After skipping one of the strongest defensive lines in the Champions League, in the quarter-finals Real Madrid, the defending champions will face a similar obstacle when they visit Juventus in the first leg semi-final Tuesday.
Real Madrid needed for almost three hours to break the resistance neighbor Atletico Madrid in the previous round after surpasses it 1-nil on aggregate thanks to a goal in the 88th minute of the return leg.
Real Madrid and this time is going to run Bioventos who won the Italian league for the fourth time in a row Saturday, four rounds before the end of after conceding just 19 times in 34 games domestic competition this season.
And starring Juventus defense this season in the Champions League after also maintained a clean sheet six times in ten games and conceded only five goals.
Juventus also has a distinctive style my plans do not depend on physical strength and strong tackles such as Atletico which is capable of launching attacks Organization according to the circumstances of the game.
The trio plays Giorgio Chiellini and Andrea Barzagli and Leonardo Bonucci together for four seasons in the heart of the defense team Juventus and Italy.
Bonucci said: "I think we have the best defense, we know and understand each other perfectly after playing together for a long time."
But Juve's defense will face a difficult task to withstand Real Madrid attack, led by in-form Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored a three-time 25 in the league to lead the European champions to beat Sevilla 3-2 on Saturday last.
Juventus should also feel concerned about the breakthrough Real Madrid defense that has not conceded a goal away from home in the Champions League since a 2-1 win over the Odogurts in Bulgaria on October first / last October, which equals 444 minutes of play.
Although local dominance for Juventus in Italy, the team did not reach the final before in the Champions League since 2003.
But coincidence and Juventus meet with Real Madrid in the final before 2003, when the superiority 4-3 on aggregate to Spanish rival.
The only two players remain in the ranks of the two teams since that encounter 12 years ago and the two guards Gianluigi Buffon at Juventus and Real Madrid Iker Casillas commander.
The two teams met 16 times before, all in the European Cup and the Champions League since the first confrontation between them in the quarter-finals from 1961 to 1962 season.
Real Madrid won the 1-zero over Juventus in the 1998 final to win the seventh title in the tournament as the Spanish team beat his rival 2-1 at Milan in the group stage in the capital Madrid and then a 2-2 draw in Turin last season.
Having exceeded expectations in his first season with Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri accept the idea that his team out to win nominations.
Allegri said to reporters: "You do not play every day in front of Real Madrid so we must maintain our focus in order to reach the final, if it does not get to the final, this is unexpected."
He added: "We are among the top four clubs in Europe and we won the Italian league and went up to the final of the domestic cup, there was not anyone to bet on us at the beginning of the season."
He continued: "Many people think that we will emerge from the group stage but instead will face defending champions for a place in the final."
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