MADRID 17 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Atalanta and the AC Milan Italian must overcome the Belgian Witch and the Dutch Feyenoord to get into some round of 16 of the 2024-2025 Champions League closer for the German Bayern Munich and the Portuguese Benfica, with advantage after the home to home against Celtic FC Scottish and Monaco, respectively.
The two teams in the series will try to amend the defeats embedded as visitors last week before their public, both by the minimum, so they still maintain their favoritism to be among the 16 best of the maximum continental competition and maintain the fight with LaLiga EA Sports for reaching that extra square for the next Champions.
The Atalanta will have to improve its performance somewhat as in the Gewiss Stadium (21.00) in this Champions not to spend trouble. Gian Piero Gasperini’s team was only able to win against his fondness for the Sturm Graz Austrian (5-0), tieding without goals against Arsenal and Celtic and losing to Real Madrid, but that triumph was the only one in his last 11 meetings of the maximum continental competition.
In front, however, he will have a witch that, on the contrary, he loses some strength when he leaves Jan Breydel. In fact, the team that Trains Nicky Hayen was not able to win at home in the League phase in which the last one was left.
Anyway, the offensive and daring style of the current champion of the European League will try to impose itself against a witch who has managed to be ordered, fitting only twelve goals, an argument that has served to enforce the nine that he has scored.
On the other hand, in San Siro (18.45 hours), AC Milan will also try to lift the 1-0 that was brought from the first leg of the Kuip stadium where he was dominated by a Feyenoord who parked his small crisis and that Now he will try to leave out seven times European champion.
Paixao’s early goal gave the Rotterdam team, winner for the first time of a eliminatory match in the Champions, in the face of being in the round of 16, for which he hopes to show his best face at home, which could be seen Before Manchester City (3-3) or against Girona FC (2-3), and not that of its last European exit, the Hard 6-1 embedded before the Losc Lille.
The Feyenoord must be striving again in stopping the offensive front ‘Rossonero’, headed by his former delantero Santi Giménez, seconded by the Portuguese Rafael Leao and Joao Felix, and the American Christian Pulisic, in what can be a very daring eleven of Sergio Conceinçaoo . At the moment, the Mexican and the end, with goal and assistance respectively, were key to the victory of last weekend against Verona (1-0).
Statistics and advantage support Bayern and Benfica
Less problems should have another European champion like Bayern Munich German to go through seventeenth consecutive season to the round of 16 and be able to be one of the two rivals that the Atlético de Madrid could face in the next round.
The Muniqués team was superior in the first leg to beat a volunteer Celtic FC Scockeys 1-2, who managed to come alive at a return in the Allianz Arena (21.00) where the premises will try to pull their experience and efficiency in this type of crosses since they have won 28 of the 29 they faced with an advantage in the first leg.
Brendan Rodgers team has already lived a bad experience in Germany, where he has never won, falling into the 7-1 League phase against Borussia Dortmund and must deal with his traditional bad statistics as a visitor in Europe since he has only won One of his last 15 games at home, losing eleven.
Finally, at the Da Luz de Lisbon stadium (21.00), Benfica will seek to leave As Monaco out, which he beat, as he already did in the League phase, in the first leg in the Principality by 0-1, a result that he will want To enforce its audience, although in the league it was not too solid, with only four of the twelve possible points.
The statistics support the Portuguese team, who has only lost one of its 21 European competition qualifiers in which it won home, while the Monegasque team must break its bad dynamic against Portugal rivals to those who have not been able to Win in their last nine games to return to some round of 16 years after the season in which the semifinals reached under the irruption of a young Kylian Mbappé.