The calendar offers a brief truce before his return, but a short weeks of the start of the eliminatory, the big clubs already go back to look to the Champions. The 'orejona' is one of the greater aims of the season and are not few those that have done his smart individual of favourites before it restart the competition, including, besides, some surprises between the elected.
And it is that in spite of that Leonardo Bonucci has thrown of logic to elaborate his relation of candidates to the title, calls the attention any of which has separated. The defender analysed the tournament in an interview for 'Sky Sports', and was rotundo on his thoughts. "Favourite in Champions? Barcelona, Manchester City, Juventus and Liverpool, teams with a game and an identity. But Europe always offers surprises", reflexionó.
Many have not overlooked that the one of Viterbo forgot of the Real Madrid, valid champion and hangman, precisely, of the 'biaconeri' in the quarter-finals of the past edition, in which the 'vecchia signora' remained taken down with controversy. It is true that the men of Santiago Solari do not go through a good moment, but also that possess a competitive gene that does them more dangerous in what they approach the final rounds.
It was as it was, the central preferred to go back to his own subjects, and put the focus on the crossing that will measure to the square juventina with the Athletic of Madrid: "they will be some eighth of final balanced. The Athletic is a big team with international experience, a big trainer and a lot of champions. Have the potential to arrive at the end in all the competitions and is the aim that have fixed us".
Bonucci Stands out the personal appearance of Cristiano Ronaldo
Perhaps by no incomodar to a mate that prefers to leave backwards his past in Santiago Bernabéu, Bonucci separated to the Madrid of his list of favourites before referring to Cristiano Ronaldo, that carries several months proclaiming that his new adventure in Turín surpasses in every aspect, especially in the personal, to his stage in the Spanish capital.
The Italian wanted to break one launches in favour of the luso, to the that praised elogiando his character competivo and his vicinity: "What called me the attention is the consistency of Cristiano, never surrenders neither a second, neither in the field neither was, and there is a good relation between us. There is complicity, likes us kid between us, through the challenges, the shots to door, his attitudes to push us to all to give the best".