Real Madrid will have to play for a place in the quarter-finals of the Champions League against Leip

The Real Madrid already knows which his first rival of the phase of 'KO' of the Champions League 2023/24. The team of Carlo Ancelotti, that comes to close the past week with a goleada (4-1) in front of the Villarreal like venue, The whites, that expect to recover to a big part of his lesionados to face these eighth of final, will have to travel to Germany to confront to the RB Leipzig in the first meeting of this round of the 16 better teams in this edition of the tournament.

This first duel, in principle, is programmed for the 13, 14, 20 or 21 February 2024, a date in which if there are not more novelties and bad news for the whites only would have in the infirmary to Militao, Courtois and Praises, all in the middle of his recoveries by breaks of ligaments, meintras that Vinicius and Camavinga himself that they would have to be already with the high medical, as well as it Burn Güler, still without debuting with the T-shirt merengue.

A very recent antecedent for the Madrid

The meetings of turn will be the days 5, 6, 12 and 13 March, a moment for which Militao and Courtois hardly, although they already could be near to add to his mates in the previous trainings to this meeting in front of the Germans. It is worthwhile to remember equally that both teams confronted in the phase of groups of the past season with triumph for the madridista home by 2-0 and a defeat by 3-2 in Germany, two results that to repeat would leave to the Madrid in the quarter-finals.

However, that team of the Leipzig has suffered important changes and seems to have improved a lot his level, especially in Europe. The germanos knew to compete it the group to the Manchester City and even were winning 0-2 in England in front of the ones of Guardiola, now led by Xavi Simons that is taking advantage of very well his cession to do forget quickly the drop of Nkunku, especially in front of a full course of injuries of Dani Elm.

A very fast forward, young and enrachada to confront to the Madrid

Beside Simons definitely the greater threats of attack that will have to handle the defence of the Madrid will be Openda and Sesko. Both forwards, fichados this summer, have arrived to the Bundesliga with the right foot and surely without Praise neither Militao the team merengue will have a lot of problems to control them, by what a go through the market of signings of winter seems compulsory for Florentino Pérez.