Champions League: Woe Is Everyone To hear the participants tell it, this week's Champions League first-leg matches are a continent-wide minefield. Frankly, if you listen to some of them, it'll be a miracle if anyone scores a goal. Real Madrid might be the best team left in the competition, and it's facing a CSKA team that hasn't played a match since early December. But that doesn't mean Manager José Mourinho isn't wary of a trip to Moscow in February, for a game on artificial turf, against an experienced defense that knows its way around the competition. Tuesday Real Madrid at CSKA Moscow, noon (Fox Soccer) Chelsea at Napoli, 2:45 p.m. (Fox Soccer) Wednesday Bayern Munich at Basel, 2:45 p.m. Fox Soccer delay, 5 p.m. Inter Milan at Olympique Marseille, 2:45 p.m. "CSKA's squad have been together for a long time and that makes them very dangerous; they should be respected," Mourinho said. We will not kid around against them. We'll have to be stronger than the adverse conditions we'll face. The grass and the temperature will be tough to deal with. Ah yes, the conditions. Benfica learned its lesson last week in St. Petersburg, but the weather may be so cold at the Luzhniki Stadium on Tuesday - single digits in many forecasts - that even the home team sounds worried. "The ball resembles a piece of plastic when it freezes, a stone," Coach Leonid Slutsky told reporters. It's painful to catch or block it. And it doesn't bounce high from the pitch. At least the ball will be the same for both teams. Slutsky has bigger things to worry about, namely the fact that Mourinho has better players than he does. "If we are able to be on equal terms from the very first minute, then we might have chances," Slutsky said. Otherwise it will be tough. He and Mourinho weren't the only ones playing down their chances this week. Inter's Claudio Ranieri apologized for his team's dismal effort in a league game on Friday, and he may not survive the Round of 16 whether his team does or not. At Bayern Munich, the team president Uli Hoeness reportedly went into the dressing room Saturday to speak with the team after a scoreless tie at last-place Freiburg dropped the perennial German champions into third place in the Bundesliga. "The alarm bells are ringing," one Bayern official said. Even Napoli Coach Walter Mazzarri, whose team hosts troubled Chelsea in Tuesday's second game, was poor-mouthing his chances. He actually predicted Chelsea's recent poor form would work in the Blues" favor. "Their difficulties at the moment in English competitions could be an extra obstacle for us," Mazzarri said, adding: "We can get a result, though only if we are at our best. Merely having a special game won't do. All the team need to have the perfect game. Corner kick: The second leg can change everything, but which coach has the most to lose this week?