Week 5 of Group G of the Champions League.
Both teams are tied at 9 points but Real Madrid is leading by goal difference.
Bad feelings for the team of Solari after the defeat by 3-0 in the last day of League in Ipurúa before the Eibar.
Real Madrid came from 4 consecutive games won but, being the truth, the rivals were not much: Melilla, Viktoria Plzen, Valladolid and Celta. What’s more, against Valladolid and Celta he had a hard time.
Real Madrid have played 10 away games this season bringing together all competitions:
Real Madrid vs Eibar: 3-0
Real Madrid vs Celtic: 2-4
Real Madrid vs Viktoria Plzen: 0-5
Real Madrid vs Melilla: 0-4
Real Madrid vs Barcelona: 5-1
Real Madrid vs Alavés: 1-0
Real Madrid vs CSKA Moscow: 1-0
Real Madrid vs Sevilla: 3-0
Real Madrid vs Athletic Bilbao: 1-1
Real Madrid vs Girona: 1-4
In the important fields he has not achieved victory. I speak of Camp Nou, Pizjuán or San Mamés. He has also lost in games against minor teams such as Alavés, CSKA Moscow or Eibar himself on this day.
He has won Melilla, Viktoria Plzen, Celta and Girona, minor teams.
In football, the team plays really bad. Lack of speed in the circulation, fluidity in the part superior and for what to speak of the defense, a total verbena. On the bench there is not much to choose from either. Casemiro will be out for this game in Rome.
Roma is a tough team at the Olympic. The last day lost away from home against Udinese 1-0, although it must be said that reserved all the holders for this important game.
Di Francesco’s team knows that they have to score in order not to complicate a possible qualification for the round of 16. If you score you get the classification mathematically.
From home he has played 8 matches and has only lost one, against the SPAL by 0-2. The rest is 5 wins and 2 draws.
He has faced teams of level of the Serie A like Sampdoria, Atalanta or Lazio. Against Napoli tied 1-1, although this game was in Naples, but I want to say that it is a complicated team to beat and competitive.
In Champions League it counts its two parties in the Olympic one with victories by win. Against Viktoria Plzen 5-0 and against CSKA Moscow 4-0.
In conclusion, Real Madrid does not give me a good feeling, neither for the game that it transmits nor for the bad moment that the most important players go through. To this is added the importance given by Roma to the game, the team highly motivated by their public and knowing that scoring ensures mathematically to move to the knockout stages.
PREDICTION: Real Madrid to win @ 2.18
