This season in the Champions League, there were several big duels between teams that wrote the history of European football, and tonight in Madrid it's time for another just such clash - it's time for a classic, a duel between Real and Milan, the most trophy-winning teams in the most elite competition on the Old Continent.
The "Royal Club" has conquered Europe 15 times, the last one was last year, the "Rossoneri" have seven since 2007, when they defeated Liverpool in the Athens final and took revenge for one of the biggest reversals in history in 2005.
And in 2005, and two years later, he sat on the bench of the giants from the City of Fashion Carlo Angelotti - the "boss" of Real, who has won five titles in the Champions League since 2003.
- It's true, this is a special match for me, because everyone knows my history with Milan - Ancelotti said.
Karleto is a gentleman, so he left football aside - he didn't want to talk so much about what will happen tonight at 21:200 PM at the "Bernabeu" after the catastrophic floods in Spain in which over XNUMX people lost their lives.
- Talking about football is complicated now. In fact, I don't feel like talking at all, but since I have to, I will be as simple as possible out of respect for everyone - said Ancelotti.
Real did not play at the weekend, they were supposed to meet Valencia.
- The only rational decision was not to play. I don't care if it's good or not for us before the match with Milan. Football is not the topic here - the legendary expert pointed out.
The journalists, however, wanted to get something more from Ancelotti, so they asked him about the situation Vinicius Junior. The question was whether he was disappointed that he didn't win the Ballon d'Or eight days ago when it was awarded Rhodri.
- Vinny is sad, but not because of the Ballon d'Or, but because of everything that happened to Spain. Nothing is more important than human lives.
Real defeated two German teams (Stuttgart and Borussia at home), was defeated by Lille in France, while Milan won its first points only in the previous round when it justified its role as the favorite in the duel with Club Brugge at San Siro. Before that, he lost at home to Liverpool and in Leverkusen to Bayer Leverkusen.
- We are visiting the European champion and that is enough to know what kind of work awaits us - is the message of the "Rossoner" coach. Paul Fonseca.
Rafael Leao was announced from the first minute after he started from the bench in the last few games, and it is expected that the place in the starting 11 will be taken again by Fikayo Tomori i Emerson Royal...
An unusual match is in Lisbon, where Manchester City hosts the future manager of Manchester United Ruben Amorimu who will only spend this week on the Sporting bench. Tonight's match (21) will be his last at the "José Alvalade" stadium, where he won two Portuguese championships.
- I don't care much about all the talk before the match, I'm only thinking about how to get a good result. It's about City, a rival to whom we have to dedicate ourselves and be perfect if we want to get what we want - said Amorim.
He admitted that there will be emotions.
- This is my last home game with Sporting. How could there not be any?
A Pep Guardiola, who still has a lot of problems with the team due to injuries, talked for the umpteenth time about the busy schedule.
- It could also happen that we play 70 matches in a season. It's like in the NBA league, with the fact that there the players have four months of rest, and here barely three weeks - said the Catalan.
Vasilije Adžić made his debut for Juventus in the Champions League against Stuttgart, and he is waiting for new minutes tonight in Lille, while it could be interesting at "Anfield", where Liverpool is waiting for the German champion Bayer. "Reds" and Aston Villa are the only teams with the maximum nine points so far - the "lions" visit Club Brugge tomorrow evening...
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