Already tonight, the first participants of the Champions League quarter-finals will be revealed. The teams "Real" and "Wolfsburg", who won victories at home in the first leg, will try not to create problems for themselves and confidently step into the next stage of the competition. The start of the Champions League quarter-final matches between "Real" and "Roma" and "Wolfsburg" and "Gent", as usual, is at 21:45. "Real" - "Roma" In the first leg in Italy, the team "Real" celebrated a 2:0 victory at the opponents' stadium, with goals scored by Cristiano Ronaldo and Jese. Both goals for the Madrid club were scored after the break. Madrid's "Real" are clear favorites to once again advance to the Champions League quarter-finals. The Spanish team had fun in the "La Liga" championship last weekend, defeating "Celta Vigo" by a whopping 7:1, with Cristiano Ronaldo scoring four goals. Midfielders Luka Modric and Toni Kroos are returning to the ranks of "Real" after missing the weekend matches in the Spanish championship. Karim Benzema will still not help the Madrid team, but another star of the team - Gareth Bale - should make an impact from the very first moments of the match. "Roma", ahead of the match in the Spanish capital, defeated the team "Fiorentina" at home 4:1 in the "Serie A" championship, with Mohamed Salah scoring a brace. This victory allowed them to distance themselves from their rivals and firmly establish themselves in third place in the Italian championship. Guest coach Luciano Spalleti will have to manage without injured players Daniele De Rossi and Antonio Rudiger in this match. Key facts before this match: "Roma" is one of three teams that have won more often at the "Santiago Bernabeu" stadium in the Champions League than the hosts themselves. The Italian team won two matches, played one draw, and lost once. The other two teams that can boast such an achievement are "Barcelona" and "Arsenal"; In this match, "Roma" is aiming to break a losing streak - the Italian team has not won a Champions League match away from home since November 2010; "Real", along with "Barcelona", are the only teams that have not lost in this season's Champions League; No team has scored more goals in the Champions League than Madrid's "Real" (21 goals scored, the same as "Bayern"); On the other hand, "Roma" has seen the most goals in the Champions League this season - 29 (11 scored, 18 conceded); "Real" has not conceded a single goal at home in the Champions League. The Madrid team has only failed to keep a clean sheet in one match - against "Shakhtar", when they conceded three goals. "Wolfsburg" - "Gent" In the first leg in Belgium, "Wolfsburg" had a three-goal lead at one point, with two goals from Juliano Drexler and one from Max Kruse, but the hosts managed to score twice in the last 10 minutes and the match ended 2:3 in favor of the German team. Sven Kums and Kalifa Coulibaly scored for the "Gent" team. "Wolfsburg" will be in high spirits for the Tuesday match - they not only have an advantage over their opponents, but also won two games in Germany, where they defeated "Gladbach" who are even higher in the standings over the weekend. By the way, the same players who scored against "Gent", Drexler and Kruse, also shone in these matches. In the "Wolfsburg" team, Bas Dost, Sebastian Jung and Paul Seguin will still not be available for these matches. "Gent", who will need to score at least three goals to advance to the next stage, or win by a two-goal margin, failed to lift their spirits over the weekend in the local championship. The Belgian team lost points to tournament outsiders "Leuven" and lost the top spot in the "Jupiler League" championship. Playing at home did not help "Gent", as their opponents played the end of the match with one player less. There will definitely be no Thomas Matton in the "Gent" squad, and there are doubts about the participation of Brecht Dejaegere, Lasse Nielsen, and Danijel Miličevic in the Tuesday match. Key facts before this match: "Wolfsburg" has won three Champions League matches in a row - the best achievement of this team in the history of these competitions; The last "Gent" Champions League matches ended with a one-goal advantage (3 wins, 3 losses); "Gent" has scored in all seven Champions League games this season; In all 13 Champions League games in the club's history, "Wolfsburg" has ended with a draw only once (in 2009 against "Besiktas"); "Gent" player Kalifa Coulibaly scored two goals in the last three matches. Each time the striker rose from the bench.
