5 facts to know about this season's UEFA Champions League Semi Finals

Every season, UEFA Champions League brings out different and exciting twists which entertain every one of us. This year is no different as it turned out be unpredictable.

1.      1. Bayern Atletico clash!

 Pep Guardiola : You can kill me if we lose to Atletico

 Well, this has to come sooner or later. As everyone here knows that the German Giants Bayern  Munich were the favourites when they were about to face Atletico Madrid but it turned out to be a  different outcome when the game ended.

 Bayern lost 1- 0 away from home where Guardiola found it difficult to penetrate the Atletico  defence. Whereas Atletico managed to score a goal when Saul made a tremendous run towards the v  Bayern penalty area and every player from Bayern did their part to stop but somewhere they didn’t  do the whole of their parts as Saul managed to score a goal with a finesse shot beating Manuel  Neuer.

 Although Guardiola says that the criticism for the Atleti tie is still premature as another leg of the  UEFA Champions League semi finals is still left. And it’s not impossible to beat Atletico specially at  their home ground Allianz Arena.

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 Let’s see what the game is up to.

2.   2. Guardiola on the verge of elimination for third consecutive year

It’s not the first time when Bayern Munich is facing an intusion of getting eliminated from the Uefa Champions League semi finals. It’s been the third consecutive season when Bayern Munich might get eliminated facing a Spanish team.

In  2014 Real Madrid thrashed Bayern Munich apart with overall 5 – 0 lead under Carlo Ancelotti. Then in 2015 Barcelona did the same as they won the Champions League that season.

And now it’s Atletico Madrid who might win as they have achieved a 1 – 0 lead over Bayern Munich at home and are now ready to face them at Allianz Arena.

3.      3. Performance against Bayern was our best – Diego Simeone

Simeone had to say this because they have managed to beat a top team again in UEFA Champions League campaign as they came into the semi finals after beating Barcelona in the UEFA Champions League quarter finals.

The way Atletico Madrid managed to stop Bayern and score a goal against them has made it easier for them to win the semi finals and face Either Real Madrid or Manchester City in the UEFA Champions League finals.

4.    4.   Real Madrid : the unexpected semi finalists this season

Yeah, this is true as we all know the way Real Madrid started the season with Rafa Benitez, no one would have ever thought that Real Madrid would even see the quarter finals stage this season’s UEFA Champions League.

The performance was continuously poor and Real Madrid were no more the favourites for the Champions League contender as they used to be every season.

But Perez made a decision which wass the sole decision in the whole season that proved out to be in favour of Real Madrid and that was signing Zinedine Zidane as the head coach. This decision bought so many changes in the minds of the players and fans too.

Believe it or not every Real Madrid fan somewhere knew that it’s impossible for Real Madrid this season to win anything this season. As they were thrown out of the Spanish Cup already and Barcelona were in no mood to lose this season’s title.

But as soon as Zidane took over the control, the fate chose to turn upside down within four months. Now Real Madrid are the favourites to win the Champions League this season and are equally favourite as Atletico and Barcelona for the Spanish League Title.

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It’ll be an interesting game to watch when Real Madrid welcomes Manchester City at Santiago Bernabeu for the second leg of the UEFA Champions League semi finals.

5.      5. Manchester City : New comers to Semi Finals

Well, yeah! First of all congratulations to Manchester City to make it to the semi finals of the UEFA Champions League as they have managed to do so for the first time in the club history.  And somewhere a soft part of our hearts wants them to win the Champions League as they’ve worked hard to stand at this point.

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They managed to stop Real Madrid at the Etihad stadium but were unable to score any goals so it was tight tie between the two great sides.

Second leg holds the suspense that whose gonna bag it and make it to the finals of the UEFA Champions League.

It’s yet to be seen what happens next. Till then happy footballing and keep yourself cheered up!