Defending champions Chelsea host Spanish giants Real Madrid, while Bayern travel to Villarreal for Champions League quarterfinals first-leg matches Wednesday.
The blues will try to look past they on And the off-field problems with The club up for Selling as boys prepares Thomas Tuchel for fact in rematch from last seasons semifinals.
Meanwhile, Real Madrid – current Spanish league leader – will want To put up Showing best against Chelsea from last season, when the champion tied 13 times in home And won 2-0 at Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea goes to match Reeling from her heaviest defeat of season, but Tuchel battle-Solid ability to keep players concentrated should ensure for him side Ready for The latest test of its flexibility.
While Saturday’s shock 4-1 home beats against Brentford wasn’t a perfect preparation for Quarter-finals first Leg, Tuchel has been treated with The worst setbacks during a turbulent period for for him club.
When the British punished Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea FC government for His alleged connections with Russian President Vladimir Putin after invasion of Ukraine, the blues indulged in a financial The collapse that threatened to swallow team.
aware of players You can’t feel sorry for themselves with Real’s visit to Stamford Bridge looms, Tuchel tried to downplay the importance of range of Brentford defeat.
“After so many victories and so many good resultsNow, I will refuse to do a drama out of He. She. Why should we? “
Chelsea’s challenge to respond against “It’s hard To take it because it is very unusual for us what happened. It’s a summary of a stranger events but it on us This is our fault.
We will dig in and try to find out why was like this is. There are a few reasons we can put it on us We will analyze and understand it. There is nothing else.”
Villarreal eyes Bayern upset
In the other quarter-finals on Wednesday, the Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich will visit Villarreal, who Just qualified for Champions League win last European League season.
Spanish side The biggest surprise so far, was getting to quarterfinals for The first Time since 2009. Juventus eliminated in The last 16 shows how Dangerous Unai Emery team can be against Bayern, who is looking forward to becoming European champions for Seventh time.
She knows her chances of advancing past Bayern Munich in The Champions League will depend to a large extent on whether it can successfully Containing Robert Lewandowski.
High hopes given the recent team success against Another great striker is Dusan Vlahovic of Juventus.
Villarreal defender Pau Torres said the team had enough experience facing Some of The world attackers will be ready for the mission.
“here they are challenges we enjoy”Every striker has his style and we’ll do it,” Torres told Marca TV sure we know how To make things difficult for Lewandowski. He is very complete striker. Sometimes it seems like He doesn’t do much, but in In the end he is always a threat.”
But Villarreal is coming off it’s a second Spanish consecutive league Defeat – 2-0 loss in second-to-last-place Levante, when Emery didn’t rest so much of for him regular appetizers.
Villarreal has an extension coach with a lot of experience in winning on The international Stage, “Bayern Munich coach Julian Nagelsmann said. “The team He is experienced and we will do it need to figure out how to break them down. “
Bayern made to me last eight 10 times in The last 11 seasons. The team He is playing in The quarterfinals for a record 20 times.
The second the leg next week in Munich.
