Champions League: Group A. On the eve of

28 November 2018, 11:57 | Football 
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Football. ua is the announcement of the Champions League group A matches.

Monaco after the fourth round has no right to make mistakes if he wants to continue playing in European competitions, while Atletico and Borussia will continue to figure out who should take first place in the group.

Atletico Madrid - Monaco 19:55, Madrid, Wanda Metropolitano. Referee - Mattias Gestranius (Finland) After paired 3 and 4 rounds, Atletico has the same points with Borussia, but still inferior to the Germans in additional indicators. Moreover, even the second place was not guaranteed by Diego Simeone.

Monaco was completely humiliated by the Belgian Bruges when it lost in native walls with a score of 4: 4. Now Thierry Henry’s team needs to score at least 4 points in matches against Atletico and Borussia. This past weekend, the team won the first victory in August and will try to repeat this success..

Indicative composition:.

Atletico Madrid: Oblak - Arias, Savic, Hernandez, Luis - Koke, Saul, Rhodri, Correa - Costa Griezmann Monaco: Benaglio - Pierre-Gabriel, Ruggie, Zhemerson, Henricks - Golovin, Ait-Benasser Diop, Thielemans, Chadli - Falcao Do not play: Juanfran - Aholu, Glik, Jovetic, Lopez, Pellegri, Sidibe, Subasic, Toure, Traore Question: Jimenez, Godin (both are Atletico) Interesting facts:.

- Monaco can not win in the Champions League for 12 matches in a row.

- Monaco misses at least twice in the last five of six matches in the Champions League.

- Monaco will play for the first time against Atletico in Madrid.

- Atletico never lost to the French teams at home (B5, H1).

Forecast 2: 0 Borussia Dortmund - Brugge 22:00, Dortmund, Signal Iduna Park. Referee - Gediminas Mazeika (Lithuania) Borussia could not take the chance to guarantee the first line of the table, losing to Atletico in Madrid in the fourth round. In the first round in Belgium, the Germans could not score for a long time, but at the end of the meeting they scored and won.

Bruges spent their match of the fourth round so well that they themselves hardly expected it. The crushing victory over the crisis Monaco made Bruges’s chances for a European Cup spring excellent and, even in the event of a defeat, blue-blacks can guarantee a place in the playoffs of the Europa League (if Monaco loses their match).

Indicative composition:.

Borussia D: Burki - Pischek, Akanji, Zagada, Hakimi - Delaney, Witzel - Pulisic, Reuss, Sancho - Alcacer Brugge: Howarth - Densvil, Mehele, Poulayn - Mata, Nakamba, Vanaken, Wormer, Rits - Wesley Gomez, Schmelzer, Tolyan - Gruneveld, Vossen Questionable: Bonaventure, Cools, Denswil, Diatta, Vlietink (all - Brugge).

Interesting Facts:.

- in the matches of Borussia in the Champions League never passed the "both score".

- Borussia won both matches against Bruges in their field.

- in the previous five matches among themselves, the teams have never played a draw.

- in the starting round, for the first time in the history of the confrontation of these teams, it was not the hosts who won (4 hosts win, 1 guests).

- Bruges never won in Germany (H3, P9).

3: 0 forecast.

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