Eliminations in the Champions League again here. Tonight starts the second leg of the first knockout round in the tournament and will become clear with the first two teams place in the top eight of Europe. From 19.45 CET Real Madrid meets AS Roma and Wolfsburg accepts Gent for guests duels will be an incredible test of will and character to them.
Real Madrid, despite all its turmoil lately, there is a reason to feel a step away from the table. Spaniards won his visit to Rome with 2: 0 last month, which puts them in an ideal position before tonight's meeting of the "Santiago Bernabeu". It will be nine between two opponents in European competition as "white ballet" prevails with 4 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses. Basically Real play strong at home against teams from the Apennines - a total of 30 home games the team has won 21 (the others are 3 draws and 6 losses).
The hope of Romans says weird or not, Luciano Spalletti. Namely the Italian specialist headed for Roma last elimination Real in the Champions League. This happened in season 2007/2008 year when the two teams again played second round. Then the "wolves" have achieved two wins with 2: 1 and continued into the next stage. Interestingly another - Real Madrid was eliminated by Juventus in two games last year, which means that the final success of the Spaniards in this type elimanatsii dates back to the 1987/1988 season when they dealt with Napoli (total score 3: 1).
The facts about the game:
- AS Roma last reached the ¼-finals in the Champions League in 2008.
- The last time AS Roma won away in the Champions League against Basel (3: 2) in November 2010.
- Real Madrid only once has been removed in 30 cases in which he won the first elimination game in the tournament under the auspices of UEFA. The exception was in Odense season 1994/1995 - Spaniards then won with 3: 2 away from home, but "Bernabeu" fell 0: 2.
- AS Roma was one of his favorite opponents of Zinedine Zidane, while the current coach of Real was an active player. His aggregates the periods in Madrid and Juventus have 7 wins, 5 draws and only 2 losses.
- Cristiano Ronaldo was part of Manchester United, who twice in the Champions League quarterfinals game against AS Roma (2007 and 2008). In 2007, Ronaldo scored two goals in the victory in the second leg with a 7: 1, and next scored once in 2: 1 in Rome.
- In the camp Real threatened punishment when receiving a yellow card are casemiro and Sergio Ramos, while Roma are Daniele De Rossi and Radja Nainggolan.
- Benzema injured a thigh in the first half of the city derby against Atletico Madrid and most likely will not play tonight. Luka Modric is also doubtful for Real, while Marcelo restored and Gareth Bale returned to the game against Celta Vigo at the weekend.
- Kevin Strootman, although recovered from his injury in the knee will not take part for Roma tonight. The reason is that because of its long-term trauma Dutchman was filing for eliminations in the Champions League.
In the other game task of visiting Ghent will be lighter. Belgians fell by 2: 3 at home in the first leg when Wolfsburg frankly underestimated things. The team of Dieter Heking was about to pay, as an advance of wasted three clear goals that would have made the second leg virtually protocol. Hardly "wolves" will admit that mistake again, but the pressure will be fully on them. Possible failure of Ghent will certainly be considered a failure and therefore Wolfsburg will try too early to prejudge the outcome. Germans may acquire additional confidence from that win all three households in the group stages - 1: 0 against CSKA Moscow 2: 0 against PSV Eindhoven and 3: 2 against Manchester United. Furthermore, "wolves" are unbeaten in eliminations of exchanged visits when success out in the first meeting. So far the team has never dropping or go ahead in UEFA competition after a penalty shootout.
The facts about the game:
- Gent only twice in its history has played against German teams in European tournaments. Curiously, and in each of these collisions Belgians managed to win away from home. In 1991/1992 they do 0: 0 at home against Eintracht Frankfurt in the UEFA Cup and then continue forward after the 1: 0 in the second leg. In 2001 the tournament Intertoto Cup they won 3: 2 defendant match against Werder Bremen and then lost 0: 1 at home continue forward because of away goals.
- Gent ranked first in European competition once the four cases in which lost as the host in the first game.
- Wolfsburg move forward in all three clash in Europe, which won the first match as a guest (all three are in Intertoto Cup).
- Daniel Kalidzhuri is the only player of Wolfsburg threatened by punishment when acquiring new booked.
- In the camp of Gent five players have yellow cards and could potentially receive punishment.
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