In the early hours of tomorrow morning, the last two matches of the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final will be contested, with Manchester United away to Madrid to challenge Atletico Madrid and Benfica at home to Ajax.
Atletico's home match against Manchester United has undoubtedly attracted much attention, the main focus is from the past between Ronaldo and Atletico, during his time with Real Madrid, C Ronaldo led the team to defeat Atletico in the Champions League knockout rounds for four consecutive seasons, including 2 finals to win the championship. In his first season with Juve, he scored a hat-trick in the second leg of the quarter-finals to help Juve reverse the score 3-2 on aggregate.
In his career 30 times against Atletico, Ronaldo scored 25 goals and assisted nine times, including 4 hat-tricks, and his team won every Atletico in the Champions League knockout rounds, which is the nemesis and nightmare of Atletico and Simeone.
Despite Ronaldo's illustrious past against Atletico, United still seem to be the one to be looked down upon. Former Ballon d'Or winner and legendary England striker Michael Owen predicted in today's prediction that Atletico will beat Manchester United 2-1 at home.
He put it this way: "As for Manchester United, they won Leeds United at the weekend, but the defence is again having problems, in this kind of high-intensity game, do Manchester United have enough physical strength to play against the top teams? I have doubts about that.
I think Atletico will win and Suarez may score a goal. I don't think there will be much difference between the two teams over two legs, but Atletico will win Manchester United by a narrow margin. ”
Seeing this prediction, many Manchester United fans will inevitably feel nervous, because Irving's prediction success rate is too high, especially in the Champions League knockout stages. Closer to the point, in the early morning chelsea vs. Lille and Villarreal against Juve, Irving guessed the score all.
Farther down, in the four games that ended last week, except for bayern's game, Irving predicted the outcome of the game. In last season's Champions League semi-finals, he predicted the entire score of four games in two legs. In this way, he is far more worthy of the title of "Ou Immortal" than The NBA's Kyrie Owen.
Of course, Irving naturally has his reason for looking down on Manchester United, after all, Manchester United's performance in recent times is difficult to reassure, especially the performance of the back line is really difficult to compliment, and in the higher level of champions league knockouts, such defects are more likely to be amplified.
In addition, C Ronaldo is also 37 years old, has only scored 1 goal since entering 2022, and is obviously not in good shape, and from a fair point of view, it is also necessary to be cautious about him.
Of course, prediction is a prediction after all, and today's Atletico also has many problems, I believe it will be a game full of suspense.