The players, the media, the fans and the whole world awaits to see who gets the second ticket to the UEFA Champions League final in Berlin to play Barcelona. Juventus goes into the Santiago Bernabeu with a very slight advantage (2-1), and if they want to keep moving, Madrid will not make it easy on them.
One of the best defenses in the tournament, meets one of the best offensive teams there is. Los Merengues have scored 23 goals, making them the fifth best team in the competition. La Juve has only needed 15 to make it this far and to be ahead of Madrid ahead of the last 90 minutes of the semi-final.
The Italian side only concedes less than a goal per game (0.55), while the Spanish team and reigning UCL Champions has a slightly conceded goals average (0.77). If Madrid wins 1-0, they are the ones moving forward. If the game ends 2-1 in favor of Madrid it goes to overtime. A 3-2 for Madrid would favor Juventus.
We can expect Madrid to play with high-intensity right from the start. They know all they need is one goal to have some hope. They must do it against a team that may play with almost 10 players behind the goal line. With one of the best goalkeepers in the world (Gianluigi Buffon) having the final say in if a ball goes in or not.
Ronaldo wants to meet with Messi in the final and possibly tie with La Pulga, who has ten goals, as the leading scorer of the competition. CR7 knows what it is like to play in consecutive UCL finals, he already did so with Manchester United and would like to do the same with his current club.
Karim Benzema will finally get to play after almost 25 days of sitting out with a knee issue. Ancelotti will wait until the end to see if he starts of give Chicharito another shot as a starter and has Benzema come in later in the game. If time starts running out for Madrid, we could see both CH14 and Benzema playing together.
Casillas must improve a lot from his game against Valencia where he only had one save and was jeered by fans for not doing enough to stop Los Che's two goals. Iker will be playing his 10th game against Juventus. In the 2003 UCL
Massimiliano Allegri must be thrilled with the opportunity of having his team reach the final for the first time since 2003. The return of Pogba is something that could help him feed more balls to Carlos Tevez and Alvaro Morata, a former Real Madrid striker. Pogba will start this game if nothing changes in the final minutes.
In the quarter-finals, Juventus used a scoreless draw to make it to where they are at now. A similar strategy must be used this time against a team that has only one scoreless game in this UCL season and it was against Atletico in the first leg of the quarter-finals. Berlin awaits for its last guest, who will it be?
Team sheets for Real Madrid vs Juventus
Real Madrid's lineup: Casillas, Varane, Ramos, Cristiano Ronaldo, Kroos, Benzema, James, Bale, Marcelo, Carvajal, Isco.
Juventus' lineup: Buffon, Lichtsteiner, Bonucci, Chiellini, Evra, Marchisio, Pirlo, Pogba, Vidal, Tevez, Morata.
Real Madrid's subs: Navas, Pepe, Coentrao, Chicharito, Arbeloa, Jesé, Illarra.
Juventus' subs: Storari, Barzagli, Padoin, Pereyra, Sturaro, Coman, Llorente.
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