Manchester City-Madrid and Athletic-Bayern in semifinals of Champions

The maximum continental competition already has duels of semifinals. Concluded the eliminatory of the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League, Manchester City, Real Madrid, Bayern of Munich and Athletic of Madrid will be the four teams of Europe that struggle to be in the final of Milan of the next 28 May. This Friday 15 April has carried out the draw of semifinals of the prestigious European competition, that has given place to the following pairings:

Manchester City-Real Madrid: The whites, with luck until in semifinals

It seems that to the Real Madrid give him well the draws of UEFA Champions League until in the semifinals. Of the three rivals that could touch him, the ones of Florentino Pérez will confront to the Manchester City of Manuel Pellegrini, a team that in spite of having deleted to the PSG is the first time that finds in a round of semifinals of the Champions, and that besides is not showing regulate in these last months of competition. The gone will be in the Etihad Stadium, besides, and the turn in Santiago Bernabéu.

The English, this yes, have seen like his current technical Manuel Pellegrini is guiding them to ways that never before had stepped. And it is that the Manchester City contested for the first time the quarter-finals of the maximum continental competition and finish deleting to Paris Saint-Germain in an attractive eliminatory. After empatar two to two in the French capital, a goal of Kevin of Bruyne certified his historical classification.

Regarding the Real Madrid, plants in the semifinals after completing the worst of the last seasons that remembers them , deleted in Glass and third in League from does months. Thus they are more dangerous that never, as whenever they have heaved a "orejona" in the modern times has been after a mediocre campaign in the state competitions. Like this they happened against the Wolfsburgo, rival in front of which had fallen clearly in the gone by two so many to zero to trace back later in Santiago Bernabéu with a "hat-trick" of Cristiano Ronaldo. Now, after having deleted this season to Rome and Wolfsburgo in eighth and quarter-finals of UEFA Champions League, will confront to a Manchester City that it is slightly inferior to them.

Athletic-Bayern Munich, difficult obstacle for Pep Guardiola

In the another semifinal of the tournament, Bayern Munich and Athletic of Madrid will see the faces with the final of Champions of does some decades in the memory for the Athletic, that lost precisely to hands of the Bavarians. It seems that the "gods" have listened to Pep Guardiola, the one who praised in press conference the past Wednesday the game of the Athletic of Madrid and showed all his respects to Simeone by what is achieving. The case is that the Bayern will have a difficult stone of touch with the Athletic in semifinals. This yes, will have the turn in the Allianz Sand, since the gone will play in Vicente Calderón.

After cuajar a good phase of groups and after deserving have been deleted in front of the Juventus of Turín, in front of which only rid them the regrettable referee's performance, the Bayern fulfilled in front of the Benfica. And no without suspense as after winning one to zero in the Allianz Sand, the lisboetas advanced in the first time of the turn thanks to a goal of Raúl Jiménez. The Chilean Arturo Vidal, that already "wetted" in the gone, went back to do it and gave the tranquility to the Bavarians so that Thomas Muller sentenced in the second time.

The rojiblancos finish deleting to the best team and to the current champion with a game that surpassed in different phases of the eliminatory to his rival. With a two to zero incontestable, in spite of the penalti no signalled by hand of Gabi inside the area, the FC Barcelona was shipwrecked in the Calderón. All after in the party of gone, blaugranas and rojiblancos played a party trepidante and in which the Barça won two to one but deserved golear. A result that weighed in the turn where after good 45 minutes, the ones of Luis Enrique went with a one to zero against after the goal of Griezmann that increased the difference of penalti. The Athletic will look for to earn the debt that has slope the competition with them after the final of Lisbon.