Final challenge for Real Madrid and Manchester City

The Etihad is the scene of one of the most anticipated matches in world football. On the one hand, there is manchester citand Guardiola who wants revenge for last season and leave the real Madrid out of the Champions League final. On the other hand, the team ancelotti who wants to repeat the new final to defend the title achieved in Paris. A duel in style where no one starts with an advantage after thel 1-1 in the first leg. Yes, the fact of playing at home may give City a certain margin of favouritism, but with Real Madrid in the middle and in the Champions League, the favoritism of playing at home is less. This, despite the fact that City have not lost at home in the Champions League since September 2018, when Olympique won on the first day of a group stage.

He real Madrid He had in front of him one of those matches he liked, where he lived on the edge of the cliff and there, the whites were very comfortable. Ancelotti will try to repeat what he did at the Bernabéu Haaland, that is, cancel it. For that, it will repeat on Rudiger in the middle of the back where you can enter military, who did not play in the first leg due to suspension, and praise I would have gone to the left side. That means the recovered Camavinga pass through the middle of the field, Valverde advance your position and Rodrygo went to the bench A more physical, more defensive eleven to try to prevent City from getting too comfortable in midfield when it came to possession. This is one of the differences that Ancelotti could make in a Real Madrid where the reliance on Vinicius and Benzema in attack and the saving of Courtois will not change. A few stops last season were decisive for Real Madrid to eliminate City and win the Champions League.

the english teamFor his part, he latched on to the ‘Etihad effect’, where he has conceded just one draw and one defeat this season, to reach his second Champions League final. For that to become a reality, Guardiola knows that the team must find halaland, something that didn’t happen at the Bernabéu where City couldn’t get past Ancelotti’s defensive framework. For this last challenge, Guardiola gave a break this past weekend to De Bruyne, Jack Grealish, and Bernardo Silva, key players for the City manager. Guardiola has already advanced in advance that he will not make experiments to face Real Madrid. As such, the eleven that will be in contention tonight should be the same one from the first leg. Defense of three, with Kyle Walker as stopper Vinícius on the right, Rubén Dias and Akanji; and John Stones up front, as an additional midfielder when City have the ball. Gundogan, in midfield with Rodri and De Bruyne; and more than Grealish, Bernardo and, of course, Haaland.