Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund may continue rivalries on Tuesday as their competition to attain the UEFA Champions League final enters its final and second leg. Dortmund just take a 4-1 result in the Santiago Bernabeu and stay frustrating favourites to qualify, but Jose Mourinho will have different ideas and think his side may overturn the deficit. And as Madrid have shown countless times this year, they've got the capacity to put four to five past an opponent on house turf; doing the same to Dortmund might represent among Mourinho's greatest-ever victories. First off, let us repeat where Madrid went badly wrong in the first leg. Angel Di Maria was late to Dortmund after residing in Madrid for the start of his child, leaving Mourinho with a critical choice issue. He resolved on a 4-3-3 formationa'and it is infrequently he strays from the 4-2-3-1a'with Luka Modric, Sami Khedira and Xabi Alonso as a midfield three. That set Modric in his best position, but it also pushed Oezil out wide; the German much prefers the No. 10 part and fought to steadfastly keep up with the speed of the game in the vast areas. With no No. 10 in a Blancos shirt, the away side failed to cope with deep-lying playmaker Ilkay Gundogan, who'd the freedom of the pitch to cross, dribble and drift wherever he wanted. He determined the pace of the overall game from just in front of his centre-halves, starting counterattacks effortlessly and moving forward unchallenged. The fact that Mou did nothing to combat this is peculiar, and it's the very first thing he needs to do this time around, even though his side need to gain 3-0. If he lets Gundogan run around free of markers again, his side is doomed; Gundogan is the No. 1 accessory of counterattacking moves in Marco Reus' way, and it's no chance that an unmarked Gundogan was able to let Reus shine brighter than Goetze in the first leg. This will go quite a distance to dictating the development for Madrida'back to the 4-2-3-1a'and Di Maria's guaranteed presence will mean Oezil drifts in to his familiar position. Cristiano Ronaldo will undoubtedly be looked to whilst the major source of objectives, and there is no right side in football better equipped to deal with his sport, while he tends to report in every single match. In the first leg, Lukasz Piszczek and Neven Subotic treated him pretty much. The former matched him on a lawn and refused to lunge in, whilst the latter dominated the springy Portuguese aerially and cut off any substantial supply lines. Jakub Blaszczykowski spent the first thirty minutes preventing Fabio Coentrao's wandering runs down the left, meaning the couple were deprived of linkup play and support for long periods. This was not a surprise, as once the sides achieved in the Group Stage, Piszczek teamed up with Sebastian Kehl to stop Ronaldo outa'just as Sir Alex Ferguson did to Gareth Bale this yeara'while the stand-in left-back, Michael Essien,Afailed to overlap with any threatening tendencies. The result was a Ronaldo, and BVB boss Jurgen Klopp merely wanted to reproduce strategy to that for the semifinal. You can absolutely expect Oezil to limit the effect Gundogan has as a "suffoco" and put in a hardworking change, but you can also expect Goetze to complete a similar thing on Alonso yet again. This will likely keep the overall game in the arms of Khedira driving forward, and Madrid fans will be hoping he is able to emulate Javi Martinez's performance against Barcelona last week. If Mourinho is searching for an area of the pitch hitting quicklya'as he does with Ronaldo behind Dani Alves against Barcelonaa'it needs to be through Di Maria on the right. Marcel Schmelzer is an excellent left-back, but he is able to be found out, and Los Merengues proved that due to their sole target at Westfalenstadion. Madrid can do extremely well to recover the enormous debt they have carried over from the initial leg, however it is not impossible, and the supporters have far from quit hope. Withstanding an onslaught from the Mourinho side with the bit between their teeth may be the hardest assignment Klopp's men have ever experienced.
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