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Before the Champions League draw, considering possible options for Shakhtar, we said that due to being in the second basket, the Ukrainian champions do not have as many chances to fall into the so-called “group of death”. But a man in this world just boasts …
Indeed, Quartet B, which Shakhtar ended up with, can be safely called, if not the group of death, then at least one of the strongest in the 2020/21 Champions League. Judge for yourself: together with the champion of Ukraine, the champion of Spain, the vice-champion of Italy and the fourth team of Germany will play in the same group. Could it be even cooler? Perhaps, only if the Pitmen were replaced by England’s plenipotentiary: Manchester City or Manchester United …
Well, you’ll have to play in any case, so let’s take a quick look at what Shakhtar’s closest rivals are like.
REAL MADRID
General information: the club was founded on March 6, 1902. It holds the record for victories in the Spanish championship (34), as well as in the Champions League (13). Play at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium, which has a capacity of just over 81,000 spectators. Madrid entered the current Champions League thanks to the gold extracted in La Liga-2019/20.
Coach: Zinedine Zidane. The 48-year-old Frenchman has been with Real Madrid since 2016, with a hiatus for most of the 2018/19 season. During this time, he led Madrid to victories in the Spanish championship twice, three times in the Champions League, and twice, Real Madrid led by Zidane won the Spanish Super Cup, the UEFA Super Cup and the Club World Cup. He has a valid contract with Blancos until the summer of 2022.
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Human Resources: Transfermarkt estimates the total value of the equipment at 877 million euros. The most expensive Real Madrid player is the Belgian Eden Hazard, whose contract is estimated at 80 million euros. Also in the top 5 of the most expensive players in Madrid are Casemiro (64 million euros), Rafael Varane (64 million euros), Thibaut Courtois (60 million euros) and Federico Valverde (54 million euros).
The most experienced players of the current Real Madrid are Luka Modric, 35, who won the Ballon d’Or in 2018, Sergio Ramos, 34, who is the team captain, Karim Benzema, 32, Marcelo, 32, and Toni Kroos. 30 years. …
Real’s key young talents are Brazilian forwards Rodrigo (19) and Vinicius Junior (20), as well as Ukrainian goalkeeper Andriy Lunin (21), Norwegian midfielder Martin Edegor (21) and his Uruguayan colleague. Federico Valverde (22 years old).
Last season of the Champions League: Real Madrid played in the last draw of the tournament. In the group stage, Madrid were second in the quartet with Paris Saint-Germain (1st place), Bruges (3rd place) and Galatasaray (4th place). The Whites stopped their way into the tournament already in the 1/8 final stage, losing on aggregate to Manchester City (1: 2 – home, 1: 2 – away).
Matches against Shakhtar: before that, Madrid had crossed paths with the Pitmen only once. It was in the 2015/16 Champions League group, and both fights ended with Real Madrid victories. First, Madrid defeated the Pitmen at home with a score of 4: 0 (goal by Benzema and hat-trick by Ronaldo), and then won the victory in Ukraine with a minimum gap – 4: 3 (for Ronaldo’s double , goals from Modric and Carvajal in the field of Shakhtar “Dentinho and Alex Teixeira, who scored a double, responded with the balls).
INTER DE MILAN
General information: the club was founded on March 9, 1908. It has 18 victories in the Italian championship (second, next to Milan, after Juventus, which has 36 national titles), and also 3 in the Champions League, the last of which dates of the 2009/10 season. Play at the “Giuseppe Meazza” (aka “San Siro”) stadium, which has a capacity of just over 80 thousand spectators. The Nerazzurri got into the current Champions League thanks to second place in Serie A 2019/20.
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Coach: Antonio Conte. The 51-year-old specialist, who started his career as a coach in 2005, has been with Inter since last summer. During this time, he failed to clinch trophies, but came very close to it in the opening season, having received a silver medal in the national championship and become a finalist in the Europa League. Conte’s current contract with Inter is valid until the summer of 2022. Despite rumors of a possible departure from the Nerazzurri field after the end of last season, Conte managed to reach an agreement with the club’s management and continue working.
Human Resources: Transfermarkt estimates the total value of the equipment at € 707 million. Inter’s most valuable player is Belgian center Romelu Lukaku, with an estimated transfer value of € 85 million. Also among the 5 most expensive Nerazzurri players are Lautaro Martínez (€ 70 million), Christian Eriksen (€ 60 million), Stefan de Vrey (€ 60 million) and Ashraf Hakimi (€ 54 million).
