Real Madrid started the challenge of being the first club to retain the European title and the Champions League returns to scene 115 days after lifting the 'romaine' to heaven Lisbon, getting to Basel in a climate of tension and full self-destruction of a winning project.
With only two new starters and quality of Germany's Toni
Kroos and Colombia's James Rodriguez, but without the balance that gave the
team in midfield Xabi Alonso and overflow in one on one I added to the
defensive withdrawal of Argentina's Angel Di Maria , Real Madrid faces a
challenge that so far nobody has been able to achieve.
It noted Ancelotti, who knows that the Basel comes out
physically much he bereavement, with eight days of your completed Liga, and is
the time when they choose to cover the difference in quality with the physical.
They get players led by Portuguese Paulo Sousa lose the
lead in his league, ceding to Zurich, for his defeat to visit the Grasshoppers
(3-1). His technical Bernabeu reserved for one of the figures of the team,
Marco Streller. His seniority is shared with another reference and a Madrid
former player, the Argentine Central Walter Samuel, who returns to his former
home.
With one of the lowest budgets of participating in the
Champions League, 50 million euros, the Swiss league champions will look to
surprise in Madrid, fish in troubled waters and signing his first win in Spain.
In seven visits as much as he has achieved have been two draws. 43 years
without measuring leads Real Madrid to Basel. The previous two were white.
From the ranks of the Basel players have come Xherdan
Shaqiri quality as Bayern Munich, Borussia Moenchengladbach Granit Xhaka or
Mohamed Salah who signed for Chelsea. Now a new batch seek the limelight at the
Bernabeu and draw attention to the largest in Europe.