After successfully qualifying from the group labeled the group of death in the European elite competition, rather easily, Bayern Munich managed to beat French power house Marseille 4:0 on aggregate. They face the beast on Tuesday, José Mourinho’s free scoring 11 are out and looking for the “Decimo” the clubs 10th champion’s league trophy.
Los blancos recently managed to regain their lead over their Catalan rivals in the laliga. Beating their noisy neighbors atletico 4 goals to 1. Portuguese super star Cristiano Ronaldo added to his impressive goal tally with two unstoppable strikes from outside the 18yard box. Cristiano Ronaldo currently stands level with Lionel messi at 41 goals in the la liga competition. (These stats are literally unhuman!)
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Real Madrid reached the semifinals of the competition with ease beating the Cypriot underdogs APOEL Nicosia 8: 2 on aggregate. Madrid has managed 4 wins out of 5 away games played in Europe managing to score 10 goals in total. They currently lead the Spanish league.4 points clear of Catalan giants Barcelona ,wining 4 out of their last 5 games.
They are a fast,and slick passing side ,with a master tactician and possibly the top players in the world in every playing position. With the likes of xabi Alonso, Kaka, Cristiano Renaldo in their ranks they are an intimidating team to face. Madrid's current form may be better, but in nine visits to Munich, the Merengues have not managed a win losing eight times and managing a draw on one
occasion . The last time real visited the alliance arena was in 2007 in the round of 16 , Bayern managed to go through to the next round on the away goals rule .
Die rotten captain, Philipe lahm is not getting carried by the statistics, speaking to the press during a Uefa press conference he said:
"We are expecting to play one of the best teams in the world and we are looking forward to this, even if we are full of respect. They are leading the Liga and having a great season."But our team is in good shape too. Everyone is working for the others; we have a good team spirit. Of course we still want to win titles. We are in the semi-finals of the Champions League with teams like Chelsea, Barcelona and Real, I think this shows very clearly the quality of our team. I think our situation is very good."
Bayern Munich lost the budesliga title to bursia Dortmund on Saturday night when they could not mange to beat mid table club Mainz 09. Bayern have managed to win 8 out of 9 home games played in the domestic league. Bayern striker Mario Gomez has been on great goals scoring form, managing 25 in the league and 11 in the European league 3 goals ahead of Ronaldo, and 3 shy of equaling Lionel messi.
Line Ups and injuries
Bayern trio, Frank Ribery, Mario Gomez, and Philip Lahm return to the starting lineup, after being rested on the bench for the weekend draw against Mainz. Bastian Schweinsteiger the creative heart of the German team returns, after serving a one match ban. Belgium international and Bayern center back Daniel Van Buyten and Brazilian Breno Borges will both miss the game due to injury.
Madrid are most likely to start with the experienced duo of Sammy khedira, Xabi Alonso, and the young turk; Mesut Ozil, as midfield Dynamo Lassana Diarra is out due to hamstring injury.
Neuer
Lahm, Boateng, Badstuber, Alaba
Gustavo, Schweinsteiger
Robben, Kroos, Ribery
Gomez
Bayern will try to take the game to real ,asthe home team, they will look to attack .during the game look for Bayern winger arijan Robben cutting inside and trying a few shots from outside the box ,with Gomez looking to poach a goal or two from the balls that bounce back into play from Casillas perrys .
Real Madrid
Arbeloa, Pepe, Ramos, Coencentrao
Khedira, Alonso
Di Maria, Ozil, Ronaldo
Benzema
Madrid will be all out attack as Jose murinho would like to seals his team’s fate in the first leg, away goals are crucial in this stage of the competition and real will be looking to get as many as possible. With wingers who are not that eager to defend, it’s likely that Madrid get caught in a text book German counter attack. Look out for Renaldo and lahm dishing it out on the field as these two players will be occupying the same side of the field.
Final Verdict
Bayern Munich Real Madrid
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