Bystaff and agencies 600AM GMT 10 Mar 2010
Wednesday, Mar 10
Champions League
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Tale of the game
A towering summer cost of over €250 million and home value for the last has seen Real Madrid put themselves underneath measureless vigour to win the Champions League this season.
However, the jot down nine-time European champions initial have to come from at the back of to discharge French side Lyon who arrive for Wednesday"s last sixteen decider at the Santiago Bernabeu holding a 1-0 initial leg lead.
Real have been unstoppable in the joining at home winning all thirteen games but in Europe their prevalence has not been as strenuous losing 3-2 to AC MIlan at home in this season"s organisation theatre whilst Liverpool and Juventus both won in Madrid last season.
Lyon, third in their made at home league, might not have the loftiness of Real but they are seasoned campaigners in the Champions League and have outperformed Real in the last five campaigns reaching the quarter-final theatre in 2005 and 2006.
The bar is entrance off a 0-0 pull opposite relegation-threatened Boulogne in the French league, not an preferred outcome forward of the compare opposite the jot down nine-time champions.
Team headlines
Real striker Karim Benzema has unsuccessful to redeem from damage in time for the revisit of his former club. The France general has been struggling with a groin complaint and was left out of Manuel Pellegrini"s patrol along with the harmed Royston Drenthe and Pepe, and dangling Marcelo and Xabi Alonso.
Lyon will be but Brazilian midfielder Michel Bastos but have taken a punt on the fitness of tip scorer Lisandro Lopez (foot) and left-back Aly Cissokho (ankle).
Francois Clerc and Cleber Anderson are still harmed but midfielder Cesar Delgado should underline after creation his quip from a two-game deficiency with a thigh damage opposite Boulogne at the weekend.
What they are saying
Manuel Pellegrini "The ambience at the Bernabeu will be special and we need to try and have the majority of this. It is a slight necessity we face and I hold we can overturn it to have the quarter-finals."
Cris (Lyon captain) "This is zero some-more than a compare in between twenty-two players and their stars does not be concerned us some-more than necessary. It"s all about believing."
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