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Real Madrid

1st La Liga | 27-1-6
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  • ESPN.com

    Madrid vs. Bayern is a battle of extreme coaching styles. Who will prevail?

    Graham Hunter is a Barcelona-based freelance writer for ESPN.com who specializes in La Liga and the Spanish national team. The decisive factors as to whether Real Madrid or Bayern Munich advance to the Champions League final at Wembley will be team tactics and who, of all the magnificent players on show at the Bernabeu, choose Wednesday night to underline their cold-blooded brilliance and overwhelming desire to make their club champions of Europe. In Carlo Ancelotti and Thomas Tuchel, you literally couldn't find two elite football coaches so polemically opposed in almost everything: how they behave on the touchline, how they choose to speak about their players, how they man-manage a squad and how they embrace a corrosive, abrasive atmosphere or a collegiate, mutually supportive culture as more likely to forge greatness.