With titanic battle between Manchester City and Bayern Munich the quarter-finals of the Champions League begin, game expected to start at 22:00.
The English champions welcome the Bavarians in high spirits, coming from a 4-1 home defeat at Southampton and the return of Erling Haaland, who also scored twice. In addition, Pep Guardiola’s team, which this season looks overcrowded despite not being in first place in the Premier League, wants to reach for second time within three years in the final of the competition, and why not conquer it.
The “citizens” advanced to the “8”, after the imposing 7-0 at the “Etihad” against Leipzig, with their Norwegian top scorer scoring five goals. In addition, City will line up in armor for the match, as they do not face any injury problems.
On the other hand, the Bavarians have been in very good shape lately, having returned to the top of the Bundesliga and now have two points more than second-placed Dortmund.
Thomas Tuchel has gone to Munich hungry for accolades and titles and he knows very well the way to face the “citizens”, due to his presence in Chelsea. Furthermore, he knows perfectly well how he can reach the final of the Champions League, since he has already done it twice, the 2020 and 2021. In fact, the second one arrived as well conquest of, beating Manchester City 1-0 in the final. As for the absences, the Vyaros will not have at their disposal Hernandez, Neuer, Tell and Tsupo-Moting.
Possible lineups:
Manchester City (Pep Guardiola): Ederson, Akanji, Diaz, Ake, Stones, Rodry, Mahrez, De Bruyne, Guidogan, Grealish, Haaland.
Bayern Munich (Thomas Tuchel): Sommer, Stanisic, De Ligt, Upamecano, Davies, Kimmich, Goretzka, Coman, Musiala, Mane, Miller.
In the other game of the night, the outstanding this year Benfica welcomes her Inter (22:00), in a game of great interest. The “eagles” passed easily with two wins from Bruges, with a total score of 7-1, and can be the pleasant surprise of the competition, since they were drawn on the -theoretically- easy path.
Roger Schmidt will not have him available Nicolas Otamendi, who completed yellow cards and has no right to participate in tonight’s game.
On the contrary, Inter needed the help of luck to qualify for the quarter-finals, since a goal from Lukaku in the first leg was enough to get the privileged ticket, while in the second the goalposts were an ally of Onana, to be in it the point his team.
Simone Inzaghi’s team is having a mediocre season, so far 5th place of Serie A and coming from the draw at home to Charlenitana, wants to return to positive results.
The Nerazzurri go to Lisbon with all the weapons in their quiver, since there is no injury problem.
Possible lineups:
Benfica (Roger Schmidt): Vlahodemos, Gilberto, Antonio Silva, Morato, Grimaldo, Florentino Luis, Ciquinho, Joao Mario, Oursnes, Neres, Ramos.
Inter (Simone Inzaghi): Onana, Darmian, Acerbi, Bastoni, Dumfries, Barela, Brozovic, Calhanoglu, Dimarco, Lukaku, Martines.
Source: Sport Fm
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