A cold joint Shakhtar Donetsk on Tuesday to receive the
machinery of Bayern Munich in the first episode of the two teams in the
knockout round of the Champions League.
The "miners" will come to this vital commitment
immersed in various drawbacks, one is not playing a competitive match since
December 10 when he finished the group stage of the Champions same.
They will not play in your Donbass Arena Stadium against
the Bavarians, because of the civil war that plagues the East Ukrainian, so
will have to compete commitment in the Arena Lviv.Although they have played
lots of friendlies, the intensity is not the same, so the Shakhtar certainly
will suffer against the Spanish squad led by Josep Guardiola.
The Romanian coach Mircea Lucescu admitted that Bayern is
the favorite in the tie, but in football anything can happen and promised
battle by their manager to make a decent knockout phase.
Bayern must go step by step in the Champions League, but
certainly your goal is to win the trophy and clean the image left in the last
semi-final against reigning champions Real Madrid after falling 5-0 on
aggregate.
Mircea Lucescu Romanian, local technician, is an old
friend of Pep Guardiola, who headed to Barcelona when the Catalans eliminated
the "miners" Ukrainians in the quarter-finals in the 2010-11 season.
The difference from that series is that the game is not
played in Donetsk, the capital of the coal region and now main stronghold of
the pro-Russian separatist militias.
Shakhtar, who has not played in its field for almost a
year ago, due to the outbreak of the conflict with Kiev, get the Teutonic team
in the modern Lvov stadium, which hosted the European Championship in 2012.
Lvov, in western Ukraine, is hostile to the territory
Donetsk team, so Lucescu's charges will be without pressure from the stands as
a determining factor.
