Michael Owen owns labelled his favourite to win the Winners League this period yet insurance claims 4 sides have a “real chance” of asserting the gong.
The last-16 glances strategy to receive underway on Tuesday with Premier League pair Toolbox and also Aston Suite in reaction versus PSV and also Bar Brugge respectively.
Real Madrid and also Atletico Madrid also confront-off in a mouthwatering derby, while Borussia Dortmund snag on Lille.
Arne Port confiscates his Liverpool side to PSG on Wednesday while Barcelona snag on Benfica, Bayern Munich and also Bayer Leverkusen tote out confrontation in an all-German tie, and also Feyenoord host Inter Milan.
Owen owns tipped Liverpool – that won 7 arcades on the bounce in the group phase previously throwing away the dead rubber versus PSV – to go all the way.
“My Winners League favourites are Liverpool, above Real Madrid,” Owen told BoyleSports. “You can also exquisiteness at Barcelona and also Bayern Munich as possessing a real chance.
“There’s a handful of teams that can win it, yet I’d most clearly say Liverpool and also Real Madrid are the two teams at the moment.
“There is substantial stress and also agitation on Kylian Mbappe, yet that’s Real Madrid. Supervisors have won the league and also been sacked for not pleasing the Winners League.
“The stress and also agitation there is to bested Barcelona and also now Atletico Madrid as nicely, they have the strongest players and also the strongest company, you have to win everything or it feels pick a failing.
“Mbappe knew the chance previously he signed, that’s the pep of a peak player. If he didn’t cramp the stress and also agitation he need to’ve signed for a guy else. The better upwards the sustenance chain the more stress and also agitation there is.
“He will most clearly have to fire them to the peak of the league and also the Winners League, yet he’s not dropped short in doing so yet. They have a habit of coming on tenacious and also they’ll go on a memorable dashed once everyone is it.
“They will most clearly be the last crew you cramp to draw in the ko stages, humans have chatted around Real Madrid pick they are possessing a tragic period, yet you’d be badly sustain to disregard them now.”
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Chatting after Manchester Metropolis’s Winners League exit, Pep Guardiola staked out storekeepers Real Madrid as “favourites”.
“Of program Madrid are a combatant, most clearly,” Guardiola stipulated. “Yet there are unalike other nice teams around. It will most clearly be an renowned Winners League period.
“Madrid are always favourites for this trophy. There are unalike other teams that are possessing a badly nice period yet Madrid are always favourites.
“Yet there are unalike other teams that are tinkering badly nicely. Liverpool are possessing a utterly nice period upwards till now, Barcelona are phenomenal, Paris Saint-Germain, with my playmate Luis [Enrique] in penalty, are on the march.
“Yet most clearly, Madrid are favourites.”
