Today will be interesting night in UEFA Champions League. In the Group H meets two teams, who demonstrate a really good football in Champions League this season – current two times champions of Europe Real Madrid and Tottenham Hotspur.
All action will take place on Santiago Bernabeu, where Real Madrid are brilliant. Madrid have not lost at home in the Champions League group stage since 21 October 2009. Their home group record since then are 21 victories and just two draws.
Both teams won their first two group stage matches – they beat Borussia Dortmund and APOEL on the same results (3-1 with BVB and 3-0 with APOEL). There’s no doubt, Tottenham are in good shape but Real Madrid are favorites – not just because they playing at home but because they are in different level and Cristiano Ronaldo are always very hungry in Champions League – he already scored four goals in two games.
There’s a lot of chance that both teams will score today. Real Madrid have Cristiano Ronaldo and Tottenham have Harry Kane, who also are very dangerous, especially at this Champions League season – in the last game against APOEL he scored three goals.
But that not only about these two players. Just take a look to Real Madrid statistics – they scored at least one goal in all last seasons Champions league matches. It’s something special. So, there’s a lot of chance that we’ll see at least one goal from Real Madrid.
If we look to the Real Madrid defense, we’ll see that they playing not bad this season in Champions League – they conceded just one goal against Borussia. But today Tottenham has more chances to score against them because Los Blancos has some problems in defense.
Dani Carvajal has a problem with his heart, so he certainly will miss this game. Marcelo back to from the injury and this weekend he played against Getafe in La Liga. But he was not so good like always, maybe it was because he doesn’t play in the last fourth weeks.
And Real Madrid defense suffered a lot this season in La Liga – the conceded at least one goal in the six of their last eight games. So, this statistics show that Madrid has some really serious problems in defense and that should be a chance for Tottenham.
However, although we have a lot of chances that we’ll see at least on goal from Spurs today but Real Madrid could easily score two or three goals. First of all, they will play at home, where they are always superb team. Second, the are current champions and always wants to win.
And the last reason why they should win today, it’s because they can’t do mistakes in this group. They want to finish in the first position, so they can’t lose very important points, especially at home matches. After this match, two weeks later, they will go to London and play again against Tottenham. And this match will be much more difficult.
By the way, Real Madrid are unbeaten in their last 11 games against Premier League opponents (W8 D3), since a 4-0 loss at Liverpool in the 2008/09 season. They have a really good statistics against English teams.
Betting Pick - both teams will score at least one goal and Real Madrid will win. ( Bet365)
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