Match Real Madrid vs Galatasaray UEFA Champions League Wednesday, April 3th 2013

 Real Madrid vs Galatasaray 03-04-2013
 

Real Madrid travel to Galatasaray in the Champions League

information of Wednesday's hotly-anticipated encounter between Real Madrid vs Galatasaray.

Pre Match

 
Kick off : April 3, 2013 7:45 PM BST
Venue : Estadio Santiago Bernabéu
City: Madrid
Referee:‬ S. Moen‎
Competition : UEFA Champions League

Real Madrid host Turkish team Galatasaray in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie.

Wednesday, April 3th 2013, Real Madrid will meet at home, Galatasaray, in Uefa Champions League. In this match, Real Madrid are favorites to win the match against those from Galatasaray. In Primera Division, Real Madrid is on 2th place with 62 points, and Galatasaray, is on 1th place with 53 points in Turkey Superliga.

Real Madrid has been playing well in the Champions League. Their only lost was against Borussia Dortmund in the group stages playing away, the score was 2-1.
Mourinho also indicated that Iker Casillas would not be involved against the Turkish champions despite returning to training following a hand injury.
Raphael Varane and Fabio Coentrao are though expected to return after missing the Real Zaragoza league game with slight muscle injuries and Xabi Alonso, Sami Khedira, Mesut Ozil and Angel Di Maria will start after being rested at the weekend.


Galatasaray has been poor at the start of the Champions League group stages, as they lost 2 matches, one against Manchester United and another against Sporting Braga.
Galatasaray have won 3 straight away games in the Champions League, scoring at least 2 goals in each of those wins although this is the arguably the toughest away game they would have faced this season.
Johan Elmander is available for Fatih Terim's side, but Engin Baytar and Aydin Yilmaz are both missing.

Possible lineups:

REAL MADRID: Lopez; Arbeloa, Varane, Ramos, Coentrao; Khedira, Alonso, Di Maria, Ozil, Ronaldo; Benzema.

GALATASARAY: Muslera; Eboue, Semih, Nounkeu, Riera; Altintop, Melo, Selcuk; Sneijder, Drogba, Burak

channels broadcast the match:

Swiss SF2
TSI 2
Italian Sky Sport 1
RTE One
Nederland 3
NTV + Fudbol
OBN
Premiere Analog
TVI
Sport 1 NL
TV 1 Bosnia
RTS 1


 Real Madrid 03:00 Galatasaray