Tottenham and Actual Madrid both have a key playmaker in doubt for his or her Champions League quarter-closing first leg in Spain on Tuesday.
The primary ninety minutes of the final-eight conflict is under menace of being overshadowed by the conspicuous absence of a number of massive names; none larger than Portuguese ace Cristiano Ronaldo.
Ronaldo, who has netted 27 objectives in La Liga this season, is scuffling with a hamstring injury and sat out Actual’s 1-zero loss to Sporting Gijon on Saturday.
That defeat ended supervisor Jose Mourinho’s nine-year, a hundred and fifty-sport unbeaten run in league matches at dwelling, a stretch that began when the Portuguese boss was at the helm of Porto and included tenures with Chelsea and Inter Milan.
The loss also gifted league rivals Barcelona an eight-point hole on high of the Spanish table, effectively narrowing Actual’s hopes of a title in 2010-11 to 1 last resort - Europe.
To get there - and achieve his said goal of profitable the Champions League with three totally different golf equipment - Mourinho should extract the perfect of a squad that might be reeling from the lack of Ronaldo and several different key players.
Los Blancos had been additionally with out French aim-scoring machine Karim Benzema, Brazilian full-again Marcelo and Spanish World Cup winner Xabi Alonso on the weekend, with solely the latter probably of taking to the pitch against Tottenham.
Ronaldo is not any certainty, with Mourinho admitting playing the attacking midfielder can be to ‘gamble’ along with his fitness.
Spurs, in the meantime, shall be hoping they can make it back-to-back Real losses on the Bernabeu once they pay a visit, but are sweating on the fitness of Welsh winger Gareth Bale.
The 21-year-old, who has proven indispensable to supervisor Harry Redknapp in Tottenham’s surprisingly successful European campaign, has been troubled by a lingering hamstring strain.
He sat out Spurs’ zero-zero draw with Wigan Athletic in the English Premier League as a precaution, however is predicted to play some part within the quarter-final.
Spurs have only reached the semi-finals of the premier European match as soon as before in 1962, and their limp league kind heading into the house stretch has nearly actually resigned them to lacking out subsequent season.
Buoyed by their 1-zero away victory at AC Milan in the final round, in addition to Actual’s untimely harm concerns, Tottenham shall be confident of taking no less than a good ledger into their house leg in a single weeks’ time.
The primary ninety minutes of the final-eight conflict is under menace of being overshadowed by the conspicuous absence of a number of massive names; none larger than Portuguese ace Cristiano Ronaldo.
Ronaldo, who has netted 27 objectives in La Liga this season, is scuffling with a hamstring injury and sat out Actual’s 1-zero loss to Sporting Gijon on Saturday.
That defeat ended supervisor Jose Mourinho’s nine-year, a hundred and fifty-sport unbeaten run in league matches at dwelling, a stretch that began when the Portuguese boss was at the helm of Porto and included tenures with Chelsea and Inter Milan.
The loss also gifted league rivals Barcelona an eight-point hole on high of the Spanish table, effectively narrowing Actual’s hopes of a title in 2010-11 to 1 last resort - Europe.
To get there - and achieve his said goal of profitable the Champions League with three totally different golf equipment - Mourinho should extract the perfect of a squad that might be reeling from the lack of Ronaldo and several different key players.
Los Blancos had been additionally with out French aim-scoring machine Karim Benzema, Brazilian full-again Marcelo and Spanish World Cup winner Xabi Alonso on the weekend, with solely the latter probably of taking to the pitch against Tottenham.
Ronaldo is not any certainty, with Mourinho admitting playing the attacking midfielder can be to ‘gamble’ along with his fitness.
Spurs, in the meantime, shall be hoping they can make it back-to-back Real losses on the Bernabeu once they pay a visit, but are sweating on the fitness of Welsh winger Gareth Bale.
The 21-year-old, who has proven indispensable to supervisor Harry Redknapp in Tottenham’s surprisingly successful European campaign, has been troubled by a lingering hamstring strain.
He sat out Spurs’ zero-zero draw with Wigan Athletic in the English Premier League as a precaution, however is predicted to play some part within the quarter-final.
Spurs have only reached the semi-finals of the premier European match as soon as before in 1962, and their limp league kind heading into the house stretch has nearly actually resigned them to lacking out subsequent season.
Buoyed by their 1-zero away victory at AC Milan in the final round, in addition to Actual’s untimely harm concerns, Tottenham shall be confident of taking no less than a good ledger into their house leg in a single weeks’ time.
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