Again. The Emirates returns to revive one of their nightmares. Arsenal will face Bayern in one of the knockout stages of the last 16 of the Champions League. The English set has fallen in this round the last six seasons consecutively and in two of them before the Bavarian giant. In the 2012-2013 and in the 2013-2014 Bayern dispatched to the ‘gunners’.
The German champion is no longer so fearsome or solid but he’s a bone. Ancelotti runs a giant that has in Lewandowski (17 so many), Robben, Ribery, Douglas Costa, Renato Sanches, Müller, Thiago … among his threats. From the 2009-2010 they did not get in the eighth as seconds. A ‘coconut’ for an Arsenal who won his hand to hand PSG in the groups, which in the Premier is showing great regularity and has hardened his touch football. Wenger is supported by the pair that form Özil and Alexis (13 goals) to surpass the wall of eighths.
Guardiola’s Manchester City has been hit by one of the Monacos’. The Monaco of Falcao (14 goals), the most scoring team in the European leagues (53 goals), who are playing Ligue 1 against PSG and Nice will be a difficult opponent for some ‘citizens’ who have lost strength. A solid and young block (Bernardo Silva, Lemar, Sidibe, Mendy …) to the control of Jardim that defies to a equipment (Agüero, De Bruyne, Silva, Sterling …) lover of the possession that sin of irregularity: is Quarter of the Premier and suffers in the areas. They have only twice left their goal to zero in the League. A tough test for Pep, who has always reached the semifinals.
Juventus will have a comfortable cross before Porto but morbid. The duel between Casillas and Buffon, repeated so many times in the Champions League and in Eurocopas adds spice to an unequal tie. As is Benfica-Borussia Dortmund. The Portuguese leader and champion will have it complicated before the ‘borussen’. Aubameyang, Reus, Schürrle … are too much.
