Soccer
The giants clash at the Bernabéu tonight─── 17:09 Wed, 23 Apr 2014
Morgan Piek
Bloemfontein - Tonight’s Champions League semi-final first leg action sees two of the games giants, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich face-off at the intimidating Bernabéu in Spain.
Real are the tournament’s top scorers with 32 goals and they have mostly excelled playing a 4-3-3 formation which will most likely be used against the German as well.
The Germans will back themselves in the match against the Spaniards, taking into account their superior record in the head-to-head clash in semi-finals.
The sides have met in five European semi-finals with Bayern prevailing in 1976, 1987, 2001 and 2012; Madrid's sole win came in 2000.
Tonight’s match kicks off at 20:00.
