Atlético's conversion against the Chelsea defense

Atletico Madrid, after 24 rounds of the current season of Examples, tops the standings with 55 points.

The gap from the closest pursuer Real is three points.

But Diego Simeone's team still had a game in hand.

The advantage could be great, do not concede to the grand Levante.

However, home failure looks more like an anomaly.

After all, Atlético, which has the best defense of the tournament (16 conceded goals), before that in the national championship only conceded more goals twice per evening.

In addition, the team did not realize their own chances: according to the metric of the expected goals, the leader of La Liga has played enough by 2.79.

By the way, implementation is the pride of Madrid this season.

The attack group very rationally approaches the chances at the front gate.

Luis Suarez scored 4.81 more than expected, and Marcos Llorente 5.67.

And this helped Atlético to win not only in equal games in the domestic arena, but also in the Champions League.

In the European arena, the team is especially dangerous at home: 13 games in a row at Wanda Metropolitano remained with the hosts.

While out of nine victories in the course of the series, six were won over the participants of the leading European championships - Spain, France, Italy, Germany, England.

Chelsea represent the last listed Premier League.

But at the same time it looks like a team that is no less dangerous than Atlético.

Appointment as head coach of Thomas Tuchel instead of Frank Lampard went to the benefit of Londoners.

Under the German specialist, the "aristocrats" have never conceded.

Has conceded only two goals in six meetings, including an own goal by Antonio Rudiger against Sheffield United.

The integrity of Chelsea's performances is also emphasized by the fact that until Saturday's match with Southampton (1: 1), the team did not allow the opponent to differ before the break and did not find itself in a catching position.

Whereas the exact blow of Takumi Minamino was the only one on target performed by the “saints” in the evening.

At foreign gates, Londoners are no less practical.

Under Tuchela, the team turned nine of 28 shots on target into goals, which brought the conversion to a champion level - 32.14%.

Considering that Chelsea always play very pragmatically away in European competitions (only one defeat with 10 wins in the last 14 away games), the date promises to be exciting.

After all, both teams are used to punishing their opponents for even minor mistakes.

There is intrigue in terms of tactics as well.

"Atlético" in the season acts as widely as possible, finally abandoning the classic 4-4-2 scheme inherent in Simeone.

Therefore, he faces problems when the opponent responds with lunges at high speed, as did Levante - the Madrid players do not have time to return and restore their compact defense.

Chelsea, under Tuchel, willingly owns the ball, picks up the pace and attacks just through the free zones.

Whose approach will be more successful, it will become known on Tuesday at the national stadium in Bucharest - due to covid restrictions by the decision of UEFA, the match was postponed to a neutral field.

Head-to-head dispute between Immobile and Lewandowski

After winning the Club World Cup, Bayern Munich had a bad stretch.

The team, which won all six possible trophies within the season, first shared points with Arminia (3: 3), and then lost to Eintracht (1: 2).

Leipzig, the main pursuer of the Bundesliga leader, took advantage of this, cutting the gap to two points.

But the position of "Bayern" from this globally did not shake - and due to the supply of points, and due to the circumstances around the matches of the week.

After all, Munich played against Arminia in snowfall a few days after arriving from warm Qatar and adapted to the conditions only in the second half (and the field was put in order only during the break).

“Eintracht”, on the other hand, gained excellent shape - and with a victory over the team of Hansi Flick, he brought the unbeaten run in the Bundesliga to 11 matches, even in the absence of Andre Silva.

In the Champions League, Bayern's position is also strong - not without reason Lazio head coach Simone Inzaghi called the Germans the last team they would like to face in the playoffs.

Munich have not lost 17 matches in a row, and in the 2020/21 group stage they scored an average of three goals per evening.

The success is facilitated by the excellent form of forward Robert Lewandowski, who shares the third line in the list of the best snipers of all time with the legendary Real Madrid striker Raul.

The Pole, who became the top scorer of the Champions League last season, is not slowing down today: in the Bundesliga after 22 rounds he has already scored 26 times, which is an absolute record of the competition.

However, Lazio's defense will not be easy even for the world club champions to beat.

In the current Champions League, the Romans were not inferior at all.

And in the last seven home games in all tournaments, they have won exceptionally - including such serious rivals as Roma and Napoli.

Moreover, the hosts have not allowed 180 minutes at the Stadio Olimpico.

At the same time, in the Champions League, Lazio has not been able to defend their goal intact for 17 matches: since then, as in the 2003/04 season, he successfully went to the Turkish Besiktas.

While in Rome, the Italians spent 90 minutes even earlier - in October 2001 they defeated the Istanbul Galatasaray 1: 0.

Lazio also has its own superbomber, who is able to adequately respond to Lewandowski.

In 2020, Ciro Immobile received the Golden Boot award for the top scorer in the national championships of the UEFA member countries.

Having scored 36 goals, he set the record for the most goals among Italians in Serie A in a season and at the same time overtook the Polish sniper Bayern in the dispute for the trophy.

For 13 years - since the days of Francesco Totti - Serie A players could not get ahead of their rivals.

But it was Immobile who broke the hegemony of Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez.

In the 2020/21 season, the situation has not changed: Chiro and Robert are fighting in absentia for the right to be called the most productive striker in Europe.

For example, from November to January, they both produced a series in domestic championships, where they did not leave the field without a goal.

The Pole excelled at a distance of 10 matches, the Italian - 11. On Tuesday, on the Stadio Olimpico lawn, they will have an excellent chance to identify the strongest in the first series of a face-to-face duel.