German champions Bayern Munich will be looking to maintain their 100% record in this season's Champions League as they travel to face Group E rivals Roma on Tuesday. Guardiola's men are top of the group before the match, two points clear of Roma who have recorded a win and a draw so far.
Bayern have not been spectacular in the first two matches though, they have defeated Manchester City and CSKA Moscow by the same score line: 1-0. French winger Franck Ribery could be given a place in the starting eleven after coming off the bench in the 6-0 win over Werder Bremen last weekend. Goalie Pepe Reina is still unavailable, and so is Thiago Alcantara due to yet another ankle injury.
Roma will be determined to avoid defeat in order to remain above Manchester City in the group table. The home side will be without Seydou Keita due to a calf muscle injury. The two teams have met in the 2010-2011 edition of the Champions League, also at the group stage, and each side won at home.
Probable starting line-ups:
Roma: Skorupski - Maicon, Manolas, Yanga-Mbiwa, Cole - Pjanic, Nainggolan - Gervinho, Totti, Florenzi - Destro
Bayern Munich: Neuer - Alaba, Boateng, Dante, Bernat - Lahm, Alonso - Ribery, Robben, Muller - Lewandowski
My prediction: 2-2 draw.
Here are the odds for the match at Bet365:
Roma win - 11/4 Draw - 11/4 Bayern win - 21/20
mico.femic.1 9 years ago
I hope Roma can surprise the germans. Im a Juventus fan, but in my opinion Roma has a better team, better players, and they play nicer football. They have so deep rotation, i think they can reach the quarterfinals. Bayern is not as good as before, Guardiola just ruin slowly what Heynckess made up. 1x should be easy here.
I hope Roma can surprise the germans. Im a Juventus fan, but in my opinion Roma has a better team, better players, and they play nicer football. They have so deep rotation, i think they can reach the quarterfinals. Bayern is not as good as before, Guardiola just ruin slowly what Heynckess made up. 1x should be easy here.
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Milaneli 9 years ago
Bayern just owned them. What I noticed in this years Champions Leauge that only ToP teams and lower teams got some points. Teams mid-class like Liverpool, Arsenal, Schalke etc are simply not good enough to go to the finish of the CL. Also Ludogorets is great suprise if u ask me, great matches.
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Daniel Anderson 9 years ago
Most interesting for me is the fact that nobody exactly knows in what formation Bayern played that match.I had an impression that there are fifteen players for Bayern.Everywhere on the pitch you could see them,Beating an Italian team with a six goal difference could be done only by superb team.
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kkole 9 years ago
What to say about last night. A great night with a lot of goals and I really enjoy. This is shocking for me. Bayern is great team but I expected more from Roma. They don't showed anything in first half. Goalkeeper was under his level and whole defese was bad. In attack they could do something but Noer was great. I think...
What to say about last night. A great night with a lot of goals and I really enjoy. This is shocking for me. Bayern is great team but I expected more from Roma. They don't showed anything in first half. Goalkeeper was under his level and whole defese was bad. In attack they could do something but Noer was great. I think that this resoult don't show us how strong is bayern but also how weak is roma
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milanChoka 9 years ago
What say about Bayern. They play magnificent football. Robben and Muller are best players in Bayern for me, and last night they proved himself kvality. I expected win of Roma, and when I saw 0-5 in half time I just can't believe that happening. Last night Bayern was shown us how much that club is powerful, and I already...
What say about Bayern. They play magnificent football. Robben and Muller are best players in Bayern for me, and last night they proved himself kvality. I expected win of Roma, and when I saw 0-5 in half time I just can't believe that happening. Last night Bayern was shown us how much that club is powerful, and I already see them in final of champions league.
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Daniel Anderson 9 years ago
Indeed @madzgos,it would be very interesting to see how many Bayern Munich fans anticipated victory with 6 goals difference tonight.I think even Guardiola himself didn't dreamed about beating AS Roma in Italy in such a manner.Yet,this should be big motivation for AS Roma players to start working even harder to achieve...
Indeed @madzgos,it would be very interesting to see how many Bayern Munich fans anticipated victory with 6 goals difference tonight.I think even Guardiola himself didn't dreamed about beating AS Roma in Italy in such a manner.Yet,this should be big motivation for AS Roma players to start working even harder to achieve goals for this season.
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madzgos 9 years ago
Bayern simply was superior last night. Roma plays very bad, but for me, goalkeeper was guilty for minimum 3 goals, he was static, uninteresed. This result did not expect any Bayern's fan. Now, Bayern definitely woul be first in this group, and I hope, Manchester could be second.
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Daniel Anderson 9 years ago
It looks like the times when Italian teams were powerful is passed.Roma has a good team,which is really playing nice football in Serie A,but it is nowhere near the level they should be playing to cause some problems to a Bayern Munich.Also every year Juventus is buying only the best players from Serie A,but all this years...
It looks like the times when Italian teams were powerful is passed.Roma has a good team,which is really playing nice football in Serie A,but it is nowhere near the level they should be playing to cause some problems to a Bayern Munich.Also every year Juventus is buying only the best players from Serie A,but all this years they were not even close to making some success in Champion League.
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schuber26 9 years ago
I don't know that it is a nightmare or a fact. How can loose an italian team to 7-1? Roma was like a Serie B team yesterday. They are way better than this! There is no such as difference as yesterday between the two teams. I am shocked. I hope Roma will be more better in Munich and they will score at least two goal to...
