Round two, here we are. At 21 Real Madrid and Atalanta they face off in the second leg of the round of 16 Champions League: we start from 1-0 in the first leg in favor of Zidane’s team, thanks to the goal scored by Mendy at the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo. To pass the round, Gasperini’s players will have to win with at least one goal difference by scoring at least two goals: with the 0-1 it would go to extra time, from 1-2 onwards the round would pass give. Zidane without the suspended Casemiro, Gasperini has to give up Freuler expelled amidst the controversy in the first leg.
STATISTICS AND BACKGROUND – The numbers are on the side of Real Madrid, who have overcome eight of the last nine Champions League matches in which they won the first leg away from home: only elimination in the first knockout rounds of 2018/19 against Ajax. The You meringuesin addition, they have won eleven of the last 12 matches with Italian teams in the Champions League (one defeat), scoring at least two goals in ten of these matches. The only Italian team that prevented Real Madrid from scoring in the competition was Juventus, in November 2008. Atalanta are on their second Spanish trip to the Champions League (the previous one in last season’s round of 16, 3-4 at Valencia ) and has the longest away-from-home streak of any team in the Champions League, having won the last five games.
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