The first place in the group is almost guaranteed for the hosts. On the other hand, Ludogorets has a minimal chance to qualify for the Europa League. The team of Kiril Domuschiev, however, must defeat the European Champion at the Santiago Bernabeu and then hope for Liverpool to lose at their home game with Basel.
Therefore, the hopes for success for Ludogorets are small. After a 2-2 draw against Liverpool in the previous round, Kiril Domuschiev left the stadium furious since it meant that the team will drop out of the UEFA Champions League.
In today's match as usually everything will revolve around Cristiano Ronaldo and his goal records. The Portuguese will certainly want to use the opportunity to make up the backlog from Leo Messi in the top scorer list of all times in the Champions League.
Real Madrid is also breaking some records. That weekend they exceeded the record of 18 consecutive wins in all tournaments of Barca. You don’t have to be an expert to conclude that the success today will improve that record and at the same time it will be near to the record of Manchester United for 12 consecutive home wins in the Champions League.
Ludogorets presents very badly as a guest in the matches from the European tournaments that season. The Bulgarian team doesn’t have a win away from home from the first qualifying round against Dudelange when it finished 1-1. Then there was a tie 2:2 as a guest of Partizan and lost with 0:1 by Steaua. In the group stage Ludogorets lost with a 1:2 from Liverpool and with 0:4 from Basel.
So now it will be very difficult to imagine that the Bulgarian champion will get something of a ‘fortress’ as the Santiago Bernabeu.
Here is some information about the players of both teams:
Real Madrid:
Goalkeepers: Casillas, Navas, Pacheco
Defenders: Ramos, Pepe, Varan, Marcelo, Carvajal, Nacho, Arbeloa, Koentrao,
Midfielders: Isco, Kroos, Illarramendi, Bale, Medran
Forwards: Ronaldo, Benzema, Čičarito, Hesse
Punished: Ramos
Injured: Modric, Hames, Khedira
Ludogorets:
Goalkeepers: Stoyanov, Ramya
Defenders: Minev, Shoko, Bart, Mantula, Vitino, Kejsara, Moci, Terziev, Al. Alexandrov
Midfielders: Michael Alexandrov, Dan, Marcelinho, Danae, Espinho, Abalo, Misidjan, Anise, Vanderson
Forwards: Kisada, Hamza
Injured: Bezak, Angulo
So, have you drawn your own soccer prediction? It has become clear that the winning chances of Real Madrid are much better than those of Ludogorets. Anyway, surprises happen all the time, we are looking forward to the coming match – and what about you?
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