a half months.

In a key moment of the season and a tie that mark to one of the clubs, all the staff of Real Madrid is available. Comes with more minutes in the legs eleven of Real Madrid in the season but with more recent break.

Real Madrid have won eight of their last ten Champions League outings. The revalidation of being the first club that wins the title two consecutive years reaches its peak.

Juventus vs Monaco Champions League Quarter Final Match 2015

09:40

In the run to confirm his victory in the Italian league, Juventus faces the clear favorite, the first leg of the quarterfinals of the Champions League against Monaco, one of the surprises of the competition.

It will be a rematch of the semifinals of the 1997/98 season, when Juve, led by Marcelo Lippi, won the trip to Monaco Jean Tigana 4-1 advantage in the Louis II retained despite fell 3 -2.

The "Vecchia Signora" expects confirm that condition favorite to return to Europe despite twelve years after his last semifinal in the continental showpiece, in a season that seems to have found its former greatness again.

But after stumbling against Parma, bottom club in the thirtieth day of Serie A, the coach Massimiliano Allegri has asked his staff, undisputed leader of the league with twelve points ahead, more concentration to avoid a scare in Europe.

The former coach of Milan bet on your best starting lineup, with the known exception of the French injured Pogba. So, predictably ahead will be the ensemble formed by the forwards Carlos Tevez and Álvaro Morata, wreckers in the away win over Borussia Dortmund (0-3) in the second leg of the second round of the Champions League.

The evergreen Andrea Pirlo, although it has been called, is still recovering from his recent injury and is not yet clear whether Allegri decided to have him throughout the match or alternate.

Something that seems to care less at the tip of the attack, where the veteran Berbatov seems to lease your Martial put the youth.

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

UEFA Big Match Tuesday: Barcelona vs Manchester City

01:34

The Barcelona faces the challenge knockout against Manchester City in the best of conditions, at a good time playing, as leader of the Spanish League and the best version of Leo Messi.

After 1-2 from the first leg, Luis Enrique Martinez are favorites to become a place among the top eight teams of the continent again, a privileged position which has become accustomed.

He comes crunch time Barca in the same week. In five days continuity in Europe and the possibility of leaving a little behind in the league to Real Madrid, two matches at the Camp Nou, where Barça played except two point punctures (Celta and Málaga) has remained good level.

To this must be added the influence that the Catalans on English teams, who has overcome lately except that Chelsea in the 2011-2012 season, the day that Pep Guardiola's Barça began to say goodbye bench.

In fact, the Catalans seek record eight consecutive appearances in the quarterfinals. In the last 30 games of the Champions League played at the Camp Nou, Barça have only lost one, with 23 wins and 6 sempates. Before the English teams at home, Barça have won 16 games, tied 11 and lost both.

The only question in the side of Barca is precisely on who will be the substitute in defense of Mascherano. The two options are Marc Bartra and Jérémy Mathieu, two players with a completely different profile.

The two go well in the passing game, Bartra has better ball out the French and Mathieu probably better anticipation on the play.The rest of the alignment seems clear. He will play the German Ter Stegen at the door, German is the holder matches Champions League.

The City comes to Barcelona after the humiliating defeat against Burnley last weekend (1-0). Manchester City seek a new epic night in Europe to overcome the tie against Barcelona and achieve the desired pass to the quarterfinals of the Champions League.The City, which was virtually eliminated from the competition with just two games left in the group stage, achieved heroic victories over Bayern Munich (3-2) and Roma (0-2) to access the hype round.

Borussia Dortmund vs Juventus 18/3/2015 - UEFA Champions League

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Borussia Dortmund, reborn after leaving behind the crisis of play and results in the Bundesliga, will try to trace the 2-1 wins against a Juventus in Turin, with the league title in his pocket, wants to regain prominence in the European Champions League.

After 2-1 embedded in the idea the work ahead for the Dortmund is not easy but affordable. A pro-Jürgen Klopp speaking pupils that have won ten of the last thirteen games in the Champions League played at home.

Dortmund has also managed to clearly improve on defense, having had many problems in the first part of the season. In attack, however, shown with little stuck in the past two Bundesliga matches that have ended in goalless draws against Cologne and Hamburg.

Klopp will have to dispense the right side Luckasz Piszcek, a position he has played in recent commitments Oliver Kirch. Go ahead, it is possible that the technician decided by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang as man pointed to the detriment of the Italian Ciro Immobile.

