Current form Shakthar Donetsk
Shakthar Donetsk can now rely on a good deal of experience in the knockout phase of the Champions League. A fact that will certainly help on Wednesday, especially since in recent years you have even been in the KO phase of the premier class more often than this year’s opponent. In addition, it is running for the men of Paulo Fonseca in the Premier League absolutely as desired. 3 points ahead of the arch-rivals Dynamo Kiev, more than 10 points to the rest of the championship participants. However, they did not always behave sovereignly: Although they won against Chornomorets clearly 5-0 on Friday, before that they had to bow to Europa League surprise team Zorya Luhansk 1: 2. This defeat was preceded by two victories over Veres Rivne (2: 0) and Olimpik Donetsk (4: 2). In total, the Fonseca-Elf has conceded only 3 defeats in 20 games, in addition to 2 draws are therefore equal to 15 wins to book. However, two of the three bankruptcies came surprisingly in away games. In the group phase of the Champions League, we saw the problems of the Ukrainians in contrast, especially away. They lost to Manchester City (0: 2) and SSC Napoli (0: 3). The 2-1 home victory against City showed that they can keep up with the current best teams in Europe, even though the English team did not have anything to do with this duel. Nevertheless, this was the very first defeat (!) In a competitive match 2017/2018 for the Guardiola team. Strong: Shakthar has met 22 times in 10 home games in the league so far, so the home side will certainly be confident on Wednesday. Also, because you could always meet at least 2 times in the 3 group home games. The defensive numbers read in their own stadium also stronger than away. In addition, one could already prevail against the Wednesday opponent from Rome. The last 3 games against the Italians in the Champions League have all been won, at home with 3: 0 and 1: 0 to keep the upper hand. Shakthar has not even conceded a goal against Roma at home. Coach Fonseca will be without Wednesday’s injured Maksim Malyshev and Darijo Srna, who are currently suspended. We see strengths in the Ukrainians especially in the game over the wings. Marlos, TAison and Bernard are three extremely variable players, who will probably make many changes of position on Wednesday and thus pose problems to the opponent. The latter is also with 3 hits so far best CL scorer of the Fonseca Elf.

Current form AS Roma
The Roma are seen as favorites by most bookies in this duel. However, we do not see the situation quite so clearly. Although the team of Eusebio di Francesco has played a great group stage and left Atlético Madrid behind, things have not gone quite well in recent weeks. So they remained in the Serie A on matchdays 18 to 22 without full success, had suffered in this period even 3 defeats, such as Sampdoria Genoa (0: 1) or Bergamo (1: 2). Meanwhile, the team from the Italian capital, but seems to have come back. So last 3 wins were celebrated in series. At the weekend they decided the difficult away game against Udinese Calcio for themselves (2: 0), gave himself before against Benevento no nakedness (5: 2) and kept well against Hellas Verona but yet the upper hand (1: 0). Wednesday would undoubtedly be an away goal. The fact that the di Francesco-Elf deserves just as much is beyond doubt, not only because of the three celebrated victories. All in all, you have lost only one of 12 Serie A away games, this one with Juventus against an absolute top club. In the group phase of the Champions League they drew only against Atlético abroad (0: 2), but proved, for example, against Chelsea (3: 3), what you can afford in a foreign country. Against underdog Qarabag, however, it was only enough for a narrow 2-1 win, accordingly, it is often difficult especially against physically demanding and very low-lying teams. Also, the “Romans” despite strong outward balance in foreign countries are not particularly dangerous. 18 success stories in 12 games mean on average 1.5 goals per league away game and do not necessarily hope for Wednesday. Enormously strong and another indicator for an over / under bet: The Roma conceded only 6 goals in all away matches of Serie A and even represents the best team in the league in this respect. Not able to help create a good starting position on Wednesday are the currently injured Maxime Gonalons and Rick Karsdorp. At the moment we see strengths mainly on the right side. Cengiz Ünder was one of the best players on the pitch against Udinese, scoring his 4th goal of the season. We generally see strengths in standard situations as well as otherwise at high balls. In the last few weeks, one has been particularly susceptible to rapid counter-attacks by the adversaries, a fact that could become a problem against Donetsk.