Champions League: Pochettino tricked Allegri ! Superb Pep instead !

Harry Kane (Picture taken from Metro.co.uk)

What a Champions League knockout matches !! It was actually a dream start for the Allegri's Juventus who found itself in front with more than 1 goal after only 9 minutes !! The Allianz Stadium was in full excitement at 2' when Higuain put in the first goal perfectly assisted by a Pjanic's free kick. Spurs completely surprised and frustrated and you can tell it especially when you see Bernardeschi completely put down in the penalty box at 8'. Higuain scored even that penalty giving the illusion of an easy win! After that moment you could tell that Tottenham started to do something with Eriksen, Dele Alli and Kane but a solid difense and a good Buffon kept the result safe till the 35'when Harry Kane got a nice through ball,  past Buffon and scored the 2-1. It was an important away goal and the British team knew it. Right before the first half whistle Juventus had a huge chance to get a bigger lead when Douglas Costa put up the speed like a flash flying over couple of defenders till he got kicked in the box and it was another penalty! This time Gonzalo didn't do a great job and his shot was too central despite its power he got saved by the keeper Lloris also thanks to the bar's help (45'+3'). At the point there was probably a huge fear of a great come back of the Spurs and indeed in the second half that was exactly what happened. WE must say that Juventus still did a good game especially in the offensive zone but the defensive line wasn't great including Buffon who seemed like he couldn't handle 90 minutes to be honest. The 2-2 by Spurs is probably totally on him because Eriksen surprised the Big Buffon on his post at 72'. The draw was a fair enough result but Juventus played very well anyway. Tottenham had few big chances and they transformed them in gold scoring two away goals. Allegri was a bit nervous in the after match that it's pretty normal at this point! Let's see what will happen in 3 weeks!

It was a stroll in the park for Manchester City instead! Basel-ManCity 0-4 even if in the first 25 minutes the Pep's defensive line did few mistakes pretty awful giving away at least two or three big chances to Basel to get a lead badly missed by the home team. Anyway at 14' Gundogan gave the lead and after only 4 minutes it was Bernardo Silva who past the keeper Vaclick with a nice lob for the 0-2. El KUN Sergio Aguero closed the match powerfully shoooting in the net at 23'. Great satisfaction for Guardiola at the end of the first half. It was all too easy. The second half didn't change the story of the match and actually the City put one more in and could have been greater. It was again Gundogan at 53' to fix the result on the final 0-4. It's already time to think of the CL Quarter Finals around here! Well done !

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