Best combined XI for Champions League matches this week
Messi and Aguero to team up?The upcoming Champions League games this week represent a mouth-watering platter of matches for football fans. With big teams like Manchester City, Barcelona, Arsenal, Atletico Madrid, Juventus, Borussia Dortmund, Monaco and Bayer Leverkusen, all involved in this game-week expect some fireworks on the field.On Wednesday, reigning English champions Manchester City host the mighty Barcelona while the Italian champions Juventus welcome an entertaining Borussia Dortmund side, reinvigorated by the return of one Marco Reus.Thursday will see Arsenal welcome French side Monaco to the Emirates and La Liga champions Atletico Madrid travel to Germany to take on Bayer Leverkusen. Big teams mean big players. With the likes of Lionel Messi, Sergio Aguero, Andrea Pirlo, Neymar involved there won’t be a lack of star names gracing this week’s matches.Here at Sportskeeda, we try the impossible task of sorting out the stars on show and combine them into one epic starting XI for this week’s matches.
#1 Goalkeeper
Danijel Subasic (Monaco)
With the likes of Joe Hart and Gianluigi Buffon on show this week, the selection of Monaco’s 30-year-old Croation as the goalkeeper for the star-studded side might come across as a surprise. Monaco have been far from an entertaining and free scoring machine but what the Ligue 1 side have been, is efficient.
The French side have conceded just three goals in their last 17 matches and Subasic has been largely responsible for the record. Subasic was brilliant in the group stages of the Champions League too, pulling off 16 saves.
Subasic barely beats Hart and Buffon to take the number 1 jersey based on form.