Gameday in Madrid for the round 4 of the group D between Real Madrid & Shakhtar !

Real Madrid will be without Valverde, Bale & Rodrigo. Karim Benzema is back after missing the game against Elche.

Shakhtar on their side without top scorer Traoré & Pedrinho.

Real is ranked 2 with 2 wins & 1 loose for 7 goals scored & 2 goals conceded.

Shakhtar on their side is ranked 4 with 1 draw & 2 losses for 0 goal scored & 7 goals conceded.

When they met on the last game, Real Madrid could win 0-5 in Ukraine, Real Madrid completely destroyed Shakhtar and I was very surprised about it, on the first league I saw quite a value on Shakhtar.

I'm a big fan of Shakhtar team, I follow them a lot as their coach is amazing about football but I realized that on CL they really not have the level. Their 3 performances in CL were very poor, especially against Sheriff who is doing surprising result but they really had to make a big game and they lost 2-0.

Real Madrid is doing a very good early of season even if they made few bad performances as at home against Sheriff where they lost 1-2. This bad result are making them in a must win situation in this game because Inter should win against Sheriff without too much problems so this group will be very close.

Real Madrid with 3 points today will be in a good situation before the game in Moldavia.

The big fact for this game is that Real Madrid is very motivated to score a lot for this game and score the 1000 goals in European Cup, they are actually at 999.

As I said Traore is missing for Shakhtar and it's very bad because a lot of their players have the same style, small with pacing and good tactically and he was the physical striker. They have Fernando to replace him but really not the same quality.

Vinicius is on fire this season, he wasn't selected in Brazilian national team, it was a big surprise but I believe it's one more reason for him to proof how good he is. He also said that he doesn't care about contract or money in Real Madrid as long as he is that happy as now.

Shakhtar's defense is quite like Zenit, in domestic league they can deal with that despite that they have some problems with their offensive style but in CL it's really difficult for them.

Also not a fan of Pyatov, Shakhtar's goalkeeper who is showing a lot of weakness lately.