MADRID 11 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The German Bayern Munich and the Italian Atalanta will try on Wednesday their respective qualifying qualifiers of the Champions League against Celtic Scottish and Belgian witches, in which they leave as favorites, while more balance there are in duels between the Dutch Feyenoord and AC Milan Italian, marked by the figure of Santiago Giménez, and between the Monaco and the Portuguese Benfica.
The Muniqués, twelfth classified from the League phase, will try to amend his home problems in this league and get a good result in Celtic Park where a rival awaits him who will try to arrive alive at Allianz Arena in a duel between two champions of Europe.
The Bayern, continental hexacampeon, starts as a clear favorite to get into the round of 16 of the Champions League, but for this he has to forget his bad performance as a visitor so far since the three defeats he fit and that prevented him from being in the ” Top 8 ‘had far from Munich against Aston Villa (1-0), FC Barcelona (4-1) and Feyenoord (3-0), where he showed defensive laziness.
However, the Vincent Kompany team has its offensive potential in its favor, with 2.5 goals scored by meeting, which will test the Celtic fief, where the Scottish team has not yet lost this campaign and where it usually most competitive appear.
Glasgow’s team has never won Bayern in his previous four Champions duels and will have to scratch a great defensive level to control the powerful rival attack led by English Harry Kane. The Extremadura Jesús Gil Manzano will impart justice.
For its part, the Atalanta, third classified from the Italian Serie and current champion of the European League, will also seek to confirm the good feelings left in the League phase and sneak among the 16 best in Europe.
Gian Piero Gasperini’s team only lost one of his eight games of the Liguilla, at home against Real Madrid, and is also scratching at a high level in his championship, where he marches third to five points from the leader Naples.
The DEA will try to impose its attractive offensive style before a Belgian witches who has surely fulfilled at least the first cut, which achieved for the best goal difference with the Dinamo Zagreb Croata and after having had Manchester City at times against the strings . The second classified of the League Jupiler must improve its benefits in attack to have options to be in the round of 16 after scoring only seven goals in the first phase.
Santiago Giménez is reunited with De Kuip
The Wednesday of the Playoffs of the Champions is completed with two very attractive games and that, in principle, are much more matched between Feyenoord and AC Milan, and between Monaco and Benfica.
In De Kuip, in Róterdam and with arbitration of the Spanish José María Sánchez Martínez, two teams will be seen that they can boast of having been Europe A few weeks.
The Mexican scorer played the League phase with the Feyenoord and demonstrated his skills in the area with five goals, but now he will have to forget his most recent past since he signed for the ‘Rossonero’ team to occupy the hole left by Álvaro Morata and lead The offensive with Rafael Leao and another newcomer like the Portuguese Joao Felix.
The Feyenoord arrives a little animated after his victory in the eredivisie last weekend and that broke a bad streak of three defeats in a row, including the Hard 6-1 on the last European day against the French Lille and that evidenced that he has behind Weaknesses, although he was already able to beat (3-0) to Bayern.
Milan, meanwhile, will have to leave its certain irregularity in a duel that was not seen in the European Cup since the 1969-1970 season, with the victory of the Dutch team that would end up conquering that edition.
Finally, at the Luis II stadium, the Monaco and the Portuguese Benfic .
The Principality team will try to take the rematch of that game and get again strong in its fief, where it won their other three games, including FC Barcelona and Aston Villa, to take advantage against a rival that was irregular in the league with Great actions such as Atlético de Madrid (4-0) or Juventus (0-2) with other worst as before the Feyenoord (1-3) or Bologna (0-0) and which has the doubt of Ángel Di Maria .