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Borussia Monchengladbach - Real Madrid, for the Champions League: preview and line-ups, live

2020-10-27T19:12:15.904Z


After the triumph in El Clásico against Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid visit Gladbach in Germany, for Date 2 of the Champions League.


10/27/2020 2:01 PM

  • Clarín.com

  • sports

Updated 10/27/2020 2:55 AM

Real Madrid will face Borussia Monchengladbach

this Tuesday, October 27, in the football match corresponding to Date 2 of Group B of the 2020-21 Champions League, at Borussia Park.

The

Merengue

face a party and quite important when visiting a dangerous German team before which aims to

build on

the momentum of the victory in

the Classic

to compensate for the premiere stumble against Shakhtar Donetsk.

With the arbitration of the Israeli Orel Grinfeld, the match between

Real Madrid and Borussia Mönchengladbach will be played from 5:00 p.m. (Argentine time) and can be seen live on ESPN 2

(Cablevisión channel 103 and DirecTV 623).


Real Madrid and Borussia Monchengladbach collide this Tuesday, October 27, for Date 2 of Group B of the 2020-21 Champions League.

Photo: AFP.

Last week, the 13-time European champion started his continental career in the worst possible way with his tough 2-3 defeat against Shakhtar with almost a dozen casualties and leaving a bad image that had been repeated days before in the defeat also in Di Stéfano against Cádiz (0-1).

The alarms went off, but last Saturday's Clásico and the 1-3 win against Barcelona seem to have turned them off before this second Champions League match against a team that promises 'war'.

It has been almost 35 years since the Real Madrid team visited Mönchengladbach and the last time they did it was not very pleasant.

Real Madrid comes to the game against Borussia Monchengladbach after winning El Clásico against Barcelona at the Camp Nou.

Photo: AFP.

At a time when visiting Germany used to be a torment, Gladbach, then coached by Jupp Heynckes, shook him with a devastating 5-1 in the round of 16 of the UEFA Cup 85-86.

Then, the 'magic' of the Santiago Bernabéu worked in the second leg with a match to remember and one of the great comebacks of the 80s (4-0).

Now, on the other hand, there is no second game as such and there is the need to score, and above all to do it with the three points to redirect the course in a group that appears as even as it was glimpsed on the day of the draw.

Forward Alassane Plea will start this afternoon at Borussia Monchengladbach.

Photo: Reuters.

Marco Rose's team was already able to tie Inter Milan at the Giuseppe Meazza, lifting Lukaku's starting goal and losing two points in the 90th to the Belgian international, a sign that he will not be a docile rival and less at home.

The Zinédine Zidane team hopes that the improvement offered at the Camp Nou will help it to obtain a victory that will return its options in the maximum continental tournament

before receiving next week the 'neroazzurro' team, and for this the main thing will be to offer the same concentration because the German team will not allow you any relaxation.

The Borussia Park game will also serve to see if Zidane continues to bet on rotations or begins to draw an eleven and a more or less definitive scheme.

Belgian Eden Hazard could have a few minutes at Real Madrid this afternoon.

Photo: AFP.

The best news in this regard is the umpteenth round of Eden Hazard

, who has not played since August 7 against Manchester City, and given his long inactivity time it seems much more likely that he will start from the bench.

The Frenchman continues to have problems on the right side, where he has also lost Nacho.

At the Camp Nou he was effectively replaced by Lucas Vázquez, who seems to have more options to occupy that position than other 'inventions' that have been less successful such as Mendy, who already did it against Shakhtar with little brilliance, or Militao, who does not feels comfortable and with which the team loses offensive weight on that side.

French coach Zinedine Zidane would choose Lucas Vázquez for the right back in the absence of Dani Carvajal.

Photo: AP.

In the middle, after starting from the bench at the Camp Nou, the most certain thing is that Luka Modric will return together with Casemiro and Kroos, and then it remains to be seen what Zidane is betting on to try to surprise Borussia, if one more midfielder (Valverde ), or two more offensive players alongside Benzema.

Last Saturday it was Asensio and Vinicius who accompanied the Frenchman, and it could be Rodrygo's turn.

Everything to beat a Borussia Moenchengladbach that is a team to be reckoned with and that already in the Bundesliga has been able to create problems for the now almighty Bayern.

Marco Rose's team is daring and comes from equaling 2-2 against Inter on the first date of the 2020-21 Champions League.

Photo: AFP.

Marco Rose's outfit is daring and he will surely come out to pressure Zidane's men to make them uncomfortable and then surprise them with his speed.

The German team is fifth in the Bundesliga, where they began losing by a landslide to Borussia Dortmund (3-0), in what is their only defeat so far.

Last day, with rotations, they beat Mainz 2-3 away from home in a match in which Hofmann and veteran Stindl stood out, two of their key players in a Borussia with quality in the middle (Neuhaus and Kramer).

Midfielder Marcus Thuram is one of the Borussia Mönchengladbach figures who will face Real Madrid this afternoon.

Photo: AP.

Possible alignments

Borussia Mönchengladbach 11

: Sommer;

Lainer, Ginter, Elvedi, Bensebaini;

Kramer, Neuhaus;

Thuram, Embolo, Hoffmann;

Plea.

DT: Marco Rose.

The 11 of Real Madrid

: Courtois;

Lucas Vázquez, Varane, Sergio Ramos, Mendy;

Modric, Casemiro, Kroos;

Asensio, Benzema and Vinícius.

DT: Zinedine Zidane.

Referee

: Orel Grinfeld.

Stadium

: Borussia Park.

Hours

: 17:00 (Argentine time).

TV

: ESPN 2.

Source: clarin

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