Match of the Day 24.05.2014

Saturday at 21:45 Estadio da Luz will host the match of the football club Champions League final .

                                                                Real Madrid – Atletico Madrid
This year  the final of the most important European competition is a “business” in Madrid, Real following to meet Atletico Madrid.
Roijiblanco group can say it has a moral advantage to local rivals after winning the title in its detriment and Barcelona. Now he will be one game and anything is possible.

Atletico Madrid had a great journey in the current edition of the Champions League . Simeone ‘s team is unbeaten in this competition. In the last quarter he pass over Barcelona after a draw 1:1 at Barcelona and 1:0 at home. After this in the semi-finals he qualify even at Stamford Bridge where they won  3-1 with Chelsea.
For Atletico this will cbe the second big game after the “final ” championship with Barcelona, game that will need at least a draw , which he also won in the end.

Real Madrid is the favorite tonight, he suffered a failure in this edition of the Champions League. They  have won the group without problems, although they had to face Italian champions.
Schalke ordered with an overall score incredible 9:2. Real have some emotions in the quarter with Dortmund  when after they won 3-0, in the tour they lost with 0-2.
To be close to the present moment, let’s talk about the semi -finals, where Real had no emotions with Bayern Munich, the mwinner of Germany, and they won by  1:0 at home and with 4:0 in Munich at Allianz Arena.

It will be the fifth duel between Real and Atletico this season. Till now the advantage is at Real Madrid side, but the competition is a tough one.
The last matches of Real Madrid: 2 victorys 3-1 Espanyol, 2-0 Celta Vigo and 2 draws 1-1 Valladolid, 2-2 Valencia.

However there are soe problems before the final for both technicians. Cristiano Ronaldo did not train with the team until Thursday . For the other side, scorer Diego Costa has turned to a famous healer , who quickly healed footballers. He hopes that this will recover until the final hour . Unlikely but so Raul Garcia and Adrian were likely to have couple offensive David Villa.

The two teams know themselves very well and this could be important in the development of this game.

 

OUR VERDICT: the winner is Real Madrid