One Italian team was eliminated yesterday and we might as well see another leaving today, talking about Juventus. After that poor display against Manchester City in their last group game I feel Madrid will have a better chance of getting something in this encounter because if I'm to be honest I'd say Madrid are different from what we saw them play in the first group game but since after that their performance changed starting from the game they played with a man down and the chances are for good and I don't think Juventus can stop them when they start running.
Real Madrid can be seen as the favorite but it doesn't matter, without the odds I'd still go for Madrid to win this game, as for the Old Ladies I think they look too open to be penetrated too easy like their defenders are another version of that of Inter Milan...let's go for a 3-1 in for Madrid.
I want to feel that this is a problem but when looking at Inter's current condition with the transition and problems within them and of course by looking at their performance in the group stage I actually think that this result is a normal thing.
It doesn't mean that I don't want to admit that they are a great club but in other conditions we must realize that in the end Inter's current condition is still not ready enough and they still need time to adjust to be better. Their performance in terms of dominance and ball possession does look quite convincing but on the other hand their readiness for counterattacks is also still very minimal so that in the end Fluminense managed to make this an advantage for them.
For Juventus in tomorrow's match it is clearly still a bit difficult but looking at their goal productivity and with Madrid's current condition even though I still lean towards Madrid but I still expect that this match will have a lot of goals.
It's difficult to tell what's going on with them, but when you take into account how much they have lost at the end of this season, it makes sense that the players are not only physically exhausted, but also mentally. They lost the Champions League final in a horrible way, they gave away the Serie A title because of incredibly bad games at the end, got kicked out of the Coppa and I heard that Lautaro Martinez made his 64th game of the season. That is insane.