Current Inter’s most experienced players are 36-year-old goalkeeper and team captain Samir Handanovich, 35-year-old full-back Ashley Young, 34-year-old substitute goalkeeper Daniele Padelli, 34-year-old full-back Aleksandar Kolarov and midfielder Arturo Vidal 33 years old. whom the “nerazzurri” managed to “score” from “Barcelona” in the current transfer window as a free agent.
Inter’s main young talents are Andrea Pinamonti, 21, raised in the academy, as well as his teammate Alessandro Bastoni, who started playing soccer at the Atalanta academy and plays as a center-back. In addition, Ashraf Hakimi, 21, who Inter bought from Real Madrid for 40 million euros in this window, and the recently signed 23-year-old midfielder Nicolo Barella, who crossed from Cagliari, cannot be ruled out on the right wing for 25 million euros.
Last season of the Champions League: Inter participated in the last draw of the tournament, but failed to leave the group in the tournament playoffs, losing the first two rows to Barcelona and Borussia Dortmund, but ahead of Czech Slavia. After losing in the Europa League, Inter systematically beat Ludogorets in the 1/16 finals, Getafe in the 1/8 finals, Bayer Leverkusen in the quarter-finals and Shakhtar in the semi-finals, losing to him in the decisive match. Sevilla with a score 2: 3.
Matches against Shakhtar: By now, Inter have played the Pitmen three times. Nerazzurri and Donetsk played two matches in the 2005/06 Champions League standings. Then, in Donetsk, “Inter” won 2: 0, and in Milan the teams achieved an effective draw (1: 1). The last match between the teams did not bring joy to the Pitmen, as in the semi-finals of the 2019/20 Europa League, the Italians defeated the Ukrainians with a score of 5: 0.
BORUSIA MENHENGLADBACH
General information: the club was founded on August 1, 1900. Five times in its history, the blacks, whites and greens became champions of Germany, but the last time that happened more than four decades ago, in the 1976/77 season. Borussia’s greatest achievement in the Champions League and its European Cup progenitor is reaching the final in the 1976/77 season when Udo Lattek’s team lost to Liverpool (1: 3), which was coached by Bob Paisley. The people of Mönchengladbach play at the Borussia Park stadium, which was opened in 2004 and has a capacity of just over 54,000 spectators. The Germans entered the current Champions League thanks to finishing fourth in the 2019/20 Bundesliga.
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Coach: Marco Rose. This specialist is only 44 years old and began working in the field of coaching in 2009. He initially helped Thomas Tuchel in Mainz and Martin Schmidt in the club’s second team. Then he went to the Lokomotiv in Leipzig, where he stayed for only one season, and then went to train in Austria. After four years of working with the Salzburg youth and youth team, he was appointed head coach of the first team, where he spent two seasons, after which in the summer of 2019 he received an offer to coach Borussia Mönchengladbach. Key trophies in Rosa’s coaching career are two Austrian Championship victories and one Austrian Cup, won with Salzburg. The coach’s contract with Borussia is valid until the summer of 2022.
Human Resources: Transfermarkt estimates that the total value of the equipment is 315 million euros. A key asset of the Blacks-Whites-Greens is Swiss defensive midfielder Denis Zakaria, 23, valued at € 40 million. Also in the top 5 of Borussia’s most expensive players are 2014 world champion Matthias Ginter (32 million euros), the son of 1998 world champion Lilian Thuram, Marcus Thuram (32 million euros), as well as the 30 million from Alassane Plea from France and Nico. Elvedi on behalf of Switzerland.
Borussia Mönchengladbach’s most experienced footballers are 34-year-old left-back Oskar Wendt, substitute goalkeepers Max Grün (33) and Tobias Zippel (32), right-winger Ibrahima Traore (32) and team captain Lars Stindl, 32 years. acting in the position of the central attacking midfielder.
Borussia’s youngsters are not so actively trusting and therefore it is possible to point here only to the 21-year-old forward Hannes Wolf hired in Leipzig, for whom Borussia has the option of redemption, as well as the 23-year-old Slovak Laszlo Beneš years, which is in the camp. “Black-white-green” has been around since 2016, but so far he has only played 41 games for the first team.
Last season of the Champions League: season-2019/20 Borussia Monchengladbach played in the Europa League. Having indulged in a group with “Roma”, “Istanbul Bashakshehir” and “Wolfsberg”, the Germans took only the third line, leaving the Turks and Italians to carry on, and that was the end of their European journey. The last time in the Champions League, the Black-White-Green played in the 2016/17 season. Then, in qualifying, they quietly passed the Young Boys (3: 1, 6: 1), but in the group they managed to take only 3rd place, leaving Barcelona and Manchester City ahead, but ahead of Celtic.
Matches against Shakhtar: Mönchengladbach has never crossed paths with the Pitmen in official matches.
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