The semifinals of the Champions League have been defined and the city of Manchester, real Madrid, Chelsea Yes PSG will be the teams that will seek to conquer “Orejona”
MADRID VS. CHELSEA
The first semifinal to be played will be the Real Madrid vs. Chelsea with the first round scheduled for Tuesday, April 27 and according FiveThirtyEight Football Index, Meringues are easily favorites to win equality by having 53% chance to advance to the final. In turn, the “Blues” have 47% chance to eliminate the team from the Spanish capital.
Madrid eliminated Atalanta and Liverpool on their way to the semi-finals and is currently second in the LaLiga one point behind the leader, Atletico de Madrid. Those led by Zinedine Zidane He dreams of finishing the campaign with a double, so the French coach hopes to recover important players such as Sergio Ramos, Raphael Varane and Dani Carvajal for the last matches of the campaign.
In turn, Chelsea he managed to raise the level in his hand Thomas Tuchel, which came to replace Frank Lampard. Since the arrival of the German strategist, the London team has lost only two of the last 18 games in all competitions and after the elimination Atletico Madrid Yes porto On the way to the Champions semifinals, “Blues” hopes to continue to surprise and eliminate the “White House”.
The return match between Chelsea vs. Real Madrid is scheduled for Wednesday, May 5th.
CITY VS. PSG
The other semifinal will be between Manchester City Vs. PSG. The team led by Pep Guardiola he is by far the favorite to win the tie. According to him Football Index by FiveThirtyEight, The city has an 81% chance to advance to the final, while the Parisian ensemble has only one 19% chance to compete in its second consecutive final of the most important club competition in Europe.
Town march in the first place of First league with a comfortable 11-point advantage over the runner-up, so it seems inevitable to be proclaimed English champion. However, the real goal of Guardiola and the company must win Champions League, a competition that the Catalan strategist has refused since 2011.
On the other hand, PSG fired at the end of December last year Thomas Tuchel and his place was taken by the Argentine Mauricio Pochettino, who in 16 successful matches has won 16 matches and has only five losses. The route of the Ligue 1 team to reach the semifinals was probably the most difficult of the four ranked in this case when they face Barcelona in the round of 16 and in the quarterfinals at Bayern Munich, a team that won ‘Orejona’ last season, defeating PSG in the final.
The first leg of Manchester City vs. PSG will play on Wednesday, April 28, and the return is scheduled for Tuesday, May 4.
FAVORITE FOR THE CHAMPION
According to the Soccer Power index, Manchester City will be the champions of the 2020/21 Champions League with a 54% chance to lift the title. Under City is Real Madrid with a probability of 20% and if Madrid managed to win the biggest European award, it would be Zidane’s fourth coaching coach.
In turn, Chelsea and PSG have a 17% and 8% chance, respectively, to win the title.