If there will not be a miracle on second leg UEFA Champions League (12/4) ,formation of semifinal have been described from first leg (5/4).Spanish sides victory (Real Madrid and Barcelon), could make them face each other to European "El Clasico.Meanwhile the German side, Schalke - which surprisingly had defeated Inter - already to make their own history, against Manchester United, the other semifinal candidate.
"April 16th,20th,27th, and May 3rd are belong to RM-Barca," said Sid Lowe, Spanish League columnist in English Newspaper Guardian, in his Twitter account.He tweeted that when Seydou Keita was scoring the fourth goal of Barcelona against Shakhtar Donestk in first leg.
Barcelona ended the game with 5-1 leading on goal aggregate, after Xavi made score right four minutes before first half fulltime.It will be a miracle deny Barcelona's leading to Shakhtar in second leg at Donbass Arena (12/5).
Although second legs have their role on April 13th, lot of peole said that Barcelona will be facing Real Madrid in semifinal.As the drawing taken, the winner of Barcelona-Shakhtar will face Real Madrid-Tottenham in semifinal. Madrid themselves slaughtered Tottenham 4-0 on Bernabeu (5/4).
If it really happen, there will be five matches involving Madrid and Barca or El Clasico in four weeks.Seems like Lowe's tweet, El Clasico will begin in April 16th (Primera La Liga), April 20th (Kings Cup Final), April 27th (UCL semifinal 1st leg), and then May 3rd (UCL semifinal 2nd leg).
Barca didn't look overconfident
"The winner have been selected and they (Barcelona) will go through (semifinal)," said Mircea Lucescu, Shakhtar coach, right after first leg ended." I ithink Barcelona are the best team in football history, they will be a champions," said Darijo Srna, Shakhtar's skipper.
Maybe statement from Srna and Lucescu come early and Barcelona didn't take it serious." We were wrong if we thought the game is over," said Andres Iniesta, Barcelona Midfielder.However if we are seeing Barcelona performance, Srna and Lucescu didn't make a wrong qoute.
Barcelona are independence team in terms of quality of their players, or didn't depend on one-two players to score goals.Take a look on Barcelona's five goals to Shaktar, all made by five different players like Dani Alves,Xavi,Iniesta,Gerrard Pique, and Keita.
In terms of game quality, Barcelona ars the kings.They had 64% of ball possession with 17 times shoot on goal (10 were on target).One more thing, Xavi and friends made 671 passing, almost three times than Schalke players did.
History of Schalke
Another semifinal ticket will be a history the German Schalke 04, which have defeated surprisingly Inter 5-2 on Giuseppe Meazza.With second leg will be held in their home, Arena Aufschalke, It will be easy to make history come true.Inter just have their luck to this match, as they beaten Bayern 3-2 in second leg after lost 0-1 at home.
But this time, it's gonna be difficult to turn 2-5 loosing to turn into victory, just because Leonardo's team have to score 4 goals gap or more." It will be a easy step to semifinal, we just convinve ourselves by playing well to make club's history to go to first time UCL semifinal," said Raul Gonzalez, Schalke striker.
And if Inter loose on second leg, there will be no teams which have a back to back champions of UCL with new format initially in 1993.The holding champions that made back to back victory were occured in old format in 1960s to 1980s era.The teams are Real Madrid, Benfica,Inter,Bayern Munchen,Ajax,Liverpool, AC Milan and Nottingham Forest.
By the way, who will be the candidate of last semifinal ticket and facing Schalke?. Manchester United have big chance after defeating Chelsea 1-0 in Stamford Bridge in first leg, and second leg will be held in Old Trafford with United as second leg host.
Remembering Xavi's quote, "the ball is round" , we know that anything can happen, all the calculations above will be wrong and right, we just have to see and wait.
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