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Two high-level matches are played on Tuesday in the definition of the first semi-finalists of the European League of Champions and they appear as protagonists in Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo and Argentina Lionel MessiJuventus-Ajax and Barcelona-Manchester United.
The first will be confronted with the Juve experience and the score guarantee of Cristiano Ronaldo Against the youth and daring young talents of Ajax in Amsterdam: the 1-1 of the first leg was a great show and the meeting is still open before the return of today. pm (2 pm Colombian time) in Turin.
In the Italian team, although he has already recovered from knee surgery, he will not be Juan Guillermo Cuadrado, who was dropped from the tournament list because of his injury.
Less than a week after the first clash in the Netherlands, the memory of Ajax's formidable game still remains fresh. This group of hungry young people, without complexes and without fear of anything, now wants to continue writing history. Ajax had already given that impression to the previous round of humiliating 4 to 1 Real Madrid (current triple champion) at Santiago Bernabéu.
But Juventus dreams of a triumph in the Champions League that has escaped them since 1996 by winning the final against Ajax. Party as a favorite because he has Cristiano Ronaldo (125 goals in the Champions League, including 24 in 21 duels in the quarterfinals), because their team is more extensive and more experienced, and that Ajax has not reached the semifinals of champions since 1997.
From Barcelona Lionel Messi Attempt (today also at 14:00) to score Old Trafford's 0-1 to eliminate Manchester United and take a look at the semi-finals four years later. In the previous three seasons, a Spanish team (Atlético de Madrid) and two Italians (Juventus and Roma) have been the hangmen.
At camp Nou men of Ernesto Valverde they will try that the English group does not join the payroll of the teams which dismounted them of the European dream.
By sensations, statistics and football, Barça is very close. Chains 30 undefeated matches in his squabble in Champions and United have never won in Barcelona: two defeats and two draws in four visits.
The last time the Catalans were in the semifinals, it was in 2015 and the team that was leading then Luis Enrique Martinez ended up winning the triple. This course, with the league almost in the pocket and qualified for the final of the Copa del Rey, is able to repeat this feat.
Valverde is aware of this and knows that to achieve it, progress must be made today. Therefore, in the last league match against Huesca, he pushed to the extreme rotations, including Colombia. Jeisson Murillo They stayed in Barcelona Messi, Ivan Rakitic, Sergi Roberto and Sergio Busquets, and those sanctioned Gérard Piquet and the Uruguayan Luis Suarez.
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