CSKA Moscow take on the visitors Real Madrid at the Luzhniki Arena in the Round 2 of the UEFA Champions League Group G. The match will be played in Moscow on Tuesday, October 2nd.
The upcoming fixture will be a great test for the young players of CSKA Moscow. It is very unlikely though that they will be able to deal with the class of Real Madrid. The Koni are far from their peak shape at the moment. Also, most of the players in the squad of CSKA Moscow do not have experience of playing against such strong teams. The team of Viktor Goncharenko conceded two goals in their Round 1 fixture against Viktoria Plzen so they are likely to allow even more against Los Blancos. The home crowd advantage for the Red-Blues will not work for the team most likely too. The star players of the team Fyodor Chalov and Timur Zhamaletdinov could potentially grow into very classy footballers with time but for now they are not a real threat to the team of Julen Lopetegui. Furthermore, the upcoming fixture is not the crucial one for CSKA Moscow because they will have two matches in a row against Roma moving on. It will be very hard for the team of Viktor Goncharenko to compete even for the third place in the group. In their last three matches CSKA Moscow beat Orenburg with a 1-0 score, drew against Spartak Moscow with a 1-1 score and against Viktoria Plzen with a 2-2 score in their Champions League group stage fixture. The Militarians have also had a friendly match recently where they have lost to Arsenal Tula with a 1-2 score.
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If Real Madrid want to beat CSKA Moscow with a big score they will do that. Los Blancos though had a tough match against Atletico Madrid last weekend. In the sixth tour of the Primera Division they lost to Sevilla with a 0-3 score. That was a huge hit on the self-esteem of the team of Julen Lopetegui. They should win in the upcoming Round 2 match just with their high class though. The additional motivation for Los Merengeus will be the loss of Spain national football team to Russia national football team at the World Cup last summer. They will probably dictate the course of the match on Tuesday despite them playing on the away side. In the Round 1 fixture of the Group G they crushed Roma so why not do that in the Round 2 also. In their last three matches Real Madrid drew against Atletico Madrid with a 0-0 score, lost to Sevilla with a 0-3 score and beat Espanyol with a 1-0 score. In the Round 1 of the UEFA Champions League Group G they beat Roma with a 3-0 score.
CSKA Moscow would have slight chances of getting some points against Real Madrid if this fixture would happen in the Round 6 of the Group G and not in the Round 2 when Los Blancos need to win every match. Even though Cristiano Ronaldo left the team last summer they are not worse than they were before. The team of Julen Lopetegui has been scoring two goals a match on average so far this Primera Division season. It`s worth noting that the striker of the team Karim Benzema particularly has scored five goals already. The maximum CSKA Moscow can get on Tuesday is to score one goal. However, even this will be a big question because the defensive line of Los Merengues is really good. Thereby the team of Julen Lopetegui should beat the Koni confidently in the upcoming fixture.
Prediction for the match: Real Madrid to win with -2.0 handicap.
