Cross between Messi and Ronaldo in the Champions League

Buenos Aires (NA) – Barcelona of Spain and Juventus of Italy, with Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo on the field of play, respectively, will meet today at the closing of the group stage of the Champions League, which will define the teams classified to the next instance with 16 matches that will take place between today and tomorrow.

Both teams have already secured their place in the next phase of the tournament, so the main attraction will be the duel between Messi and Ronaldo after almost a thousand days, because the last time they met on the court was in a Barcelona vs Real Madrid for Spanish LaLiga, which was a 2-2 draw, in May 2018.

The casts that have already qualified for the round of 16, as well as the culé and Italian team, are Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund from Germany, Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea from England, Porto from Portugal and Sevilla from Spain.

Today’s first shift will be opened by Italian Lazio (Joaquín Correa and Gonzalo Escalante) and Bruges from Belgium at 2:55 p.m. (Argentine time), the same time as Zenit from Russia (Sebastián Driussi) and Borussia Dortmund.

Also at 17:00, meanwhile, the day will be completed with the duels between Paris Saint Germain of France (Leandro Paredes and Ángel Di María) and Basaksehir of Turkey, Leipzig of Germany and Manchester United of England, and Dinamo Kiev of Ukraine and Ferencvarosi from Hungary.

In addition, Chelsea (Wilfredo Caballero) and Russian Krasnodar will face off, and French Rennes will face Sevilla (Franco Vázquez and Lucas Ocampos).

The group stage will close tomorrow with another eight matches:

14:55 Ajax vs Atalanta 14:55 Midtyjlland vs Liverpool 17:00 Manchester City vs Olympique de Marsella 17:00 Bayern Munich vs Lokomotiv 17:00 Salzburgo vs Atlético de Madrid 17:00 Real Madrid vs Borussia Monchengladbach 2 17:00 Inter vs Shakhtar Donetsk.