Real Madrid and Manchester City they will star in the star duel of the Champions League semifinals as happened last season, when the whites won the final in Paris thanks to an epic comeback in Santiago Bernabeu.
The group of Guardiola will have a chance to take revenge after overcoming the Bayern Munich in the quarterfinals thanks, among other things, to Erling Haaland. The star signing of city He is the strongest striker in world football and this is proven by some numbers that seem to be from another era. He scored 48 goals in 41 games and 12 in 8 matches Champions.
The great asset of City of Manchester to conquer the first cup of Europe in its history is none other than the Nordic record eater, who will face for the first time in his career the real Madrid. The current champion is walking in search of the fifteenth continental gimp and in the first leg he will not be able to count on his best defense due to the suspension: eder militao.
The precedents are in favor of the white team. Madridistas and citizen They have met three times in the playoffs with a positive balance for those chamartin: 2-1. In the 2015/2016 season, Madrid de Zidane Pellegrini’s City fell in the semis (0-0 in etihad1-0 in Bernabeu); In 2019/20, at a crossroads interrupted by the pandemic, Guardiola’s men defeated the Zidane (1-2 in Bernabeu2-1 in etihad); and last year the whites reached ecstasy in one of the best ties in recent times (4-3 in etihad3-1 in Bernabeu.
Guardiola VS Madrid, supreme equality
This Real Madrid-City looking for the end of Istanbul This will be Pep Guardiola’s fifth draw against the white team in the Champions League, with an even balance of two crossed crosses and two eliminations.
The first time they met in the Champions League was in the Real Madrid-Barça semifinal in 2011 (0-2 at the Bernabéu, 1-1 at Camp Nou); Madrid then reclaimed it by beating their Bayern in 2014 (1-0 at the Bernabéu, 0-4 at Munich); in 2021 the City left the canal Madrid and last year Ancelotti won the game in the prelude to the final of Paris.
Source: La Verdad
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