Two wonderful Champions League quarter-final participants have teamed up to battle it out for a place in the quarter-finals when Atletico Madrid host Borussia Dortmund in Spain on Wednesday.
None of the clubs have performed extraordinarily well domestically. Madrid are fourth in La Liga, clinging slightly to a qualification place for next season, while Dortmund’s situation is even more serious, lately away from home in the Champions League they are in 5th place in the Bundesliga.
However, when it comes to European competition, neither team will give up and die. Dortmund won an incredibly difficult arrangement before knocking out PSV in the round of 16, and Madrid beat Inter in impressive fashion in the aftermath after going on to score on aggregate in the final. Time being.
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Antoine Griezmann’s fitness has been key for Atletico Madrid, as Diego Simeone’s side have struggled without him, losing to Barcelona and Cadiz in March when the Frenchman was not in the starting line-up, but is fit for this match, giving the hosts a primary booster.
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Atletico Madrid are a different team at home than they are away this season, and the contrast is stark. The 3-0 loss to Barcelona in mid-March showed that they were indeed beatable at the Metropolitano, but before that, one of the club’s 11 defeats. This year in all competitions, and one of their five draws, had been at home.
Dortmund have been strangely upside down in the league, with 4 of their five defeats at home, but their only defeat in the Champions League was away from home, and overall BVB can score.
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While the over gives a little more price here, there is a smart chance that this game will end in a 1-1 draw, something Dortmund have faced in two of their last three UCL matches. However, there is a smart chance that either group will locate the net in this first leg, hoping to stay in the match as a whole.
Both teams have found the net in five of Atletico Madrid’s eight Champions League matches, taking two of their four home games, and both teams have been beatable at the end of the season.
Atletico Madrid are not a vertically trending team, but Borussia Dortmund can be, and the Spaniards concede corners in batches. Madrid have conceded an average of 5. 42 corners per game this season in La Liga and Europe, and Dortmund have conceded an average of 5. 5 per game this season. game won.
The German side have been particularly in this direction lately, accumulating 8 corners in the weekend’s home loss to Stuttgart, where they failed to score despite 16 shots valued at 2. 48xG, and also scored 8 against Eintracht Frankfurt at mid-match. They even controlled 4 corners despite only 39% of the ownership opposing Bayern Munich in the win.
This first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals will be broadcast in English exclusively by Paramount, as CBS Sports reported that the PSG vs Barcelona match will be televised on the network.
In the UK, the match will be televised locally on TNT Sports 2 and broadcast on the broadcaster’s dedicated streaming service, Discovery. In Canada, the exclusive streaming provider for the UEFA Champions League is DAZN, which will broadcast as it does for each and every match. in this year’s UCL competition.