UEFA Champions League ( Round 3 ) Football returns tonight with two Spanish Football Clubs in action: FC Barcelona & Atletico de Madrid. As habitual with Spanish Sports daily "Sport", they provided a pre-match infograph of the teams & their speculated possible starting XI line-ups.
FC Barcelona travels to AC Milan for their Group H match. Barça tops the Group with 6 points & Milan is second with 4 points. Important match for both if they wish to consolidate their Group & open up distance over their rivals. The Italians are not having their best season & are the underdogs for this encounter, plus there is a cloud over the state of form with Mario Balotelli, although some think its being over exaggerated by Milan in a psychological pre-match tactic.
The speculated FC Barcelona starting 11 team line-up is:
Valdes, Alves, Pique, Mascherano ( Puyol ), Adriano, Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta, Alexis, Messi & Neymar.
Spanish Football Club Atletico de Madrid travels to Vienna to play Austria Vienna in their Group G match. Atletico de Madrid currently tops the Group with 6 points while Austria Vienna is third with 1 point. For the home side a victory is extremely important to stay alive in the competition while Atletico could put a foot into the next stage of Champions League with a victory. The only doubt with Atletico is with its inform player Diego Costa who is suffering injury & is doubtful, although there is a slight chance he may make it. Just in case, Adrian is available to take the position.
The speculated Atletico de Madrid starting 11 team line-up is
Courtois, Juanfran, Miranda, Godin, Felipe Luis, Mario Suarez, Gabi, Koke, Arda Turan, Diego Costa ( Adrian ) & David Villa.
In both cases, the teams are speculations & may easily suffer changes before the games. From here we wish luck to both Spanish Football Clubs tonight.
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