Los Blancos' condition is more promising

Munich, Beritasatu.com – Two giant clubs from Germany and Spain, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid, will face each other in the semifinals, legs first, Champions League, at the Allianz Stadium, Wednesday (1/5/2024) early morning WIB. The meeting of the two teams that destroyed the dreams of English clubs is guaranteed to be interesting, but the conditions Los Blancos more promising.

Hosts Munich qualified for the semifinals after eliminating English Premier League leaders Arsenal in the last eight. Meanwhile, Madrid successfully stopped defending Champions League champions Manchester City from reaching the last four.

Thomas Tuchel's troops will face the 14-time Champions League champions, in conditions of minimal achievements this season. Die Roten were overthrown as eternal champions by Bayer Leverkusen in the German League (Bundesliga). Then in the German Super Cup, RB Leipzig was eliminated. Small team Saarbrucken also failed to try to win a trophy at the DFB-Pokal.

Therefore, the Champions League trophy is the only hope to save Munich's achievements, before being abandoned by Tuchel at the end of this season.

FC Hollywood managed to advance to the semifinals, since the last time in the 2019/2020 season. At that time, this Bavarian club last lifted the Champions League trophy.

Hopes of breaking into Madrid's goal will rest on English striker Harry Kane, who has scored 35 goals this season.

Kane, who has scored a total of 400 goals in his professional career at club and national team, will now try to maintain Munich's 14 unbeaten record at the Allianz Arena. In the last three matches at Allianz against European teams, Munich was able to keep the goal clean.

However, his opponent this time came with high self-confidence. In the Champions League, Madrid successfully stopped defending champion Manchester City. Then in the Spanish League, Los Blancos have just achieved an important victory which could make them win the La Liga title this season.

Madrid has just gone through a difficult match against arch rivals Barcelona in El Clasico. Then they managed to win narrowly 1-0 over Real Sociedad. This result makes the Spanish capital club up to 11 points ahead at the top of the standings.

In the 2023/2024 Champions League season, Carlo Ancelotti's troops reached the semifinals without losing in 10 matches. Madrid is just one match away from being unbeaten from repeating its all-time record of 11 matches, which was achieved in the 2016/2017 season.

The note makes Los Blancos will promise to win or at least achieve a draw.

Team Condition Munich has a number of players who are having problems due to injuries. They are Leroy Sane (groin), Serge Gnabry (hamstring), Dayot Upamecano (ankle), and Kingsley Coman (groin).

Problems also increased with Konrad Laimer and Matthijs de Ligt suffering ankle and knee injuries against Frankfurt. Tuchel will hope that these two players, who have returned to training, can appear. Likewise, Jamal Musiala experienced tendon pain.

In the Madrid camp, only Thibaut Courtois and David Alaba are still recovering from long injuries. Ancelotti can be relieved because Jude Bellingham, who was rested due to illness against Sociedad, has been able to enter the first team.

Two other core players, Rodrygo and Ferland Mendy have also recovered from their health problems. Ancelotti is likely to replace Dani Carvajal, who received an accumulation of yellow cards, with Lucas Vazquez, who performed brilliantly in El Clasico against Barcelona.

Player Estimates

Bayern Munich: Neuer (GK), Kimmich, Kim, Dier, Davies, Goretzka, Pavlovic, Muller, Musala, Gnabry, Kane.

Real Madrid: Lunin (GK), Vazquez, Rudiger, Tchouameni, Mendy, Valverde, Camavinga, Kroos, Bellingham, Rodrygo, Vinicius Junior.