Monday, April 10, 2017

Preview: Champions League - Quarterfinals

The draw for the quarterfinals of the Champions League were drawn on March 17 in Switzerland. Once one of the best teams in the world qualified for this stage of the tournament, quarterfinals outlining be quite interesting. Now let's look at what awaits us in the next phase
of the tournament.
Champions League quarterfinals - lots

The teams reached the quarterfinal stage of the tournament are:

    Atletico Madrid (Spain)
    Barcelona (Spain)
    Real Madrid (Spain)
    Bayern Munich (Germany)
    Borussia Dortmund (Germany)
    Leicester (England)
    Monaco (France)
    Juventus (Italy)

Here's who clashes after the draw:

    Atletico Madrid (Spain) - Leicester (England)
    Borussia Dortmund (Germany) - Monaco (France)
    Bayern Munich (Germany) - Madrid (Spain)
    Juventus (Italy) - Barcelona (Spain)

With such strong teams reached this stage of the tournament, there is no such thing as an easy draw. However, the draw for Atletico Madrid most closely to easy after his team fell to play with the champion of England - Leicester.

Leicester are a team that constantly brings surprises. In 2015 they fought for survival in the Premier League and in 2016 won the title. Now the team is trying again shocked the football world by this time, he does win the Champions League. However, this will become easy. Leicester are the only team in the quarter-final stage located outside the top four in their domestic championship, but also against them are strong and well-organized team of Atletico Madrid.

Under the leadership of Diego Simeone, Atletico have played two finals in the last three years. Currently the team is fourth place in La Liga, and the presence of players like Antoine Griezmann they certainly have enough class to remove Leicester.

Borussia Dortmund - Monaco

Monaco qualified for the quarterfinals after two incredible matches with Manchester City, who finished with a total score 6-6. In Ligue 1 team performed very strongly at the moment are the top ranking as one of the main reasons for this is a great form of Falcao.

Dortmund suffered a 1-0 loss in the first match against Benfica of the knockout round of the Champions League, but quickly managed to recover and won the second leg 4-0. Adding and decent game in the Bundesliga where they have 4 wins in their last 5 games, it definitely can say that the team has the necessary qualities to overcome Monaco.

Bayern Munich - Real Madrid

This is a game that most viewers would prefer to watch as the final of the tournament, but the draw detachments these two teams meet in the quarterfinals. This meeting is an opportunity for Carlo Ancelotti to face his former club. Bayern Munich qualified for this stage of the tournament, having crushed Arsenal in the second round and removed them after a total score of 10-2. There are likely winner of this match to qualify for the finals but it most likely will be juicy and favorite to win well.

Real Madrid are one of the best teams in the world. At the moment they are at the top of La Liga with three points ahead of Barcelona with a game less. After defeating Napoli 6-2 on aggregate in the second round, Real should be in a very good mood before this match that will look to show once again why many people consider them the best team in the world.

Juventus - Barcelona

Quarterfinal match between Juventus and Barcelona could be one of the worst matches to look after the team with the best defense confronts this with the best attack. Team Juventus has allowed only two goals in the door in their matches until he reached the quarterfinals. In Serie A team is full dominant and it seems that will win the title. 'Old Lady' hopes that precisely because of its strong defensive game will be able to Barcelona side who looked quite vulnerable in the second round.

Second round were quite heavy for Barca. Team lost the first match against PSG 4-0 and it seemed that he would bid farewell to the tournament. Incredible play in the second leg at home and winning 6-1 but ranks ahead. This time, the team can not afford losing 4-0 in the first encounter for the simple reason that in the second leg will be almost impossible to score six goals against the team with the best defense in the tournament. Currently, Barcelona have scored 26 goals in the tournament which makes them the team scored the most goals. The hopes of fans are trio MSN to cause Juventus to open and thus their score goals, because if the "old lady" able to adapt to the game of Barca, then I think we can expect a very boring game filled with countless passes in the middle of field.


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