The juventino picture, which won the first leg with goals from Carlos Tevez and Spanish Álvaro Morata, knows that the shock will not be easy and provides a tremendous push from Dortmund.

Despite initial doubts, Massimiliano Allegri finally have one of the stars of "Juventus" Overall, the French striker Paul Pogba, who has just recovered from a slight hamstring injury.

What seems certain is the presence in the attack of Tevez and Morata, which ended last weekend adding his tenth goal and has since become one of the essential pieces of Turin puzzle.

In contrast, no play Andrea Pirlo, who is still recovering from a strained right calf.

Wednesday, 18 February 2015

UEFA Match Today:Real Madrid vs Schalke 04

04:22

In another key to the knockout stages of the Champions League 2015, Real Madrid will face Schalke 04 in Germany and is in search of victory and Cristiano Ronaldo to reconnect with the player everybody knows.

The star of Real Madrid and last Ballon has not scored in his last three games and has only scored four times in the last 10. A twist to a season that started with a stellar record of 17 in his first 11 parties.

The good news is that Schalke is the next rival Real Madrid, as measured on Wednesday against the Germans in the knockout stages of the Champions League.The run by Carlos Ancelotti said goodbye to the Copa del Rey after losing to Atletico Madrid, who then endorsed them 4-0 in the league.

Finally Ancelotti can count on Marcelo and not have to improvise on the left flank. The Brazilian did not end the match against Deportivo Coruna but the blow to his right ankle was a shock. Dani Carvajal, who returns after resting in the league, behind completed.

You must decide whether to keep the Italian coach in midfield Asier Illarramendi having a thorn in Germany with his poor performance against Borussia Dortmund last season, or give the first title to Brazilian Lucas Silva debuted last Saturday. The guides are white football Germany's Toni Kroos and Isco Alarcón, with fixed trident ahead.

Cristiano Ronaldo goals need to calm your anxiety and improve their status. A year ago he made two Schalke home with doublets also Welsh Gareth Bale and the Frenchman Karim Benzema.

Meanwhile, Schalke reaches the match against Real Madrid after falling at home against Eintracht Frankfurt (1-0), but with the conviction that the debacle of last season will not be repeated, when the white team will endorsed a 1- 6 in the Veltins Arena.It was not even on the bench for Schalke when the cataclysm occurred and reached the club preceded by his reputation for defensive specialist precisely with the mission of stabilizing the team in the rear.

Tuesday, 25 November 2014

Paris Saint-Germain vs APOEL - Champions League 5 November 2014

02:16

Paris Saint-Germain on track seek leave Thursday's qualifying round of the Champions League against Apoel Nicosia, something the French get if they maintain their perfect record and Ajax Amsterdam to Barcelona does not win in the other game the group.

The good results are, for the moment, hiding mediocre team play Laurent Blanc, which is next to Jose Mourinho's Chelsea and Bayern Munich Josep Guardiola, the only undefeated team in the continent.

If the Parisian coach said last weekend that the first half against Lorient was "the worst game" he had seen in his life, he did essentially to spur his men.

Before, they must face the test of Apoel, a team that despite presenting themselves as the Cinderella of the group has been in trouble with the three rivals.

PSG had to wait 86 minutes to take all three points in Nicosia and the lesson learned Cypriots seek to get something positive from the Parc des Princes.

But the truth is that the PSG is throwing at fault over the account to the Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who begins his seventh consecutive week absence with a long injury shrouded in mystery.

Moreover, PSG facing the European duel with an eye on the post that next Sunday will be measured in league Olympique Marseille Argentine Marcelo Bielsa, the "classic" French, who this season takes place in style.

Bayern Munich vs AS Roma Match preview - 11/5/14 UEFA Champions League

02:16

Bayern come to grief at home to Rome with the possibility to check in advance the first place in Group E of the Champions League and in the midst of a state of grace after fifteen competitive games without defeat.

Played for ten days and three Bundesliga Champions League Bayern conceded only four goals, adding the two competitions.

The previous match against Roma ended with an emphatic away win (1-7) which increases the clear favoritism for the German champions match tomorrow, although the team is aware that it is not easy to repeat such a night.

Hopefully Guardiola across the game with a 3-3-3-1, the scheme that has been playing most games.