I don't know that it is a nightmare or a fact. How can loose an italian team to 7-1? Roma was like a Serie B team yesterday. They are way better than this! There is no such as difference as yesterday between the two teams. I am shocked. I hope Roma will be more better in Munich and they will score at least two goal to Bayern.. Revenge must be taken! Good Luck Roma.
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Daniel Anderson 9 years ago
None of us was right....Bayern won in such a dominant way.It is probably one of the biggest losses in AS Roma's history.They didn't play well,especially in defense,but that doesn't mean that Bayern's victory is worth less.No,Bayern played extremely good,had a good possesion and had an idea how to play in every moment of...
None of us was right....Bayern won in such a dominant way.It is probably one of the biggest losses in AS Roma's history.They didn't play well,especially in defense,but that doesn't mean that Bayern's victory is worth less.No,Bayern played extremely good,had a good possesion and had an idea how to play in every moment of the game.Congratulations to Guardiola and his lads.
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Franjo ?iDo 9 years ago
This will be great game, Roma is playing really good, I thought that they will be on third place, but they showed in first two games that they can compete for first place, great form... Bayern have good team, but I'm not so satisfied with them, I think that they are not for big things, because I don't agree with Guardiola's...
This will be great game, Roma is playing really good, I thought that they will be on third place, but they showed in first two games that they can compete for first place, great form... Bayern have good team, but I'm not so satisfied with them, I think that they are not for big things, because I don't agree with Guardiola's style, his style is not for Bayern, they need some other coach... This will be very good game, I hope that Roma will be unbeaten in this game...
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aleksandar vlaisavljevic 9 years ago
it will be great footbal , roma is my favorite italian team of all the times, but tonight I beileve in Muller scoring winning goal. But maybe Roma is more hungry for playing in LC, so that is a thing that can be winning factor. Looking foward to see matcg tonight. My prediction 0-1. We will see!
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josip1912 9 years ago
I believe in Bayern, that is my favourite football club, germans are too strong for them, with this new transfers, they will get to the victory easy, but we can't underestimated the Italians, it can't be draw 1 - 1 or big win for Bayer, and i think Lewandowski scores, maybe Muller. Good luck for both teams, i think all...
I believe in Bayern, that is my favourite football club, germans are too strong for them, with this new transfers, they will get to the victory easy, but we can't underestimated the Italians, it can't be draw 1 - 1 or big win for Bayer, and i think Lewandowski scores, maybe Muller. Good luck for both teams, i think all watchers will enyoj this match.
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kkole 9 years ago
It is a derby of tonight program in Champions league. I expect a match with small number of goals and I think that team who score first goal will win here. Bayern is very strong but this season we see that they can be beaten. So in italy will be hard for them and I predict draw 0-0 or roma wil win 1-0.
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Daniel Anderson 9 years ago
I suppose this wil be the most interesting match of all matches in this Champions League matchday.Both teams are in good form.Bookmakers and lot of people consider Roma as underdog here,but I really think that they can make big problems to Bayern Munics.If Totti and his teammates give they best,I'm sure that Germans will...
I suppose this wil be the most interesting match of all matches in this Champions League matchday.Both teams are in good form.Bookmakers and lot of people consider Roma as underdog here,but I really think that they can make big problems to Bayern Munics.If Totti and his teammates give they best,I'm sure that Germans will be in trouble.Potential threats for Bayern are Totti,Destro and Iturbe.I predict a 2-1 win for Roma.
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schuber26 9 years ago
Absolutely the AS Roma - Bayern Munich is going to be the match of the day. Roma gets better and better in these years. They are the most dangerous opponent to Juventus in Serie A. Bayern is in good form in Bundesliga but in Champions League they are not as best as they would be contrary as Roma who are beast. I think...
Absolutely the AS Roma - Bayern Munich is going to be the match of the day. Roma gets better and better in these years. They are the most dangerous opponent to Juventus in Serie A. Bayern is in good form in Bundesliga but in Champions League they are not as best as they would be contrary as Roma who are beast. I think there will be 3+ goals in this match. Totti and Iturbe should score at least one goal in Roma. On the other team Muller will be the most dangerous player to AS roma. He is tall and strong. He is like to score a goal. The first goal will be important this match, Munich will be in trouble if the first goal will be Roma's goal. The italian team has an impressive counter attack strategy what easaly can be a surprise to Bayern. It will be a very exciting match in CL today every football lover should watch it. My prediction is a 2-2 draw too but there is big chance for a Roma win what I would love. Italian football must shine again and it is a very good opportunity to make it. Good luck for both teams and have fun to all watchers!
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John Andrew 9 years ago
Everyone who like football must to respect Francesco Totti, what a player. I would like that he will score tonight. Roma is my favorite to win, but also Bayern have a great team. Some years Roma didn't play CL, but now they have a great team and coach, and they could easy play in elimination phase of champions league.
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madzgos 9 years ago
That's will be a great match. Roma is in a great form, they play nice football and I always expect from them lots of goals. My prediction is that Roma will win this match with two goals score, or Roma win and bith teams to score. These are nice odds.
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cris1285 9 years ago
I hope Roma can surprise the germans. Im a Juventus fan, but in my opinion Roma has a better team, better players, and they play nicer football. They have so deep rotation, i think they can reach the quarterfinals. Bayern is not as good as before, Guardiola just ruin slowly what Heynckess made up. 1x should be easy here.
I hope Roma can surprise the germans. Im a Juventus fan, but in my opinion Roma has a better team, better players, and they play nicer football. They have so deep rotation, i think they can reach the quarterfinals. Bayern is not as good as before, Guardiola just ruin slowly what Heynckess made up. 1x should be easy here.
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