Monday, 14 September 2015

Real Madrid vs Shakhtar Donetsk Champions League Match

Iniesta 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. , ,