Real Madrid-Manchester City: First battle of the titans at the Santiago Bernabeu

“Titan battle” in Madrid!

The European champion Real welcomes her to the “Santiago Bernabeu”. Manchester City (22:00, Cosmote Sport 4K, sport-fm.gr) for the first meeting between them in the quarter-finals UEFA Champions League.

The two teams will meet for the ninth time in Europe’s top club competition, with the wins being shared (out of three) while two matches have ended in draws. In fact, for the third time the “merenches” and the “citizens” will claim the ticket for the semi-final with the first having “2/2”.

Of course, Carlo Ancelotti’s team is in an excellent psychological state after winning the Spanish Cup against Osasuna, while they have as a “guide” the meeting of last season where, despite their defeat in England with a score of 4-3, they made the huge upset and qualified for the final where they won the trophy.

In order to reach the semi-finals, the Madrid players had to eliminate two more teams from Premier League and specifically Liverpool and Chelsea. The coach of the “Queen” is likely not to have the injured player available again for a long time Ferlan Mendywhile last-minute problems arose with Dani Thembayos and Ender Militao.

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On the other side, Manchester City wants to “exorcise” the bad tradition against Real Madrid and qualify for the second time in its history in the final of the top European club competition. The “citizens” have returned to the top of the Premier League by knocking down this season’s permanent leader Arsenal from there, while on their way to the top four of the Champions League, they had to go through the German barriers of Leipzig and Bayern Munich.

THE Pep Guardiola he does not count on Nathan Ake who is suffering from an injury, however this is also the only absence for the Catalan technician.

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Possible lineups:

Real Madrid (Carlo Ancelotti 4-3-3): Courtois-Carvajal, Riedinger, Alaba, Camavinga- Modric, Kroos, Valverde- Rodrigo, Vinicius, Benzema

Manchester City (Pep Guardiola 3-4-3): Anderson- Laporte, Walker, Ruben Diaz- Rodry, Stones, Guidogan, De Bruyne- Mahrez, Grealish, Haaland