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Champions League: real Madrid – Napoli and Bayern – Arsenal

Madrid and Munich take over the first matches of 1/8 finals of the Champions League.

Real Madrid – Napoli:

The reigning Champions League winner real Madrid in the play-offs will start the match scored the superlative form of “Napoli”. Both clubs dance attack, which gives reason to expect plenty of goals. Of course, real Madrid will be the favourites of the match against Napoli, but the Italians can surprise no less than Paris, on the eve of the defeat of Barcelona.

The team of Maurizio Sarri knows his strengths and ready to play with these cards. Talking about the the Belgian Dries Mertens, which is in Series with the active support of Insigne, Callejon and Hamsik have scored already 16 goals.

More intrigue make Albiol and Callejón, who previously played in the “Real world”. Fundamental this battle will be and experienced goalkeeper behind Pepe Reina, a native of Madrid and graduate of Barcelona.

Preliminary formulations:

Real Madrid: Navas – Carvajal, Ramos, Varane, Marcelo, Kroos, Casemiro, Modric – Vazquez, Benzema, Ronaldo
Napoli: Reina – Hisi, Koulibaly, Albiol, Ghulam – Zielinski, Diawara, Hamsik – Callejon, Mertens, Insigne

Stream: Football 1, 21:45

Prediction: 2:2

“Bavaria” – “Arsenal”:

“Arsenal” and “Bavaria” in recent years, managed fairly podnadoest each other. Over the past four years the clubs have met three times in the Champions League and each time the Germans were stronger. It is difficult to imagine that in this pair, that will change, but early to write off Arsenal’s still not worth it.

Bayern is traditionally the leader in the Bundesliga, but Bayern looks invincible. Almost every match in the wards Carlo Ancelotti has a problem, and only thanks to class, the Germans achieve their goal. For Arsenal, this may not be enough, and this time the second match of the playoffs Bayern will play away, forcing owners to play aggressively on the “Allianz Arena”.

Preliminary formulations:

Bayern: Neuer — Lahm, Martinez, Hummels, Alaba, Alonso, Thiago, Vidal, Muller, Robben — Lewandowski
Arsenal: Ospina — Bellerin, Mustafi, Casalini, Montreal — Alnine, Coquelin — Walcott, Ozil, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Sanchez

Stream: “Football 2”, 21:45

Prediction: 3:1

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