However, this scheme is interpreted with great flexibility, especially when it has possession of the ball when the team lives primarily rotation positions to open holes in the opposing defense.

Guardiola can count Franck Ribery but for now there is no reason for changes in the holder. It is possible that the French from the field during the game.

Garcia will not risk a new team win Guardiola despite problems in defense, will field a 4-3-1-2 scheme covered with a computer, and midfielder Miralem Pjanic struck Xabi Alonso.

The lack of defenses do that Garcia does not have too many changes and the defensive line will consist of Manolas and Yanga-Mbiwa, Holebas and vie for a spot Cole and Torosidis.In midfield, Seydou Keita is confirmed as a starter with Nainggola and Daniele De Rossi.

Man City vs CSKA Moscow Champions League Match Tonight

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Manchester City's Chilean Manuel Pellegrini received Wednesday CSKA Moscow ready to sign his first win this season in the Champions League to safeguard options for progress in the tournament.

The champions of the English league has failed to show its best on the continent and in group E accumulates two draws (1-1 against Roma and 2-2 against the Russians) and one loss (1-0 Bayern Munich).

Looking to the match tomorrow, one of the last opportunities for "citizens" to book a place in the knockout stages, Pellegrini confident once again the genius of Sergio Aguero, totaling twelve goals in the first months of the season .

The technician is pending however the fitness of some of the key men in his team.The French defender Eliakim Mangala will likely recovered from the sore hip that left him out of the derby against Manchester United last week, while the Spanish David Silva is out permanently for a knee injury that will keep him off the field playing at least three weeks.

Serbian left-back Aleksandar Kolarov meanwhile faces one month out with a calf injury he suffered in the warm-up before the match against the "Red Devils", and English Frank Lampard can not play against CSKA muscle discomfort.

CSKA travel to Manchester with nothing to lose and everything to gain, since, thanks to the stumbles of rivals, a win would put him back in contention for achieving second place.

Evicted after two consecutive defeats against Roma and Bayern comeback against the team of Chilean Marcelo Pellegrini (2-2) two weeks ago in Moscow could be much more valuable than it looks.

The resounding defeat of Rome against the team of Pep Guardiola (1-7) becomes the game against Manchester on a second chance for the Russians, who have improved in recent weeks.

Although they lost the weekend at home to Zenit, leading the Russian league, Muscovites were sometimes insufficient times to get a better result (0-1).

The good news is that the Ivorian Doumbia, the top scorer in the Russian box, is increasingly shaped, but is yet to start out as a precaution.

Chances are that the Russian Leonid Slutsky and not risk dating back five defenders or midfield with extremely populated and the Nigerian Musa, already put in a lot of difficulties to the English defenses, as a lone striker.

Sporting Lisbon vs Schalke 04 Champions League Match Preview

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Sporting Lisbon plays his first 'match point' in the group stage against Germany's Schalke because a defeat would destroy the roots his dream of qualifying for the second round of the Champions League.

The Germans, meanwhile, come to this meeting with the ability to put one foot in the next round but also with low Julian Draxler, one of their key players, who did not travel to Lisbon for an injury to his right thigh .

The debate marked the duel between three weeks ago because of the thick refereeing errors -the referee gave a penalty against Sporting in the discount and hands that were not and ended up giving the victory to the premises, and even the people of Lisbon filed a formal complaint to UEFA, who rejected it.

After five consecutive seasons without reaching the continental showpiece, the "lions" hope to turn their situation and help close the table with just one point.

The staff led by the young Portuguese coach Marco Silva comes into this match under pressure after the harsh criticism last weekend after suffering a painful 3-0 defeat at home Vitoria Guimaraes.

In this difficult context, the meeting comes Thursday against Schalke, in which the people of Lisbon will have the significant drop of the Brazilian Mauricio, head of central defense and was sent off in the last European match.

Presumably, his absence will force central field two young Portuguese Paulo Oliveira (22 years) and French Naby Sarr (21) together.

Key in the first months of competition has been the backbone of the team contribution, consisting of the three midfielders (William Carvalho, Adrien and the young squad Joao Mario) and the end Nani, with the full confidence of the coach and has regained its most dominating version.

However, the captain Benedikt Höwedes played down and said nothing worth regretting downward Draxler, as the team has to cope with the players he has available.

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