One of many standout fixtures of the UEFA Champions League Spherical 6 pits Atalanta and Actual Madrid in opposition to one another in Bergamo. Gian Piero Gasperini’s males head into Tuesday’s proceedings in a buoyant temper after on Friday prolonged their exceptional successful run in all competitions to 9 matches.
Nevertheless, going through the record-time European champions and defending title holders just a few months after a 2-0 defeat within the UEFA Tremendous Cup is a formidable activity. Including to the issue of the scenario, Carlo Ancelotti has acquired a triple harm enhance forward of Actual Madrid’s impending go to to Atalanta by way of.
Los Merengues thumped Girona 3-0 within the build-up to their third-ever Champions League conflict in opposition to Atalanta, with Jude Bellingham sustaining his kind resurgence with a objective and an help. However the English star picked up a minor harm within the course of. Nevertheless, Ancelotti confirmed after the sport that his talismanic playmaker is ‘advantageous.’
Actual Madrid will want all fingers on deck to beat Atalanta on the Gewiss Stadium after shedding back-to-back Champions League video games to Milan and Liverpool. Fortunately for Ancelotti, Rodrygo and Vinicius Junior will seemingly board the aircraft to Italy, with the latter on the verge of restoration after lacking the final 4 video games attributable to harm.
Atalanta would take an enormous step towards securing computerized knockout qualification with a win in opposition to the defending La Liga champions. Ominously, they’ve misplaced all three earlier European encounters in opposition to Actual Madrid, failing to attain on two events.