Shakhtar Donetsk they are doing very well this season with the coach Roberto De Zerbi. After 2 good years with the portuguese coach Luis Castro they decided to change, but replaced him with a coach with the same positive ideas of football, De Zerbi. He made an amazing work in Sassuolo reaching the 8th position and valued a lot of players that weren't in their national teams like Locatelli, Consigli and Berardi were European Champions for Italy and with a lot of minutes by Locatelli and Berardi. This season he decided to move to Ukraine and I really think that this Shakhtar will be really tough to beat. They won the first leg 1-0 with an amazing solo goal by Pedrinho who last season didn't have many minutes on Benfica, but De Zerbi has great confidence in him. In the overall Monaco was better than Shakhtar in Stade Louis II, but defensively they were very good and solid to maintain this advantage for this decisive match. Shakhtar were impressive to reach this phase, by beating Genk in the 2 games. In the last season they ended in 2nd in the domestic league after Dynamo Kiev, but looking for De Zerbi's start they are doing very well and will be very hard for any team to beat them, in the last round they rotated the most important players and won 0-3 in Chernomorets and were very dominant. They have at the moment 7 wins in 8 official matches. For this game they don't have advantage, but even with that there will be more fans of Shakhtar than Monaco fans and it will be a good advantage for them. I really think he will see Shakhtar Donets one more time in the UCL.

Probable line-up: Trubin; Dodo - Vitao - Marlon - Matvienko; Marcos Antonio - Patrick - Tete - Pedrinho; Solomon - Traore.

Monaco really seems they are tearing apart this season. After an excellent season where they chased Lille and PSG until the last game of the league, this season their start is terrible so far. For the league, they don't have any win so far, 1 draw and 2 losses in the 3 games. Those aggregated 5-1 win against Sparta Prague deceived their supporters as after that they have 3 losses with 0 goals scored. In the last game for the league, against Lens the coach Kovac made some changes but lost 0-2 and after the 0-1 and a red card for Lens, he put Gelson Martins, Fabregas, Volland and Boadu and suffered the 2nd goal without scoring any goal. The player who received the red card for Lens made an aggressive tackle to Diatta and injured him and probably Diatta will be a miss for this game like the main goalkeeper of the last season Benjamin Lacomte who was loaned to Atletico Madrid. It is really strange to see Monaco's games, they look very tired, without soul in the field and I cannot see them overcoming this very motivated Shakhtar with more supporters than Monaco. Probably this can be the last game of Kovac if Monaco loses, and I think that the players are not with him looking at their effort inside the pitch.

Probable line-up: Majecki; Sidibe - Maripan - Badiashile - Jakobs; Gelson Martins - Fofana - Tchouameni - Diop; Ben Yedder and Kevin Volland.

顿涅茨克矿工本赛季在主教练罗伯托·德泽尔比的带领下做得很好。在与葡萄牙教练路易斯·卡斯特罗 (Luis Castro) 相处了 2 年之后，他们决定换人，但用一位对足球抱有同样积极态度的教练德泽尔比 (De Zerbi) 取而代之。他在萨索洛取得了惊人的成绩，达到了第 8 位，并重视了许多不在他们国家队的球员，例如洛卡特利、孔西利和贝拉尔迪，他们是意大利的欧洲冠军，而且洛卡特利和贝拉尔迪有很多上场时间。本赛季他决定搬到乌克兰，我真的认为这位矿工真的很难被击败。他们凭借上赛季在本菲卡上场时间不多的佩德里尼奥凭借惊人的单人进球以 1-0 获胜，但德泽尔比对他充满信心。整体上摩纳哥在路易斯二世球场比矿工强，但在防守上他们非常出色和稳固，在这场决定性的比赛中保持了这一优势。 Shakhtar 通过击败 Genk 达到了这个阶段，令人印象深刻2场比赛。上个赛季他们在基辅迪纳摩之后在国内联赛中排名第2，但寻找德泽尔比的开局他们做得很好，任何球队都很难击败他们，上轮他们轮换了最重要的球员和在切尔诺莫雷茨以 0-3 获胜并且非常具有统治力。目前，他们在 8 场正式比赛中取得了 7 场胜利。本场比赛他们没有优势，但即便如此，矿工的球迷也会比摩纳哥的球迷多，这对他们来说是一个很好的优势。我真的认为我们会在欧冠再次见到顿涅茨矿工。

摩纳哥本赛季似乎真的要分崩离析了。在他们追逐里尔和巴黎圣日耳曼直到联赛最后一场比赛的出色赛季之后，本赛季他们的开局到目前为止很糟糕。联赛方面，他们目前没有赢球，3场比赛1平2负。那些合计5-1战胜布拉格斯巴达的人欺骗了他们的支持者，因为之后他们3负0球。上一场联赛，主帅科瓦奇在对阵伦斯的比赛中做出了一些改变，但以0-2告负，在0-1和伦斯吃到红牌后，他将盖尔森·马丁斯、法布雷加斯、沃兰德和博阿杜塞进了第2球。打进任何进球。为朗斯领到红牌的球员对迪亚塔进行了一次侵略性的铲球并弄伤了他，而迪亚塔很可能会像上赛季被租借到马德里竞技的本杰明·拉科姆特的主力门将一样缺席本场比赛。看摩纳哥的比赛真的很奇怪，他们看起来很累，在场上没有灵魂，我看不到他们用比摩纳哥更多的支持者来克服这个非常有动力的矿工。如果摩纳哥输了，这可能是科瓦奇的最后一场比赛，我认为球员们不会为了他努力。预测矿工不败。