Champions League: man city – Monaco and Leverkusen – Atletico Madrid

Matches in Manchester and Leverkusen will continue to 1/8 finals of the Champions League.

Manchester City – Monaco

Mentor “Manchester city” Josep Guardiola in his coaching career never took off in the 1/8 finals of the Champions League. To spoil the statistics of a Spanish specialist to try the leader of the championship of France “Monaco” – the team of Leonardo Jardim this season shows great attacking football, but because English is difficult to name the undisputed favourite of the pair.

The main intrigue of this confrontation promises to be a duel of two star Latin American strikers Sergio Aguero and Radamel Falcao. The Colombian scored this season in Ligue 1 and the Champions League 20 goals in 25 matches in this pair looks better.

Preliminary formulations:

Manchester city: Caballero — Zabaleta, stones, Otamendi, Kolarov — Fernandinho, de Bruyne, Touré, David Silva, San – Aguero
Monaco: Subašić — Sidibe, Glick, Raja, Mandy — Bernardo Silva, Fabinho, Bakayoko, Lemar — Falcao, Germain

Stream: “Football 2”, 21:45
Prediction: 2:2

Leverkusen – Atletico Madrid

Leverkusen 1/8 finals of the Champions League in recent years has become an insurmountable obstacle. Four times in a row “Pharmacists” can’t break into the quarterfinals two years ago in an unsuccessful series of the Germans extended atlético, beating Leverkusen on penalties. After that, the “Plans” got to the final, where a dramatic struggle lost to real Madrid.

Bayer long does not claim to be the Champions League zone in the Bundesliga, and because successful performance in the duel with Atletico – hardly probable not last chance for Roger Schmidt to stay on the coaching bench of the German club. This would be very difficult – still, atlético, despite the lack of stability in the domestic arena, remains hardened European competitors, which forces any team.

Preliminary formulations:

Leverkusen: Leno — Henrique, Dragovic, Toprak, Wendell, Belarbi, Aránguiz, Kampl, Brandt, Havers — Hernandez
Atlético: Cloud — Vrsaljko, Savic, Jimenez, Filipe Luis Koke, Gabi, Saul, Carrasco — Griezmann, Gameiro

Stream: “Football 1”, “UFO TV”, 21:45

Prediction: 1:1

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