With Real Madrid against Milan as the main course of the 17, the Champions League will resume the competition of its renewed format with the fourth date this Tuesdayin which Liverpool, Manchester City and Borussia Dortmund, among others, will also have action.
On the eve of meeting again Milan, his former club, Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti, explained that he didn’t have the head “to talk about football”, after the floods that caused at least 217 deaths last week in southern Spain.
“It has been a week with great tragedy and we are sad. This is the emotion. We are very close to Valencia and all the affected towns. We are close to them and I hope it can be resolved soon.”declared the Italian coach this Monday at a press conference, and in this regard he added: “I want you to understand that talking about football is complicated. Also playing football; It’s very difficult because you don’t have your head on work all the time.”
He Real Madrid did not play its match against Valencia on Saturday, just like Villarreal against Rayo Vallecano, but the rest of the games of matchday 12 of the Spanish League remaineddespite the opposition of several coaches and players.
For its part, Milan coach, the Portuguese Paulo Fonseca, showed his admiration for Ancelottirecently voted best coach of last season at the Ballon d’Or gala. “Obviously, “Carlo Ancelotti is a reference for me, not only as a coach, but also as a person.”said.
The full day
At the 2:45 p.m. shift will be measured PSV ante Girona and Slovan Bratislava con Dinamo Zagredwhile at 17 the bulk of the day will be completed with Borussia Dortmund-Sturm Graz and Liverpool-Bayer Leverkusen (duel of Argentines between Alexis Mac Allister and Exequiel Palacios). The Reds are in a great moment this season, after accumulating eight wins in their last nine games and are the leader of the Premier League.
Besides, Celtic-RB Leipzig, Lille-Juventus, Sporting Lisbon-Manchester City and Bologna-Monaco too will be measured from 5 p.m.
Under the new dispute format, The leaders of the competition are Aston Villa and Liverpool with nine pointswhile Manchester City, Monaco, Brest, Bayer Leverkusen, Inter and Sporting Lisbon, with seven units, they would be accessing directly to the round of 16.
The surprise is the virtual elimination of Diego Simeone’s Atlético Madrid from all European competitionwhich -with Juan Musso, Nahuel Molina, Rodrigo De Paul, Julián Alvarez, Giuliano Simeone and Angel Correa on its roster- accumulates only three points in three games, the same situation as Milan.
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