Champions League: Matsares in “Giuseppe Meazza” and “Red Bull Arena”

Tonight concludes the first act of his “16” phase Champions League, with two very interesting matchups. The “lights” fall on Inter Milan’s game against Porto, in a fairly uneventful game, while Leipzig-Manchester City promises a great match with… lots of goals!

Inter-Porto (Cosmote Sports3, 22:00): “Giuseppe Meazza” puts on its festive gear to welcome the big game between Inter and Porto. The “neradzuri” are in a good competitive ‘moon’, counting nine wins and just one loss in their most recent 13 games in all competitions. In the Champions League group stage, they finished second in their group behind Bayern Munich, knocking out Barcelona. In racing, the important thing is that apart from Korea, they don’t face any other problems.

On the other hand, Porto he’s having a dream season, as for about four months now he hasn’t said… to take his foot off the gas. During this time, Sergio Conceição’s team has ten consecutive wins in all competitions and a total of 22 matches unbeaten! In their group at the tournament, they finished in first place, ahead of Club Brugge, Bayer Leverkusen and Atletico Madrid.

Possible lineups:



Inter (Simone Inzaghi): Onana, Skriniar, Acerbi, Bastoni, Darmian, Barela, Calhanoglu, Mkhitaryan, Dimarco, Dzeko, Martines.

Porto (Sergio Conceição): Diogo Costa, Joao Mario, Pepe, Marcano, Zaidou, Franco, Grujic, Eustace, Pepe, Taremi, Martinez.

Leipzig-Manchester City (Cosmote Sports2, Mega, 22:00): Score and spectacle are promised Leipzig and Manchester City at the “Red Bull Arena”, in a matchup in which the English are the big favorites, with the Germans, however, having the offensive “weapons” to trouble Pep Guardiola’s team.

The “bulls”, they come from the great double over Wolfsburg (0-3), a victory that revived the morale of the team, after the two consecutive gels that kept them in fifth place in the Bundesliga and -4 from the top. However, Marco Rose’s team has only one defeat in its last twenty official matches in all competitions! Tonight, he is called upon to manage significant absences, as apart from Gulasi and Dani Olmo who will be missing due to injury, forward Enkuku is also extremely doubtful.

At the same time now, manchester city, comes from the… bounce back with a 1-1 away draw against Nottingham Forest, a result that left them back in second place in the Premier League table and -2 behind leaders Arsenal. In the last month, Pep Guardiola’s side seem to have lost a bit of their freshness, especially in defence, where they have conceded goals in five of their last seven matches. The goal again this year, of course, is none other than the conquest of the Champions League trophy, which is so missing and chasing… frantically, both the team and its Saudi owners! In the competition, the “brain” of the team, De Brognier, was left out, as were the stoppers Laporte and Stones.

Possible lineups:



Leipzig (Marco Rose): Blazvich, Klosterman, Orban, Guardiol, Raum, Leimer, Slager, Soboslai, Forsberg, Werner, Silva.

Manchester City (Pep Guardiola): Anderson, Walker, Diaz, Akanji, Ake, Rodry, Gundogan, Silva, Mahrez, Grealish, Haaland.