Basel – FC Porto
Today at 21:45 in UEFA Champions League, Basel will met FC Porto in a very tough match that promised a lot of goals. As you can assume the favorite of the match is FC Porto, one of the best soccer team in Portugal.
This is the first time when the two teams will face on the field,Basel progressed as runners-up from a tough group that also contained Real Madrid, Liverpool and Ludogorets Razgrad, while Porto were comfortable in topping Group H, but coach Julen Lopetegui knows his players must be at their best.
Basel is crossing a great stage in Swiss Super League, they are ranked on the first place in the standings. This season, they lost a very important match with Grasshoppers. Basel will feel that they need some suport from their fans, to have a chance and may well push the visitors close in this one, making for an exciting second leg.
By the other side, Porto have lost just one of their last 14 European fixtures at home and away. are undefeated in their last 4 matches in Primeira Liga. Porto won their group with relative ease and looked impressive in the process so they will rightly be favourites to progress to the quarter-finals. We expect that Basel will try to put pressure on FC Porto from the outset, but we don’t know if this will be enough to won the game.
Schalke – Real Madrid
Today at 21:45 in UEFA Champions League, Schalke will met Real Madrid in a very tough match that promised a lot of goals. As you can assume the favorite of the match is Real Madrid, one of the best soccer team in the world.
This is will be the third time when the two teams will play together, last time when they faced in the Champions League, Real Madrid won with a great score 3-1. Schalke reflect on the end of their European campaign last season
Schalke changed much from a year ago, they are looking to take a first-leg win to Santiago Bernabeu for the return match as his side prepare for their clash with the holders. “We have been working hard and Madrid are not unbeatable,” he says. Roberto di Matteo has a number of injury problems to contend with ahead of the welcome of the European champions.
Real Madrid will have plenty of positive memories when they continue the defense of their Champions League title by visiting Schalke today. Real espect a very intense atmosphere in Germany, they attend Schalke to take advantage of the opportunity that they have to get revenge, so the team is prepared for a tough game.
Real Madrid have won their last 6 matches in the Champions League (including qualifiers). The problem is that Carlo Ancelotti is without a number of key players as James Rodríguez, Sergio Ramos, Luka Modric and Sami Khedira that are missing and and this could make the team vulnerable.
